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• Sundar Pichai sat down with the NYT “Hard Fork” podcast

• Italy joins a small list of countries where ChatGPT isn’t allowed

• AI & Baseball follow a similar path

• AI makes every day April Fool’s Day

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GOOGLE’S CEO EMBRACES THE WAR, NOT THE BATTLES

Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, wants you to know that Bard is due for some serious upgrades and that even he finds the AI news cycle quick and disorienting.

Pichai compared their recently released chatbot to a Honda Civic in relation to the performance of the sports cars out there known as ChatGPT and Bing Chat.

Is it just me, or do these comparisons to war and cars feel a little cliche?

After all, there’s much more at stake with these developments than a boost to shareholder value. How we work and live is changing around us, and Microsoft and Google want to be the company you look at first.

Even Pichai admitted in his interview with Kevin Roose and Casey Newton that the recent call to pause AI development has some valid points, and the rate of improvement is not trivial.

We’re not talking about a family sedan versus a mid-life crisis financial mistake. AI models are the tip of a monumental iceberg.

We’re still in the early stages, folks.

This is why I’d encourage you to check out the full interview. Time and time again, the leaders of these cutting-edge, AI-first companies are emphasizing the need to toe the line between the urgency to compete and practical safety to ensure minimal risk.

No one wants to stumble into superintelligence in a blind fit of profit-seeking.

That’s not the goal here…right?

ITALY TEMPORARILY BLOCKS CHATGPT

Italy is the first western country to outright block ChatGPT.

The news comes on the tail-end of headlines focused on personal privacy concerns, disinformation, and conversation breaches that left Italy’s data-protection authority little choice.

Are we witnessing the first domino’s fall? Not necessarily, since many countries still believe the move is too unpopular within their borders.

Poor Italy. The country feels like the kid who reminds the teacher to collect homework.

Their concerns are valid, and the ban is not permanent. They want to understand how OpenAI uses users’ data to train models and ensure they follow guidelines set by the European Union. 

Don’t get me wrong, if you’re reading this and not in Italy, then be thankful. They slapped OpenAI with a ban quicker than you can say, “Pappardelle al ragù di cinghiale.”

There was no conversation, no patience in this decision.

Calling the move rash is an understatement, but don’t fret. The powers that be will sort this kerfuffle out soon.

This move does reflect a different trend to watch out for: governments and companies are getting nervous about how disruptive and groundbreaking platforms like ChatGPT are already.

Let’s hope this anxiety manifests in healthy ways.

Quick Nuggets

🛑 Slow down: the case for a lift off the gas in AI development

⚾️ Baseball & AI have more in common than you realize

👀 It’s going to get weird the more AI develops then more oddities will happen 

📈 BloombergGPT launched a few days ago and shows the future of niche AI models

🦾 Auto-GPT is able to execute its own code and self-improve(!)

📌 A breakdown of all the different AI factions in Silicon Valley

🧾 Sweet: this student used ChatGPT to get a parking fine revoked

📍 April Fool’s Day feels like every day with the rise of AI misinformation

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