Letters from Andrew Ng

Last month, a drone from Skyfire AI was credited with saving a police officer’s life after a dramatic 2 a.m. traffic stop.

The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.

At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.

Browsing the web to achieve a specific goal can be challenging for agents based on large language models and even for vision-language models that can process onscreen images of a browser.

Google revised its AI principles, reversing previous commitments to avoid work on weapons, surveillance, and other military applications beyond non-lethal uses like communications, logistics, and medicine.

OpenAI introduced a state-of-the-art agent that produces research reports by scouring the web and reasoning over what it finds.

Under a new president, the United States reversed its approach to AI regulation, seeking global dominance by reducing restrictions.

Greetings from Davos, Switzerland! Many business and government leaders are gathered here again for the annual World Economic Forum to discuss tech, climate, geopolitics, and economic growth.

Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Texas are considering stringent AI regulation.

The United States proposed limits on exports of AI technology that would dramatically expand previous restrictions, creating a new international hierarchy for access to advanced chips and models.

Harvard University amassed a huge new text corpus for training machine learning models.

Large language models have been shown to be capable of lying when users unintentionally give them an incentive to do so. Further research shows that LLMs with access to tools can be incentivized to use them in deceptive ways.

Anthropic analyzed 1 million anonymized conversations between users and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The study found that most people used the model for software development and also revealed malfunctions and jailbreaks.

As we approach 2025, my greatest hope for AI is that it will enable prosocial platforms that promote empathy, understanding, and collaboration rather than division.

In 2025, AI will have learned to see, it will be way smarter and more accurate, and it will start to do things on your behalf.