From data privacy to artificial intelligence, here are the new rules Congress is considering for tech companies

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Democrats and Republicans agree that the federal government should better regulate the biggest tech companies, especially social media platforms. But there is very little consensus on how it should be done. Should TikTok be banned? Should younger children be kept away from social media? Can the government guarantee the …

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Georgia Tech researchers present ZipIt: a general method for merging two arbitrary models of the same architecture that incorporates two simple strategies

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.03053.pdf The computer vision discipline has flourished under the dominance of huge models with ever-increasing numbers of parameters since AlexNet popularized deep learning. Challenges in today’s benchmarks include classification with tens of thousands of classes, precise object identification, rapid instance segmentation, realistic image production, and many other vision problems originally thought to …

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Biden administration unveils AI plan ahead of meeting with tech CEOs

(CNN) The White House on Thursday announced a series of measures to address the challenges of artificial intelligence, propelled by the sudden popularity of tools like ChatGPT and growing concerns about the technology’s potential risks for discrimination, misinformation and privacy. The US government plans to introduce policies that shape how federal agencies procure …

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