Proposed Changes to Canada’s Bill C-27 Do Little to Mitigate AI Harms
On September 28, 2023, Canada’s Standing Committee on Industry and Technology (INDU) passed a motion requesting Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne to release the proposed government amendments to Bill C-27, which the minister had mentioned in his testimony. In response,…
Nvidia Tops Llama 2, Stable Diffusion Speed Trials MLPerf releases new LLM and generative AI inferencing tests
Times change, and so must benchmarks. Now that we’re firmly in the age of massive generative AI, it’s time to add two such behemoths, Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL, to MLPerf’s inferencing tests. Version 4.0 of the benchmark tests more than 8,500 results from 23…
How Large Language Models Are Changing My Job The AI revolution as seen by a dean, a semiconductor VP, and a government regulator
Generative artificial intelligence, and large language models in particular, are starting to change how countless technical and creative professionals do their jobs. Programmers, for example, are getting code segments by prompting large language models. And graphic arts software packages such as Adobe Illustrator…
Forecasting Transformative AI, Part 1: What Kind of AI?
This is the first of four posts summarizing hundreds of pages of technical reports focused almost entirely on forecasting one number. It’s the single number I’d probably most value having a good estimate for: the year by which transformative AI will…