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It’s Tuesday, September 19, and today we’re covering Robotaxi’s taking over the Beijing streets, the political bias of AI chatboxes, Bernie Sanders pushing on better lives for workers with AI, plus a lot more.

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🚀 BIG TECH & STARTUPS

China's capital city is letting the public take fully driverless robotaxis (3 min read)

As of Tuesday, the suburban Beijing city district of Yizhuang is officially letting local robotaxi operators — primarily Baidu and startup Pony.ai — charge fares for fully autonomous taxis, with no human staff inside.

That fully eliminates the cost of a driver.

More approvals for robotaxi operations in the city are coming. “We have very high confidence ... maybe only in three years, our full driverless vehicles are going to be running over the whole Beijing city,”said Ning Zhang, vice president at Pony.ai and head of its Beijing research and development center.

Comparing Google Bard with OpenAI’s ChatGPT on political bias, facts, and morality(15 min read)

Many journalistic and academic evaluations have focused on AI capabilities, such as what the algorithms can do and whether they can add large numbers, solve problems, be creative, or analyze complex moral dilemmas.

But in the real world, that is not how people use the internet to find answers to their questions. They typically search for topics that are in the national limelight or are related to major controversies. Going forward, the real test in generative AI models is how their answers hold up compared to baseline standards, such as political bias, completeness, morality, and accuracy.

🧑‍🚀 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

AI-Supported Automated Code Remediation at Scale Is Catalyst for Mila, Moderne Partnership (3 min read)

Mila - Quebec AI Institute, the world’s largest academic deep learning (DL) research center, has established a partnership with Moderne, the pioneer in next-generation automated code remediation and analysis.

The collaboration brings together Mila’s expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and DL and Moderne’s knowledge of rules-based refactoring systems to automate the work of securing, maintaining, and modernizing codebases at scale. Developers, who can spend at least 40% of their day modifying and updating existing applications, will benefit from this AI partnership.

UK’s antitrust regulator drafts principles for ‘responsible’ generative AI (5 min read)

An review of generative AI by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which was announced back in May has concluded with a report containing seven principles to “ensure consumer protection and healthy competition are at the heart of responsible development and use of foundation models” (FMs).

The principles the competition watchdog has come up with for consideration, on AI’s potential impacts on markets, are:

• Accountability: “FM developers and deployers are accountable for outputs provided to consumers”

• Access: “ongoing ready access to key inputs, without unnecessary restrictions”

• Diversity: “sustained diversity of business models, including both open and closed”

• Choice: “sufficient choice for businesses so they can decide how to use FMs”

• Flexibility: “having the flexibility to switch and/or use multiple FMs according to need”

• Fair dealing: “no anti-competitive conduct including anti-competitive self-preferencing, tying or bundling”

• Transparency: “consumers and businesses are given information about the risks and limitations of FM-generated content so they can make informed choices”

🧠 MISCELLANEOUS

Bernie Sanders: workers should reap AI benefits in form of ‘lowering workweek’ (2 min read)

If the US’s ongoing artificial intelligence and robotics boom translates into more work being done faster, then laborers should reap some of the gains of that in the form of more paid time off, the liberal US senator Bernie Sanders said Sunday. The idea of artificial intelligence [and] robotics benefits us all – not just the people on top – is something, absolutely, we need to be discussing.”

Recruiters warn against overuse of AI tools such as ChatGPT to write resumes, cover letters (3 min read)

Recruiters are urging jobseekers to use artificial intelligence (AI) platforms sparingly when applying for jobs — or risk missing out on their dream role. The downfall could be when the applicant is progressed to the interview, where they fail to articulate themselves the same way, or are unable to provide examples of their experience to accurately reflect what ChatGPT produced for them in the cover letter.

Bad news, star employees: You're not the ones who'll benefit the most from AI (4 min read)

A recent study conducted at management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group, or BCG, found that consultants who ranked below average benefitted the most from using the technology.

• Consultants using AI completed tasks faster and produced higher-quality results than those without, according to a new study.

• The greatest gains were seen by below-average performers using AI, per the study's authors.

• A previous study showed that AI assistance had a weak impact on higher-skilled customer service workers.