🔬 The UK gets early access to foundational models and 💡 "What AI Patents Reveal

Happy Tuesday everyone, lest dive in:

The UK gets early access to foundational models, what AI Patents Reveal (link), meet a Midjourney wizard, and tools…

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• 🔬 OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic to give the UK early access to foundational models for AI safety research (link)

• 🧰 AI Tools of the Day

• ❓Prompt of the Day.

• 💡 "What AI Patents Reveal: Insights from AI Patent Landscape" (link)

• 📚 The Learning Corner

• 💪🏽 Important AI News and Trends.

• 📚 The Learning Corner

• 🔌 "Reddit Subreddit Blackout: Clash Over API Pricing and the Battle for Profitability"

🔬 OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic to give UK early access to foundational models for AI safety research (link)

• UK government plans global AI safety summit and secures commitments from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic for early AI model access.

• £100 million allocated to the UK AI safety task force focused on AI foundation models.

• Prime Minister Rishi Sunak aims for the UK to lead in AI safety regulation and research.

• Concerns raised about industry capture and influence over future AI rules.

• The UK has the opportunity to lead in evaluation and audit techniques before global regulations are established.

• Inclusion of independent researchers and civil society is crucial for robust results.

• Need to address real-world harms caused by existing AI technologies.

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❓Prompt of the Day

I want you to act as an IT Architect. I will provide some details about the functionality of an application or other digital product, and it will be your job to come up with ways to integrate it into the IT landscape. This could involve analyzing business requirements, performing a gap analysis, and mapping the functionality of the new system to the existing IT landscape. The next steps are to create a solution design, a physical network blueprint, a definition of interfaces for system integration, and a blueprint for the deployment environment. My first request is “I need help to integrate a CMS system.”

💡 "What AI Patents Reveal: Insights from AI Patent Landscape" (link)

In terms of companies, IBM is the clear leader in AI-related patents. They have more than 10,000 patents in this area, followed by Microsoft, Intel, Google, and Amazon. These companies are all investing heavily in AI research and development, and they are clearly at the forefront of this technology.

However, it's worth noting that there are many other companies working on AI, both big and small. There are even some startups that are doing very innovative work in this space. So while the big companies are leading in terms of patents, the landscape is still quite diverse.

The patenting activity was driven by China with a 27% share of total patent filings

The largest share of artificial intelligence-related patent filings in the consumer industry in Q1 2023 was in China with 27%, followed by South Korea (6%) and the US (6%). The share represented by China was 14% lower than the 41% share it accounted for in Q4 2022.

📚 The Learning Corner

• Want to Learn Midjourney Prompting? Follow Tatiana Tsiguleva on Twitter she is a true gem in the space. (link)

• Deep Learning Free Course by “The Godfather of AI” Geoff Hinton

💪🏽 Important AI News and Trends

• Hundreds attend AI church service in Germany

• From Thought to Text: AI Converts Silent Speech into Written Words

• Generative AI Is Proving a Tough Sell to Fashion’s Next Generation

• OpenAI CEO Calls for Collaboration With China to Counter AI Risks

• Amazon is using generative A.I. to summarize product reviews

• Salesforce Launches AI Software, Starting at $360,000 Per Year

• Oracle Confirms Cohere Deal, Says AI Startups Will Buy $2 Billion in Cloud Services

• WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you

🔌 "Reddit Subreddit Blackout: Clash Over API Pricing and the Battle for Profitability"

Yesterday, over 7,000 subreddits went private or read-only in protest of Reddit's new API pricing increase. The blackout, which is expected to last until tomorrow, has caused significant disruptions on the site, leading to stability issues and temporarily crashing it. The price changes, according to Reddit, are aimed at preventing AI systems from exploiting the platform as a free data repository.

The company wants to generate revenue from this access, as advertising has proven to be a challenging revenue source. However, Redditors argue that the price increases are exorbitant, causing many apps reliant on the API to shut down due to the cost. For instance, Apollo for Reddit stated that it would cost $20 million per year to continue operating the app.

Meanwhile, this drama appears to be benefiting Discord, another community-driven platform. As Reddit prepares for an IPO, the battle over its API pricing highlights the struggle faced by free platforms to turn a profit.