Your midweek round-up; here are the headlines:

• The EU AI Act is being dubbed “GDPR”, but for AI

• Google’s medical AI chatbot in hospitals

• OpenAI launches a new Superalignment team

• Google will scrape your content for the benefit of its own AI

• NHS plans to cut cancer treatment times with AI

The EU AI Act, is it just GDPR but for AI?

The EU AI Act is the first-ever legislation for artificial intelligence, similar to GDPR. It introduces categories such as 'foundation models' and 'general-purpose AI', and outlines best practices for AI use. The Act emphasises the development of trustworthy AI and imposes obligations for high-risk AI systems. The legislation is currently undergoing final negotiations before implementation.

The Mayo Clinic tests Google’s medical AI chatbot

Google's Med-PaLM 2 AI tool has been tested in Mayo Clinic and other hospitals since April. It's a chatbot designed to answer medical questions using a healthcare-specific language model. While it aims to be more reliable than other chatbots such as Bing and ChatGPT, Google acknowledges accuracy issues that make it unsuitable for healthcare journeys.

OpenAI launches its Superalignment team

How do you align a model much smarter than humans? OpenAI has been working on this for a while and has now dedicated 20% of its computing resources to this challenge - actively hiring top scientists within the organisation to solve this problem.

Are you using ChatGPT’s latest features?

Earlier this year, ChatGPT added functionality for plugins – and just this week, has started to roll out its Code Interpreter. But you might be wondering how you access them. Firstly, you’ll need a paid account for ChatGPT that will unlock your access to GPT-4, and then you’ll need to head over to your profile settings and turn on the new Beta features.

Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online For AI

Google plans to scrape and index all publicly accessible online content, such as forum posts and social media, in order to train their AI models. This development has sparked concerns regarding privacy and the potential for Google to gain extensive access to personal information.

After trying 200+ AI tools, these are the best…

Are these AI tools worth the hype? Jano le Roux was sceptical, so he put 200 to the test. Here he explores how these top AI tools might actually revolutionise productivity and creativity. Discover which ones made the cut!

'Ethical' use of AI to be incorporated into teaching and assessment, top universities

There is growing concern about the use of artificial intelligence in education, specifically regarding students potentially using AI technology to cheat on assignments. In response, one exam board has proposed a solution...

NHS turns to AI to cut cancer treatment times

Researchers claim artificial intelligence can outperform skilled doctors in where to direct radiotherapy by, assessing the optimal treatment location with 90% accuracy - and at a faster pace.

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