a humanoid robot walks through a crowd with a green facial recognition square around its face. –ar 16:9 –style raw

USAF Test Pilot School and DARPA announce breakthrough in aerospace machine learning > Edwards Air Force Base > Article View –
Dogfighting is a highly complex scenario that the X-62A utilized to successfully prove using non-deterministic artificial intelligence safely is possible within aerospace. The AI dogfights paired the X-62A VISTA against manned F-16 aircraft in the skies above Edwards. Initial flight safety was built up first using defensive maneuvers, before switching to offensive high-aspect nose-to-nose engagements where the dogfighting aircraft got as close as 2,000 feet at 1,200 miles per hour.
https://www.edwards.af.mil/News/Article-View/Article/3744695/usaf-test-pilot-school-and-darpa-announce-breakthrough-in-aerospace-machine-lea

Invisibility cloak – This paper studies the art and science of creating adversarial attacks on object detectors. https://www.cs.umd.edu/~tomg/projects/invisible/

Former OpenAI Board Member Calls For Audits of Leading AI Companies – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/former-openai-board-member-calls-for-audits-of-leading-ai-companies 

AI on Snapchat: Improved Transparency, Safety and Policies – https://values.snap.com/en-GB/news/ai-on-snapchat-improved-transparency-safety-policy 

“Dan Schulman (former PayPal CEO) on the impact of AI “gpt5 will be a freak out moment” “80% of the jobs out there will be reduced 80% in scope”  https://twitter.com/woloski/status/1778783006389416050 

AGI will cause humans to confront that they do not understand consciousness : r/singularity – https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1c3yvs1/agi_will_cause_humans_to_confront_that_they_do/ 

“Microsoft Research’s Chris Bishop: when AI models regurgitate information in response to prompts we call them stochastic parrots; when humans do it we give them university degrees  https://twitter.com/tsarnick/status/1779272284920029516?s=46 

“Over 13% of all images on Adobe Stock are AI generated. Most of the generated content comes from Dalle and Midjourney. Media tagged “fantasy” is 43% AI generated. Other tags are even higher This is a large portion of the training data that fuels Adobe’s AI, firefly  https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1780753789382717724 

AI Flew X-62 VISTA During Simulated Dogfight Against Manned F-16 – The Aviationist – https://theaviationist.com/2024/04/18/ai-flew-x-62-vista-during-dogfight/ 

“DARPA and USAF just quietly dropped that an AI-piloted F-16 engaged in a dogfight against a human over Area 51.  https://twitter.com/kane/status/1781098379176726603

Elections 2024: Tracking AI use in global elections – Rest of World – https://restofworld.org/2024/elections-ai-tracker/ 

AI Is Wreaking Havoc on The Fanbases of Taylor Swift, Drake | TIME – https://time.com/6968769/taylor-swift-drake-ai-vocal-deepfakes/

A24’s AI ‘Civil War’ Posters Aren’t Thrilling People – https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/a24-ai-civil-war-posters-1234975526/ 

Google will provide AI to the National Guard for disaster response – The Washington Post – https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/17/google-x-bellwether-national-guard-disasters/ 

Bellwether – X Helping National Guard Case Study – https://x.company/case-study/bellwether-diu/ 

Adobe’s AI Firefly Used AI-Generated Images From Rivals for Training – Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images – Bloomberg – https://archive.md/2onjE

“Over 13% of all images on Adobe Stock are AI generated. Most of the generated content comes from Dalle and Midjourney. Media tagged “fantasy” is 43% AI generated. Other tags are even higher This is a large portion of the training data that fuels Adobe’s AI, firefly  https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1780753789382717724

AI or Human? Music Fans Won’t Care, Says Avenged Sevenfold Frontman – Decrypt – https://decrypt.co/226059/ai-human-music-fans-wont-care-avenged-sevenfold-frontman 

Open source groups fear xz repeat as suspicious messages fly • The Register – https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/16/xz_style_attacks_continue/ 

Adobe’s AI Firefly Used AI-Generated Images From Rivals for Training – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/adobe-s-ai-firefly-used-ai-generated-images-from-rivals-for-training

“Something that has been true for over a decade: there’s no captcha you can put in front of a service to prevent bots from signing up. It’s impossible — captchas only serve to annoy real users. The reason is that in professional spam operations, the account creation process is…” / X – https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1780042591440134616 

“Anduril is now making giant fucking autonomous submarines. We’re so back. Full Article: First Ghost Shark Debuts in Australia – On Schedule & On Budget Anduril, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) and Defence Science and…  https://twitter.com/PatrickJBlum/status/1780785963419283850 

Los Angeles is using an AI pilot program to try to predict homelessness – https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/19/los-angeles-is-using-an-ai-pilot-program-to-try-to-predict-homelessness.html 

Llama 3 is not very censored · Ollama Blog – https://ollama.com/blog/llama-3-is-not-very-censored 

U.K. Criminalizes Creating Sexually Explicit Deepfake Images | TIME – https://time.com/6967243/uk-criminalize-sexual-explicit-deepfake-images-ai/

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AI News #28: Week Ending 04/12/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 48 Links

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