Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing many aspects of how we work and live. (How many stories did you read last week about self-driving cars and job-stealing robots? Perhaps your holiday shopping involved some AI algorithms, as well.) But despite the constant flow of news, many misconceptions about AI remain.
AI doesn’t think in our sense of the word at all, Scriffignano explains. “In many ways, it’s not really intelligence. It’s regressive.”
IT leaders should make deliberate choices about what AI can and can’t do on its own. “You have to pay attention to giving AI autonomy intentionally and not by accident,”
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Journalist Resigns After Being Exposed for Fake, AI-Generated Quotes
byFrank Landymore
Aug 18, 7:00 AM EDT
Getty / Futurism
“There were some weird patterns and phrases that were in his reporting.”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/journalist-ai-generated-quotes?fbclid=IwY2xjawE8TtxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdY0mCwU0jWBKRiTs7iemLDBE1XN28uTWW7LFC1QmCb-5SHuBncWWsqgcg_aem_-XpOwElNQqiMpV9qxsmhew
Tomi Engdahl says:
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Klarnan toimitusjohtaja kertoo tekoälyloikan mahdollistavan henkilöstövähennysten jatkamisen. Yhtiön vajaasta 4 000 työntekijästä voi olla muutaman vuoden päästä jäljellä vain puolet.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/05f9dade-2ed4-4314-b3f0-22162df829d1
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Writer Alarmed When Company Fires His 60-Person Team, Replaces Them All With AI
https://futurism.com/the-byte/company-replaces-writers-ai?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1AYK4kyZpI-4UJq5oMzpBz7mVF8AeLwQUuNuBH4nvZi1WO9TeTV6gyksY_aem_UqSwMbLOqfjmwaOataG1iA
“All of a sudden I was just doing everyone’s job.”
Impostor Syndrome
The pace at which AI has damaged countless industries is whiplash-inducing. And no one understands this better than a writer who in 2023 was excelling at his copywriting job with a team of writers 60 people strong — and by the next year found himself the last human standing, arm in arm with AI imitators he was expected to drag along and get up to speed.
“They wanted to use AI to cut down on costs,” the writer told the BBC, using the pseudonym Benjamin Miller.
At first, the new workflow was this: his manager would feed a headline into an AI model, and it would generate an outline that the team were expected to work with, with Miller doing the final edits.
But that was just the beginning. Months later, management decided to cut humans out of the loop almost completely. Going forward, the AI model would generate articles in their entirety. Shoddy automation was here, and as a consequence, most of the writers lost their jobs. Miller kept his — though his role was going to be a bit different than before.
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This AI powered Raspberry Pi RC tank shoots bubbles at its targets
https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/this-ai-powered-raspberry-pi-rc-tank-shoots-bubbles-at-its-targets
Tomi Engdahl says:
Move over Midjourney — Freepik Mystic is the most realistic AI image generator I’ve tried
Hands-on
By Ryan Morrison published 2 days ago
Hyper-realistic AI images
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-image-video/move-over-midjourney-freepik-mystic-is-the-most-realistic-ai-image-generator-ive-tried
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AI upskilling is essential for Python developers, says education expert
Career benefits abound
https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-upskilling-is-essential-for-python-developers-says-education-expert
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Spotify Is Filling Up With AI-Generated Music to Scam Revenue From Real Bands
https://futurism.com/the-byte/spotify-ai-music
As Slate reports, a group of rabble-rousing country music fans discovered what’s essentially a stream-stealing scheme that involves AI covers of songs being placed in otherwise legit music playlists to rack up millions of listens.
With generic-sounding names like “Highway Outlaws” and “Waterfront Wranglers,” these almost certainly bogus bands all followed the same pattern: tens or hundreds of thousands of streams, zero original songs, bios that sounded an awful lot like ChatGPT wrote them, and no social media footprint.
Spotify Has a Fake-Band Problem. It’s a Sign of Things to Come.
These cover “bands” were farming millions of streams from unsuspecting listeners.
https://slate.com/technology/2024/08/spotify-stream-farming-fake-cover-bands-artificial-intelligence.html
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Microsoft, Apple, and NVIDIA will reportedly bail out OpenAI from the shackles of bankruptcy, pushing the ChatGPT maker’s market valuation to over $100 billion
News
By Kevin Okemwa published 2 days ago
OpenAI gets an extended lifeline through another round of funding.
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/microsoft-apple-and-nvidia-will-reportedly-bail-out-openai-from-the-shackles-of-bankruptcy
What you need to know
Last month, reports emerged indicating OpenAI was on the brink of bankruptcy within 12 months, with projections of $5 billion in losses.
A new report suggests the ChatGPT maker is in talks to raise funding to keep the business afloat, which could push its market capitalization to over $100 billion.
Microsoft, Apple, and NVIDIA will reportedly participate in the ChatGPT maker’s round of funding, though it’s unclear how much they’ll invest.
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Chef Admits His Smash Hit Pizza Was Invented by ChatGPT
https://futurism.com/the-byte/chef-admits-pizza-chatgpt
“As a chef, I wouldn’t mix these ingredients ever on a pizza, but still, the mix of flavors was surprisingly good.”
A chef in Dubai used OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to come up with a pizza recipe — and as it turns out, it started selling like hotcakes.
In a bid to reflect Dubai’s culinary traditions, ChatGPT went all out, suggesting a wild mix of ingredients. The recipe includes “Arab shawarma chicken, Indian grilled paneer cheese, Middle Eastern Za’atar herbs, and tahini sauce,” according to the report.
Arutyunyan revealed that other ChatGPT recipes didn’t make the cut, including a pizza topped with strawberries and pasta, or a pie featuring blueberries and breakfast cereal.
We’ve already come across several lazy attempts to cash in on the AI hype in the culinary world.
Tomi Engdahl says:
ChatGPT-kysely kuluttaa 10 kertaa enemmän sähköä kuin Google-haku
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/16537-chatgpt-kysely-kuluttaa-10-kertaa-enemmaen-saehkoeae-kuin-google-haku
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AI Demands More Than Just Technical Skills From Developers
Do engineers need to study philosophy to code successfully in the age of AI?
https://thenewstack.io/ai-demands-more-than-just-technical-skills-from-developers/
What skills do aspiring developers need to acquire? This question has been debated for decades, back to the ’80s and ’90s, when schools focused their curricula on “hard skills” like advanced knowledge of intricate programming languages. As development environments grew more collaborative, employers emphasized hiring versatile developers with soft skills like teamwork and communication and traditional technical chops.
Today, the integration of AI into development environments is reigniting the skills debate yet again. By giving AI a more significant role in the coding process, organizations are placing greater value on hiring “well-rounded” developers who can think, adapt, solve problems, and coax the best solutions from their AI assistants.
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I put 7 leading AI image generators to the test with the same prompt — here’s the winner
Face-off
By Ryan Morrison published yesterday
A woman, penny lane and Victoriana
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-image-video/i-put-7-leading-ai-image-models-to-the-test-with-the-same-prompt-heres-the-winner
Tomi Engdahl says:
ChatGPT Went Rogue, Spoke In People’s Voices Without Their Permission
https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-clone-voice-without-permission
“OpenAI just leaked the plot of Black Mirror’s next season.”
Last week, OpenAI published the GPT-4o “scorecard,” a report that details “key areas of risk” for the company’s latest large language model, and how they hope to mitigate them.
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Meet Melty, Open Source Alternative to Cursor Started by Charlie Holtz and Jackson de Campos, Melty is backed by Y Combinator and is part of the S24 batch.
Read more at: https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/meet-melty-open-source-alternative-to-cursor/
With AI code editors like Cursor, Zed, and Codeium, gathering all the attention, there is an open source alternative recently launched in the market. Meet Melty, an open source AI code editor, which is specifically designed for 10x engineers.
Read more at: https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/meet-melty-open-source-alternative-to-cursor/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kotaemon: An Open-Source RAG-based Tool for Chatting with Your Documents
https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/09/01/kotaemon-an-open-source-rag-based-tool-for-chatting-with-your-documents/
In summary, Kotaemon effectively addresses the challenges of interacting with large volumes of text by combining retrieval and generative techniques. This approach allows the system to provide more relevant and informative responses than traditional search engines, significantly improving the user experience by saving time and offering contextually accurate answers. While it rely on the quality of indexed documents and the capabilities of the underlying LLMs, Kotaemon represents a promising advancement in the field of information extraction from large text documents.
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Business leaders are losing faith in IT, according to this IBM study. Here’s why
Generative AI seems to have changed business leaders’ expectations about what technology needs to deliver.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/business-leaders-are-losing-faith-in-it-according-to-this-ibm-study-heres-why/#google_vignette
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jesse Taube Gets Linux Up and Running on the Raspberry Pi RP2350′s Hazard3 RISC-V Cores
This Buildroot-based basic Linux distribution runs natively on the RP2350′s Hazard3 RISC-V cores — albeit not very quickly.
https://www.hackster.io/news/jesse-taube-gets-linux-up-and-running-on-the-raspberry-pi-rp2350-s-hazard3-risc-v-cores-19088b87bb2c
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/microsoft-copilot-could-have-been-hacked-by-some-very-low-tech-methods
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://blog.siemens.com/2024/08/10-syyta-hyodyntaa-tekoalya-teollisuudessa/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Anthropic launches Claude Artifacts generally for all users, mobile
https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-launches-claude-artifacts-generally-for-all-users-mobile/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Elon Musk Claims He Just Activated the World’s Most Powerful AI Supercomputer
byFrank Landymore
Sep 5, 9:10 AM EDT
Kevin Winter via Getty
“Colossus is the most powerful AI training system in the world.”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-most-powerful-ai-supercomputer?fbclid=IwY2xjawFIvchleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdPtpTFxt4LYGo7iR4sHG9OAasT33l1x5hcf6OiPSwPrIIR7Klhuxs9luA_aem_LQaOV5gqCQoBsHN8_DiEpg
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So much for the so-called public benefit. https://trib.al/P806uan
After Years of Chasing Money, OpenAI Reportedly Giving Up on Being a “Nonprofit”
Surprise, surprise.
https://futurism.com/openai-reportedly-giving-up-non-profit?fbclid=IwY2xjawFIxCpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcexnnZAw0_P-jw-dULvclSv5nsK_PV0UYSXNKqm1t6nZDvt7TosQ-S3YA_aem_n0xzgHs5fJYGj_nCCN9mTw
ClosedAI
ChatGPT maker OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit, only to change its mind four years later, announcing that it had become a “capped-profit” company.
Billions of dollars worth of investment rounds later, the Financial Times is now reporting that the company is finally looking to shed its nonprofit status once and for all.
The company is reportedly in talks to raise further new funds, giving it a valuation of north of $100 billion and potentially making it one of the most valuable Silicon Valley firms ever.
OpenAI has since denied the reporting, arguing in a statement to the FT that “the nonprofit is core to our mission and will continue to exist.”