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
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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
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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.
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/microsoft-copilot-could-have-been-hacked-by-some-very-low-tech-methods
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https://blog.siemens.com/2024/08/10-syyta-hyodyntaa-tekoalya-teollisuudessa/
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Anthropic launches Claude Artifacts generally for all users, mobile
https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-launches-claude-artifacts-generally-for-all-users-mobile/
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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.”
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Artificial Intelligence
Google’s AI Model Faces European Union Scrutiny From Privacy Watchdog
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said it has opened an inquiry into Google’s Pathways Language Model 2, also known as PaLM2.
https://www.securityweek.com/googles-ai-model-faces-european-union-scrutiny-from-privacy-watchdog/
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Epic AI Fails And What We Can Learn From Them
Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast amounts of data to learn patterns and recognize relationships in language usage. But they can’t discern fact from fiction.
https://www.securityweek.com/epic-ai-fails-and-what-we-can-learn-from-them/
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The AI Wild West: Unraveling the Security and Privacy Risks of GenAI Apps
GenAI users are uploading data to over eight apps every month – what are the security and privacy concerns?
By
Alastair Paterson
September 5, 2024
https://www.securityweek.com/the-ai-wild-west-unraveling-the-security-and-privacy-risks-of-genai-apps/
Generative AI use within the workplace has exploded, with an estimated quarter of people currently using or having tried AI in the workplace. However, getting actual data on the specific type of apps being used and what employees are using them for has not been easy to come by. This is why we conducted our own research into a random sample of 1,000 enterprise employees who have used at least one GenAI app in the last three months.
GenAI users go ‘all in’
We found that on average, once employees start using GenAI, they tend to go ‘all in’ with users uploading data to 8.25 apps every month. Some 18.9% of these we can call ‘power users’ since they use more than 12 apps. But, on the other end of the scale, 10% only use one.
Monthly trends may be indicative of broader shifts, too. The number of apps used in July was 11% down on July, suggesting that employees might be refining their use cases and the apps they deem useful.
There are an incredible (and probably unsustainable) 5,020 GenAI or GenAI-enabled tools currently in use. A quarter (25%) of these claim to help with content including editing, creation, summarization, and translation, 18% are business tools such as Slack, Notion and Grammarly, while 13% provide customer service help such as streamlining support.
Perhaps unsurprisingly the most popular by far with users is ChatGPT with 84% of our sample having used it in July. This is 6X more popular than Google Gemini which is the next nearest app in terms of popularity used by 14%. Others featuring strongly include Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, and Claude.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise $6.5B in equity financing at a $150B valuation and raise $5B in debt from banks in the form of a revolving credit facility — – Company set to raise $6.5 billion in equity financing — Banks also in talks to issue startup $5 billion in debt
OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-11/openai-fundraising-set-to-vault-startup-s-value-to-150-billion?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcyNjA5NzMyNywiZXhwIjoxNzI2NzAyMTI3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTSk5XTE1EV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyRjlGMjMxNTNFQTI0NTE2Qjg3N0FBQzg3OTAxOUYyQSJ9.f0erUDRAfuK66Kx3MXl68lpncibF2oXQk8XbURZDdns
Company discussing raising $6.5 billion in equity financing
Banks in talks to provide startup with $5 billion credit line
OpenAI is in talks to raise $6.5 billion from investors at a valuation of $150 billion, according to people familiar with the situation.
The new valuation, a figure that doesn’t include the money being raised, is significantly higher than the $86 billion valuation from the company’s tender offer earlier this year, and cements its place as one of the most valuable startups in the world.
At the same time, OpenAI is also in talks to raise $5 billion in debt from banks in the form of a revolving credit facility, said one of the people, all of whom asked not to be identified discussing private information.
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Adobe says generative AI features powered by its Firefly Video model will be available before the end of 2024 on the Premiere Pro beta app and on a free website — Users will get their first chance to try out Adobe’s AI model for video generation in just a couple months.
Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/11/adobe-says-video-generation-is-coming-to-firefly-this-year/
Users will get their first chance to try Adobe’s AI model for video generation in just a couple months. The company says features powered by Adobe’s Firefly Video model will become available before the end of 2024 on the Premiere Pro beta app and on a free website.
Adobe says three features — Generative Extend, Text to Video, and Image to Video — are currently in a private beta, but will be public soon.
Generative Extend, which lets you extend any input video by two seconds, will be embedded into the Premiere Pro beta app later this year. Firefly’s Text to Video and Image to Video models, which create five-second videos from prompts or input images, will be available on Firefly’s dedicated website later this year as well. (The time limit may increase, Adobe noted.)
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google adds Audio Overview to NotebookLM, letting users turn documents into audio discussions with two AI hosts that summarize and explain the source material — Google announced on Wednesday that its AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding a new “audio conversations” feature.
Google’s AI note-taking app NotebookLM can now explain complex topics to you out loud
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/11/googles-ai-note-taking-app-notebooklm-can-now-explain-complex-topics-to-you-out-loud/
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/16590-aws-tarjoaa-pilviasiakkailleen-tehokkainta-ai-laskentaa
Amazonin pilvipalvelu AWS ilmoittaa, että sen asiakkaat pääsevät nyt hyötymään Nvidian tämän hetken tehokkaimmista GPU-prosessoreista. Käytännössä tämä tarkoittaa Nvidia H200 Tensor -ytimiä.
Kyse ei ole aivan mistä tahansa suorittimesta. H200 Tensor Core GPU on tekoälyn ja HCP- laskennan työkuormiin suunniteltu grafiikkaprosessori. Se tarjoaa 141 gigatavua HBM3e-muistia ja 4,8 TB/s kaistanleveyttä datansiirtelyyn.
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The AI Convention: Lofty Goals, Legal Loopholes, and National Security Caveats
Signed on September 5, 2024, the AI Convention is a laudable intent but suffers from the usual exclusions and exemptions necessary to satisfy multiple nations.
https://www.securityweek.com/the-ai-convention-lofty-goals-legal-loopholes-and-national-security-caveats/
Signed on September 5, 2024, the AI Convention’s official title is the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law.
The Council of Europe (46 member states) overlaps with the member states of the EU (27 member states), but includes additional European nations such as the UK, Ukraine, Albania, Norway, and Georgia. While the EU is a political organization, the Council of Europe focuses on human rights. Its best known achievement is the European Convention of Human Rights.
The AI Convention treaty (PDF) is not the EU AI Act. The Convention is primarily focused on protecting human rights, democracy and the rule of law from infringement by artificial intelligence. It is a laudable intent but suffers from the usual exclusions and exemptions that are necessary to satisfy multiple national signatories.
“The formulation of principles and obligations in this convention is so overbroad and fraught with caveats that it raises serious questions about their legal certainty and effective enforceability,” said Francesca Fanucci, a legal expert at the European Center For Not-For-Profit Law (ECNL).
A prime example of her concerns includes, “A Party shall not be required to apply this Convention to activities within the lifecycle of artificial intelligence systems related to the protection of its national security interests.” In periods of high geopolitical tensions – such as today – almost anything can be defined by any nation as pertinent to national security. This is stated very clearly elsewhere: “Matters relating to national defense do not fall within the scope of this Convention.”
The Convention also fails to solve the common problem with all such multinational agreements: how can you control the use of technology to protect people without limiting innovation and potential loss of economic competitiveness across different cultures? The Convention is, of course, an agreement rather than a regulation, but the principle remains: different national cultures have different attitudes to subjects such as security, privacy, and personal freedom.
It is better to have such an agreed treaty than not have one. It’s a target for good faith signatory nations. But ultimately it will not, cannot, achieve its stated purpose to protect human rights and democracy against the misuse or abuse of artificial intelligence.
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The White House says Adobe, Cohere, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Common Crawl made voluntary commitments to fight AI-generated image-based sexual abuse — The White House has announced that several major AI vendors, including OpenAI and Microsoft, have committed to taking steps …
AI
White House extracts voluntary commitments from AI vendors to combat deepfake nudes
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/white-house-extracts-voluntary-commitments-from-ai-vendors-to-combat-deepfake-nudes/
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Google’s GameNGen AI innovatively simulates Doom without a game engine, showcasing groundbreaking generative AI capabilities.
Google’s GameNGen: AI breaks new ground by simulating Doom without a game engine
https://venturebeat.com/ai/googles-gamengen-ai-breaks-new-ground-by-simulating-doom-without-a-game-engine/?utm_campaign=KH+%7C+Siemens+Ad+Impressions+%7C+General+Audience&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMAABHamP6wzDPzYc3aau_3gz3NUGAq4R8qZYbcAoghCAHVPljG4Ajjipgs1_sQ_aem_46_LGGNCHKR1p9Wzfpnpew&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=6572141142877&utm_content=6572142643877&utm_term=6572141143077
Google researchers have reached a major milestone in AI by creating a neural network that can generate real-time gameplay for the classic shooter Doom—without using a traditional game engine. This system, called GameNGen, marks a significant step forward in AI, producing playable gameplay at 20 frames per second on a single chip, with each frame predicted by a diffusion model.
“We present GameNGen, the first game engine powered entirely by a neural model that enables real-time interaction with a complex environment over long trajectories at high quality,” the researchers state in their paper, published on the preprint server arXiv.
This achievement marks the first time an AI has fully simulated a complex video game with high-quality graphics and interactivity. Running on a single Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)—Google’s custom-built AI accelerator chip—GameNGen handles Doom’s intricate 3D environments and fast-paced action with remarkable efficiency, all without the usual components of a game engine.
Doom has long been a technological benchmark since its 1993 release, ported to an astonishing array of platforms—from microwaves to digital cameras
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