Between the world leaders gathering in Seoul for the second AI Security Summit this week and Google and OpenAI’s launches of their supercharged new fashions, Astra and GPT-4o, the timing couldn’t be higher. AI feels hotter than ever.
This 12 months’s EmTech shall be all about how we will harness the facility of generative AI whereas mitigating its dangers,and the way the expertise will have an effect on the workforce, competitiveness, and democracy. We will even get a sneak peek into the AI labs of Google, OpenAI, Adobe, AWS, and others.
This 12 months’s high audio system embrace Nick Clegg, the president of world affairs at Meta, who will speak about what the platform intends to do to curb misinformation. In 2024, over 40 nationwide elections will occur world wide, making it probably the most consequential political years in historical past. On the similar time, generative AI has enabled a completely new age of misinformation. And it’s all coalescing, with main shake-ups at social media corporations and data platforms. MIT Expertise Evaluation’s govt editor Amy Nordrum will press Clegg on stage about what this all means for democracy.
Listed below are another classes I’m enthusiastic about.
A Peek Inside Google’s plans
Jay Yagnik, a vp and engineering fellow at Google, will share what the historical past of AI can train us about the place the expertise goes subsequent and focus on Google’s imaginative and prescient for easy methods to harness generative AI.
From the Labs of OpenAI
Srinivas Narayanan, the vp of utilized AI at OpenAI, will share what the corporate has been constructing just lately and what’s coming subsequent. In one other session, Connor Holmes, who led work on video-generation AI Sora, will speak about how video-generation fashions may work as world simulators, and what this implies for future AI fashions.
The Typically-Missed Privateness Issues in AI
Language fashions are liable to leaking private data. On this session Patricia Thaine, cofounder and CEO of Personal AI, will discover strategies that hold secrets and techniques secret and assist organizations preserve compliance with privateness laws.
A Phrase Is Value a Thousand Photos
Cynthia Lu, senior director and head of utilized analysis at Adobe, will stroll us by the AI expertise that Adobe is constructing and the moral and authorized implications of generated imagery. I’ve written about Adobe’s efforts to build generative AI in a non-exploitative way and the way they’re paying off, so I’ll have an interest to listen to extra about that.
