A Landmark AI Report, CAIO Baby, and Adobe's Fuzzy Ethics
Both the overall number of investment events involving AI and the number of AI businesses that received money recently fell.
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Watch : A DOVE commercial
I love this because they’ve pledged they will never use AI to represent women in campaigns.
The personal care brand, which has championed portraying “real women” of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds in its advertising, has committed to never using Gen AI technology in its portrayal of women.
In a new campaign, ‘The Dove Code’, it wants to redefine what beauty looks like in the digital age, and follows a global report. The Real State of Beauty, that found a third of women feel pressure to alter their appearance because of what they see online, even when they know it’s fake or AI generated.
Be Impressed: Sophina
This journalist made a bot that writes scripts for her.
There’s an industry emerging specifically to help no-coders like me build chatbots. I used Botstacks and the team were gracious enough to lend me some extra support after I told them what I was trying to do all by myself.
This followed similar approaches to what we at The Rundown did with Wanja. Your guide to understanding Africa. This is still in Beta and we are partnering with organizations that will make this the #1 go to place, with authentic African perspectives, ownership and data for understanding the continent for journalists coming to cover, for PR teams who need to have a better lay of the land, and for investors to Africa. Meet Wanja here, and note our data sets are limited.
Read: SuperCommunicators
Headlines: There are three types of conversations to have with people: Practical (what’s this really about?), emotional (how do we feel?) and social (who are we?). Empathy matters most. Understanding others, and validating feelings. Listening is captain obvious but we do not do it enough. (I keep working on this.) As the right questions that are open ended, and encourages stronger connections.
Chief AI Officer, CAIO Baby!
As businesses rush to integrate AI, a new executive position is emerging – the Chief AI Officer (CAIO). LinkedIn data shows that companies with a head of AI role have nearly tripled globally in the past five years. The White House recently announced that federal agencies would need CAIOs to ensure accountability, leadership, and oversight of AI technology. CAIOs are in high demand across various industries, overseeing AI deployment, improving workforce efficiency, identifying new revenue streams, and mitigating risks. Fawad Bajwa, the AI lead at Russell Reynolds Associates, told Time Magazine that recruiting for these positions is challenging due to the small talent pool. As the AI revolution accelerates, the demand for CAIOs and other AI roles is expected to soar, particularly in the media and communications space.
Leading With AI
AI is helping business leaders pioneer new frontiers. Tune into the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Leading with AI conference on May 7 to learn how your organization can capitalize on digital transformation. Leading with AI is chaired by Harvard Business School professors Karim Lakhani, Tsedal Neeley, and Mitchell Weiss and is presented in partnership with the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, a pioneering hub dedicated to the study of transformative technologies. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/HBS_conference
Buzzing: The AI Index Report 2023 from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Takeaways:
Private investment in artificial intelligence fell for the second consecutive year.
With a decline of 26.7% from 2021 to 2022, global AI private investment amounted to $91.9 billion in 2022. Both the overall amount of investment events involving AI and the number of AI businesses that received money recently fell. Nonetheless, spending on AI has skyrocketed during the past decade. Private investment in artificial intelligence increased 18-fold between 2013 and 2022.
Huge Impacts in Scientific Advancements with AI
In 2022, artificial intelligence models helped with hydrogen fusion, made matrix manipulation more efficient, and produced new antibodies; this is just the beginning of how AI is speeding up scientific advancement.
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of reported cases of AI abuse.
Since 2012, there has been a 26-fold increase in the number of AI events and controversies recorded in the AIAAIC database, which tracks incidents connected to the ethical misuse of AI. A deepfake video purporting to show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy surrendering and the use of call-monitoring technologies by U.S. prisons were two major events in 2022. Both the increased use of AI technology and the growing awareness of their potential misuse are reflected in this growth.
More on the report here.
For anyone using Adobe
… they plan to bring generative video to Premiere
They’re exploring a partnership with OpenAI to integrate generative AI tools like Sora into its widely used Premiere Pro video editing software. Adobe is also developing ways to let users tap into third-party AI startups like Runway and Pika Labs, allowing them to generate and use AI-created video content directly within Premiere Pro. There are cool features: Adobe plans to introduce:
An Object Addition and Removal tool, powered by its own Firefly AI model, which allows users to replace moving objects in a shot, remove unwanted items, or add elements to the background with ease and without any tedious manual work.
Generative B-Roll, which can generate entire video clips based on simple text prompts, saving time and effort for video editors. What once took hours and days can now take minutes.
Users will be alerted when using non-Adobe AI models, - and all AI-generated videos will carry Content Credential labels identifying the models used.
Not Cool
But Adobe is catching some heat for what what appears to be unethical moves. Earlier it promised it would only train its AI models on Adobe stock images that are licensed and commercially safe, unlikely diffusion models, like Midjourney, who scrape from the internet and do not pay fees to creators. Meanwhile, it’s been using Midjourney itself.
This shows the murkiness of the definition of responsible AI, and it also illustrates the difficulties of getting away from, if not the legal, then the social and cultural problems, or ethical problems, with generated content,” - Luke Stark, an assistant professor at Western University in Ontario
Zain’s Team: Claude AI (one paragraph), Perplexity AI (not good enough for what I needed today, not used). Oh Quillbot for spelling and grammar.