5 things about AI you may have missed today: Google’s secret AI project, tech majors agree to safeguards, more

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As months go by, the debates about the merits or demerits of artificial intelligence (AI) continue, while developments simultaneously carry on at their own pace. Notably, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has made a return to the company to work on a secret AI project called Gemini. On the other hand, seven big tech companies including Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta have agreed to voluntary regulations on the rapid development of AI.

All this, and more in our roundup of the 5 big things in AI that you may have missed today.

Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google has cut short his retirement and is back at the Google office in Mountain View, California. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Brin is working on one of the company's most ambitious projects of recent times — a general-purpose AI platform which is internally called Gemini. The report also asserts that Brin is working to develop the company's next large artificial intelligence tool.

After numerous debates about the potential safeguards against AI, big tech companies have agreed to voluntary regulations on the rapid development of this technology, the White House announced on Friday. As per a report by New York Times, seven companies including Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI will announce their commitment to these safeguards during a meeting on Friday afternoon with President Biden at the White House.

While the risks around the rapid rise in AI involve the technology potentially replacing jobs, Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu believes that it will only replace the roles, not the workers themselves. During a keynote speech at the chief information officers (CIOs) meet organized by ManageEngine in Chennai on Friday, Vembu