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In today’s email:

  • 🔬 Research highlights: A Sight for Sore Eyes: How Technology is Helping the Visually Impaired Shop

  • 🚨 Industry news: AI-sistant to the Content Creation Chief: How OpenAI is Helping BuzzFeed

  • ⚖️ Policy and regulation: Big Bro Is Watching…Don’t Slip up

  • 🌐 AI and society: AI's Identity Crisis: Moving Beyond Optimizing Predetermined Goals

👓 A Sight for Sore Eyes: How Technology is Helping the Visually Impaired Shop

A "smart" walking stick could assist the blind in carrying groceries and finding a seat. For those who are blind or visually challenged, engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are creating a new type of walking stick by utilizing developments in artificial intelligence. Imagine it as Silicon Valley meets assistive technology.

The researchers believe their "smart" walking stick could one day aid blind individuals in doing tasks in a world built for sighted people, such as choosing a private seat in a crowded diner or shopping for cereal at the grocery store.

Agrawal and his coworkers in the Collaborative Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab made progress toward resolving this issue in a paper published in October (2022).

The walking stick of the team looks like one of those white and red canes you can get at Walmart. But it also has a few extras: The walking stick catalogs and maps the environment using a camera and computer vision technologies. The user is guided by spoken instructions such as "stretch a little bit to your right" and vibrations in the handle.

According to Agrawal, the gadget is not meant to take the place of designing spaces like grocery shops to be more accessible. But he thinks that the team's prototype will demonstrate how, in some circumstances, AI may aid in the increased independence of millions of Americans.

According to Agrawal, self-driving cars and other related breakthroughs are being built utilizing AI and computer vision. But these technologies also have the potential to raise many people's living standards.

AI-sistant to the Content Creation Chief: How OpenAI is Helping BuzzFeed ✍🏽

As the firm revealed, BuzzFeed will employ OpenAI to generate quizzes and other content creators to provide to its users; artificial intelligence will play a significant role for the company in the future. As the online media business promised to make substantial investments in artificial intelligence-driven content, BuzzFeed's stock rose to a seven-month high on Thursday, boosting the company's coffers. The stock's dead-cate bounce came as the word of the trending AI chatbot ChatGPT keeps spreading. My granny already knows what ChatGPT is- she is not amused, oh granny!

Following Thursday's (January) Wall Street Journal article about BuzzFeed's AI commitment and a multi-million dollar deal to produce content for Facebook parent Meta, the company's shares initially increased by 203% to $2.88 before settling at a gain of 120% to $2.09.

While OpenAI will concentrate on the creative process and improving the produced material, Buzzfeed will continue to depend on individuals for ideas, cultural references, and inspirational prompts. Instead of simply curating existing material, this alliance anticipates that AI will assist the company with content production.

🛰️ Big Bro Is Watching…Don’t Slip up

Businesses run the danger of breaking data protection and privacy regulations, being accused of bias or discrimination, and participating in unfair practices that, in the end, could result in legal problems, such as investigations by federal and state agencies and class action lawsuits.

General counsels are now forced to keep up with a new patchwork of federal and state requirements as businesses increasingly incorporate AI into their everyday operations in the U.S. and other regions, such as the Eurozone.

For example, a council was established in Alabama by Alabama Act No. 2021-344 to review, issue, and provide guidance to the state's government, legislature, and other interested parties on the usage and advancement of AI in the State.

In August 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking that addresses data security and "commercial surveillance" practices related to AI.

📈 AI's Identity Crisis: Moving Beyond Optimizing Predetermined Goals

Since its conception, AI has operated according to a set model in which systems are created to optimize a predetermined goal. This strategy has become more and more effective. Significant developments that lead to general-purpose AI are significantly harder to foresee but will profoundly affect society. Due to the difficulties of fully and accurately defining objectives, the standard model will likewise become increasingly unworkable in practical applications.

Finding a solution to the AI control problem is crucial; philosopher Nick Bostrom said it might even be “the essential task of our age.”

However, this differs from making better decisions if human and machine aim diverge. Until now, AI research has concentrated on systems that are better at making decisions.

This issue necessitates a shift in defining artificial intelligence (AI). Rather than being a field concerned with a unary sense of intelligence as the optimization of a given purpose, AI must instead be defined as a binary notion of robots that are demonstrably useful for humans. Taking the issue seriously will result in fresh perspectives on AI, its function, and human interaction.

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