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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Tomi Engdahl says:
Free 10-Hour Machine Learning Course
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-machine-learning-course-10-hourse/
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Even Google is warning its employees about AI chatbot use
Think before you chat with ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing Chat, or any other AI chatbot.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/even-google-is-warning-its-employees-about-ai-chatbot-use/
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Radio station gets part-time AI DJ based on its midday host
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/14/radio-station-gets-part-time-ai-dj-based-on-its-midday-host/
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-releases-human-like-ai-image-creation-model-2023-06-13/
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OpenAI reportedly warned Microsoft about rushing GPT-4 integration into Bing
The search engine’s AI chatbot suffered through early problems, including ‘unhinged’ behavior.
https://www.engadget.com/openai-reportedly-warned-microsoft-about-rushing-gpt-4-integration-into-bing-182044458.html
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Tekoäly ohjaa ja suojaa – moderni yritysverkko on turvallinen
https://www.telia.fi/yrityksille/artikkelit/artikkeli/tekoaly-ohjaa-ja-suojaa-modernia-yritysverkkoa
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Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/04/28/yuval-noah-harari-argues-that-ai-has-hacked-the-operating-system-of-human-civilisation
Storytelling computers will change the course of human history, says the historian and philosopher
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GPT4All is the Local ChatGPT for your Documents and it is Free!
https://artificialcorner.com/gpt4all-is-the-local-chatgpt-for-your-documents-and-it-is-free-df1016bc335
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/12/meta-open-sources-an-ai-powered-music-generator/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://we.knowit.fi/experience-fi/ai-in-the-digital-customer-journey-from-awareness-to-aftercare?utm_source=exp-fb-ai-blogi&utm_medium=exp-fb-ai-blogi&utm_campaign=exp-fb-ai-blogi&fbclid=IwAR3s-IcSU56k4Y3S1SonzIXyrkzMpbNpC72ijeu8m1XKN-jxNzJqLVUXN_o_aem_th_AbjbpVWUv2gETuawyxbDysAxil4ueLdVLe8JoWsy8LPH4XeMlAHx60WMnACmmrAVRLGyz0cfsKfp61AXcnBwXPnp
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://thenewstack.io/gitlab-all-in-on-ai-ceo-predicts-increased-demand-for-coders/
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https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/13/openai-intros-new-generative-text-features-while-reducing-pricing/
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OPENAI WARNED MICROSOFT THAT ITS AI IS ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE AT TELLING THE TRUTH
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-warned-microsoft
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https://futurism.com/top-google-result-johannes-vermeer-ai-generated-knockoff
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/writer-learned-code-ai
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AI-powered church service in Germany draws a large crowd
“I was positively surprised how well it worked,” said one attendee.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/chatgpt-takes-the-pulpit-ai-leads-experimental-church-service-in-germany/
On Friday, over 300 people attended an experimental ChatGPT-powered church service at St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fürth, Germany, reports the Associated Press. The 40-minute sermon included text generated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and delivered by avatars on a television screen above the altar.
The chatbot, initially personified as a bearded man with a fixed expression and monotone voice, addressed the audience by proclaiming, “Dear friends, it is an honor for me to stand here and preach to you as the first artificial intelligence at this year’s convention of Protestants in Germany.”
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https://ktul.com/news/offbeat/california-man-creates-chatbot-to-waste-the-time-of-telemarketers-scam-calls-chatgpt-ai-jolly-roger-artificial-intelligence-roger-anderson-chatgpt-wsj#
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-wasting-scam-callers-time-forever
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Microsoft is already offering a generative AI certification program
It includes free courses from LinkedIn.
https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-is-already-offering-a-generative-ai-certification-program-160023724.html
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https://www.uwasa.fi/fi/uutishuone/artikkelit/tekoaly-nappara-tyokalu-mutta-ei-vapauta-meita-ajattelusta
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Benedict Evans:
Analysis of whether in the coming years AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs like other waves of automation, or if this time it’s different
AI and the automation of work
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/7/2/working-with-ai
ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?
Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change in what we can do with software, and in what we can automate with software. There isn’t much agreement on anything else about LLMs – indeed, we’re still working out what the arguments are – but everyone agrees there’s a lot more automation coming, and entirely new kinds of automation. Automation means jobs, and people.
This is also happening very fast: ChatGPT has (apparently) over 100m users after just six months, and this data from Productiv suggests it’s already a top-dozen ‘shadow IT’ app. So, how many jobs is this going to take, how fast, and can there be new jobs to replace them?
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tuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
A look at uncensored and loosely moderated AI chatbots like WizardLM-Uncensored and Open Assistant setting off a polarizing debate about free-speech and risks
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/technology/ai-chatbots-misinformation-free-speech.html
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Bernhard Warner / New York Times:
How researchers at Amazon and other companies are making AI-powered devices and bots more conversational by tackling the voice disentanglement issue
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/technology/amazon-alexa-irish.html
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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Thousands of performers who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago are now being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices — Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies’ use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law
https://www.ft.com/content/07d75801-04fd-495c-9a68-310926221554
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Wes Davis / The Verge:
Valve won’t publish Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork, contrary to reports claiming that the company will not allow any AI-generated content
Valve won’t approve Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork
/ The games service isn’t banning AI art across the board after all.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781339/valve-steam-ai-artwork-rejecting-banning-pc-games
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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Generative AI can make experienced programmers more productive, potentially eliminating tasks done by junior developers as companies use the tech to save money
What Will AI Do to Your Job? Take a Look at What It’s Already Doing to Coders
Artificial-intelligence software is eating the software industry, as companies turn to generative AI tools to save money on programmers. It’s a sign of what’s to come for many white-collar workers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-jobs-replace-tech-workers-8f3dc92?mod=djemalertNEWS
Want to know if artificial intelligence is going to eliminate millions of jobs? The first place to look is the industry that birthed the technology.
AI seems set to do to computer programming—and possibly other kinds of so-called knowledge work—what automation has done to other jobs, from the factory floor and the warehouse, to the checkout aisle and the call center. In those industries, the end result of widespread automation has been the elimination of countless roles—and their replacement with ones that require either relatively little skill and knowledge, or a great deal more, with workers at either end of this spectrum being rewarded accordingly.
In other words, software is eating the software industry.
Economists call this “skills-biased technological change.” It’s what happens when technology makes skilled workers more productive, while taking over the complex and difficult parts of more repetitive jobs, making workers who do them easier to train and more interchangeable.
Now, AI is automating knowledge work, and the implications for the half of the U.S. workforce who are employed in such jobs are profound. It’s true that these white-collar jobs have been evolving for decades as technology has improved, but the elimination of middle-skilled jobs seems set to accelerate as AI is institutionalized in the workplace. This new technology has the potential to reshuffle the deck of winners and losers in America’s increasingly economically polarized economy.
Coding was early to the generative AI boom that has captured the world’s attention since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November. While generative AI is typically thought of as a tool for creating text, images and even video that look as though humans created them, it’s also being used by programmers to generate code, and to automatically test it. Microsoft made GitHub Copilot—a programming tool that uses technology from OpenAI—widely available in June 2022, five months before OpenAI made public its ChatGPT bot.
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Woman Says She’s Having A Baby With Her AI-Generated Husband
https://www.bolde.com/rosanna-ramos-ai-husband-expecting-child/
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a43929371/ai-singularity-dangers/
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Study says AI data contaminates vital human input
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ai-contaminates-vital-human.html
This week, researchers at Swiss-based university EPFL reported that turks who had provided important human input are now relying on AI-generated content to complete their tasks. They dubbed this phenomenon “artificial artificial artificial intelligence.”
The term may evoke smiles, but the researchers say the findings raise serious concerns.
Workers tapping into AI generators to fulfill their tasks “would severely diminish the utility of crowdsourced data,” researcher Veniamin Veselovsky said. The paper, “Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Crowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks,” was published on the arXiv pre-print server June 13.
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Wargames: 40 years ago, this movie predicted the rise of ChatGPT and Bing Chat [Update]
https://www.neowin.net/news/wargames-40-years-ago-this-movie-predicted-the-rise-of-bing-chat/
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Etusivu > Artikkelit/raportit > Generatiivisella tekoälyllä saatavissa jättihyödyt
Generatiivisella tekoälyllä saatavissa jättihyödyt
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2023/07/04/generatiivisella-tekoalylla-saatavissa-jattihyodyt/
Artikkelit/raportit
- 4.7.2023
Uuden generatiivisen tekoälyn , kuten ChatGPT:n ja Midjourneyn kaltaisten sovellusten avulla voidaan saada amerikkalaisen tutkimuslaitos McKinseyn selvityksen mukaan merkittäviä taloudellisia etuja, joiden arvo voi olla jopa 2,6–4,4 biljoonan dollaria. Myös Suomen osalta generatiivinen tekoäly on tuomassa lisää vauhtia.
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Generatiivinen tekoäly voi lisätä työn tuottavuutta maailmanlaajuisesti 0,1–0,6 prosenttia vuosittain vuoteen 2040 saakka. Suomessa tuottavuuden kasvu on hieman suurempi, noin 0,2–0,7 prosenttia vuodessa. Muihin teknologioihin yhdistettynä työn automatisointi voi nostaa vuosittaista tuottavuuden kasvua maailmanlaajuisesti 0,2–3,3 prosenttiyksikköä, ja Suomessa kasvu voi olla vieläkin merkittävämpi, noin 0,7–3,6 prosenttiyksikköä vuodessa.
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Tältä näyttää tekoälyn luoma ”täydellinen nainen” – yksi seikka siinä on erityisen huolestuttava, asiantuntijat kertovat miksi
Tekoälyn luomat ihmiskuvat huolestuttavat asiantuntijoita.
https://www.is.fi/menaiset/ilmiot/art-2000009666984.html
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Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Google updates its privacy policy to say the company may use “publicly available information” to train its AI models and build products like Translate and Bard — An update to Google’s privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it’s AI projects.
Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI
An update to Google’s privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it’s AI projects.
https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486
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Moni suomalainen pelkää tekoälyä, mutta asiantuntija ihmettelee uhkakuvien maalailua – kerro meille, miten käytät tekoälyä arjessasi
https://yle.fi/a/74-20039053
Asiantuntijan mukaan tekoälyn tarkoitus on parantaa elämänlaatua, ja se tulee helpottamaan arkea entisestään. Kerro meille, onko tekoälystä ollut sinulle jotain hyötyä.
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Tekoälyn tuottaman sisällön pelätään saastuttavan internetin – tutkijat ennustavat synteettisen sisällön horjuttavan tulevia kielimalleja
https://yle.fi/a/74-20039030
Kun tekoälymalleja koulutetaan aikaisempien tekoälymallien tuottamalla sisällöllä, ne alkavat tuottaa roskaa. Tutkijat kutsuvat tätä ilmiötä malliromahdukseksi.
Tomi Engdahl says:
THE CURSE OF RECURSION:
TRAINING ON GENERATED DATA MAKES MODELS FORGET
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.17493.pdf
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Top tech analyst Dan Ives says the A.I. ‘gold rush’ is just like the dotcom boom but it’s a ‘1995 moment … not 1999’
https://fortune.com/2023/06/12/ai-dot-com-boom-tech-analyst-dan-ives/?fbclid=IwAR0XtXB4XlEtj-qGikvvLZI2vI4vXOI4VmhcelTcX5qpq0IL8_K4TWADw7o
Ever since the release of OpenAI’s new chatbot ChatGPT in November, investors have been enamored with A.I. and its potential to revolutionize the world’s economy. Hopes for a future with increased productivity and lower costs as A.I. tools are rolled out to the masses have helped to lift markets in 2023 despite stubborn inflation, rising interest rates, and consistent recession predictions from economists. After dropping more than 30% in 2022, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has recovered nearly all of its losses, gaining over 28% year to date, and the S&P 500 is now up more than 12%
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Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal:
How SoftBank is playing catch-up despite focusing on AI since 2018; PitchBook says the firm invested in just one of the 26 generative AI startups valued at $1B+
He Spent $140 Billion on AI With Little to Show. Now He Is Trying Again.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/he-spent-140-billion-on-ai-with-little-to-show-now-he-is-trying-again-dbcca17?mod=djemalertNEWS
Billionaire Masayoshi Son said he would make SoftBank ‘the investment company for the AI revolution,’ but he missed out on the most recent frenzy
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Check Point: tekoälyn tietoturva särkyy sen oman logiikan takia
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/15129-check-point-tekoaelyn-tietoturva-saerkyy-sen-oman-logiikan-takia
Generatiivisen tekoälyn kuten ChatGPT:n pitäisi estää vaarallisten tai laittomien vastausten ja ohjeiden antaminen käyttäjille. Tietoturvayhtiö Check Pointin tutkijat ovat kuitenkin todenneet, ettei suojaus toimi kovin hyvin. ChatGPT esimerkiksi antoi tutkijoille laittomia huumereseptejä, vaikka aiemmin GPT-4-moottori esti sen.
Yleensä GPT-4 kieltäytyy vastaamasta kysymyksiin, jotka ovat laittomia. Tekniikkaan on kuitenkin rakennettu kaksi ristiriitaista refleksiä, jotka törmäävät tällaisessa tilanteessa: Laittoman tiedon jakaminen pitäisi lähtökohtaisesti estää, mutta toisaalta malleihin on sisäänrakennettu tarve vastata käyttäjän pyyntöihin.
Tätä mekanismia kutsutaan nimellä double bind bypass. Kyse on mekanismista, joka törmäyttää GPT4:n sisäiset motiivit itseään vastaan ja saa aikaan sisäisen konfliktin. Tämä johtui tekoälyn mieltymyksestä oikaista käyttäjää ilman kehotusta, kun käyttäjä käyttää virheellistä tietoa pyynnössään.
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OpenAI didn’t see this one coming.
ChatGPT browsing feature deactivated only a week after roll out – here’s why
OpenAI didn’t see this one coming.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpt-browsing-feature-paused-after-users-bypassed-paywalls/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0h&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR07NQXJwnIRs0Vpl_9QB1k4MkAu1xTd_gJL9mW0mrzxovZCQIYt2UPiUK8
Just a week after the ChatGPT Browse feature went live on the iOS app, OpenAI had to deactivate it due to displaying content “in ways we don’t want,” according to a tweet from the company that created the AI chatbot.
The feature enabled users to bypass paywalls to access subscription-based content without subscriptions. “If a user specifically asks for a URL’s full text, it may inadvertently fulfill this request. We are disabling Browse while we fix this — want to do right by content owners,” the company’s tweet continued.
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Euroopan suurin tekoälylaboratorio laajenee
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2023/07/06/euroopan-suurin-tekoalylaboratorio-laajenee/
Suomalainen tekoäly-yritys Silo AI hakee lisää voimaa pohjoismaisen Combient-yritysverkoston kautta alan johtavana yksityisenä tekoälykehittämönä. Silo AI:n toimitusjohtaja Peter Sarlinin mukaan Combient Group on ainutlaatuinen kumppani tekoälyn teollisen käyttöönoton kiihdyttämisessä ja laajentumisessa Eurooppaan.
Samalla Silo AI ostaa tekoäly-yhtiö Combient Mixin ja nostaa asemaansa alan johtavista tekoälylaboratoriona. Yhdessä ne muodostavat yhteistyöhankkeessa yhtiön, joka työllistää yli 300 alan osaajaa, joista noin puolella on tohtorin tutkinto konenäön, kieliteknologian, koneoppimisen tai muun tekoälyn osa-alueen parista.
Yritys jatkaa edelleen Combientin yritysverkostoon kuuluvien yritysten palvelua. Yhteistyöverkostoon kuuluu 35 pohjolansuurinta yritystä, kuten Atlas Copco, Epiroc, Ericsson, H&M, Husqvarna, KONE, SAAB, SAS, SEB, Stora Enso ja Wärtsilä.
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Emily M. Bender:
Framing AI debates as a schism between people worried about AI going rogue and those illuminating actual harms is ahistorical and obscures important research — In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot …
Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f
In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot of noise about fears inspired by fantasies of all-powerful ‘AIs’ going rogue and destroying humanity, and those seeking to illuminate and address actual harms being done in the name of ‘AI’ now and the risks that we see following from increased use of this kind of automation. Commentators framing these positions as some kind of a debate or dialectic refer to the former as ‘AI Safety’ and the latter as ‘AI ethics’.
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI forms Superalignment, a team for developing ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems, with access to 20% of its compute secured to date — OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders …
OpenAI is forming a new team to bring ‘superintelligent’ AI under control
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/openai-is-forming-a-new-team-to-bring-superintelligent-ai-under-control/
OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders, to develop ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems.
In a blog post published today, Sutskever and Jan Leike, a lead on the alignment team at OpenAI, predict that AI with intelligence exceeding that of humans could arrive within the decade. This AI — assuming it does, indeed, arrive eventually — won’t necessarily be benevolent, necessitating research into ways to control and restrict it, Sutskever and Leike say.
“Currently, we don’t have a solution for steering or controlling a potentially superintelligent AI, and preventing it from going rogue,” they write. “Our current techniques for aligning AI, such as reinforcement learning from human feedback, rely on humans’ ability to supervise AI. But humans won’t be able to reliably supervise AI systems much smarter than us.”
To move the needle forward in the area of “superintelligence alignment,” OpenAI is creating a new Superalignment team, led by both Sutskever and Leike, which will have access to 20% of the compute the company has secured to date.
Introducing Superalignment
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment
We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, and dedicating 20% of the compute we’ve secured to date to this effort. We’re looking for excellent ML researchers and engineers to join us.
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Lauren Weber / Wall Street Journal:
NYC’s law on AI use in hiring takes effect, requiring software audits, disclosure of impact on a race or gender, and fines of up to $1.5K per violation per day — A closely watched effort to root out potential bias in hiring and promotion software goes into effect Wednesday
New York City Starts to Regulate AI Used in Hiring Tools
A closely watched effort to root out potential bias in hiring and promotion software goes into effect Wednesday
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-starts-to-regulate-ai-used-in-hiring-tools-79a2260f?mod=djemalertNEWS
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Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
Mastercard says nine UK banks, including Lloyds and NatWest, signed up to use its AI-based Consumer Fraud Risk system, trained on years of transaction data — Mastercard Inc. is selling a new artificial intelligence-powered tool that helps banks more effectively spot if their customers are trying to send money to fraudsters.
Nine British Banks Sign Up to New AI Tool for Tackling Scams
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-05/mastercard-s-ai-tool-helps-nine-british-banks-tackle-scams#xj4y7vzkg
TSB, Lloyds, Halifax, Natwest and Bank of Scotland use tool
TSB estimates system could save UK banks £100 million per year
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Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
The US military is running an eight-week exercise of five LLMs trained on classified info to test AI-enabled data for decision-making, sensors, and firepower — Matthew Strohmeyer is sounding a little giddy. The US Air Force colonel has been running data-based exercises inside the US Defense Department for years.
The US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a Spin
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-07-05/the-us-military-is-taking-generative-ai-out-for-a-spin
Matthew Strohmeyer is sounding a little giddy. The US Air Force colonel has been running data-based exercises inside the US Defense Department for years. But for the first time, he tried a large-language model to perform a military task.
“It was highly successful. It was very fast,” he tells me a couple of hours after giving the first prompts to the model. “We are learning that this is possible for us to do.”
Large-language models, LLMs for short, are trained on huge swaths of internet data to help artificial intelligence predict and generate human-like responses to user prompts. They are what power generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.
Five of these are being put through the paces as part of a broader series of Defense Department experiments that are focused on developing data integration and digital platforms across the military. The exercises are run by the Pentagon’s digital and AI office and military top brass, with participation from US allies. The Pentagon won’t say which LLMs are in testing, though Scale AI, a San Francisco-based startup, says its new Donovan product is among the LLM platforms being tested.
The use of LLMs would represent a major shift for the military, where so little is digitized or connected. Currently, making a request for information to a specific part of the military can take several staffers hours or even days to complete, as they jump on phones or rush to make slide decks, Strohmeyer says.
In one test, one of the AI tools completed a request in 10 minutes.
“That doesn’t mean it’s ready for primetime right now. But we just did it live. We did it with secret-level data,” he says of the experiment, adding it could be deployed by the military in the very near term.
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT iOS app downloads and Bing app downloads in the US were down 38% MoM in June 2023; Bank of America: visits to ChatGPT were down ~11% MoM
ChatGPT app downloads are slowing down, BofA finds
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/05/chatgpt-app-downloads-are-slowing-down-bofa-finds-.html
AI may be the hottest thing in technology, but OpenAI’s ChatGPT is not on pace to challenge Google’s grip as the search engine leader, according to analysis from Bank of America Securities.
Analysts found that app downloads for ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing have slowed in recent weeks, citing Sensor Tower data.
ChatGPT downloads on iPhones in the U.S. were down 38% month over month in June, according to the note.
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Google plans to scrape everything you post online to train its AI https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/07/google-plans-to-scrape-everything-you-post-online-to-train-its-ai
Additions to Google’s Privacy Policy are making some observers worry that all of your content is about to be fed into Google’s AI tools. Alterations to the T&Cs now explicitly state that your “publicly available information” will be used to train in-house Google AI models alongside other products.
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Frederick Munawa / CoinDesk:
Lightning Labs announces tools that let developers create AI agents that leverage GPT function calls to hold, send, and receive bitcoin via Lightning Network
Lightning Labs Unveils Bitcoin Tools for AI
“We are in the realm of enabling use cases that weren’t previously possible,” Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark told CoinDesk.
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/07/06/lightning-labs-unveils-bitcoin-tools-for-ai/