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WATCH LIVE: Biden signs executive order creating rules for artificial intelligence development
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday will sign a sweeping executive order to guide the development of artificial intelligence — requiring industry to develop safety and security standards, introducing new consumer protections and giving federal agencies an extensive to-do list to oversee the rapidly progressing technology. The event is scheduled to begin at…
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Crypto billionaire’s nonprofit buys $500 million of AI data center chips
Oct 30 (Reuters) – A nonprofit organization funded by cryptocurrency billionaire Jed McCaleb bought roughly $500 million of Nvidia (NVDA.O) advanced chips and plans to lease computing capacity to companies for artificial intelligence projects. The AI cloud-computing organization, called Voltage Park, has 24,000 Nvidia H100 chips, Voltage Park CEO Eric Park told Reuters in an…
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UD launches graduate certificate on artificial intelligence
Students pursuing UD’s new graduate AI certificate must complete 9 credits with at least a B-. The University of Delaware is now offering a certificate for graduate students focused on artificial intelligence. The program requires nine credits in classes designed to teach artificial Intelligence, a rapidly evolving field that has been integrated into many facets…
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Biden orders tech firms to share AI safety test results with US government
Tech companies will be required to share test results for their artificial intelligence systems with the US government before they are released, under an executive order issued by the White House. The government will also set stringent testing guidelines under the order which was published on Monday, ahead of a landmark AI safety summit in…
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Biden’s Sweeping AI Executive Order Calls for Standards to ‘Mitigate Harms’ to Workers Posed by Artificial-Intelligence Tech
President Biden issued an executive order Monday aimed at establishing new safeguards governing the use of AI while also promoting U.S. interests in the artificial-intelligence field. The executive order — the first such U.S. regulations explicitly aimed at artificial intelligence — “establishes new standards for AI safety and security, protects Americans’ privacy, advances equity and…
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Biden – and Raimondo – tackle artificial intelligence
It’s AI Week for Joe Biden’s administration, which means yet another key area where US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo may be thrust into the spotlight. The president issued a long-anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence this morning, creating the nation’s first set of regulations on the emerging technology. He is expected to deliver a speech…
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‘A goldmine at our fingertips’: the promise and perils of AI in Africa
In South Africa, there are drones monitoring weeds; in Mauritius, there are computers crunching health data for better outcomes for patients; and in Nairobi, surveillance systems impose a modicum of order on the chaotic traffic. The bright new future of artificial intelligence in Africa is part of the bright new future of the continent as…
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29 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Statistics You Need to Know in 2023
ChatGPT took the world by storm after its explosive launch in November 2022, and in 2023, the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution certainly isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. Every day, businesses are finding new ways to use AI to save themselves time and money, with the latest AI statistics reflecting the technology’s meteoric rise.…
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G7 Leaders Agree on Guiding Principles and Code of Conduct on Artificial Intelligence
On October 30, 2023, the G7 leaders announced they had reached agreement on a set of International Guiding Principles on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a voluntary Code of Conduct for AI developers, pursuant to the Hiroshima AI Process. The Hiroshima AI Process was established at the G7 Summit in May 2023 to promote guardrails for…
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Artificial intelligence is everywhere — and it’s just gett
Navigating to work using Google’s map app? Thank the predictive tools of artificial intelligence. Click on the quirky news story Facebook just suggested? It was selected for you through an AI-infused algorithm. Send the Roomba vacuum robot to clean up around the house? It used AI to map the room, identify obstacles and remember the…