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/