iphone photo. a humanoid robot psychiatrist sitting on a couch with a pen a paper, wearing a tweet suit. warm office feeling. empathy. –ar 5:3 –style raw

“Throwframe unveiled the ‘Terminator,’ a $9,420 robotic flame-throwing dog capable of shooting 30-foot jets of fire. The manufacturer listed possible uses as wildlife control, snow and ice removal and general entertainment. And yes, this demo is real…  https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1782955153580048819

Baltimore high school athletic director used AI to create fake racist audio of principal: Police – ABC News – https://abcnews.go.com/US/baltimore-high-school-athletic-director-ai-create-fake/story?id=109638535

“This OpenAI employee who claimed that GPT-5 is sentient, alive and an alien is gone from X! Did the AI get annoyed and delete him? Did he join Ilya in the basement?! 😱😱 The mystery deepens….  https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1783847600824995850 

“Does AI mean the end of banks? Jamie Dimon tells @emilychangtv about his debate with @BillGates. Watch The Circuit today:  https://twitter.com/business/status/1780605404172480890 

“In a disturbing exploitation of AI, former Pikesville High School athletic director Dazhon Darien was arrested for allegedly impersonating the school’s principal using AI voice synthesis to disseminate false racist and antisemitic statements. The synthetic audio, widely shared on…  https://twitter.com/shellypalmer/status/1783939175676280884

“The first book printed without errors came centuries after the printing press. Early on, you never knew what you’d get when buying some book  https://twitter.com/MishaTeplitskiy/status/1782658539846000764

Taser Company Axon Is Selling AI That Turns Body Cam Audio Into Police Reports – https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/04/23/axon-ai-police-reports-/?sh=57d30a66476b 

“Ads for Explicit ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are Swarming Facebook and Instagram Some human sex workers say the platform unfairly polices their own posts more harshly.  https://twitter.com/fdaudens/status/1783515082078507068 

Ads for Explicit ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are Swarming Facebook and Instagram | WIRED – https://www.wired.com/story/ads-for-explicit-ai-girlfriends-swarming-facebook-and-instagram/ 

“There are many good uses for AIs in social science research, but also many clear cases when they are inappropriate as well. This paper shows how LLMs struggle with portraying complex individual identities (like race or gender), suggesting important limitations for research use.  https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1782274911215469048

Deepfakes of Bollywood stars spark worries of AI meddling in India election | Reuters – https://www.reuters.com/world/india/deepfakes-bollywood-stars-spark-worries-ai-meddling-india-election-2024-04-22/

“GPT-4 helped reappraise a difficult emotional situation better than 85% of humans, beating human advice-givers on the effectiveness, novelty, and empathy of their reappraisal. Paying humans to do better did not change the results.  https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1782137189390017010 

“Human raters evaluated reappraisals on four dimensions: effectiveness, empathy, novelty, and specificity. GPT-4 outperformed humans on all dimensions except for specificity (“This rethinking is specific to the following scenario”). GPT ranked in the 85th percentile in quality.⬇️  https://twitter.com/Amit_Goldenb/status/1782076349596959151 

How a 23-Year-Old From LA Fooled the Internet With an AI Kendrick Lamar Diss Track | Complex – https://www.complex.com/music/a/j-rose/how-a-23-year-old-from-la-fooled-the-internet-with-an-ai

Hollywood Talent Agency CAA Tests AI Clones — The Information – https://www.theinformation.com/articles/hollywood-talent-agency-caa-tests-ai-clones 

Eyeball-Scanning Worldcoin Project Looks to OpenAI Partnership – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-25/eyeball-scanning-worldcoin-project-looks-to-openai-partnership

Musk Escalates OpenAI Fight With Subpoena of Ex-Board Member Helen Toner – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-25/musk-escalates-openai-fight-with-subpoena-of-ex-board-member

Artificial intelligence can predict political beliefs from expressionless faces – https://www.psypost.org/artificial-intelligence-can-predict-political-beliefs-from-expressionless-faces/

Gen Z workers pick genAI over managers for career advice – Computerworld – https://www.computerworld.com/article/2094650/gen-z-workers-pick-genai-over-managers-for-career-advice.html

Anduril – Anduril Selected for U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program – https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-air-force-collaborative-combat-aircraft-CCA/ 

GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading advisories • The Register – https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/gpt4_can_exploit_real_vulnerabilities/

Simple probes can catch sleeper agents \ Anthropic – https://www.anthropic.com/research/probes-catch-sleeper-agents

“cool new alignment research from OpenAI. they generate synthetic data that encourages “instruction hierarchy” where system prompts are treated as more important by the model. this then prevents a number of common and long tail jailbreaking attacks.  https://twitter.com/andrew_n_carr/status/1782878279504191896

“New Anthropic research: we find that probing, a simple interpretability technique, can detect when backdoored “sleeper agent” models are about to behave dangerously, after they pretend to be safe in training. Check out our first alignment blog post here:  https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1782908989296046210

“Open AI presents The Instruction Hierarchy Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions Today’s LLMs are susceptible to prompt injections, jailbreaks, and other attacks that allow adversaries to overwrite a model’s original instructions with their own malicious prompts.  https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1782607669376761989

Ottawa pledges $50M to help workers compete with AI | CTV News – https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ottawa-puts-up-50m-in-federal-budget-to-hedge-against-job-stealing-ai-1.6855770

Ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP law • The Register – https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/22/ghaderi_v_amazon/

Drake’s ‘Push Ups’ sparks AI concern in Kendrick Lamar feud – Los Angeles Times – https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-04-16/drake-kendrick-lamar-diss-track-push-ups-ai-rick-ross-j-cole

GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories : r/OpenAI – https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1c9mw4d/gpt4_can_exploit_real_vulnerabilities_by_reading/

Are AIs actually capable of producing uniquely unsafe information? : r/LocalLLaMA – https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1c9n6ci/are_ais_actually_capable_of_producing_uniquely/

Brave Search is adopting AI to answer your queries | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/brave-search-is-adopting-ai-to-answer-your-queries/

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

States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes to Fight Sexually Explicit Images of Minors – The New York Times – https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/technology/deepfake-ai-nudes-high-school-laws.html

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AI News #30: Week Ending 04/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 39 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
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• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
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• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Mobile
• Meta
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• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
• Robots and Embodiment
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• Video
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• Tech and Development

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• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/
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