From Euronews, October 4:
Experts call on global leaders and tech giants in an open letter to prioritise multilingualism in AI development.
Francophone scholars are sounding the alarm about the dominance of English in artificial intelligence (AI) development, warning about the potential risks to “global cultural diversity” and “national sovereignty”.
In an open letter published by the Future of Life Institute on Friday, the experts said there is a lack of linguistic and cultural diversity in AI models and safety assessments.
They argue these shortcomings “pose a threat to the national sovereignty of the states in which they are distributed and to the safety of users”.
The experts are calling on global leaders and tech giants to prioritise multilingualism in AI development, viewing it not as an afterthought, but as a fundamental aspect of creating safe, equitable, and truly global AI.
In January, researchers at Brown University discovered that safeguards designed to prevent OpenAI’s GPT-4 from answering dangerous prompts failed when it received requests in languages such as Zulu or Scots Gaelic. This allowed researchers to get AI-generated answers on how to build a homemade bomb.
This vulnerability was made possible as the instruction was made to the AI in languages that are mostly absent from its training data. The translations were done with Google Translate....
....MUCH MORE
And that's the reason Nvidia's Jensen Huang has been pitching "sovereign" AI, not to sell more computer chips.
$NVDA CFO on SovereignAI:We were struck by the possibilities of the SovereignAI plan and have a few posts on same.First up December 19, 2023
"From nothing the previous year, we believe SovereignAI revenue can approach the high single-digit billions this year. The importance of AI has caught the attention of every nation"
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says AI to See ‘Major Second Wave (NVDA)
AI to See ‘Major Second Wave,’ NVIDIA CEO Says in Fireside Chat With iliad Group Exec
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang says sovereign AI a growing need for countries to reflect unique cultural, linguistic, industrial characteristics
European startups will get a massive boost from a new generation of AI infrastructure, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said Friday in a fireside chat with iliad Group Deputy CEO Aude Durand — and it’s coming just in time.
February 2, 2024
"Nvidia chief sees rise of ‘sovereign AI’ infrastructure across nations, driving demand for company’s advanced chips"
March 5, 2024
Here's Nvidia's "Sovereign AI" Pitch (NVDA)
.... This is terrible. I now have Jensen Huang speaking in Dr. Martin Luther King's cadences as he repurposes the penultimate paragraph of "I have a Dream":
Let AI ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.I may have to go lie down.
Let AI ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let AI ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let AI ring.
...Every, town, every village, every hamlet, every wide spot in the road, should have their own (NVDA-powered) supercomputer.
Also at Euronews: "New AI models are more likely to give a wrong answer than admit they don't know"
Same.
