AI News Roundup: Romanian PM to use AI to gather public opinion, waste management with AI, robot authors and more

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Nicolae Ciuca, Romania's Prime Minister will rely on AI to gather public opinion.

• The Prime Minister is one of the early adopters of OpenAI's new APIs for businesses, which is called GPT-3.5-turbo.
• The AI advisor called Ion "will use technology and artificial intelligence to capture opinions in society” using “data publicly available on social networks".

New York Times spoke to three human authors about their thoughts.

• Author David Sedaris said, "I don’t think anybody’s job is safe,” when asked about AI taking over jobs.
• Others were convinced that being human, with all its messiness and layers of experience, is a key ingredient to magical writing that a machine can’t replicate.

In an interview with Moneycontrol, Velamakanni shed light on increasing investor interest in and growth prospects of artificial intelligence (AI) startups globally.

• TPG-backed Fractal AI, which was valued at $1 billion last year, is seeking to become a $15 billion by annual revenue company by serving the world’s 500 biggest companies, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Srikanth Velamakanni said.
• Founded in 2000 in Mumbai, the AI startup’s clientele includes Fortune 100 and 500 companies such as Google, Wells Fargo and Reckitt Benckiser.

In the euphoria over ChatGPT’s rapid progress, we shouldn’t turn a blind eye to the risks posed by opaque logic that drives AI decision making.

• Our amusement at how ChatGPT mimics human artistic and abstract abilities has made us empathetic to its inaccuracies. However, these inaccuracies viewed against the pervasiveness of AI specifically to aid decision-making underscores the need for regulation.
• Although convincingly exhibiting intelligence, AI is trained to interpret situations within the contours of the logic it has been trained by.

The World Bank predicts that from 2020-50, yearly waste handling will increase by 73 percent to reach around 3.88 billion tonnes.

• Emerging economies can handle and control different kinds of waste, but developing countries still need help for correctly storing and eliminating traditional general waste.
• Pollution and trash disposal without a plan in the big cities of these developed countries is a big reason why the environment could be in better shape.
• AI can help us better understand how waste is made and help us develop better ways to reduce, sort and get rid of the trash.