One-Minute Daily AI News 6/7/2023

1. Microsoft will make it possible for users of its Azure Government cloud computing service, which include a variety of US agencies, to access artificial intelligence models from ChatGPT creator OpenAI.[1]
2. Artificial intelligence is now hard at work on American farms. New machines are used to kill weeds and harvest crops, speeding up the process.[2]
3. Britain will host a global summit on artificial intelligence safety later this year. The summit will consider the risks of AI, including frontier systems, and discuss how they can be mitigated through internationally coordinated action.[3]
4. An AI system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI-created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language C++, can sort data up to three times as fast as human-generated versions.[4]

Sources:

[1] https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2023/06/microsoft-unveils-openai-service-government-customers/387193/

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/ai-meets-agriculture-with-new-farm-machines-to-kill-weeds-and-harvest-crops-180937797700

[3] https://www.reuters.com/technology/britain-host-first-global-summit-artificial-intelligence-safety-2023-06-07/

[4] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01883-4