This Week in AI

1. The AI Prompting Upgrade

2. The Chief AI Officer PT. 2

3. Productivity and Job Loss

4. The Copyright Question Continues ©

The AI Prompting Upgrade:

• DeepMind introduced Promptbreeder, a novel approach to evolving prompts for AI models through a self-improvement mechanism.

The Chief AI Officer PT. 2:

• The White House is now mandating every Government Agency appoint a CAIO.

• "We have directed all federal agencies to designate a chief AI officer with the experience, expertise, and authority to oversee all — I'm going to emphasize that — all AI technologies used by that agency," - VP Kamala Harris

Productivity and Job Loss:

• The first large-scale study of a ChatGPT-like AI assistant in the workplace revealed a surprising trend

  • Conducted on nearly 5,200 customer support agents

• Workers who utilized the tool were 14% more productive

  • Junior employees who utilized the tool were up to 35% more productive

The Copyright Question Continues ©

• As Music publishers including Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, accusing it of illegally using copyrighted song lyrics to train AI models.

• A new act has been introduced that mandates the disclosure of such use of copyrighted material to the Register of Copyrights