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News: EU passes world's first AI Act
Jack Shields
March 14, 2024
Welcome back!
Experts predicted that 2024 would be the year of AI robotics, and today’s breakthroughs are proving them right. Let’s get straight to it.
In today’s Daily Update:
🗞️ EU passes world’s first major AI regulations
🤖 Google DeepMind develops new video game co-op companion
📸 OpenAI powers Figure 01 robot with humanlike capabilities
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Read time: 2 minutes
TOP NEWS
🗞️ EU passes world’s first major AI regulations
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The European Union just passed its AI Act nearly three years after the regulations were first proposed.
The details:
The act bans certain AI applications like biometric categorization systems, social scoring systems and emotion recognition in schools and workplaces.
Deepfakes and any other AI-generated synthetic media is required to be clearly labeled. AI models will also be forced to respect copyright laws.
Applications that are deemed high-risk are subject to increased scrutiny under the act.
Most provisions will go into effect 24 months after the AI Act officially becomes law.
Why it matters: The EU’s AI Act sets a precedent for global standards on AI use and ethics. This is a massive step toward regulating AI technologies that aims to protect individual rights and ensure transparency.
RESEARCH INSIGHT
🤖 Google DeepMind develops new video game co-op companion
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind researchers have created an AI agent that learned how to play multiple 3D video games like a human.
The rundown:
SIMA (scalable instructable multiworld agent) was trained on hours of human gameplay and interactions with other players.
The agent taught itself how to perform simple tasks like “move forward” and “open the door.”
It used this knowledge to play games that it had never seen before, actually performing better in games outside of its training.
DeepMind hopes SIMA can be the foundation for AI video game companions that can respond to natural language.
Why it matters: The big breakthrough here is SIMA’s ability to apply skills and knowledge to new games it has never encountered before. Google DeepMind researchers believe that successful techniques in complex digital environments can be applied to AI robotics in real life. This means SIMA could lay the groundwork for robots capable of adapting their skills across various real-world environments.
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
📸 OpenAI powers Figure 01 robot with humanlike capabilities
Figure
OpenAI and robotics startup Figure have developed a humanoid robot that can hold full conversations and plan and execute its actions.
What you should know:
OpenAI connected Figure 01 to a multimodal model that understands images and text.
The robot listens, plans, thinks, reasons and acts in humanlike ways.
It is able to describe its environment, interpret everyday situations and perform actions based on context-dependent requests (ex. “Put that over there”).
The robot uses visuomotor transformers to translate images directly into actions.
Why it matters: Figure’s most advanced AI robot yet opens new possibilities for advanced automation across various industries. Thanks to the company’s partnership with BMW, we may see these robots in action at BMW’s manufacturing facility in South Carolina sometime in the near future.
(Click here to watch the OpenAI-powered robot in action.)
MORE TRENDING NEWS
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
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Cognition introduces the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer.
AI-generated scam books crowd Facebook’s marketplace.
Midjourney blocks users from creating images of Biden and Trump ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
Amazon launches new generative AI feature for sellers to create product descriptions.
THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY