Thank you , Lucilla
Sioli
Context :
Europe
to Open AI 'crash test' centres to ensure safety /
Bloomberg / 28 June 2023
Extract :
The Europe Union is
introducing "crash test" systems for artificial intelligence to
ensure new innovations are safe before
they hit the market.
The trade bloc launched four permanent testing
and experimental facilities across Europe on Tuesday, having injected ₹220
million ($240 million) into the project.
The centers, which are
virtual and physical, will from next year give
technology providers a space to test AI and robotics in real-life settings
within manufacturing, health care, agriculture and
food, and cities
Innovators are expected
to bring "trustworthy
artificial intelligence" to the
market, and can use the
facilities to test and validate their
applications, said Lucilla
Sioli, [ Lucilla.SIOLI@ec.europa.eu
]
-
director for
artificial intelligence and digital industry at the European Commission, at a
launch event in Copenhagen on Tuesday.
-
She highlighted disinformation as one of the key risks introduced by artificial
intelligence.
The facilities, which
will complement regulation such as the EU's AI Act, are a digital version of
the European crash test system for new cars, the Technical University of
Denmark, which will lead one of the centers, said in a statement.
They will act as a
"safety filter" between technology providers and users in Europe and also help inform
public policy, the university said.
MY TAKE :
> Parekh’s
Law of Chatbots ………. 25 Feb 2023
Extract :
What is urgently required is a
superordinate “ LAW of CHATBOTS “
, which all
ChatBots MUST comply with, before these can be
launched for public use.
All developers would need to
submit their DRAFT CHATBOT to an,
INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITY for CHATBOTS APPROVAL ( IACA ) ,
and release it only after
getting one of the following types of certificates :
# “ R “ certificate ( for use
restricted to recognized RESEARCH IINSTITUTES
only )
# “ P “ certificate (
for free use by GENERAL PUBLIC )
Following is my suggestion for
such a law ( until renamed, to be known as , “
Parekh’s Law of ChatBots “ )
:
( A )
# Answers
being delivered by AI Chatbot must not
be “ Mis-informative /
Malicious /
Slanderous / Fictitious / Dangerous / Provocative / Abusive /
Arrogant /
Instigating / Insulting / Denigrating humans etc
( B )
# A Chatbot must incorporate some kind of “ Human Feedback / Rating “
mechanism
for evaluating those answers
This
human feedback loop shall be used by the AI software for training the
Chatbot so as
to improve the quality of its future answers to comply with the
requirements
listed under ( A )
( C )
# Every
Chatbot must incorporate some built-in “ Controls “ to
prevent the “
generation “ of
such offensive answers AND to prevent further “
distribution/propagation/forwarding “ if control fails to stop “ generation “
( D )
# A
Chatbot must not start a chat with a human on its
own – except to say, “
How can I
help you ? “
( E )
# Under no
circumstance , a Chatbot shall start chatting with
another Chatbot or
start chatting with itself ( Soliloquy
) , by assuming some kind of “ Split
Personality “
( F )
# In a normal
course, a Chatbot shall wait for a human to initiate a chat and
then
respond
( G )
# If a Chatbot
determines that its answer ( to a question posed by a human ) is
likely to
generate an answer which may violate RULE ( A ) , then it shall not
answer at
all ( politely refusing to answer )
( H )
# A chatbot
found to be violating any of the above-mentioned RULES, shall SELF
DESTRUCT
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
www.hemenparekh.ai / 28
June 2023
Related Readings :
My 33 Blogs on
ChatBots ……………………( as of 05 Apr
2023 )
Thank
You, Ashwini Vaishnawji………………… 10 April 2023
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EU AI Act explained ........... 28 June 2023
Uncensored Chatbots Provoke a Fracas Over Free Speech ( nytimes / 02 July )
A.I. chatbots have lied about notable figures, pushed partisan messages, spewed misinformation or even advised users on how to commit suicide.
To mitigate the tools’ most obvious dangers, companies like Google and OpenAI have carefully added controls that limit what the tools can say.
Now a new wave of chatbots, developed far from the epicenter of the A.I. boom, are coming online without many of those guardrails — setting off a polarizing free-speech debate over whether chatbots should be moderated, and who should decide.
“This is about ownership and control,” Eric Hartford, a developer behind WizardLM-Uncensored, an unmoderated chatbot, wrote in a blog post. “If I ask my model a question, I want an answer, I do not want it arguing with me.”
Several uncensored and loosely moderated chatbots have sprung to life in recent months under names like GPT4All and FreedomGPT. Many were created for little or no money by independent programmers or teams of volunteers, who successfully replicated the methods first described by A.I. researchers. Only a few groups made their models from the ground up. Most groups work from existing language models, only adding extra instructions to tweak how the technology responds to prompts.
The uncensored chatbots offer tantalizing new possibilities. Users can download an unrestricted chatbot on their own computers, using it without the watchful eye of Big Tech. They could then train it on private messages, personal emails or secret documents without risking a privacy breach. Volunteer programmers can develop clever new add-ons, moving faster — and perhaps more haphazardly — than larger companies dare.
But the risks appear just as numerous — and some say they present dangers that must be addressed. Misinformation watchdogs, already wary of how mainstream chatbots can spew falsehoods, have raised alarms about how unmoderated chatbots will supercharge the threat. These models could produce descriptions of child pornography, hateful screeds or false content, experts warned.
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Added on 04 July 2023 :
In the tech net: Governments race to regulate AI tools the world over
