Happy Saturday!

Here’s what’s in store today:

• Amazon’s new generative AI 🚨

• Pentagon goes on hiring spree 👩‍💻

• Germany considers ChatGPT ban ❌

Amazon’s new generative AI 🚨

We’re pretty sure every tech giant has joined the AI race over the past few months.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently announced Bedrock, a generative AI cloud service that developers can use to enhance their software. The service will be built into the already massive AWS platform. This comes after Google and Microsoft started offering developers LLMs they could use.

AWS will offer access to various LLMs including Jurassic-2 by AI21 labs, Anthropic’s Claude, and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion. Amazon will also offer access to its own LLM called Amazon Titan. The Titan model can generate text for blog posts, emails, and other documents.

Titan models will never be trained on customer data, however, clients will be able to customize the models using their own data. Amazon is rolling out a limited preview for the service, therefore the cost of the service hasn’t been disclosed yet.

Pentagon goes on hiring spree 👩‍💻

The Pentagon is going all in on AI.

The Defense Department is hiring data scientists, technologists, and engineers to incorporate artificial intelligence into the military. Many of these jobs are paying six figures, for example, an opening for a senior technologist that is responsible for “cognitive and decision science” at the U.S. Navy’s Point Loma Complex in San Diego starts at $170,000.

Chief of Naval Operations Michael Gilday recently said he imagined the use of “minimally manned” ships before fully autonomous ships in the Navy. The Air Force is also looking to use AI, they recently posted an opening for a senior scientist in “human-machine teaming” who will work on projects in which “humans, machines, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and technology-centric solutions are the focus.”

The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), which was established last year, is also looking to use AI to “generate decision advantage” in wartime. The office is looking to hire two AI experts with jobs starting at $155,000.

What do you think of the Pentagon joining the AI train?

Germany considers ChatGPT ban ❌

More European countries are considering banning ChatGPT.

Germany is looking to ban ChatGPT after privacy concerns. Ulrich Kelber, the country’s data protection chief recently told the Handelsblatt newspaper that German regulators were in communication with Italian regulators after the country banned ChatGPT last week.

Italy blocked ChatGPT after the data protection regulators decided the way OpenAI processes users’ data violates the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws. Italian officials also discussed OpenAI not performing age verification checks for its users.

Germany and Italy join a growing list of countries that have banned ChatGPT. These countries include Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, and Syria. Many expect the EU to continue cracking down on ChatGPT and other AI chatbots.

What do you think of the bans?

That’s it for today, we’ll see you back here next week!