Africa’s push to regulate AI

AI is expanding across the continent and new policies are taking shape.

Week in Review Sunday, March 17, 2024 This week's roundup: An OpenAI spinoff has built an AI model that helps robots learn tasks like humans. Let's not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media. Methane leaks in the US are worse than we thought. And more. Plus, subscribe to unlock 25% savings with our special Pi Day offer and get a first look at what the future holds for emerging technologies. This self-driving startup is using generative AI to predict traffic Waabi says its new model can anticipate how pedestrians, trucks, and bicyclists move using lidar data. Read more → Africa's push to regulate AI starts now AI is expanding across the continent and new policies are taking shape. But poor digital infrastructure and regulatory bottlenecks could slow adoption. Read more → An OpenAI spinoff has built an AI model that helps robots learn tasks like humans But can it graduate from the lab to the warehouse floor? Read more → Let's not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media Social media's unregulated evolution over the past decade holds a lot of lessons that apply directly to AI companies and technologies. Read more → An AI that can play Goat Simulator is a step toward more useful machines Google DeepMind's new agent could tackle a variety of games it had never seen before by watching human players. Read more → Catch up on the stories readers are talking about: How rerouting planes to produce fewer contrails could help cool the planet   LLMs become more covertly racist with human intervention   VR headsets can be hacked with an Inception-style attack   A plan to bring down drug prices could threaten America's technology boom   Brazil is fighting dengue with bacteria-infected mosquitos For a limited time only, subscribe to save 25% and gain access to the latest news & analysis across AI, climate change, biotech & more. SUBSCRIBE & Save 25% Download the MIT Technology Review app View in browser | This email was sent to manojdole1.InformationTech@blogger.com. Manage your preferences | Unsubscribe | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy MIT Technology Review · 196 Broadway, 3rd fl, · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA Copyright © 2024 MIT Technology Review, All rights reserved. Opt out of all promotional emails and newsletters from MIT Technology Review