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:
Be My Eyes AI offers GPT-4-powered support for blind Microsoft customers
/ The tech giant’s using Be My Eyes’ visual assistant tool to help blind users quickly resolve issues without a human agent.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23962709/microsoft-blind-users-open-ai-chatgpt-4-be-my-eyes
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft plans to release Copilot for Windows 10 Home and Pro to Release Preview testers, for devices with a minimum of 4GB of RAM and a 720p screen resolution — Microsoft is bringing its AI-powered Copilot to Windows 10. … “It’s a key opportunity for us to bring Copilot value to more customers …
Microsoft is bringing its AI Copilot to Windows 10 soon
/ Microsoft isn’t changing the Windows 10 end-of-support date, but it’s looking at releasing more AI features.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23963576/microsoft-copilot-windows-10-ai-features-release-preview
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Jon Victor / The Information:
Sources: Google told some cloud customers not to expect access to its Gemini AI model until Q1 2024, after previously saying they would get access by Nov. 2023 — Google’s company-defining effort to catch up to ChatGPT creator OpenAI is turning out to be harder than expected.
Google Delays Release of Gemini AI That Aims to Compete With OpenAI
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-delays-cloud-release-of-gemini-ai-that-aims-to-compete-with-openai
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404 Media:
Forever Companions, which let paying users speak to an AI girlfriend modeled after influencer Caryn Marjorie, stopped working after CEO John Meyer was arrested — “CarynAI being down has really caused an uproar within my community,” Caryn Marjorie said.
Users Can’t Speak to Viral AI Girlfriend CarynAI Because CEO Is in Jail for Arson
https://www.404media.co/users-cant-speak-to-viral-ai-girlfriend-carynai-because-ceo-is-in-jail/
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Will Knight / Wired:
YouTube previews Dream Track and Music AI tools, which use DeepMind’s new model Lyria to generate music in the style of famous artists, from humming, and more
YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators
https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-shorts-challenges-tiktok-with-music-making-ai-for-creators/
YouTube creators will get to test a new AI tool that generates and remixes music in the style of several famous musicians, including Sia, Demi Lovato, and T-Pain.
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Codegen, which plans to use AI to automate “codebase-wide” developer tasks like large migrations and refactoring, raised a $16M seed led by Thrive Capital
Codegen raises new cash to automate software engineering tasks
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/16/codegen-raises-new-capital-llm-automation-for-software-dev/
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Daria Mosolova / Financial Times:
Jonathan Camrose, the UK’s first minister for AI and IP, says the country does not plan to regulate the AI industry “in the short term”, so the sector can grow
UK will refrain from regulating AI ‘in the short term’
Minister tells FT conference government wants to maintain a ‘pro-innovation’ approach to the technology
https://www.ft.com/content/ecef269b-be57-4a52-8743-70da5b8d9a65
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2023/11/17/tekoalyosaaminen-vauhdittaa-suomalaisia-ohjelmistoyrityksia/
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Breaking: OpenAI has announced Sam Altman is departing the company.
Chief technology officer Mira Murati has been appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI with a search process underway to identify a permanent successor.
Altman’s departure follows a “deliberative review process by the board”, which concluded that OpenAI’s founder was not consistently candid in his communications with the board. Which, in turn, hindered its ability to exercise its responsibilities.
In a statement released by OpenAI, the reason for Altman’s departure is the board no longer has “confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
#TechCrunch #technews #SamAltman #OpenAI
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Sam Altman, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, is out as CEO — and has stepped down from the company’s board of directors.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/sam-altman-is-out-as-openais-ceo/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook&fbclid=IwAR0ZDfXWUQMOFyWgDOhSHxSTfsYqrQ5N9svbeyfQnAnO_BsL-UG8WA22Hwo
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https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition?fbclid=IwAR0zyhh8img8lyk6yq1mtl0Zb-YZVSuSysKKSVHGdNEhwCYaQpfE2TfDa44
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Altman was the public face of OpenAI since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, and his sudden removal has been met with shock and speculation.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been fired: Company ‘no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading’
By Andy Chalk published about 14 hours ago
https://www.pcgamer.com/openai-ceo-sam-altman-has-been-fired-company-no-longer-has-confidence-in-his-ability-to-continue-leading/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR1cI82dmR24x5ZMKUdbhuR8UBhyAFqogD4RcsDVYb7Q0kvAWUWAy7allPI
Altman, the public face of OpenAI, has also been removed from the company’s board of directors.
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OpenAI is ditching its charismatic CEO: https://trib.al/gJ8hucA
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OpenAI Pauses New Subscriptions And Upgrades To ChatGPT Plus
OpenAI has temporarily paused upgrades to ChatGPT Plus due to overwhelming demand, leading to some frustration for those with a free account.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/openai-pauses-new-chatgpt-plus-subscriptions-due-to-surge-in-demand/501360/
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“Make It Real” AI prototype wows devs by turning drawings into working software
Designer: “I think I need to go lie down.”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/ai-powered-drawing-app-stuns-developers-by-turning-sketches-into-functional-games/
On Wednesday, a collaborative whiteboard app maker called “tldraw” made waves online by releasing a prototype of a feature called “Make it Real” that lets users draw an image of software and bring it to life using AI. The feature uses OpenAI’s GPT-4V API to visually interpret a vector drawing into functioning Tailwind CSS and JavaScript web code that can replicate user interfaces or even create simple
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ChatGPT sai mullistavan uuden ominaisuuden
Suvi Korhonen13.11.202313:06|päivitetty13.11.202313:06TEKOÄLYDIGITALOUS
Itse opettamiaan kielimalleja voi tulevaisuudessa myydä muidenkin käyttöön.
https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/chatgpt-sai-mullistavan-uuden-ominaisuuden/e22c92d5-0898-463d-a253-037b31959c2e
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/sam-altman-openai-secretly-ai-quaint
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2023/11/13/tekoalysta-olisi-hyotya-kaikille-myos-yrityksille/
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The World Is Running Out of Data to Feed AI, Experts Warn
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-is-running-out-of-data-to-feed-ai-experts-warn
As artificial intelligence (AI) reaches the peak of its popularity, researchers have warned the industry might be running out of training data – the fuel that runs powerful AI systems.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/chatgpt-down-after-major-outage-impacting-openai-systems/
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Google, Intel, Nvidia Battle in Generative AI Training MLPerf training tests put Nvidia ahead, Intel close, and Google well behind
https://spectrum.ieee.org/generative-ai-training
Tomi Engdahl says:
Nyt tehtiin mobiilipeli pelkästään ChatGPT:llä – kuin Angry Birds
https://muropaketti.com/tietotekniikka/tietotekniikkauutiset/nyt-tehtiin-mobiilipeli-pelkastaan-chatgptlla-kuin-angry-birds/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2023/11/10/tekoaly-vie-keikkatoita
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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s what the ‘perfect girlfriend’ looks like in every US state: AI reimagines the ideal woman based on a survey of 2,000 men – so what does it say about where YOU live?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12759289/perfect-girlfriend-looks-like-state-AI.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR1clLdDW0V-PaH0nmpL5-GBJK1SnmOKuPT_LdbtATbiF0tO5lsJ5jXTkbI
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://huggingface.co/blog/personal-copilot
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Suomesta julkaistiin feikkikuva – Leviää nyt ympäri maailmaa, kun ihmiset luulevat sitä aidoksi
1,7 miljoonan seuraajan Facebook-sivulle jaettu valokuva Suomesta ei ole oikeasti Suomesta, mutta ei myöskään valokuva.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/04712462-9048-4b62-9e47-9903d515cd0c
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Ihmiset keskustelevat ChatGPT-ääniversion kanssa jopa tunteja
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2023/10/29/chatgpt-tuntien-keskustelut
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University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade
Altered images could destroy AI model training efforts that scrape art without consent.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/university-of-chicago-researchers-seek-to-poison-ai-art-generators-with-nightshade/
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https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/tekoaly/palkittu-tutkimus-tiedostettava-ettei-koneoppimisen-malleihin-voi-luottaa-100-varmuudella
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/nsa-ai-security-center.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
How to Use ChatGPT’s New Image Features
OpenAI’s new image analysis update for its chatbot is both impressive and frightening. Here’s how to use it, and some advice for your experiments.
https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-plus-image-feature-openai/
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A.I. is making some common side hustles more lucrative—these can pay up to $100 per hour
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/29/how-ai-can-make-common-side-hustles-more-lucrative.html
Artificial intelligence still has a long way to go before completely taking over most human jobs. But it can already make some side hustles easier and more lucrative, primarily by saving people time.
“Automation, I think, is the key to reducing your workload,” Sean Audet, a food photographer who uses generative AI tools like ChatGPT to write emails and business plans, told CNBC Make It earlier this month. “When a client first reaches out to me, I need to be able to quickly deliver a bunch of information about services and costs … in a nice, succinct and personalized way.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Instant evolution: AI designs new robot from scratch in seconds
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-instant-evolution-ai-robot-seconds.html
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Harvard CS50′s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python – Free University Course
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/harvard-cs50s-ai-python-course/
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI tidies up Wikipedia’s references — and boosts reliability
A neural network can identify references that are unlikely to support an article’s claims, and scour the web for better sources.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02894-x
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://morioh.com/a/512d41219fda/create-a-simple-neural-network-in-python-from-scratch
Tomi Engdahl says:
Thanks to AI, the future of programming may involve YELLING IN ALL CAPS
Politeness and emphasis play a surprising role in AI-model communications.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/thanks-to-ai-the-future-of-programming-may-involve-yelling-in-all-caps/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/11/11/this-ai-paper-introduces-the-graphgpt-framework-enhancing-graph-neural-networks-with-large-language-model-techniques-for-superior-zero-shot-learning-performance/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://venturebeat.com/ai/openais-six-member-board-will-decide-when-weve-attained-agi/
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https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/11/12/researchers-from-mit-and-nvidia-developed-two-complementary-techniques-that-could-dramatically-boost-the-speed-and-performance-of-demanding-machine-learning-tasks/
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Puhkeaako tekoälykupla ensi vuonna?
6.11.202320:03
Hypen ja todellisten hyötyjen ero tulee hiljalleen esille tekoälysovellusten kehittäjille ja käyttäjille. Lainsäädäntö laahaa yhä perässä.
https://www.mikrobitti.fi/uutiset/puhkeaako-tekoalykupla-ensi-vuonna/1187139c-86a4-441e-b2a5-1907e7fe48ec
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Running thousands of LLMs on one GPU is now possible with S-LoRA
https://venturebeat.com/ai/running-thousands-of-llms-on-one-gpu-is-now-possible-with-s-lora/
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https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/how-to-use-openai-dalle-3-for-free/
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/ai-language-models-can-exceed-png-and-flac-in-lossless-compression-says-study/
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The Atlantic:
Sources describe how ChatGPT’s success widened ideological rifts at OpenAI, and Ilya Sutskever began behaving like a spiritual leader expecting AGI’s arrival — Sam Altman’s weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT. — To truly understand the events …
Inside the Chaos at OpenAI
Sam Altman’s weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-chaos/676050/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0WVuODpKll0A708pOI0Ple4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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James Ball / Techtris:
How the very unusual governance structure of OpenAI, born out of effective altruism, led to the firing of Sam Altman, as the philosophy clashed with reality — What has happened looks incomprehensible unless you know the strange history of OpenAI, its philosophy, and how that is now clashing with reality.
OpenAI set out to show a different kind of tech giant was possible. It might prove the opposite.
https://www.techtris.co.uk/p/openai-set-out-to-show-a-different
What has happened looks incomprehensible unless you know the strange history of OpenAI, its philosophy, and how that is now clashing with reality. Let’s try to do the short version.
OpenAI is the zeitgeist company of the AI movement, and it has gone from apparent triumph to disaster in the course of a week.
A huge product demo “developer day” earlier in the week suggested the company was accelerating the commercialisation and the practical rollout of its tech. But on Friday afternoon, the company’s board announced CEO Sam Altman – perhaps AI’s best-known advocate and chief executive – was departing with immediate effect.
No effort was made to hide this was a sacking, with the official statement including that the board had lost confidence in Altman. Extraordinarily, almost no effort seemed to have been made to include significant stakeholders: shareholders and senior executives were completely out of the loop.
The company now seems to be imploding: senior executives are departing, investors want answers, and the board is reportedly seeking Altman’s return. What has happened looks incomprehensible unless you know the strange history of OpenAI, its philosophy, and how that is now clashing with reality. Let’s try to do the short version (which won’t be that short, but the long version is especially long).
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Steve Mollman / Fortune:
A profile of Ilya Sutskever, who left Google in 2015 to become an OpenAI co-founder and its chief scientist at Elon Musk’s urging, and now focuses on AI safety
Who is Ilya Sutskever, the man at the center of OpenAI’s leadership shakeup—and why is he so worried about AI superintelligence going rogue?
https://fortune.com/2023/11/18/who-is-ilya-sutskever-openai-leadership-shakeup-ai-safety/
As speculation swirls around the leadership shakeup at OpenAI announced Friday, more attention is turning to a man at the center of it all: Ilya Sutskever. The company’s chief scientist, Sutskever also serves on the OpenAI board that ousted CEO Sam Altman yesterday, claiming somewhat cryptically that Altman had not been “consistently candid” with it.
Last month, Sutskever, who generally shies away from the media spotlight, sat down with MIT Technology Review for a long interview. The Israeli-Canadian told the magazine that his new focus was on how to prevent an artificial superintelligence—which can outmatch humans but as far as we know doesn’t yet exist—from going rogue.
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Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
AI artwork is a potential boon for the public domain and may serve as an antidote to the US copyright system, which some see as onerous and overly restrictive
From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us
AI image synthesis is getting more capable at executing ideas, and it’s not slowing down.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/from-toy-to-tool-dall-e-3-is-a-wake-up-call-for-visual-artists-and-the-rest-of-us/
In October, OpenAI launched its newest AI image generator—DALL-E 3—into wide release for ChatGPT subscribers. DALL-E can pull off media generation tasks that would have seemed absurd just two years ago—and although it can inspire delight with its unexpectedly detailed creations, it also brings trepidation for some. Science fiction forecast tech like this long ago, but seeing machines upend the creative order feels different when it’s actually happening before our eyes.
“It’s impossible to dismiss the power of AI when it comes to image generation,” says Aurich Lawson, Ars Technica’s creative director. “With the rapid increase in visual acuity and ability to get a usable result, there’s no question it’s beyond being a gimmick or toy and is a legit tool.”
Using AI to improve itself
We first covered DALL-E 3 upon its announcement from OpenAI in late September, and since then, we’ve used it quite a bit. For those just tuning in, DALL-E 3 is an AI model (a neural network) that uses a technique called latent diffusion to pull images it “recognizes” out of noise, progressively, based on written prompts provided by a user—or in this case, by ChatGPT. It works using the same underlying technique as other prominent image synthesis models like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
You type in a description of what you want to see, and DALL-E 3 creates it.
ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 currently work hand-in-hand, making AI art generation into an interactive and conversational experience. You tell ChatGPT (through the GPT-4 large language model) what you’d like it to generate, and it writes ideal prompts for you and submits them to the DALL-E backend. DALL-E returns the images (usually two at a time), and you see them appear through the ChatGPT interface, whether through the web or via the ChatGPT app.
Many times, ChatGPT will vary the artistic medium of the outputs, so you might see the same subject depicted in a range of styles—such as photo, illustration, render, oil painting, or vector art. You can also change the aspect ratio of the generated image from the square default to “wide” (16:9) or “tall” (9:16).
OpenAI has not revealed the dataset used to train DALL-E 3, but if previous models are any indication, it’s likely that OpenAI used hundreds of millions of images found online and licensed from Shutterstock libraries.
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Bloomberg:
Source: a number of announcements at DevDay infuriated OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, like custom GPTs that OpenAI has said may one day run autonomously — The company couldn’t balance nonprofit goals with an expensive business and billions in commercial ties
The Doomed Mission Behind Sam Altman’s Shock Ouster From OpenAI
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/sam-altman-openai-latest-inside-his-shock-firing-by-the-board#xj4y7vzkg
The company couldn’t balance nonprofit goals with an expensive business and billions in commercial ties
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/from-toy-to-tool-dall-e-3-is-a-wake-up-call-for-visual-artists-and-the-rest-of-us/