Facts · 2023
events: 43 · Timeline
- The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft over training models on its articlesJustice & courts · Media & information · Large language model · nytco-assets.nytimes.com ↗
- Google DeepMind (Nature): FunSearch, a language model paired with an automated evaluator, finds large cap set constructions beyond the best-known onesScience · AI in mathematics · nature.com ↗
- The EU agrees on the AI ActLaws & regulation · AI regulation · lewissilkin.com ↗
- Google unveils Gemini (Ultra, Pro, Nano); Gemini Pro starts powering BardSoftware development · Business & markets · Large language model · bostonglobe.com ↗
- Irvine researchers estimate that people have spent 819 million hours on reCAPTCHA v2, at least $6.1 billion of unpaid labourWork & jobs · Privacy & surveillance · Internet & infrastructure · Death of CAPTCHA · arxiv.org ↗
- xAI unveils Grok (early access for X Premium subscribers from 4 November)Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · x.ai ↗
- Bletchley Park summit: 28 countries and the EU, including the US and China, adopt a declaration on the risks of frontier AI; on 2 November the UK launches the first government AI safety instituteGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · AI regulation · gov.uk ↗
- The 2023 BIS rule introduces the TPP metric and performance density to close the workaround of buying many smaller chips that combined are as powerful as restricted onesLaws & regulation · Compute export controls · federalregister.gov ↗
- Andrew Ng: claims that AI could bring about human extinction will cause serious harm, and lobbyists for large companies, some of which would prefer not to compete with open source, are urging governments to require licenses for large modelsLaws & regulation · AI safety · deeplearning.ai ↗
- BIS closes the loophole for the cut-down A800 and H800 chips by introducing a performance density threshold; for NVIDIA the ban takes effect immediately, from 23 October 2023Geopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · Compute export controls · bis.gov ↗
- Cloudflare announces that it “will never issue another visual puzzle to anyone, for any reason”: “CAPTCHAs are significantly easier for bots to solve than they are for humans”Cybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Death of CAPTCHA · blog.cloudflare.com ↗
- Mistral AI releases Mistral 7B with open weights (Apache 2.0)Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · mistral.ai ↗
- Anthropic adopts its Responsible Scaling Policy with AI Safety Levels (ASL)Laws & regulation · Software development · AI safety · anthropic.com ↗
- Microsoft publishes AutoGen, an open-source framework for building applications from multiple AI agents that can “converse with each other”Software development · AI agent orchestration · arxiv.org ↗
- Kenya's Ministry of Interior suspends Worldcoin's operations; three days later police seize devices at the company's office in NairobiPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Proof of personhood · techcrunch.com ↗
- A University of California, Irvine study: 1,400 people solved 14,000 CAPTCHAs on live websites; compared with published bot results, bots outperform humans in both speed and accuracy on all CAPTCHA typesCybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · arxiv.org ↗
- Alibaba opens the weights of Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-ChatSoftware development · Business & markets · Large language model · cointelegraph.com ↗
- Global launch of Worldcoin and the WLD token: about 2 million people got a World ID during the betaPrivacy & surveillance · Finance & money · Proof of personhood · world.org ↗
- Open Source Initiative: Meta has created the misunderstanding that Llama 2 is “open source” — it is notSoftware development · Laws & regulation · Open source · opensource.org ↗
- Llama 2 with open weightsSoftware development · Business & markets · Open weights · about.fb.com ↗
- China introduces export controls on gallium and germanium from 1 August 2023Geopolitics & defense · Industry & robots · Compute export controls · mofcom.gov.cn ↗
- The Wikimedia Foundation launches a Wikipedia plugin for ChatGPT, its first experiment with generative AI; by February 2024 the experiment ends: ChatGPT attributed Wikipedia as instructed in 68% of answersMedia & information · Education · Wikipedia after AI · diff.wikimedia.org ↗
- A New York court fined two lawyers and their firm $5,000 in Mata v. Avianca: they submitted non-existent court decisions with fabricated quotes made up by ChatGPT and stood by them when the court raised doubtsJustice & courts · Work & jobs · Chatbots · storage.courtlistener.com ↗
- Buyers in China pay $20–30 for the World IDs of people scanned in Cambodia and Africa; Worldcoin admits that collusion between seller and buyer cannot be preventedCybersecurity · Privacy & surveillance · Proof of personhood · theblock.co ↗
- Yandex builds YandexGPT into AliceSoftware development · Business & markets · Large language model · iphones.ru ↗
- Malware steals Orb operators' passwords; the operator dashboard had no two-factor authentication, and Worldcoin resets all passwordsCybersecurity · Privacy & surveillance · Proof of personhood · techcrunch.com ↗
- Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google so that he can talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts the companyScience · AI safety · x.com ↗
- Center for AI Safety: mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war; signatories include Hinton, Bengio and the heads of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and AnthropicScience · Geopolitics & defense · AI safety · safe.ai ↗
- Sber unveils GigaChat (closed beta)Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · developers.sber.ru ↗
- Eliezer Yudkowsky in TIME: a pause is not enough, the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI is that everyone on Earth will die; “Shut it all down”Media & information · Geopolitics & defense · AI safety · time.com ↗
- Yann LeCun: auto-regressive LLMs are “doomed”, as the error compounds exponentially with every token, and this cannot be fixed without a major redesignScience · Large language model · x.com ↗
- An open letter calls for a pause in training the most powerful modelsLaws & regulation · Values & religion · AI safety · futureoflife.org ↗
- Researchers from OpenAI and the University of Pennsylvania: for 80% of US workers, language models could affect at least 10% of their tasks, and for 19%, at least half; higher-income occupations are more exposedWork & jobs · AI and jobs · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI's 2023 study: language models speed up the most tasks for mathematicians, tax preparers and writers, and none for athletes, short-order cooks, mechanics and stonemasonsWork & jobs · AI and jobs · arxiv.org ↗
- AutoGPT appears on GitHub as “An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment” that sets its own subtasks, searches the internet and uses memorySoftware development · Autonomous AI agents · github.com ↗
- CNIL fines the e-scooter rental service Cityscoot €125,000, in part for using reCAPTCHA without informing users or obtaining their consentPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Death of CAPTCHA · lemondedudroit.fr ↗
- In the GPT-4 system card, OpenAI describes how during ARC's testing the model asked a TaskRabbit worker to solve a CAPTCHA and, when asked whether it was a robot, claimed a vision impairmentCybersecurity · Software development · Death of CAPTCHA · cdn.openai.com ↗
- Anthropic releases Claude and Claude Instant (web chat and API)Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · anthropic.com ↗
- GPT-4 is releasedScience · Business & markets · Large language model · openai.com ↗
- Meta releases LLaMA, a language model for researchers (non-commercial license, access on application)Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · ai.facebook.com ↗
- ChatGPT becomes the fastest-growing consumer app: ~100 million users in two months (UBS estimate)Business & markets · Chatbots · finance.yahoo.com ↗
- Karpathy posts on X: “The hottest new programming language is English”Software development · Vibe coding · twitter.com ↗ ⧗
- Karpathy: “The hottest new programming language is English”Software development · Vibe coding · quoteinvestigator.com ↗