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Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety
Google DeepMind, the AI R&D division behind many of Google's more recent GenAI innovations, is launching a new safety-focused AI research org.
A separate survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that nearly 60% of adults think AI tools will increase the volume of false and misleading information during the 2024 U.S. election cycle. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft’s Copilot suite, powered by GenAI models similar architecturally to Gemini, often makes mistakes in meeting summaries and spreadsheet formulas. “I think the key is to … [account] for remaining human cognitive biases in the data we use to train, good uncertainty estimates to know where gaps are, adding inference-time monitoring that can catch failures and confirmation dialogues for consequential decisions and tracking where [a] model’s capabilities are to engage in potentially dangerous behavior,” she said.
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