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
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
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/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-mission-to-give-ai-robot-body/
Friday, September 13, 2024
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
ORIGINAL LINK: https://reedhepler.substack.com/p/artificial-agency-characters-friends
Thursday, September 12, 2024
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/
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
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
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/
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
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
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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/
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
ORIGINAL LINK: https://theconversation.com/the-latest-version-of-chatgpt-has-a-feature-youll-fall-in-love-with-and-thats-a-worry-238073
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
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
ORIGINAL LINK: https://ai.gopubby.com/4-human-ai-interaction-patterns-for-experienced-chatgpt-users-9e49d4234013
Sunday, September 8, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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/
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
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/
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/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-gems-are-a-gentle-introduction-to-ai-prompt-engineering/
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