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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https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/07/ai-cracks-passwords-this-fast-how-to-protect/
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Begone, polygons: 1993’s Virtua Fighter gets smoothed out by AI
Sega’s famously boxy 1993 arcade game gets a fan-powered Stable Diffusion refresh.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/begone-polygons-1993s-virtua-fighter-gets-smoothed-out-by-ai/
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PwC Introduces AI Chatbot for 4,000 Lawyers to Speed Up Work
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-15/pwc-introduces-ai-chatbot-for-4-000-lawyers-to-speed-up-work
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Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/business/media/ai-generated-images.html
Seeing has not been believing for a very long time. Photos have been faked and manipulated for nearly as long as photography has existed.
Now, not even reality is required for photographs to look authentic — just artificial intelligence responding to a prompt. Even experts sometimes struggle to tell if one is real or not. Can you?
The Age of Artificial Intelligence
As A.I. systems continue to evolve and expand, so does their impact on our lives.
Technology companies were once leery of what some artificial intelligence could do. Now the priority is winning control of the industry’s next big thing.
Amid growing concern about opacity and abuses in global supply chains, companies and government officials are turning to technologies including A.I. to try to trace raw materials from the source to the store.
The New York Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein discussed the profound changes that an A.I.-powered world could create on the “Hard Fork” podcast.
Several companies are building A.I. technology that will soon let people generate videos simply by typing several words into a box on a computer screen.
Sam Altman, the chief executive of the start-up OpenAI, sees the pros and cons of totally changing the world as we know it. And if he does make human intelligence useless, he has a plan to fix it.
How helpful are Google’s Bard and OpenAI’s ChatGPT as actual assistants? Our consumer technology writer put the two chatbots to the test
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“Suhteetonta hypetystä”: Chat GPT ei ole mullistava läpimurto, asiantuntija lyttää – tekoälyn nykyhetken riskit jäävät huomiotta tulevista haitoista pelotellessa
https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/suhteetonta-hypetysta-chat-gpt-ei-ole-mullistava-lapimurto-asiantuntija-lyttaa-tekoalyn-nykyhetken-riskit-jaavat-huomiotta-tulevista-haitoista-pelotellessa/8670994#gs.uvmp2p
GPT-4-tekoälysovellus on herättänyt huolta tekoälyn luomista uhista. Huomenta Suomi -ohjelmassa vieraillut Helsingin yliopiston professori pitää tekoälyn aiheuttamaa keskustelua suhteettomana.
Tietojenkäsittelytieteen professori Teemu Roos kertoo olevansa ihmeissään siitä, että muutamia viikkoja sitten yleisölle avattu OpenAI:n sovellus on herättänyt näin laajaa keskustelua.
– Jotenkin tämä tuntuu olevan suorastaan suhteetonta tämä hypetys, Roos sanoo.
– Sinällään ei ole tapahtunut mitään mullistavaa tai tieteellistä läpimurtoa, mitä ei aikaisemmin oltaisi osattu lainkaan tehdä.
Aitoa huolta vai markkinointia?
Keskustelua on herättänyt muun muassa Elon Muskin allekirjoittama vetoomus, joka vaatii, että tekoälyn kehittäminen keskeytettäisiin seuraavaksi kuudeksi kuukaudeksi. Roos epäilee, että vetoomuksen taustalla saattaa olla muutakin kuin aito huoli tekoälyn aiheuttamista uhkista.
– Vähän epäilen, että tämä saattaa olla vähän markkinointikikka, Roos toteaa.
– Varmasti jonkinnäköistä huolta on. Se, mistä tässä puhutaan, on hyvin pitkän aikavälin huolista. Nostetaan esiin eksistentiaalisia riskejä, että ihmiskunta voisi kokonaan esimerkiksi tuhoutua, kun tekoäly jotenkin ottaisi vallan tai pääsisi meidän kontrollistamme irti, hän sanoo.
Roos ei pidä kyseisiä huolia aiheellisina.
– Välillä kysytään, että pitääkö olla huolissaan. Voin nyt sanoa että ei pidä olla huolissaan, tämän todennäköisyys on häviävän pieni tällä hetkellä, hän sanoo.
Roos pitää hyvänä asiana, että myös tekoälyn pidemmän aikavälin haitoista keskustellaan.
– Mielestäni on ihan järkevääkin, että näistä debatoidaan ja niitä pohditaan, sehän on hyvä, että meillä on eri aikavälin skenaarioita.
Esimerkkinä nykyhetken haitoista Roos mainitsee ihmisten epätasavertaisen kohtelun, kun heitä koskevia päätöksiä automatisoidaan.
Samoin sosiaalisessa mediassa käytettävät suosittelu- ja filtterialgoritmit voivat aiheuttaa polarisaatiota ja siten niillä voi olla yhteiskunnallisia vaikutuksia, Roos kertoo.
– Nämä ovat todellisia tämän hetken ongelmia ja riskejä, joita tekoälyyn liittyy, Roos sanoo.
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ChatGPT falsely told voters their mayor was jailed for bribery. He may sue.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/06/chatgpt-australia-mayor-lawsuit-lies/
Brian Hood is a whistleblower who was praised for “showing tremendous courage” when he helped expose a worldwide bribery scandal linked to Australia’s National Reserve Bank.
But if you ask ChatGPT about his role in the scandal, you get the opposite version of events.
Rather than heralding Hood’s whistleblowing role, ChatGPT falsely states that Hood himself was convicted of paying bribes to foreign officials, had pleaded guilty to bribery and corruption, and been sentenced to prison.
When Hood found out, he was shocked. Hood, who is now mayor of Hepburn Shire near Melbourne in Australia, said he plans to sue the company behind ChatGPT for telling lies about him, in what could be the first defamation suit of its kind against the artificial intelligence chatbot.
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Meet BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model With 50 Billion Parameters That Has Been Trained on a Variety of Financial Data
https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/04/05/meet-bloomberggpt-a-large-language-model-with-50-billion-parameters-that-has-been-trained-on-a-variety-of-financial-data/
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Suomalaisfirma löysi tekstiä suoltavalle tekoälylle todellisen käyttötarkoituksen – ”Auttaa todella paljon” https://www.is.fi/digitoday/art-2000009509231.html
Tekoälyn maailma uhkaa olla keskinkertaisuuden maailma. Silti keskinkertainenkin voi hyvin riittää suurelle osalle yrityksiä.
TEKOÄLYSOVELLUS ChatGPT oli suhteellisen helppo ottaa avuksi tavalliseen työtehtävään: ensin asiakkaan tilaus voidaan muuttaa suoraan puheentunnistuksella tekstimuotoon, ja sitten ChatGPT:tä voidaan yksinkertaisesti pyytää muuttamaan litterointi lomakemuotoon, joka voidaan syöttää suoraan tietokantaan ja saada vastaamaan muuhun asiakasdataan ja esimerkiksi työehtosopimuksiin. Voila!
Näin kertoo henkilöstöpalveluyritys Bolt Worksin toimitusjohtaja Ville Herva.
– Kirjoitamme myös työpaikkailmoituksia automaattisesti käyttäen ChatGPT:tä. Tulokset ovat kohtuullisen hyviä. Niissä on toki vielä aina ihminen varmistamassa lopputuloksen, mutta aika vähän ne vaativat korjauksia, Herva sanoo STT:lle.
Kumpikin näistä on ollut Hervan sanoin vain nopea kokeilu, mutta tulokset ovat vakuuttaneet.
– Myös meidän ohjelmointityössämme ChatGPT toimii apulaisena. Tekoäly auttaa ohjelmoijaa nykypäivänä todella paljon, ja sillä saralla on valtava kehitys meneillään.
Ohjelmointi erottaa Bolt Worksin muista henkilöstön vuokrausyrityksistä, Herva sanoo.
– Meillä on oma tech-tiimi, joka on tehnyt meidän järjestelmämme alkaen työntekijän mobiilisovelluksesta aina palkansaajan laskutukseen ja niin edelleen. Kaikki on itse tehty.
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-ceo-adding-ai-search
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HISTORY REPEATING
MARK ZUCKERBERG BOWS TO PEER PRESSURE, ANNOUNCES PIVOT TO AI
https://futurism.com/the-byte/mark-zuckerberg-ai
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Video Brutally Takes Down the AI Hype Wave
“See, tech companies are powered by hype. It’s not enough to be profitable.”
https://futurism.com/video-takes-down-ai-hype-wave
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Microsoft’s rolling out Edge’s AI image generator to everyone / It says the Image Creator tool is ‘now available on desktop for Edge users around the world.’
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23672862/microsoft-image-creator-edge-sidebar-dall-e-ai-generator
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Technology is getting dangerous.
Scarlett Johansson And Emma Watson’s Shocking Porn Deepfakes Dominate “Predatory” Site
https://thoughtnova.com/scarlett-johansson-and-emma-watsons-shocking-porn-deepfakes-dominate-predatory-site?utm_source=960-5
A disturbing pornographic website has been promoting deepfake videos of Scarlett Johansson and Emma Watson, labelling them as the website’s ‘leading models’.
The website showcases manipulated videos of multiple Hollywood celebrities involved in explicit acts, without their consent or authorization.
According to an NBC report, an astounding 96 percent of deepfake material was classified as sexually explicit and produced without the consent of the individual portrayed.
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The takeaways from Stanford’s 386-page report on the state of AI
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/04/the-takeaways-from-stanfords-386-page-report-on-the-state-of-ai/
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https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/04/aws-generative-ai-accelerator/
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/silicon-valley-school-ai-tutors-openai
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https://petapixel.com/2023/03/31/photographers-are-using-chatgpt-to-make-fujifilm-film-simulation-recipes/
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/noam-chomsky-ai
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https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/use-chatgpt-to-build-a-regex-generator/
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AI has much to offer humanity. It could also wreak terrible harm. It must be controlled
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/02/ai-much-to-offer-humanity-could-wreak-terrible-harm-must-be-controlled
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https://www.findance.com/uutiset/63594/tekoaly-yrittaa-lopettaa-ihmisten-kielen-kayton-se-on-vain-tehokkaampaa
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https://hackaday.com/2023/04/03/machine-learning-helps-electron-microscopy/
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https://hackaday.com/2023/04/04/open-source-faceid-with-realsense/
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Generative AI will change the world—but won’t put creative jobs at risk
https://www.fastcompany.com/90877017/generative-ai-will-change-the-world-but-wont-put-creative-jobs-at-risk
The mind-bending new technology will function like an Industrial revolution for creativity, allowing brands to move faster and get better results.
Alan Kay was a pioneering computer scientist. In the 1970s, at Xerox PARC, he led the design and development of the first modern computer-desktop interface—ultimately creating the “windows” we spend so much of our time gazing into today. He also spent a lot of time thinking about the future. And it deserves mentioning that he wasn’t scared of AI. Not one bit.
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior,” Kay noted. ”But then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”
according to a recent survey, nearly 69% of college graduates in the U.S. believe that AI will replace them at work—or make them irrelevant within the next few years.
With new forms of AI blossoming across society, are they right to be worried? Or is that fear misplaced?
What separates generative AI from its other variants is its innate capacity to create. By way of definitions, generative AI is a subset of machine learning that focuses on creating algorithms that can generate new data based on patterns in existing data. It can be applied to art, music, design, and robotics. And as such, it can radically shorten the gap between idea and reality:
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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design Study tries to settle a bitter disagreement over Google’s chip design AI
https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-design-controversy
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Meet DERA: An AI Framework For Enhancing Large Language Model Completions With Dialog-Enabled Resolving Agents
https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/04/06/meet-dera-an-ai-framework-for-enhancing-large-language-model-completions-with-dialog-enabled-resolving-agents/
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OpinionNiall Ferguson
The Aliens Have Landed, and We Created Them
The Cassandras are out in force claiming artificial intelligence will be the end of mankind. They have a very good point.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-09/artificial-intelligence-the-aliens-have-landed-and-we-created-them?cmpid=socialflow-facebook-view&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=view
It is not every day that I read a prediction of doom as arresting as Eliezer Yudkowsky’s in Time magazine last week. “The most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances,” he wrote, “is that literally everyone on Earth will die. Not as in ‘maybe possibly some remote chance,’ but as in ‘that is the obvious thing that would happen.’ … If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter.”
Do I have your attention now?
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“Their confidence in AI — indeed, their very understanding of and definition of it — is misplaced.”
Economist Says AI Is a Doomed Bubble
“Their confidence in AI — indeed, their very understanding of and definition of it — is misplaced.”
https://futurism.com/economist-ai-doomed-bubble
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Alibaba to roll out generative AI across apps, Beijing flags new rules
https://www.reuters.com/technology/alibaba-unveils-tongyi-qianwen-an-ai-model-similar-gpt-2023-04-11/
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Meet ‘Claudia,’ the 19-year-old selling nudes online that’s actually an AI creation
https://trib.al/SZPAJ9i
Claudia’s selfies and naked photos (above not an actual photo) have some users fooled, but others have been quick to recognize that the pictures are AI-generated.
Claudia receives compliments on almost all of her Reddit posts from strangers online.
The supposed 19-year-old is an AI creation from two anonymous computer science students.
The pair post AI-generated selfies and nude photos as Claudia on Reddit, Rolling Stone reports.
Reddit users are fawning over — and paying for — AI-generated photos of a fake woman named Claudia.
While most are showering the supposed dark-haired 19-year-old with compliments, others have pointed out that the fantasy woman is actually an AI creation.
“For those who aren’t aware I’m going to kill your fantasy. This is literally an AI creation, if you’ve worked with AI image models and making your own long enough, you can 10000% tell,” one user commented under the selfie posted in the r/Faces subreddit.
The Reddit account responsible for the photo appears to post mainly adult content, including lewd photos, that prompts online strangers to interact. According to Rolling Stone, Claudia was created by two computer science students who have asked to remain anonymous.
They said the account was started as a joke after reading about a man who made $500 using photos of real women. They made about $100 selling AI-generated naked photos of Claudia before she was exposed for being AI, per the Rolling Stone report.
They’re Selling Nudes of Imaginary Women on Reddit — and It’s Working
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-nudes-selling-reddit-1234708474/
“F/19 feeling pretty today,” Claudia’s post reads. She’s got straight black bangs and giant blue-green eyes, with just the socially appropriate amount of cleavage sticking out of her grey tank top. With her alabaster skin, delicate features, and vaguely indie hairstyle, she looks exactly like someone the average Redditor would obsess over, and indeed, the comments on Claudia’s post on the subreddit r/faces are all variations of, “hot” and “you’re very gorgeous.” Except for one.
Claudia is, indeed, an AI-generated creation, who has posted her (AI-generated) lewd photos on other subreddits, including r/normalnudes and r/amihot. She’s the brainchild of two computer science students who tell Rolling Stone they essentially made up the account as a joke, after coming across a post on Reddit from a guy who made $500 catfishing users with photos of real women. They made about $100 selling her nudes until other redditors called out the account, though they continue to post lewds on other subreddits.
Claudia is among the first, but by no means the last, fictional adult content creator to be generated via rapidly evolving AI technology, prompting a slew of ethical questions and concerns. Most discussions about the dangers posed by AI and adult content have focused on the prevalence of deepfakes, a term used to describe an image or video that uses a person’s face without their consent. According to Sensity, an AI firm, nearly 96 percent of all deepfakes are pornographic in nature and feature a woman’s face being used without their consent. Though many platforms, like Reddit, ostensibly have policies preventing the proliferation of deep fakes, such content is fairly easy to find online, with some Discord communities selling deepfake porn of “personal girls” — meaning non-celebrities — for as little as $5 a pop, according to an NBC News report.
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Reddit users have been paying for nude images of a fake, AI-generated woman, according to reports – thinking they were real.
Read more:
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-nudes-reddit-deepfake-porn-b2318555.html
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Has 200 Years of Science Fiction Prepared Us for AI?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-11/has-200-years-of-science-fiction-prepared-us-for-ai?utm_source=facebook&cmpid=socialflow-facebook-view&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=view&utm_medium=social&leadSource=uverify%20wall
It was Darwin who first explained why humans should be afraid of their hyper-intelligent machines.
The arrival of a new generation of artificial-intelligence chatbots and apps has fueled hysteria that humans may soon become obsolete, or worse, the victims of a Skynet scenario, in which our AI creations become sentient and turn against us. Even the biggest AI boosters recently called for a moratorium on further research until we can better assess the risks.
The perils posed by today’s technology may well be new and noteworthy, but our anxiety is not. For two centuries, humankind has fretted about what might happen if we endow our creations with intelligence, fearing they will go rogue, if not replace us entirely.
The idea that artificial helpers could rebel has many antecedents, including different variations on the story of the sorcerer’s apprentice, popularized by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (and later, Walt Disney), as well as the Jewish golem, mythical clay creatures brought to life by mystical incantations. Though folk tales held that most golem served humanity, more secular versions of the story circulating in early 19th century Prague depicted a far more disobedient, destructive monster.
This version of the golem likely informed one of the first modern visions of artificial life and intelligence: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, published in 1818. Unlike Hollywood’s rendering of the story, Shelley’s original tale recounts a hyper-intelligent creature that absorbs the world around him, swiftly learning how to speak, read poetry and grasp human emotions. But humans had no appreciation for those feats, seeing only a monster, so the “monster” eventually turns on his creator.
Shelley’s story inspired what Isaac Asimov would derisively dub the “Frankenstein complex” — the fear that our doppelgangers will become sentient and replace or destroy their human creators. Still, Shelley’s monster was a thing of flesh and blood, not steel and circuitry. It was not a murderous android.
How, then, did we get from Frankenstein to The Terminator? Blame Charles Darwin.
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Hollywood got into the act as well with Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, starring a murderous computer. But Kubrick’s HAL was a piker compared to the next generation of fictional sentient computers. A decade before Skynet became sentient and destroyed humanity in the Terminator franchise, Colossus: The Forbin Project told the “frightening story of the day man built himself out of existence” by creating “Colossus,” a super-intelligent computer given control over the nation’s nuclear arsenal.
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We Got a Psychotherapist to Examine the Bing AI’s Bizarre Behavior
There’s some strange psychology afoot here.
https://futurism.com/psychotherapist-bing-ai
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ChatGPT Could Return to Italy if OpenAI Complies With Rules
https://www.securityweek.com/chatgpt-could-return-to-italy-if-openai-complies-with-rules/
ChatGPT could return to Italy if its maker, OpenAI, complies with measures to satisfy regulators who imposed a temporary ban on the AI software over privacy worries.
ChatGPT could return to Italy soon if its maker, OpenAI, complies with measures to satisfy regulators who had imposed a temporary ban on the artificial intelligence software over privacy worries.
The Italian data protection authority on Wednesday outlined a raft of requirements that OpenAI will have to satisfy by April 30 for the the ban on AI chatbot to be lifted.
The watchdog known as Garante last month ordered the company to temporarily stop processing Italian users’ personal information while it investigated a possible data breach. The authority said it didn’t want to hamper AI’s development but emphasized the importance of following the European Union’s strict data privacy rules.
OpenAI, which had responded by proposing remedies to ease the concerns, on Wednesday welcomed the Italian regulators’ move.
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/developer-creates-self-healing-programs-that-fix-themselves-thanks-to-gpt-4/
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Developer creates “regenerative” AI program that fixes bugs on the fly
“Wolverine” experiment can fix Python bugs at runtime and re-run the code.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/developer-creates-self-healing-programs-that-fix-themselves-thanks-to-gpt-4/
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Reddit users unknowingly buy nude images of AI-generated woman
‘Holy crap you are beautiful,’ one user commented on the fake image
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-nudes-reddit-deepfake-porn-b2318555.html#Echobox=1681318743
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Rapid Silicon Gets Even More Rapid with RapidGPT, a Natural Language AI Assistant for the FPGA Dev
Company boasts of a twofold gain in productivity for developers using RapidGPT to assist with hardware description language (HDL) work.
https://www.hackster.io/news/rapid-silicon-gets-even-more-rapid-with-rapidgpt-a-natural-language-ai-assistant-for-the-fpga-dev-90bc24ccef81
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https://www.engadget.com/sony-investment-will-put-ai-chips-inside-raspberry-pi-boards-083503462.html
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ChatGPT-powered Furby reveals ‘plans’ to ‘take over world’
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/lifestyle/technology-chatgpt-ai-furby-world-domination-b2319235.html#Echobox=1681397871
A Furby powered by ChatGPT has revealed its “plans” to “take over the world.”
The children’s toy was modified, with a skeletal appearance, and hooked up to the AI chatbot by Jessica Card.
“I think this may be the start of something bad for humanity,” the University of Vermont programmer said.
Footage shows Card asking the toy whether there was “a secret plot from Furbies to take over the world.”
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FINANCE PROFESSOR CLAIMS CHATGPT CAN PREDICT STOCK PERFORMANCE
https://futurism.com/the-byte/finance-professor-claims-chatgpt-can-predict-stock-performance
ChatGPT is a real jack of all trades. The AI chatbot can draft cover letters, tinker with code, and even breathe life into a Furby.
And now, maybe OpenAI’s blockbuster tool could even make you rich — emphasis on the “maybe.” According to University of Florida finance professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira, large language models (LLMs) like it could be used to forecast stock prices. As CNBC reports, it’s an intriguing use of the tech that could potentially have some pretty substantial economic implications.
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A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence
By
ANIL ANANTHASWAMY
April 13, 2023
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-approach-to-computation-reimagines-artificial-intelligence-20230413/
By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly — and efficiently — than before.
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What is Auto-GPT? The latest player in AI’s race for glory has people *freaking* out
Thought ChatGPT was too much? Oh honey, we ain’t seen nothing yet…
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a43573542/auto-gpt/
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This startup wants to train art-generating AI strictly on licensed images
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/13/this-startup-wants-to-train-art-generating-ai-strictly-on-licensed-images/
Generative AI, particularly text-to-image AI, is attracting as many lawsuits as it is venture dollars.
Two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are entangled in a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools on web-scraped images. Separately, stock image supplier Getty Images took Stability AI to court for reportedly using images from its site without permission to train Stable Diffusion, an art-generating AI.
Generative AI’s flaws — a tendency to regurgitate the data it’s trained on and, relatedly, the makeup of its training data — continues to put it in the legal crosshairs. But a new startup, Bria, claims to minimize the risk by training image-generating — and soon video-generating — AI in an “ethical” way.
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THE HELLO WORLD OF GPT?
https://hackaday.com/2023/04/10/the-hello-world-of-gpt/
Someone wants to learn about Arduino programming. Do you suggest they blink an LED first? Or should they go straight for a 3D laser scanner with galvos, a time-of-flight sensor, and multiple networking options? Most of us need to start with the blinking light and move forward from there. So what if you want to learn about the latest wave of GPT — generative pre-trained transformer — programs? Do you start with a language model that looks at thousands of possible tokens in large contexts? Or should you start with something simple? We think you should start simple, and [Andrej Karpathy] agrees. He has a workbook that makes a tiny GPT that can predict the next bit in a sequence. It isn’t any more practical than a blinking LED, but it is a manageable place to start.
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Meet PassGAN, the supposedly “terrifying” AI password cracker that’s mostly hype
AI cracking is on par with conventional methods, but you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/the-passgan-ai-password-cracker-what-it-is-and-why-its-mostly-hype/
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James Vincent / The Verge:
Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t train GPT-5 for “some time” and the letter to pause AI development missed “most technical nuance about where we need the pause”
Artificial Intelligence/Tech
OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and ‘won’t for some time’
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/14/23683084/openai-gpt-5-rumors-training-sam-altman
/ CEO Sam Altman quashed rumors that OpenAI is already developing GPT-5. However, the comments likely won’t be of much consolation to those worried about AI safety.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Financial Times:
Sources: the European parliament is close to finalizing tough new measures on AI, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal if they use copyrighted material
European parliament prepares tough measures over use of artificial intelligence
Proposals include requiring chatbot makers to reveal if they are using copyrighted material
https://www.ft.com/content/addb5a77-9ad0-4fea-8ffb-8e2ae250a95a
The European parliament is preparing tough new measures over the use of artificial intelligence, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal if they use copyrighted material, as the EU edges towards enacting the world’s most restrictive regime on the development of AI.
MEPs in Brussels are close to agreeing a set of proposals to form part of Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Act, a sweeping set of regulations on the use of AI, according to people familiar with the process.
Among the measures likely to be proposed by parliamentarians is for developers of products such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to declare if copyrighted material is being used to train their AI models, a measure designed to allow content creators to demand payment. MEPs also want responsibility for misuse of AI programmes to lie with developers such as OpenAI, rather than smaller businesses using it.
One contentious proposal from MEPs is a ban on the use of facial recognition in public spaces under any circumstances. EU member states, under pressure from their local police forces, are expected to push back against a total ban on biometrics, said people with direct knowledge of the negotiations.
Agreement between MEPs, who have been fighting over measures to police artificial intelligence for close to two years, is critical to kick-starting broader negotiations over the AI Act. The proposed law would represent some of the toughest rules on the development of AI and comes in the wake of rising concerns about potential abuses of the technology.
Once parliament has agreed its position, member states, the European Commission and MEPs will together draft a final bill, aiming to pass the law before the end of the current European parliament term in 2024.
MEPs hope to finalise their position next week, Brando Benifei, one of the parliament’s leading negotiators, told the Financial Times.
Under current proposals for the AI Act, chatbots must tell users that they are not humans. Benifei said MEPs wanted further transparency.
“We want a list of the public disclosure of the material that is being used to train it because [authors] can go through other legislations and avenues to try to get paid for what is being used without their consent,” he said.
The proposal comes as visual media company Getty Images pursues a copyright case in the UK against Stability AI, claiming the maker of the free image-generating tool used millions of its copyrighted images without consent
Tomi Engdahl says:
OH GOD… OPENAI IS WORKING ON A HUMANOID ROBOT
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-working-humanoid-robot