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Hello, AI enthusiasts! Almost through the week, but our quest for AI knowledge is endless. Let's continue our journey into the matrix of machine minds.

In today’s Tracker:

  • 🧪 Research highlights: From Canvas to Cancer Detection

  • 🚨 Industry news: Playing Defense Against China's IP 'Playbook'

  • ⚖️ Policy and regulation: Schumer Leads the Charge in Legislating AI

  • 🌐 AI and society: Guardrails for Ghosts in the Machine

  • 🧰 Tool of the day: Socialvar: The All-in-One Marketing Butler

🧐 From Canvas to Cancer Detection with the New Sketch-based AI Tool

The University of Surrey's novel sketch-based object detection tool has the potential to revolutionize disciplines such as medical diagnosis and wildlife conservation.

The application, which will be presented at the Computer Vision, Pattern, and Recognition Conference (CVPR) in 2023, enables users to sketch an object, which the AI then uses to locate matches within an image while disregarding unrelated objects.

Combining human creativity with AI capabilities, this novel approach enables users to influence the AI's object identification procedure directly.

It could, for instance, enable physicians to detect aggressive tumors more precisely or assist conservationists in identifying rare animals.

In essence, the tool enables a more personalized and precise interaction with AI, transcending AI's traditional function as a decision-maker to perform tasks as instructed by human users.

💂🏼‍♂️ Playing Defense Against China's IP 'Playbook' in a Call to Arms in AI

Nathaniel Fick, Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, urges the United States to form a coalition of nations to counter China's intellectual property infringement strategy.

Fick identifies this violation as a significant factor in China's progress in artificial intelligence and other significant technologies.

He asserts that decades of cybertheft have enabled China to construct next-generation wireless networks and subsidize domestic companies until they can produce globally competitive goods independently.

⚠️ Schumer Leads the Charge in Legislating AI Before It Legislates Us

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has issued an urgent call for "comprehensive legislation" to address the potential dangers and ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI), stating that if the government does not take the initiative, the responsibility for ensuring national security could fall to individuals or private sector entities ill-equipped to do so.

Schumer cautioned that failure to establish norms for AI usage could enable entities like the Chinese Communist Party to set the rules.

He emphasized that the rapid advancement and adoption of AI technologies are disrupting the livelihoods of millions and could potentially reshape society.

Despite the current lack of consensus on AI legislation in Congress, Schumer is confident that a series of AI Insight Forums beginning in September will assist in laying a new foundation for AI policy through collaboration with the "leading minds in artificial intelligence."

The objective is to strike a balance between innovation and safety, as President Joe Biden's administration pledged to protect the right’ rights, privacy, and security while addressing bias and misinformation in AI systems.

🛡️ Guardrails for Ghosts in the Machine in the Global Quest for AI Regulation

As artificial intelligence (AI) evolves at an unprecedented rate, its regulation is becoming a pressing concern, prompting debates among policymakers, industry leaders, and AI enthusiasts.

Various nations are attempting to develop their regulatory frameworks for artificial intelligence, with the European Union, China, and Canada emphasizing creating a new regulatory architecture. In contrast, India and the United Kingdom believe AI does not require regulation beyond principles.

In the meantime, the United States falls somewhere in the middle with its proposed AI Bill of Rights. The recent vote on the EU's proposed AI Act classifies AI applications into four risk categories, ranging from "unacceptable risk" to "limited risk." It proposes various obligations, including a requirement for "high-risk" applications to disclose AI-generated content and copyrighted data used.

Industry leaders, such as the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, are concerned that the proposed law's stringent requirements could stifle innovation.

However, given the rapid development of AI's capabilities, the possibility of excessive regulation appears less concerning than the dangers of unregulated AI technology. Despite the formidable complexities of AI regulation, consensus exists: AI must be transparent, robust, accountable, and secure; these principles should guide future regulatory efforts.

🗣 Socialvar: The All-in-One Marketing Butler

Socialvar is an AI-powered marketing platform that helps businesses enhance their social media presence and produce more revenue. Socialvar streamlines the process and makes it simpler to generate and distribute interesting content that reaches more consumers by combining social media, email marketing, and SMS campaigns in one location.

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  • 🌐 GPT-me - is a sophisticated language model that generates human-like answers to text inputs using cutting-edge machine learning algorithms.

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