Hollywood studio strikes a landmark deal to start using Runway AI — this is big

Lionsgate, a major Hollywood production company, has entered into a first-of-its-kind partnership with AI creative technology company Runway, marking a significant moment for the entertainment industry.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-image-video/hollywood-studio-strikes-a-landmark-deal-to-start-using-runway-ai-this-is-big

The LLM Prompt Is Dead. Long Live the Prompt! | Psychology Today

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202409/the-llm-prompt-is-dead-long-live-the-prompt#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17266466066703&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2Fus%2Fblog%2Fthe-digital-self%2F202409%2Fthe-llm-prompt-is-dead-long-live-the-prompt

OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

OpenAI claims that its latest AI model, code-named "Strawberry" and released as o1-preview, is supposed to be capable of "reasoning." But understanding how its thought process works, apparently, is something that the ChatGPT maker is serious about keeping off-limits.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-ban-strawberry-reasoning

Google Reveals Free AI Upgrade For Millions Of Android Users

Google has begun rolling out Gemini Live free of charge to all English-language Android users via the Gemini app.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulmonckton/2024/09/15/google-gemini-live-now-you-can-use-it-free-of-charge-but-not-on-iphone/

Study of ChatGPT reveals cultural bias skewed towards English-speaking and

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techxplore.com/news/2024-09-chatgpt-reveals-cultural-bias-skewed.html

ChatGPT Speak-First Incident Stirs Worries That Generative AI Is Getting Too Big For Its Britches

Spooky times are here. It isn’t even Halloween yet and already something has happened via generative AI that has gotten people a bit alarmed. The widely popular ChatGPT began starting conversations with users, including asking questions on topics that were personalized to the person being hailed.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2024/09/17/chatgpt-speak-first-incident-stirs-worries-that-generative-ai-is-getting-too-big-for-its-britches/

Altman quits OpenAI’s safety group

OpenAI CEO—Sam Altman—has quit the internal Safety and Security Committee (SSC), which was originally formed in May to oversee key safety decisions related to the development and release of OpenAI’s projects.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.aitoolreport.com/articles/altman-quits-openais-safety-group

Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007

Meta has acknowledged that all text and photos that adult Facebook and Instagram users have publicly published since 2007 have been fed into its artificial intelligence models.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242789/meta-training-ai-models-facebook-instagram-photo-post-data

Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body

It was early January 2016, and I had just joined Google X, Alphabet’s secret innovation lab. My job: help figure out what to do with the employees and technology left over from nine robot companies that Google had acquired. People were confused.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-mission-to-give-ai-robot-body/

Artificial Agency: Characters, Friends, and Social Trends

In March 2024, I proposed a session for a small (I thought) digital conference on libraries and artificial intelligence. A week later, I was approached by the organizer of the Library 2.0 “Artificial Intelligence and Libraries Mini-Conference” himself, Steve Hargadon.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://reedhepler.substack.com/p/artificial-agency-characters-friends

Ed Tech Startup Behind L.A. Schools’ Failed $6M AI Chatbot Files for Bankruptcy

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.the74million.org/article/allhere-ai-los-angeles-schools-tool-bankruptcy-filing/

Google’s AI Will Help Decide Whether Unemployed Workers Get Benefits

Within the next several months, Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://gizmodo.com/googles-ai-will-help-decide-whether-unemployed-workers-get-benefits-2000496215

Google AI Turns Your Notes Into a 'Lively' Podcast With 2 Fake Hosts

Google is using AI to turn documents, notes, and other sources into a "lively" audio discussion featuring two AI hosts. The feature, dubbed Audio Overviews, launches in NotebookLM today. You can try it by uploading work into a new or existing Notebook.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-ai-turns-your-notes-into-a-lively-podcast-with-2-fake-hosts

Google’s AI note-taking app NotebookLM can now explain complex topics to you out loud

Google announced on Wednesday that its AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding a new “audio conversations” feature.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/11/googles-ai-note-taking-app-notebooklm-can-now-explain-complex-topics-to-you-out-loud/

ChatGPT Project Strawberry is incredibly smart and it could be available within the next two weeks

Project Strawberry, OpenAI’s codename for its new ChatGPT reasoning-focused artificial intelligence was set for a fall release, but now reports suggest it could arrive before the iPhone 16 on September 20. According to The Information, the new ChatGPT service could launch in the next two weeks.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-project-strawberry-is-incredibly-smart-and-it-could-be-available-within-the-next-two-weeks

GPT Is Dead. Long Live GPT

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, we're witnessing a fascinating transformation in the world of GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) models. GPT is a type of artificial intelligence model designed to understand and generate human-like text.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/09/11/gpt-is-dead-long-live-gpt/

The latest version of ChatGPT has a feature you’ll fall in love with. And that’s a worry

If you’re a paid subscriber to ChatGPT, you may have noticed the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model has recently started to sound more human when you are having audio interactions with it.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://theconversation.com/the-latest-version-of-chatgpt-has-a-feature-youll-fall-in-love-with-and-thats-a-worry-238073

4 Human-AI Interaction Patterns for Experienced ChatGPT Users

It has been a year and a half since the advent of ChatGPT, but only few people use such AI chatbots by 30%+ of their power.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://ai.gopubby.com/4-human-ai-interaction-patterns-for-experienced-chatgpt-users-9e49d4234013

Novel Chinese computing architecture 'inspired by human brain' can lead to AGI, scientists say

Scientists in China have created a new computing architecture that can train advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models while consuming fewer computing resources — and they hope that it will one day lead to artificial general intelligence (AGI).

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/novel-chinese-computing-architecture-inspired-by-human-brain-can-lead-to-agi-scientists-say

There’s a fix for AI-generated essays. Why aren’t we using it?

ChatGPT didn’t write this and I can prove it. It’s the start of the school year, and thus the start of a fresh round of discourse on generative AI’s new role in schools.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/370419/chatgpt-schools-ai-cheating-plagiarism-detection

Elon Musk is winning the AI race

If you believe what you read about Elon Musk — and sometimes on Musk’s own X account — you’d think the sometimes world’s richest man had lost his marbles and was in serious trouble.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.semafor.com/article/09/06/2024/elon-musk-is-winning-the-ai-race

Pure EVIL: CDC Pushes for Babies to Get 3 Unlicensed Covid mRNA Shots by 9 Months

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued new guidance pushing for babies to receive three unlicensed Covid mRNA shots before they are nine months old. However, COVID-19 poses virtually no risk to children and infants, vaccinated or otherwise.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/pure-evil-cdc-pushes-for-babies-to

Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots

An alleged scammer has been arrested under suspicion that he used AI to create a wild number of fake bands — and fake music to go with them — and faking untold streams with more bots to earn millions in ill-gotten revenue.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/man-arrested-fake-bands-streams-ai

Government Test Finds That AI Wildly Underperforms Compared to Human Employees

Generative AI is absolutely terrible at summarizing information compared to humans, according to the findings of a trial for the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) spotted by Australian outlet Crikey.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/the-byte/government-ai-worse-summarizing

Elon Musk Claims He Just Activated the World's Most Powerful AI Supercomputer

Behold Colossus: Elon Musk's new supercomputer, allegedly powered by a staggering 100,000 Nvidia AI chips, which would be more than any single AI system on the planet.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-most-powerful-ai-supercomputer

Ilya Sutskever on how AI will change and his new startup Safe Superintelligence

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, has launched a new company called Safe Superintelligence (SSI), aiming to develop safe artificial intelligence systems that far surpass human capabilities.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ilya-sutskever-ai-change-startup-102324879.html

Businesses using AI without telling customers or employees, survey reveals, as government moves on 'mandatory' AI rules

A third of businesses using artificial intelligence are not informing their employees or customers that they are doing so, a survey of business leaders using AI has revealed.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-05/ai-mandatory-guardrails-laws-business-customer-disclosure/104308250

As AI influencers storm social media, some fear a 'digital Pandora's box' has been opened

As people spend more time online, bonds forged with influencers generated by artificial intelligence are rising. But experts warn the phenomenon could also be fuelling harmful behaviours in the darker corners of the internet.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-16/ai-influencers-instagram-porn-social-media-relationships/104071876

The Employees Secretly Leveraging AI At Work

Imagine walking into your office and noticing your colleague Sarah effortlessly breezing through her tasks with uncanny efficiency. Her secret? It might just be AI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2024/09/05/the-employees-secretly-leveraging-ai-at-work/

The underground world of black-market AI chatbots is thriving

ChatGPT’s 200 million weekly active users have helped propel OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot, to a $100 billion valuation. But outside the mainstream there’s still plenty of money to be made—especially if you’re catering to the underworld.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.fastcompany.com/91184474/black-market-ai-chatbots-thriving

Paradigm launches to reinvent the spreadsheet with generative AI, filling in 500 cells per minute

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/paradigm-launches-to-reinvent-the-spreadsheet-with-generative-ai-filling-in-500-cells-per-minute/

Google's Gems are a gentle introduction to AI prompt engineering

Prompt engineering has emerged as one of the important new tech skills in the age of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI). More an art than a science, engineering a good prompt involves crafting the right requests to make a chatbot, such as ChatGPT or Google's Gemini, do what you want. 

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-gems-are-a-gentle-introduction-to-ai-prompt-engineering/

Anthropic Claude Artifacts to Kill App Store Soon

ORIGINAL LINK: https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-origins-evolution/anthropic-claude-artifacts-to-kill-app-store-soon/

Inside the Pod: Can AI Solve the Adult Friendship Problem?

Thank you to everyone who is watching or listening to my podcast, AI & I. If you want to see a collection of all of the prompts and responses in one place, Every contributor Rhea Purohit is breaking them down for you to replicate. Let us know what else you’d like to see in these guides.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://every.to/chain-of-thought/inside-the-pod-can-chatbots-fill-the-void-of-adult-loneliness

Another Disastrous Year of ChatGPT School Is Beginning

Instructors across the country still seem to have no clue how to handle the technology. This is Atlantic Intelligence, a newsletter in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Sign up here.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/08/another-disastrous-year-of-chatgpt-school-is-beginning/679672/

Using Generative AI To Get Insights From Disorderly Data

This article shares some best practices on how we have used generative AI to analyze our data at my firm to more effectively run operations. It took a while but I was able to get approval from Marketing, Legal, Security, and PR teams at Salesforce to publish this article.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://towardsdatascience.com/using-generative-ai-to-get-insights-from-disorderly-data-af056e5910eb

Hollywood will need permission to make AI deepfakes of long-gone stars

California is another step closer to defining how and when moviemakers and others can use AI versions of celebrities in their projects.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/hollywood-will-need-permission-to-make-ai-deepfakes-of-long-gone-stars

Most AI avatars look female, young and attractive. Are they a passing trend or here to stay?

What do German tabloid reporter Klara, Korean newsreader Zaein and Mexican entertainment news presenter NAT have in common? ‘NAT’ stands for Neural AI Technology; Klara Indernach’s initials spell out ‘KI’ for Künstliche Intelligenz, AI in German; and Zaein’s body is played by a team of

ORIGINAL LINK: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/most-ai-avatars-look-female-young-and-attractive-are-they-passing-trend-or-here-stay

There are many reasons why companies struggle to exploit Gen AI, says Deloitte survey

Most companies are struggling to move their generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) projects from initial stages into production, according to a report by consulting giant Deloitte.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.zdnet.com/article/there-are-many-reasons-why-companies-struggle-to-exploit-gen-ai-says-deloitte-survey/

A third of all Gen AI projects will be abandoned, says Gartner

Companies are "struggling" to find value in the generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) projects they have undertaken and one-third of initiatives will end up getting abandoned, according to a recent report by analyst Gartner.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-third-of-all-gen-ai-projects-will-be-abandoned-says-gartner/

Government Test Finds That AI Wildly Underperforms Compared to Human Employees

Generative AI is absolutely terrible at summarizing information compared to humans, according to the findings of a trial for the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) spotted by Australian outlet Crikey.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/the-byte/government-ai-worse-summarizing

Google quietly launches Gemini AI integration in Chrome’s address bar

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google rolled out a major update to its Chrome browser on Tuesday, integrating its advanced Gemini AI chatbot directly into the address bar.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-quietly-launches-gemini-ai-integration-in-chromes-address-bar/

I put 7 leading AI image generators to the test with the same prompt — here’s the winner

Image generation is one of the most mature forms of artificial intelligence creation able to turn a simple idea into a graphic photograph or image of any kind Well, the underlying technology is fairly mature.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-image-video/i-put-7-leading-ai-image-models-to-the-test-with-the-same-prompt-heres-the-winner

Grokking, a New Form of Reasoning

Here’s a bold statement for you: This article will make you more ‘AI smarter’ and, in the meantime, will shed light on the crude reality of frontier AI models today: they are pretty dumb.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://medium.com/@ignacio.de.gregorio.noblejas/grokking-a-new-form-of-reasoning-6785ea89d2ec

I used ChatGPT Advanced Voice to go on a time-travel adventure — and you have to hear it

OpenAI’s GPT-4o Advanced Voice is one of the most powerful and potentially important artificial intelligence tools of the year. It lets you have a human-like natural conversation with an AI voice and even interrupt it when it's speaking too much.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt/i-used-chatgpt-advanced-voice-to-go-on-a-time-travel-adventure-and-you-have-to-hear-it

I won an AI image award with a real photo to show we’re not adapting to the technology fast enough. Then it was my turn to be surprised

As a writer and photographer, the implications of AI-generated content are at least twofold for me. I’m not all that concerned about the impact this disruptive technology might have on my own work though. I have created my personal creative language that the machine simply does not speak.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/won-ai-image-award-real-115000314.html

This Week in AI with Reed Hepler and Steve Hargadon (August 30, 2024)

"It’s true - @stevehargadon is a national treasure." @markjotter "Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2024/08/this-week-in-ai-with-reed-hepler-and_30.html

OpenAI’s New Model, Strawberry, Explained

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. The AI researcher Andrej Karpathy likens what ChatGPT sees to hieroglyphs, rather than letters. So asking it to count the number of “r”’s in strawberry is a little like asking it to count the number of “r”’s in 🍓.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://every.to/chain-of-thought/openai-s-new-model-strawberry-explained

OpenAI supports California AI bill requiring 'watermarking' of synthetic co

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-supports-california-ai-bill-requiring-watermarking-synthetic-content-2024-08-26/

Post-apocalyptic education

Last summer, I wrote about the Homework Apocalypse, the coming reality where AI could complete most traditional homework assignments, rendering them ineffective as learning tools and assessment measures. My prophecy has come true, and AI can now ace most tests.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/post-apocalyptic-education