AISN #21: Google DeepMind’s GPT-4 Competitor, Military Investments in Autonomous Drones, The UK AI Safety Summit, and Case Studies in AI Policy.

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Google DeepMind’s GPT-4 Competitor

Computational power is a key driver of AI progress, and a new report suggests that Google’s upcoming GPT-4 competitor will be trained on unprecedented amounts of compute.

The model, currently named Gemini, may be trained by the end of this year with 5x more computational power than GPT-4. By the end of next year, the report projects that Google will have the ability to train a model with 20x more compute than GPT-4.

For reference, the compute difference between GPT-3 and GPT-4 was 100x. If these projections are true, Google’s new models could create a meaningful spike relative to current AI capabilities.

Google’s position [...]

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Outline:

(00:14) Google DeepMind’s GPT-4 Competitor

(02:41) US Military Invests in Thousands of Autonomous Drones

(04:37) United Kingdom Prepares for Global AI Safety Summit

(06:15) Case Studies in AI Policy

(08:55) Links

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First published:
September 5th, 2023

Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-21

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