Between the world leaders gathering in Seoul for the second AI Security Summit this week and Google and OpenAI’s launches of their supercharged new fashions, Astra and GPT-4o, the timing couldn’t be higher. AI feels hotter than ever.
This yr’s EmTech can be all about how we are able to harness the ability of generative AI whereas mitigating its dangers,and the way the expertise will have an effect on the workforce, competitiveness, and democracy. We can even get a sneak peek into the AI labs of Google, OpenAI, Adobe, AWS, and others.
This yr’s high audio system embody Nick Clegg, the president of worldwide affairs at Meta, who will discuss what the platform intends to do to curb misinformation. In 2024, over 40 nationwide elections will occur all over the world, making it one of the crucial consequential political years in historical past. On the similar time, generative AI has enabled a wholly new age of misinformation. And it’s all coalescing, with main shake-ups at social media firms and knowledge platforms. MIT Know-how Evaluation’s govt editor Amy Nordrum will press Clegg on stage about what this all means for democracy.
Listed below are another periods I’m enthusiastic about.
A Peek Inside Google’s plans
Jay Yagnik, a vice chairman and engineering fellow at Google, will share what the historical past of AI can educate us about the place the expertise goes subsequent and talk about Google’s imaginative and prescient for how one can harness generative AI.
From the Labs of OpenAI
Srinivas Narayanan, the vice chairman of utilized AI at OpenAI, will share what the corporate has been constructing not too long ago and what’s coming subsequent. In one other session, Connor Holmes, who led work on video-generation AI Sora, will discuss how video-generation fashions might work as world simulators, and what this implies for future AI fashions.
The Typically-Ignored Privateness Issues in AI
Language fashions are vulnerable to leaking personal knowledge. On this session Patricia Thaine, cofounder and CEO of Non-public AI, will discover strategies that maintain secrets and techniques secret and assist organizations preserve compliance with privateness laws.
A Phrase Is Value a Thousand Photos
Cynthia Lu, senior director and head of utilized analysis at Adobe, will stroll us by way of the AI expertise that Adobe is constructing and the moral and authorized implications of generated imagery. I’ve written about Adobe’s efforts to construct generative AI in a non-exploitative manner and the way they’re paying off, so I’ll have an interest to listen to extra about that.
