a robot grifter at a table in the city streets doing three card monty –ar 5:3 –style raw
US explores AI to train immigration officers on talking to refugees | Reuters
Warren Buffett says AI scamming will be the next big ‘growth industry’
TikTok to start labeling AI-generated content as technology becomes more universal | AP News
UK fintech raises £800M for AI that determines how much money you can borrow
Introducing Google Threat Intelligence: Actionable threat intelligence at Google scale | Google Cloud Blog
OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn | WIRED
“Did you get Fooled? Katy Perry posted this image of her at the MET Gala. The only thing she didn’t tell people was that it’s not her. It’s an AI generated image of her wearing a crazy dress. Millions of people were fooled, including her own mother, who texted Katy,
Met Gala Deepfakes Are Flooding Social Media | WIRED
Katy Perry Shares AI Image of Herself at the Met Gala
“Visited this factory in China. Before they needed 10 people, now only one is in charge🤦♂️
“ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings. When you give ChatGPT resumes, it’s biased in how it evaluates minorities. When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes “
“I think if you care about the debates over ethics AI, it is worth reading the OpenAI Model Spec. It is the first comprehensive attempt to actually lay out the practical principles under which AI operates, by a lab actually building them. Lots there.
“New laws of robotics just dropped. From OpenAI’s Model Spec 1) follow the chain of command: Platform > Developer > User > Tool 2) Comply with applicable laws 3) Don’t provide info hazards 4) Protect people’s privacy 5) Don’t respond with NSFW contents
South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, scammed for $50,000 – Interesting Engineering
“Some really eye opening stuff on how IBM, Meta, Nvidia and HuggingFace are lobbying against AI regulation. They’re spending millions and have dozens of full-time lobbyists desperately trying to avoid government oversight of their work.
Do teachers spot AI? Evaluating the detectability of AI-generated texts among student essays – ScienceDirect
Biden announces $3.3 billion AI investment by Microsoft at scaled-back Foxconn site Trump once touted
“NEW: Palantir Mixed Reality in Action “Operations Center Anywhere” ↳ Harness the full power of the platform from operations centers to the edge, transforming any bunker or outpost into an instant command center with mixed reality capabilities #Palantir $PLTR
AI engineers face burnout in ‘rat race’ to stay competitive hits tech
“Approx half of the top 20 apps in Education category are now AI cameras that do your homework for you
Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content
“Is she real or 100% AI-generated?
“The negative risks from AI are real, but by focusing only on that, this article buries a really interesting positive thing: one of his students trained an AI replica of an important psychologist so it could help people at scale, and it is pretty good!
“Wait, the regulatory threshold being used by multiple governments for when an AI model becomes potentially dangerous is based on a passing speculative footnote whose source is a table from Our World in Data? That seems like something deserving a bit more consideration first.
“We went from music generation AI as not-serious novelty to something else entirely in just a few months. Spoke to a few prominent musicians this week, including a multi-Grammy winner, they are using AI for inspiration (though I met them at AI events, so it is a biased sample)” / X
‘I’m Not Your Mom’: Tech Exec’s Videos Spark Clash Over China’s Work Culture – WSJ
Why Is Everyone Suddenly Furious About AI Regulation?—Asterisk
How novelty effects and Dopamine Culture rule the tech industry
Meet the Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT—and Helped Set the Course for AI | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/arati-prabhakar-ostp-biden-science-tech-adviser
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AI News #32: Week Ending 05/10/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 70 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
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
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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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