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Jack Shields
October 27, 2023
Happy Friday!
It’s been another busy week in AI and we’re rolling into the weekend with more big news from the White House, Canva and Airbnb. Let’s get right to it.
In today’s Daily Update:
🗞️ Biden to unveil extensive AI executive order next week
🤖 Canva introduces suite of AI tools for the classroom
📸 Airbnb deploys AI to crack down on Halloween parties
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Read time: 2.5 minutes
LATEST NEWS
🗞️ Biden to unveil extensive AI executive order next week
Source: Evan Vucci | Associated Press
President Biden is expected to sign a highly anticipated AI executive order next week. His administration plans to embrace AI as a national security tool while also pressuring companies to develop the technology safely.
What you need to know:
The order will tighten and formalize the government’s oversight of AI commitments made by major U.S. tech companies in July.
A core focus of the order will be the development of AI as a national security tool. This could include leveraging the technology for offensive deployment.
The executive order also addresses cybersecurity threats posed by AI. Scenarios of concern include foreign governments weaponizing AI, hackers using the technology to write malware, and automated intrusion attempts on security defenses.
Biden hopes to use the government’s purchasing power to steer companies toward industry best practices, while also curbing China’s AI development.
The relevance: The Biden administration is again showing support for AI innovation while addressing some of the risks associated with the technology. Although critics question the extent of the government’s enforcement powers without new authority from Congress, this is a significant milestone for AI regulation.
AI TOOL OF THE DAY
🤖 Canva introduces suite of AI tools for the classroom
Source: Canva
Canva just launched an expansive suite of AI tools that can be used by both students and teachers in the classroom. The company launched Canva Shield alongside the new tools, giving administrators the ability to set access permissions and adding guardrails that prevent the creation of inappropriate content.
What’s new:
Magic Write: Helps students and teachers generate first drafts, reword complex content and summarize text.
Magic Animate: Empowers students to transform assignments into engaging classroom presentations.
Magic Grab: Lets users extract text from photos of whiteboards or paper-based resources, rather than rewriting everything manually.
Magic Switch: Reformats teaching materials, class projects and assignments in one click (ex. transform a written draft into a visual presentation).
Translate teaching materials into more than 100 different languages.
Lesson Builder: Helps teachers create new lessons for the classroom or asynchronous learning.
Why it matters: With its Classroom Magic suite, Canva is rolling out AI to over 50 million students and teachers that use its platform. This will be the first interaction that many educators have with AI technology.
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
📸 Airbnb deploys AI to crack down on Halloween parties
Source: Adobe Firefly
Airbnb is deploying an AI-driven anti-party system across the U.S. and Canada ahead of Halloween. The company hopes to reduce the risk of disruptive and unauthorized parties over the holiday weekend.
Key points:
Airbnb’s system utilizes AI and machine learning to flag potentially high-risk one-night and two-night booking attempts. It can then prevent those bookings from being made.
The technology looks at hundreds of signals that could indicate a higher risk, including the length of the trip, the distance to the listing and whether the booking is last-minute.
Last year a similar system deterred thousands of bookings across the U.S.
These measures are part of Airbnb’s efforts to enforce its global party ban.
Crunching the numbers: Last year Airbnb’s anti-party system deterred 15,500 bookings in California, 11,300 in Florida and 11,000 in Texas. Just 0.039% of reservations globally resulted in an allegation of a party in 2022. AI will only improve Airbnb’s ability to enforce its global party ban.
MORE TRENDING NEWS
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Source: Adobe Firefly
Victory Lap: The Beatles will release their final AI-powered song next week.
Woodpecker: Researchers in China develop a system that can reportedly detect and correct hallucinations in multimodal AI models like GPT-4.
Big Breakthrough: Scientists create an AI system that achieves human-like language abilities.
Gameplan: OpenAI forms team to study “catastrophic” AI risks such as nuclear threats.
THAT’S ALL FOR THIS WEEK