If it’s Monday, then it’s time for your constitutionally-required AI chatbot update:

#1- Let’s start with something you can use: ChatGPT customers will soon be able to upload and analyze files. The latest beta update rolling out to ChatGPT Plus consumers includes the ability to upload files and receive multimodal support from the AI. If your super-ultra-generous Egyptian credit card allowance of EGP 7,750 permits, access to the plus-tier features will cost you about USD 20 per month.

The perks: The “advanced data analysis” feature can summarize data from uploaded files, answer questions you might have about the included information, and even generate data visualizations at your request.

The new features rolling out will also see ChatGPT try to guess whether you want it to use its “browse with Bing” feature instead of prompting you to go select it from a menu, The Verge reports.

This feature is just a taste of the ChatGPT Enterprise suite (no relation). This ChatGPT offering gives companies and their employees access to fast responses from GPT-4, more security, and unlimited queries. This version of the AI chatbot also promises to protect business data, encouraging companies to consider using the platform.

Data security and privacy will be key for OpenAI to win over corporate clients, and OpenAI is promising that what happens on ChatGPT Enterprise stays on ChatGPT Enterprise — any queries and files uploaded onto the platform will not be used to train GPT, minimizing the risk of exposing sensitive data.

Bulge bracket banks are already going deep into the technology: Citi used custom-brewed generative AI to look for key takeaways in a >1k page set of new capital rules in the US. And JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon thinks our kids will be working 3.5-day workweeks thanks to generative AI.

#2- It’s a big day for AI regulation, as we noted this morning. G7 leaders are scheduled to announce later today a (voluntary?) code of conduct for companies developing AI systems. This includes regulatory edicts that aim to promote safe AI practices and unify AI governance. The Biden White House is also due to release its own AI guidelines this week — perhaps as early as today — but is expected to tighten the reins more drastically than the G7.

Look for the Biden administration to be particularly interested in the intersection of AI and Planet Finance. An alphabet’s soup of regulators will be asked to look into everything from systemic risk arising from the adoption of AI to whether AI is biased against anyone in particular (say … Arabs, black or brown folks … or women … or…) in making financial decisions.

#3- AI hasn’t cracked slang — and maybe we can’t consider it truly intelligent until it does. If you’re worried about a global AI takeover, we still have a long way to go before the rise of the machines. The proof? AI isn’t hip. The likes of ChatGPT have trouble understanding slang, and while many of us may relate to this, we don’t have the access to information AI does. If AI really did exhibit natural intelligence, it would be able to tap into the complexities of human experience and social context that makes slang intelligible.

…But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take precautions. While it might be too late to scrub the internet of our digital footprints, we may still be able to spare our kids. Facial recognition tech and AI generators are plaguing the interwebs, spawning terrifyingly realistic AI-generated images and deepfakes that are harder to identify with each passing day. Photo manipulation can easily be misused by anyone with access to AI and any pictures shared online. Go deeper with Kashmir Hill, arguably one of the world’s top reporters on the intersection between privacy and tech, as she asks in the New York Times whether you can hid your kid’s face from artificial intelligence.

FRENCH CHEESE-

French cheese is under threat. Like Bordeaux wine-makers, cheesemakers are grappling with the inevitably of climate change and the endless rules governing their trade, the New York Times explains.

Cheese holds a sacred place in French culture — and in our hearts.Cheese shapes the regional identity and global reputation of French people. With an astounding variety of nearly 1.2k different types of cheese, the country boasts 46 varieties that bear an AOP (appellation d’origine protégée) label, indicating a “protected designation of origin.” Think of it as one part cheese mafia that doesn’t let anybody else muscle in on its turf, one part certificate of authenticity.

Getting an AOP quality stamp is not easy. Cheese with the label must adhere to specific rules to command a premium price in the market. These rules include the breeds, the milking animals feed, various cheese production stages, and aging. Take Picodon: to be so designated, a cheese needs to satisfy a list of requirements 13 pages long.

Salers cheese was not there in the summer of 2022 for the first time in 2k years… The production of salers cheese, a semi-hard cheese with an AOP label produced in France’s Auvergne region, has been disrupted by severe heat waves and drought caused by climate change last year, The Washington Post reports.

…because of grass? A crucial requirement for the production of salers cheese is that local cows must be fed with a minimum of 75% grass from pastures. Unfortunately, the scorching temperatures experienced during last year’s summer have left the 76 farmers contributing milk for salers production in a state of despair. Moreover, salers was not the only cheese that suffered — over half of the AOP cheese associations have received ‘Carte Blanche’ from the authorities because their product did not comply with the rules.

Winter and indoor farming might be temporary solutions. Making use of the mild or cold temperatures before the high temperatures hit might help the farmers produce their cheese at the required standards. The region’s increasing heat and dryness have led farmers to bring goats indoors during the whole summer instead of just August. While some AOP associations are advocating for rule changes, others express concerns about the potential impact on the brand’s reputation and the taste of the products.

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