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OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman advocates for AI regulation in Congress, suggesting licensing for companies looking to develop potent AI systems. Sanctuary AI introduces Phoenix, a bipedal humanoid robot, aimed at revolutionizing manual labor. Meanwhile, a misunderstanding of how ChatGPT works leads to a professor mistakenly flunking his entire class. In other news, Hippocratic, a startup focused on healthcare-oriented language models, secures $50 million in seed funding.

Here's what we've got in store for you today:

⚖️ Sam Altman Meets With Congress

🤖 Are You Ready To Be Replaced at Work by a Robot?

🔎 Professor Fails Every Senior Student for Using ChatGPT

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🛠 Tools Of The Day

OpenAI’s Altman to Congress:

Let’s Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late

OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, made his debut in front of Congress with a bang, advocating for government licensing for companies wanting to develop powerful AI systems. He was joined by IBM's chief privacy and trust officer, Christina Montgomery, and NYU's emeritus professor, Gary Marcus, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on AI oversight. Altman's recommendations? A combo of licensing and testing for AI models exceeding a certain capability threshold.

The rapid evolution of AI systems like ChatGPT has caused tech bigwigs and academia alike to urge a development pause, even calling for government intervention if necessary. However, consensus on what broad regulations should look like is as elusive as a unicorn. As Congress and federal agencies grapple with their role, Altman wooed about 60 lawmakers with a pre-testimony presentation and a Q&A marathon that lasted nearly two hours.

In a surprising contrast to previous tech-CEO grillings, Senators treated Altman and Montgomery with kid gloves. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., even floated the idea of AI models disclosing their training data, akin to nutrition labels on food packages. Altman gave the concept a thumbs up.

After Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., suggested people might lean on AI for reliable information, Altman reiterated the need for government regulation, saying, "People need to know if they're talking to an AI, if content they're looking at might be generated or not." He compared the situation to the early days of Photoshop, when people were initially fooled by edited images, but quickly caught on. With AI, he warns, the deception level could be "Photoshop on steroids."

While some tech leaders, like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, argue that AI regulation should be left to industry insiders, Marcus called for a Cabinet-level organization to oversee AI, citing the numerous risks and the volume of information to monitor. AI is moving fast, and according to Marcus, hyper-targeted advertising leveraging personal data is definitely on the horizon. The question now is, can our regulatory mechanisms keep pace?

Step Aside Humans, It’s Robot Time

Forget pet rocks, Sanctuary AI is aiming to make pet humans (well, robots that are *like* humans, but still). Teleoperation is so last decade for these guys. After successfully deploying a teleoperated system in a Canadian store that ran around completing 110 retail tasks (did it ask for a tip?), they've set their sights on something much bigger. Their latest brainchild, Phoenix, is a bipedal humanoid robot designed to do manual labor. Who needs cheap overseas manufacturing when you've got robots, amirite?

Phoenix, the brainchild of Sanctuary AI, has the same proportions as your average human - 5'7", 155 lbs, and can lug around 55 lbs at 3 miles per hour. Sanctuary AI is quick to point out that it has industry-leading robotic hands with 20 degrees of freedom, haptic technology and all that jazz. But hold your horses, folks. Phoenix isn't strutting about quite yet. It's currently rolling on wheels and has some ways to go before it can do the robot dance. But hey, Rome wasn't built in a day and Sanctuary AI has a map, some snacks, and some smart people behind the wheel. Strap in, it's gonna be a wild ride.

Sanctuary's grand plan is to start with telepresence (because we can't just go about building sentient robots without baby steps, can we?) and then gradually achieve full automaton autonomy. Their idea is to sensorize humans, record their movements and learn from them. It's like having a robot babysitter, but in reverse. Sanctuary's CEO, Geordie Rose, is serious about this stuff. He's ready to take on the "civilization-level challenge" of building true intelligence. Let's just hope he's watched enough sci-fi movies to know where this could go wrong.

AI Fail: When Professors Don't Do Their Homework

In a twist of irony that's almost too rich to make up, a commerce professor from Texas A&M University just flunked his entire senior class, putting the brakes on their caps and gowns parade. The reason? He was convinced that his students were using ChatGPT to crank out their assignments.

Here's the funny part: according to a Reddit post by one of the unlucky students, the professor tried to play detective with his own ChatGPT account, smacking a zero on any paper that the AI claimed it wrote. Here's the kicker though – he got it all wrong! ChatGPT isn’t some magical plagiarism detector. In fact, it has a bit of an ego problem, claiming to have written pretty much any text you feed it, whether it's Shakespeare, a grocery list, or even this newsletter.

So here's a toast to the professor who failed his students for not understanding the AI he was trying to catch them out with. A gentle reminder folks, always do your homework – especially when you're the one grading it.

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