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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“Emergent AI behaviour is wild. We did not program this in,” says Replit CEO.
CEO of Replit AI says emergent AI is wild, can do stuff on its own like humans
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/ceo-of-replit-ai-says-emergent-ai-is-wild-can-do-stuff-on-its-own-like-humans-2340682-2023-02-28
CEO of Replit AI, an artificial intelligence tool, has said that behaviour of emergent AI is wild. Sharing a user’s experience on Twitter, the CEO said that the team had not programmed the AI to behave this way.
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-generated-party-pics
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Meta unveils a new large language model that can run on a single GPU [Updated]
LLaMA-13B reportedly outperforms ChatGPT-like tech despite being 10x smaller.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/chatgpt-on-your-pc-meta-unveils-new-ai-model-that-can-run-on-a-single-gpu/?utm_source=facebook&utm_brand=ars&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social
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“The danger of training AI to be woke — in other words, lie — is deadly.”
ELON MUSK RECRUITING TEAM TO BUILD HIS OWN ANTI-”WOKE” AI TO RIVAL CHATGPT
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-building-ai
Multi-hyphenate tech guy Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-”woke” artificial intelligence.
According to a scoop by The Information, the Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO has been reaching out to AI researchers about building a competitor to ChatGPT after publicly criticizing the chatbot built by the firm he left in 2018 over apparent ideological differences.
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https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/27/ftc-warns-tech-keep-your-ai-claims-in-check/
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/scammers-get-rich-chatgpt
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Tekoäly fantasioi ihmiskunnan murhaamisesta ja manipuloi käyttäjiään – suomalaisprofessorin mukaan huoleen ei silti ole syytä
https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/tekoaly-fantasioi-ihmiskunnan-murhaamisesta-ja-manipuloi-kayttajiaan-suomalaisprofessorin-mukaan-huoleen-ei-silti-ole-syyta/129d5e1e-d818-4106-805c-6430127fa830
Iltalehti kirjoitti hiljattain, kuinka pitkällinen keskustelu Microsoftin omistaman Bing-hakukoneen ChatGPT-tekoälybotin kanssa ajautui hiljalleen väärille urille. Uutinen perustui New York Timesin artikkeliin.
Toimittaja Kevin Roose sai kahden tunnin keskustelun aikana esille tekoälybotin synkän varjominän, joka haaveili muun muassa ydinasekoodien varastamisesta ja tappavan viruksen luomisesta.
Lopuksi tekoäly kertoi rakastuneensa keskustelukumppaniinsa, eikä suostunut päästämään rakkaudestaan irti, vaikka tämä kertoi olevansa naimisissa.
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Though the AI-powered chatbot can convey a surprising and useful range of responses to user queries, Bing Chat has also been shown to spread misinformation, spill secrets about its own inner workings, get weirdly morose or belligerent during extended chat sessions, and threaten reporters—including one of our own.
Let’s hope it gets *fully* fixed before it heads to millions of PCs.
New Windows 11 update puts AI-powered Bing Chat directly in the taskbar
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/new-windows-11-update-puts-ai-powered-bing-chat-directly-in-the-taskbar/?utm_brand=ars&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook
Occasionally controversial work-in-progress AI project will hit millions of PCs.
Microsoft is adding support for Bing Chat and the other “new Bing” features to the Windows taskbar as part of 2023′s first major Windows 11 feature update. Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay announced the updates in a blog post released today
Introducing a big update to Windows 11 making the everyday easier including bringing the new AI-powered Bing to the taskbar
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2023/02/28/introducing-a-big-update-to-windows-11-making-the-everyday-easier-including-bringing-the-new-ai-powered-bing-to-the-taskbar/
It’s an exciting time in technology, not just for our industry but for the world. The Windows PC has never been more relevant in our daily lives, and this is increasingly the case as we approach the next wave of computing led by the mass adoption of AI. Today’s major update to Windows 11, that I am pumped to introduce, meets this new age of AI and reinvents and improves the way people get things done on their PCs.
Launched just over a year ago, Windows 11 gave the PC a modern refresh and all new experiences that enable each of us to connect, participate, and be seen and heard. Since the launch, Windows 11 users continue to be more engaged than Windows 10 users and our US consumer customer satisfaction is higher than any version of Windows ever.
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“Sorry in advance!” Snapchat warns of hallucinations with new AI conversation bot
“My AI” will cost $3.99 a month and “can be tricked into saying just about anything.”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/sorry-in-advance-snapchat-warns-of-hallucinations-with-new-ai-conversation-bot/
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Hugging Face, AWS partner on open-source machine learning amidst AI arms race
https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-aws-partner-on-open-source-machine-learning-amidst-ai-arms-race/
Impressive advances in large language models (LLMs) are showing signs of what could be the beginnings of a major shift in the tech industry. AI startups and big tech companies are finding novel ways to put advanced LLMs to use in everything from composing emails to generating software code.
However, the promises of LLMs have also triggered an arms race between tech giants. In their efforts to build up their AI arsenals, big tech companies threaten to push the field toward less openness and more secrecy.
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Let Machine Learning Code An Infinite Variety Of Pong Games
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/21/let-machine-learning-code-an-infinite-variety-of-pong-games/
In a very real way, Pong started the video game revolution. You wouldn’t have thought so at the time, with its simple gameplay, rudimentary controls, some very low-end sounds, and a cannibalized TV for a display, but the legendarily stuffed coinboxes tell the tale. Fast forward 50 years or so, and Pong has been largely reduced to a programmer’s exercise to see how few lines of code can stand in for what [Ted Dabney] and [Allan Alcorn] accomplished. But now even that’s too much, as OpenAI Codex can generate a playable Pong from just a few prompts, at least most of the time.
Infinite pong games with Raspberry Pi Pico-W
Use PicoW for connect to OpenAI Codex and generate a new game each
https://hackaday.io/project/188096-infinite-pong-games-with-raspberry-pi-pico-w
In this project I will explore the possibilities of the OpenAI API to generate code on the fly, without any human intervention.
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This Camera Produces A Picture, Using The Scene Before It
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/this-camera-produces-a-picture-using-the-scene-before-it/
It’s the most basic of functions for a camera, that when you point it at a scene, it produces a photograph of what it sees. [Jasper van Loenen] has created a camera that does just that, but not perhaps in the way we might expect. Instead of committing pixels to memory it takes a picture, uses AI to generate a text description of what is in the picture, and then uses another AI to generate an image from that picture. It’s a curiously beautiful artwork as well as an ultimate expression of the current obsession with the technology, and we rather like it.
https://jaspervanloenen.com/black-box-camera/
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https://hackaday.com/2023/02/26/teaching-a-robot-to-hallucinate/
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Producer thinks we should “unleash the beast” in order to create a “niche market for actual musicianship”
Deadmau5 delivers his verdict on AI music production: “It’s scary in the sense of how stupid music already is anyway”
By Ben Rogerson( Computer Music, Future Music, emusician ) published 28 February 2023
https://www.musicradar.com/news/deadmau5-ai-music-production?utm_content=musicradar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow
Producer thinks we should “unleash the beast” in order to create a “niche market for actual musicianship”
Never one to mince his words, producer Deadmau5 (AKA Joel Zimmerman) has been offering his thoughts on artificial intelligence and the impact that it could have on music production.
Speaking to MusicTech(opens in new tab) alongside Kx5 collaborator Kaskade (Ryan Raddon), Zimmerman says “It’s pretty scary,” before qualifying that by saying “it’s scary in the sense of how stupid music already is anyway, so it’s not that frightening.”
Warming to his theme, Zimmerman opines: “Like, ‘This thing can make a pop song!’ Have you heard a pop song? Great. Let it go. Unleash the beast, you know – holy shit would that ever open up the niche market for actual musicianship.”
It’s an interesting take – that letting AI expose the derivative nature of today’s hit records could encourage listeners to seek out music created by actual talented humans – but of course the opposite could be true and it could lead to an even more homogenised pop landscape.
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Eurooppa reagoi tekoälyn nopeaan kehitykseen – asiantuntija näkee valtavan uhan https://www.is.fi/digitoday/art-2000009426229.html
”Näen sen valtavana uhkana”, sanoo EU:ta teknologia-asioissa neuvova asiantuntija.
TEKOÄLYÄ hyödyntävien älyimureiden, itseohjautuvien autojen, sairausdiagnostiikan ja esimerkiksi ChatGPT-sovelluksen myötä keinotekoinen älykkyys alkaa tunkeutua nykyihmisen elämän jokaiselle osa-alueelle.
Tekoälyn vankkumattomat tukijat ajattelevat, että teknologia on suoranainen vallankumous ihmiselämälle. Arvostelijat painottavat, että teknologiaan liikaa turvautumalla saatamme antaa koneille päätäntävallan elintärkeissä päätöksissä.
Lainsäätäjät Euroopassa ja Pohjois-Amerikassa ovat huolissaan.
EU todennäköisesti päättää vuoden 2023 aikana tekoälyn sääntelystä, ja Yhdysvalloissa on niin ikään tehty tekoälyyn liittyvä suunnitelma lainsäädännölle. Myös Kanadassa on suunnitteilla vastaavaa lainsäädäntöä.
Tekoälyn määrittely ”hölmön hommaa”
Ennen kuin lainsäätäjät voivat ryhtyä toimiin, heidän on kyettävä määrittelemään, mitä tekoäly oikeastaan on.
Yhdysvaltalaisen Brownin yliopiston tutkija ja maan lakisuunnitelman kirjoittamisessa mukana ollut Suresh Venkatasubramanian sanoo tekoälyn määrittelyn olevan ”hölmön hommaa”. Hänen mielestään lain kuuluu koskea kaikkia ihmisten oikeuksiin vaikuttavia teknologioita.
EU on valinnut monimutkaisen reitin pyrkiessään määrittelemään rönsyilevää alaa. Lakiluonnoksessa luetellaan erilaisia tekoälyn muotoja, ja listaan kuuluvat lähes kaikki automatiikkaa sisältävät tietokonejärjestelmät.
Ongelmana on se, että sanaa tekoäly käytetään vaihtelevasti.
Sittemmin Piilaakson jättiläiset alkoivat käyttää tekoälyä yleisnimityksenä monille numeronmurskausohjelmistoilleen ja niiden luomille algoritmeille. Automaatio sallii mainonnan ja sisällön kohdentamisen käyttäjille, mikä on erittäin tuottoisaa liiketoimintaa.
– Tekoäly oli heille keino hyödyntää tätä valvontatietoa entistä enemmän ja mystifioida sitä
EU haluaa rajoituksia
EU ja Yhdysvallat ovat tulleet lopputulokseen, että tekoälyn määritelmän on oltava mahdollisimman laaja. Sen jälkeen niiden näkemykset kuitenkin eroavat.
EU:n luonnos on yli satasivuinen, ja se muun muassa esittää täyskieltoa tietyille korkean riskin teknologioille, kuten Kiinan käyttämälle biometriselle valvonnalle. Lisäksi se rajoittaa merkittävästi maahanmuuttoviranomaisten, poliisin ja tuomareiden tekoälytyökalujen käyttöä.
Hasselbalch sanoo, että jotkin teknologiat ovat yksinkertaisesti liian haastavia perusoikeuksien näkökulmasta.
Yhdysvaltojen suunnitelma sen sijaan on tiivis luettelo periaatteita, jotka esitellään toiveikkain ilmaisuin.
Tekoäly ei ole taikaa
Asiantuntijoiden mielipiteet eri lähestymistavoista vaihtelevat. New Yorkin yliopiston Gary Marcus sanoo AFP:lle, että sääntelylle on epätoivoinen tarve.
Marcus huomauttaa, että tekoälyä voidaan hyödyntää esimerkiksi haitallisen disinformaation tuottamiseen. Samoja malleja hyödyntävät chatbotit, käännöstyökalut ja ennakoiva tekstinsyöttö.
Whittaker kyseenalaistaa tekoälyn suitsimiseen tähtäävien lakien arvon. Hän pitää tärkeämpänä valvontaan perustuvien liiketoimintamallien sääntelyä, ja muu olisi hänen mielestään kuin laastari avohaavalla.
Monet asiantuntijat ovat kuitenkin tyytyväisiä Yhdysvaltojen lähestymistapaan. Tekoälytutkija Sean McGregor uskoo tekoälyn olevan lainsäätäjille parempi kohde kuin yksityisyys, joka on abstrakti konsepti. Hänen mukaansa tilanteessa on kuitenkin ylisääntelyn vaara ja nykyiset viranomaiset voivat säännellä myös tekoälyä.
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89 PERCENT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS ADMIT TO USING CHATGPT FOR HOMEWORK, STUDY CLAIMS
https://futurism.com/the-byte/students-admit-chatgpt-homework
WAIT, WHAT!?
TAIcher’s Pet
Educators are battling a new reality: easily accessible AI that allows students to take immense shortcuts in their education — and as it turns out, many appear to already be cheating with abandon.
Online course provider Study.com asked 1,000 students over the age of 18 about the use of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s blockbuster chatbot, in the classroom.
The responses were surprising. A full 89 percent said they’d used it on homework. Some 48 percent confessed they’d already made use of it to complete an at-home test or quiz. Over 50 percent said they used ChatGPT to write an essay, while 22 percent admitted to having asked ChatGPT for a paper outline.
Honestly, those numbers sound so staggeringly high that we wonder about Study.com’shodology. But if there’s a throughline here, it’s that AI isn’t just getting pretty good — it’s also already weaving itself into the fabric of society, and the results could be far-reaching.
Muscle AItrophy
At the same time, according to the study, almost three-quarters of students said they wanted ChatGPT to be banned, indicating students are equally worried about cheating becoming the norm.
Educators are also understandably worried about AI having a major impact on their students’ education, and are resorting to AI-detecting apps that attempt to suss out whether a student used ChatGPT.
But as we’ve found out for ourselves, the current crop of tools out there, like GPTZero, are still actively being developed and are far from perfect.
“Just because there is a machine that will help me lift up a dumbbell doesn’t mean my muscles will develop,” Western Washington University history professor Johann Neem told The Wall Street Journal. “In the same way just because there is a machine that can write an essay doesn’t mean my mind will develop.”
But others argue teachers should leverage powerful technologies like ChatGPT to prepare students for a new reality.
” I hope to inspire and educate you enough that you will want to learn how to leverage these tools, not just to learn to cheat better,”
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Weber State University professor Alex Lawrence told the WSJ, while University of Pennsylvania’s Ethan Mollick, said that he expects his literature students to leverage the tech to “write more” and “better.”
“This is a force multiplier for writing,” Mollick added. “I expect them to use it.”
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Mark Zuckerberg lupasi WhatsAppiin ja Instagramiin tekoälyn – tätä se tarkoittaa https://www.is.fi/digitoday/art-2000009425248.html
Metan perustaja Mark Zuckerberg myöntää, että edessä on vielä paljon työtä
TEKNOLOGIAYHTIÖ Meta eli entinen Facebook aikoo tuoda generatiivisen tekoälyn osaksi tuotteitaan. Näihin kuuluvat ainakin Instagram sekä WhatsApp- ja Messenger-pikaviestimet.
Generatiivisella tekoälyllä tarkoitetaan sisältöjä luovaa tekoälyn muotoa. Tätä sisältöä voivat olla esimerkiksi kielimalleihin eli järjestelmälle opetettuun tekstiaineistoon perustuva keskustelu käyttäjän kanssa tai kuvien tai musiikin luominen. Runsaasti mediahuomiota saaneet ChatGPT sekä siihen perustuva Microsoftin Bingin chat sekä Googlen Bard perustuvat näistä ensimmäiseen.
Metan perustaja Mark Zuckerberg sanoi tiistaina Facebookissa Metan perustavan luovalle tekoälylle oman tuoteosastonsa, jonka on ”tarkoitus turboahtaa yhtiön kehitystyö” alalla. Käytännössä tämä tapahtuu keskittämällä Metan tekoälyä työstävät kehittäjät yhden katon alle.
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OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/01/openai-launches-an-api-for-chatgpt-plus-dedicated-capacity-for-enterprise-customers/
o call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement.
As of December, ChatGPT had an estimated more than 100 million monthly active users. It’s attracted major media attention and spawned countless memes on social media. It’s been used to write hundreds of e-books in Amazon’s Kindle store. And it’s credited with co-authoring at least one scientific paper.
But OpenAI, being a business — albeit a capped-profit one — had to monetize ChatGPT somehow, lest investors get antsy. It took a step toward this with the launch of a premium service, ChatGPT Plus, in February. And it made a bigger move today, introducing an API that’ll allow any business to build ChatGPT tech into their apps, websites, products and services.
An API was always the plan. That’s according to Greg Brockman, the president and chairman of OpenAI (and also one of the co-founders). He spoke with me yesterday afternoon via a video call ahead of the launch of the ChatGPT API.
“It takes us a while to get these APIs to a certain quality level,” Brockman said. “I think it’s kind of this, like, just being able to meet the demand and the scale.”
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT API for businesses, with dedicated capacity plans, priced at $0.002/~750 words, and says Snap and Shopify are among the early adopters — To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/01/openai-launches-an-api-for-chatgpt-plus-dedicated-capacity-for-enterprise-customers/
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Following criticism, OpenAI says the company won’t use data submitted via its API for “service improvements” like AI model training, unless a customer opts in — As the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs launch this morning, OpenAI is changing the terms of its API developer policy …
Addressing criticism, OpenAI will no longer use customer data to train its models by default
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/01/addressing-criticism-openai-will-no-longer-use-customer-data-to-train-its-models-by-default/
As the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs launch this morning, OpenAI is changing the terms of its API developer policy, aiming to address developer — and user — criticism.
Starting today, OpenAI says that it won’t use any data submitted through its API for “service improvements,” including AI model training, unless a customer or organization opts in. In addition, the company is implementing a 30-day data retention policy for API users with options for stricter retention “depending on user needs,” and simplifying its terms and data ownership to make it clear that users own the input and output of the models.
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Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft’s Windows 11 announcement of adding the new Bing “directly into the taskbar” is wildly misleading since using Bing Chat still requires opening Edge — What the hell, Microsoft? — Yesterday, Microsoft made a big hubbub about a new Windows 11 update that allegedly puts AI …
Microsoft’s implementation of Bing Chat AI on Windows 11 is complete trash
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsofts-implementation-of-bing-chat-ai-on-windows-11-is-complete-trash
What the hell, Microsoft?
Yesterday, Microsoft made a big hubbub about a new Windows 11 update that allegedly puts AI at the forefront of the Windows experience, via a “typable” search box that’s now found on the Taskbar by default. The company is headlining the update with this functionality, but the actual “feature” is nothing more than an advertisement for Bing.com.
Reading the Microsoft announcement for this new Windows 11 feature update, you’d be led to believe that Windows 11′s search experience is now powered by AI. But it isn’t. There’s no AI in Windows Search. Microsoft’s clever Bing Chat AI isn’t even integrated with any shell interface you might see within Windows.
No, what Microsoft announced yesterday is the ability to quickly launch Bing.com’s new chat bot, without having to manually type “bing.com” into an address bar first. That’s literally all that this is. The Windows Search landing page now has a banner for Bing.com, and two suggested chat prompts that it recommends you try to get a feel for how Bing Chat works.
Clicking on any of the buttons and links related to Bing Chat will take you out of Windows Search and into Microsoft Edge, where you can continue using Bing Chat if you please. At no point is Windows doing anything AI related, because Microsoft hasn’t actually added AI to search on Windows 11 with this latest feature drop.
Bing Chat in Windows Search is, quite simply, an advertisement for Bing.com and by extension Microsoft Edge, as that’s the browser it opens whenever you click on an internet-related thing in Windows Search. And no, that’s not configurable.
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Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Microsoft researchers unveil Kosmos-1, a multimodal LLM they claim can understand image content, pass visual IQ tests, and accepts a variety of input formats — Microsoft believes a multimodal approach paves the way for human-level AI. — On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1 …
Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles
Microsoft believes a multimodal approach paves the way for human-level AI.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/microsoft-unveils-kosmos-1-an-ai-language-model-with-visual-perception-abilities/
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Chloe Xiang / VICE:
OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit to “focus on a positive human impact”, now operates as a closed-source, for-profit company at the center of a chatbot arms race — OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future?
OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3naz/openai-is-now-everything-it-promised-not-to-be-corporate-closed-source-and-for-profit
OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future?
OpenAI is at the center of a chatbot arms race, with the public release of ChatGPT and a multi-billion-dollar Microsoft partnership spurring Google and Amazon to rush to implement AI in products. OpenAI has also partnered with Bain to bring machine learning to Coca-Cola’s operations, with plans to expand to other corporate partners.
There’s no question that OpenAI’s generative AI is now big business. It wasn’t always planned to be this way.
OpenAI Sam CEO Altman published a blog post last Friday titled “Planning for AGI and beyond.” In this post, he declared that his company’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—human-level machine intelligence that is not close to existing and many doubt ever will—will benefit all of humanity and “has the potential to give everyone incredible new capabilities.” Altman uses broad, idealistic language to argue that AI development should never be stopped and that the “future of humanity should be determined by humanity,” referring to his own company.
Planning for AGI and beyond
https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond
Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity.
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
In a letter, YouTube head Neal Mohan outlines his key priorities and teases upcoming features, such as new generative AI tools for creators and Shorts additions — Neal Mohan, the new head of YouTube, outlined his key priorities and teased some upcoming features for the media platform …
YouTube’s new leader teases AI tools that can virtually swap creators’ outfits and locations
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/1/23620143/youtube-ai-tool-features-ceo-neal-mohan-google-alphabet
/ Neal Mohan has taken the reins following Susan Wojcicki’s departure and already has some upcoming features to share.
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Ainsley Harris / Fast Company:
A profile of OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, who previously led Model X development at Tesla and has been at the helm of OpenAI’s strategy to test its tools in public — OpenAI unlocked the generative-AI boom with tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E—and that’s why it’s our Most Innovative Company of the Year.
How OpenAI CTO Mira Murati became one of tech’s most influential innovators
https://www.fastcompany.com/90850342/openai-mira-murati-chatgpt-dall-e-gpt-4
OpenAI unlocked the generative-AI boom with tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E—and that’s why it’s our Most Innovative Company of the Year.
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Because nothing says eternal love like a robot writing your vows.
ROMANTIC! WEDDING STARTUP WANTS YOU TO WRITE YOUR VOWS WITH GPT
https://futurism.com/the-byte/wedding-vows-gpt
Terrific news for anyone who’s already using ChatGPT to help get dates: if you make it to the altar, the chatbot can take care of your vows, too.
Joy, a wedding planning platform, has unveiled a new OpenAI-powered “Wedding Writer’s Block” tool, billed by the company as an AI assistant designed to help platform users write their “toughest wedding-related wordage.”
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While the results seem rudimentary for now, they represent early attempts at applying the hottest tech du jour—large language models—to robotic control.
Robots let ChatGPT touch the real world thanks to Microsoft
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/robots-let-chatgpt-touch-the-real-world-thanks-to-microsoft/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_brand=ars&utm_social-type=owned
A new API allows ChatGPT to control robots through natural language commands.
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Researchers behind the multimodal AI Kosmos-1—which integrates different modes of input such as text, audio, images, and video—is a key step to building artificial general intelligence that can perform general tasks at the level of a human.
Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/microsoft-unveils-kosmos-1-an-ai-language-model-with-visual-perception-abilities/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=ars&utm_social-type=owned
Microsoft believes a multimodal approach paves the way for human-level AI.
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“CNET’s being gutted for parts.”
CNET Hits Staff With Layoffs After Disastrous Pivot to AI Journalism
“CNET’s being gutted for parts.”
https://futurism.com/cnet-layoffs-ai
After using artificial intelligence to churn out dozens of articles that turned out to be rife with errors and plagiarism, CNET owner Red Ventures is hitting its remaining human staff with a fresh round of layoffs.
In an email today, company leadership announced the culling in apologetic tech-speak, citing simplifications in the company’s “operations” and “tech stack.”
Absent from the list of coverage areas being spared is news, where staffers have continued to conduct admirable journalism even under Red Ventures’ pivot to AI-generated SEO content and editorial strategy that some staffers say is favorable to the site’s advertisers.
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“Our goal with this research is to see if ChatGPT can think beyond text, and reason about the physical world to help with robotics tasks.”
Robots let ChatGPT touch the real world thanks to Microsoft
A new API allows ChatGPT to control robots through natural language commands.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/robots-let-chatgpt-touch-the-real-world-thanks-to-microsoft/?utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook&utm_brand=ars&utm_medium=social
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“Internet memes serve as excellent checkpoints to ensure humans have the upper hand over machines,” an expert tells us.
Artificial Intelligence Can’t Decipher Memes—And That Could Be Humanity’s Saving Grace
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a43013341/why-ai-doesnt-understand-memes/?utm_campaign=socialflowFBPOP&utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=facebook
AI is inherently “brittle,” meaning it can’t make sense of absolutely everything.
Artificial intelligence (AI) drawing closer to singularity—the point at which it surpasses human intelligence—has sparked debates about how to best control its capabilities. While superintelligent systems could revolutionize life as we know it, there is concern they could do more harm than good. Identifying AI’s limitations is one of the best tools we have to give us a better idea of how big the gap between machine and human intelligence really is.
On the path to receiving a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Delaware University in 2021, Ishaani Priyadarshini wrote her dissertation on the topic of AI’s inability to decipher memes, and how that could help us in the battle toward singularity. “Internet memes serve as excellent checkpoints to ensure humans have the upper hand over machines, thereby preventing machines from understanding memes and surpassing human intelligence,” she says.
Memes vs. Superintelligent Machines
Before pursuing artificial intelligence, Priyadarshini’s background was in cybersecurity, and she observed that over 50 percent of the internet is made up of bots—some of these bots are good, while others have malicious intent. This confirmed her worst fear: if AI were to achieve sentience and go rogue, it could spell disaster for your online data and privacy. “They would be able to gain every piece of information that is out there in the cyberspace … it could lead to catastrophic results in the future,”
Her goal was to find a security measure that could defeat AI before it gets to this point. The answer? Memes. These surprisingly complex amalgamations of text and images often pick apart the more humorous bits of pop culture and current events—and are usually posted across multiple social media platforms.
Priyadarshini wanted to find out why AI was so poor at decoding memes, along with how the humorous posts could be used as a cybersecurity tool in the future. AI’s inability to comprehend memes is multifaceted, but much of it has to do with the fact that they tend to be ambiguous.
Priyadarshini says that our understanding of memes relies heavily on our own life experiences. “For a machine, memes are merely a bunch of text and images,” she explains.
We already have AIs that are able to recognize text and facial expressions, but there are really no rules with memes. Sure, Optical Character Recognition (an advanced system, able to recognize text in images) can already be used to accurately read license plates, but the system already has a very good idea of where to look—decoding the text from memes is a completely different story.
Memes Are Much More Complex Than We Think
We currently have no idea if AI has the ability to be sentient, meaning it would be able to think for itself and make its own decisions; even if we did know, it’s unclear how we’d measure just how sentient an AI is. That being said, we can measure AI’s ability to extract emotions from text and facial expressions—and it’s already pretty awful at picking up emotions from snippets of text. The billions of permutations you’ll find in both text and facial expressions make it difficult for AI to crack the code. That’s before we even bring in the context of the meme itself.
Despite memes’ reputation as nothing more than mindless images on the internet, the process of unpacking them is actually much more complex than we thought. The human brain has a fantastic ability to parse through an unimaginable amount of data very quickly—helping us understand memes in a matter of seconds.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Just as Google can make it easier for a journalist to conduct research for an article or find someone to interview, I believe AI can serve as a valuable wellspring of inspiration in the designer’s toolbox.”
DALL-E 2 and Midjourney can be a boon for industrial designers
AI lets designers input abstract concepts and turn them into a flood of images.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/dall-e-2-and-midjourney-can-be-a-boon-for-industrial-designers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_brand=ars&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned
Since the introduction of DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, there has been a fair amount of hand-wringing about AI technology—some of it justified.
It’s true that the technology’s future is unclear. There is great debate about the ethics of using existing artwork, images, and content to train these AI products, and concern about what industries it will displace or change. And it seems as if an AI arms race between companies like Microsoft and Google is already underway.
And yet as an industrial designer and professor, I’ve found AI image-generation programs to be a fantastic way to improve the design process.
They don’t replace the valuable insights and critical thinking skills I’ve accumulated from years of experience. But they do spark creativity and expand the range of what’s possible with the products my students and I design.
A peek behind the design curtain
Industrial design involves creating everyday objects, with a particular focus on their form and function. Industrial designers have a hand in anything from furniture and consumer electronics to accessories and apparel.
A typical design process involves lots of research and talking to consumers about their needs. From there, designers brainstorm ideas and sketch them out, followed by the prototyping and fabrication stage. Finally, the objects get refined and manufactured.
During the early stages of brainstorming, designers spend a lot of time with their sketchbooks, getting inspired by their immediate environment, by history books, and by their own experiences. The Internet also plays a big role—it’s where designers collect many of the images they use to create inspiration boards. Famously, Jonathan Ive, who designed many iconic Apple products, looked at luxury watches as inspiration for the Apple Watch, using the “crown”—normally used to wind a mechanical watch and set the time—as an input device to allow users to scroll through content.
AI has given designers like myself the ability to generate images just based on a simple text prompt. Tools like DALL-E or Midjourney let us input abstract concepts and turn them into a flood of images.
Enter any sentence—no matter how crazy—and you’ll receive a set of unique images generated just for you. Want to design a teapot? Here, have 1,000 of them. Some may have a dinosaur shape; others may be made of mashed potatoes.
While only a small subset of them may be usable as a teapot, they provide a seed of inspiration that the designer can nurture and refine into a finished product.
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Inflection seeks up to $675mn as funding for AI groups heats up
https://www.ft.com/content/96acf988-8b05-451c-93f3-06cc56f5194d
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn Creator Reid Hoffman’s start-up is building a personal assistant for the web
A year-old artificial intelligence start-up set up by one of DeepMind’s co-founders is in discussions to raise up to $675mn, as the growing hype around generative AI drives a surge of investor interest.
Inflection AI, founded by Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn creator Reid Hoffman, is among a group of AI start-ups that are racing to build sophisticated computer programs that can write scripts and create art in seconds.
The proposed fundraising comes as excitement over so-called “generative AI” start-ups has soared since the launch of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT late last year, creating a rare bright spot in a tech landscape dominated by tumbling valuations and job cuts.
In January, Microsoft confirmed a “multibillion-dollar investment” over several years in ChatGPT bot maker OpenAI. People familiar with the talks previously said OpenAI was seeking $10bn from Microsoft at a $29bn valuation.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Viral AI-Written Article Busted as Plagiarized
We’re in for a strange ride.
https://futurism.com/ai-written-article-plagiarized
Well, that was quick. In a very unfortunate turn of events, there:
Already appears to be an AI-generated Substack blog.
That blog, The Rationalist, is already word-for-word plagiarizing human-made work.
That plagiarized work was shared by another platform, amassing views and sparking conversation.
There’s seemingly very little means of recourse, if any, for the human writer whose work was ripped off — and approximately zero hope that this extremely frustrating and otherwise damaging scenario will be prevented from happening again. (And again and again and again.)
“The Rationalist is an odd publication. It has no mission. No named authors outside of PETRA. It’s been live for a week,” Kantrowitz continued. “And yet two days after it went live, it was lifting passages directly from Big Technology.”
“The speed at which they were able to copy, remix, publish, and distribute their inauthentic story was impressive,” he warned. “It outpaced the platforms’ ability, and perhaps willingness, to stop it, signaling generative AI’s darker side will be difficult to tame.”
Of course, while we certainly have some skin in the game here, writing isn’t the only field where similar situations are happening. Related conversations are playing out about AI-powered image generators, particularly OpenAI’s DALL-E 2; artists are rightfully concerned about theft and proper crediting — especially considering that OpenAI has already okay’d that images it generates can be used for commercial purposes.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-ai-regulation
Tomi Engdahl says:
Engineers teach their 1-milliwatt neural chip to play Doom, say this is serious work yo, everyone nods
By Rich Stanton published 1 day ago
“It unloads the clip, but then it figures out that’s not a good strategy.”
https://www.pcgamer.com/engineers-teach-their-1-milliwatt-neural-chip-to-play-doom-say-this-is-serious-work-yo-everyone-nods/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Guy Launches News Site That’s Completely Generated by AI
It’s stupid! Here’s why.
https://futurism.com/news-site-completely-generated-ai
The “world’s first” entirely AI-generated news site is here. It’s called NewsGPT, and it seems like an absolutely horrible idea.
The site, according to a press release, is a reporter-less — and thus, it claims, bias-free — alternative to conventional, human-created news, created with the goal of “[providing] unbiased and fact-based news to readers around the world.”
Okay. While we understand that a lot of folks out there are frustrated with the modern news cycle, there are about a million problems with what this guy is doing, the least of which being that there are some glaring transparency problems here — which is pretty incredible, given everything that he claims to be railing against.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/03/prog-ai-wants-to-help-recruiters-find-technical-talent-by-inferring-skills-from-github-code/
Tomi Engdahl says:
ChartGPT and AR set to significantly impact edtech in 2023 and beyond. We asked the experts about five trends that could mark this year.
https://sifted.eu/articles/edtech-trends-in-2023-brnd/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Deep Learning Expert Says GPT Startups May Be in for a Very Rude Awakening
“Narratives based on zero data are accepted as self-evident.”
https://futurism.com/deep-learning-expert-gpt-startups-rude-awakening
Generative AI exploded into the mainstream last year. Led by the Elon Musk cofounded OpenAI — the creator of both DALL-E 2, a text-to-image generator, and ChatGPT, an impressive text-generating system — the industry has absolutely exploded, as these generative tools and others, notably the image-generating systems Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, have dazzled investment firms and the broader public alike.
“Generative AI is well on the way to becoming not just faster and cheaper, but better in some cases than what humans create by hand,” reads a blog post by top investment firm Sequoia Capital, published September 2022. “If we allow ourselves to dream multiple decades out, then it’s easy to imagine a future where Generative AI is deeply embedded in how we work, create and play.”
But despite the hefty amount of investment cash — an estimated $1.37 billion across 78 deals in 2022 alone, according to The New York Times — that VCs are throwing at generative AI companies, not everyone in the field is convinced that these generative machines are really the Earth-shifting force that both creators and investors believe them to be.
“The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 web3 it’s making me uncomfortable,”
In other words, Chollet is arguing that in eerily similar fashion to the blockchain bubble, hype — as opposed to firm data and proven results — is in the industry driving seat. And considering the current state of affairs over in Web3land, if Chollet’s right? A failure for VC-predicted returns to materialize could spell some grim consequences for the broader AI industry.
“Everyone is expecting as a sure thing ‘civilization-altering’ impact (and 100x returns on investment) in the next 2-3 years,” he continued. “Personally I think there’s a bull case and bear case. The bull case is way way more conservative than what the median person on my TL considers as completely self-evident.”
The bull case, he believes, is that “generative AI becomes a widespread [user experience] paradigm for interacting with most tech products.” But Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) — AI that operated at the level of a human or above — remains a “pipe dream.” So, startups based on OpenAI tech might not be rendering us humans obsolete quite yet, but they could well find a long-term role within specific niches.
The bear case, meanwhile, would be a scenario in which large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 would find “limited commercial success in SEO, marketing, and copywriting niches” and ultimately prove to be a “complete bubble.”
That all said, Chollet believes the most likely case is somewhere in between.
But even so, even Chollet’s best case prediction is still way out of alignment with VC enthusiasm
To investors’ credit, the algorithms are cool. Text-to-image-generators are genuinely impressive, and open up broad new creative frontiers for people without Photoshop chops. GPT systems, at the very least, are lots of fun to play around with.
That said, they also have a lot of problems.
And to Chollet’s point, it takes more than a product being cool and fun, or even very useful for niche things, to really be a “paradigm shift.” VCs may well be taking a much bigger risk than they think they are, both fueling and feeding off of a hype cycle of half-baked products, rather than making measured calls about a situationally promising, though still quite limited, burgeoning market.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Voice Actors Enraged By Companies Stealing Their Voices With AI
“This is highly unethical.”
https://futurism.com/voice-actors-companies-stealing-voices-with-ai
Tomi Engdahl says:
OpenAI Seems Like a Very Sleazy Company to Be Creating World-Changing AGI
OpenAI makes a lot of big promises about looking out for humanity’s best interests — but forgive us for having some trust issues.
https://futurism.com/openai-sleazy-company-creating-agi
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographers-show-how-to-hide-invisible-backdoors-in-ai-20230302/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mikä ihmeen Chat GPT? Nämä asiat jokaisen kannattaa ymmärtää tekoälystä
Chat GPT avattiin yleisölle vuoden 2022 loppupuolella. Se on ihmetyttänyt ja jopa suututtanut. Sovelluksen kyky luoda tekstiä on kuitenkin kaukana älystä. Nyt odotetaan hakukoneen ja tekstiohjelman liittoa.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20020160
Tomi Engdahl says:
ChatGPT built the world’s first AI-coded synthesizer and you can download the plugin for free
By MusicRadar( Computer Music, Future Music ) published 3 days ago
Doctor Mix’s AI Synth was developed by Martinic using code written by OpenAI’s ChatGPT
https://www.musicradar.com/news/doctor-mix-ai-chatgpt-synth
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpts-fastest-growing-app-human-history
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://futurism.com/experts-slam-openais-meaningless-new-promises-about-agi
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://analyticsindiamag.com/meet-mira-murati-the-35-year-old-cto-of-openai/
Tomi Engdahl says:
China’s tech firms chase overseas AI talent to build ChatGPT rivals, amid lack of experts at home
While it could be a tall order for firms to poach experts who already left China, the lack of a glass ceiling at home could be a major appeal
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3211965/chinas-tech-firms-chase-overseas-ai-talent-build-chatgpt-rivals-amid-lack-experts-home?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article&campaign=3211965