a courtroom in a forest with a trail sign that reads “Ethics” –ar 5:3 –style raw
This week’s category cover theme is a sign in a forest. Each category image prompt is a derivative of the formula “an [category themed object] in a forest with a trail sign that reads “[category name]”. Using a theme each week takes the cover creation time down to about 20 minutes, rather than several hours.
The Gap: Waiting for the AI time lag – Dr Alan D. Thompson – Life Architect
Indian journalists are on the frontline in the fight against election deepfakes | Nieman Journalism Lab – https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/05/indian-journalists-are-the-frontline-against-election-deepfakes/
Apple announces new accessibility features, including Eye Tracking – Apple
FTC Chair Lina Khan: AI models could violate antitrust laws – https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4682461-ftc-chair-ai-models-could-violate-antitrust-laws/
Google’s AI Feature Suggested Using Glue to Keep Cheese on a Pizza – Business Insider
“Google came to play. Paywall Remover in browser, was promoted by tool tip! At least ChatGPT is licensing content eh?
BlackRock sent its team a memo secretly written by ChatGPT—and one major critique emerged | Fortune
FCC’s Carr Opposes Effort to Require Disclosure of AI-Content in Political Ads | TV Tech – https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/fccs-carr-opposes-effort-to-require-disclosure-of-ai-content-in-political-ads
“Yes! My website poisoning attack works on Google’s new LLM-powered AI overviews!
Introducing the Frontier Safety Framework – Google DeepMind
Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy \ Anthropic
“We published our Responsible Scaling Policy last year. As we continue to iterate on our empirically grounded framework, we’re gaining valuable insights. Today we share reflections on our progress:
Responsible Scaling Policy Evaluations Report – Claude 3 Opus
“BREAKING: California’s newly passed AI bill 📌 “Covered models” trained with over 10^26 FLOPS must be incapable of enabling certain critical harms like creation of WMDs, even if fine-tuned. 📌 Developers must implement the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown of covered
“This California Bill Makes Zero Sense And Is Targeted At Banning Open-Source AI The bill stipulates that if you train a “model” with some arbitrary amount of compute, then a whole bunch of rules and restrictions apply. Imagine if I stopped training just short of that compute
“6/ on the national security front, the US has won by leading. restricting open-source AI won’t stop determined adversaries, only slow U.S. innovation and cede that leadership. openness keeps us on the offense. we must shape AI with western values and norms.” / X
AI Is Taking Over Accounting Jobs As People Leave The Profession
“Will the percentage of top graduates in maths and CS at elite university who aspire to work in AI safety rise or fall? I’d bet on fall! I’d short this. With new regulations, there will be few new jobs in AI development, but plenty in the safety apparatus. Profs adapt already.” / X
AI Regulations Are Crony Capitalism in Action
AI ‘godfather’ says universal basic income will be needed
Elon Musk says AI will take all our jobs | CNN Business
“At VivaTech conference today, Elon Musk said that the rise of AI will make all jobs ‘optional’ in the long term. “If you want to do a job as a hobby, you can do a job. But otherwise, AI and robots will provide any goods and services that you want”
“AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton (also known as the ‘Godfather of AI’) said that universal basic income is necessary to address job losses and inequality caused by AI. But even with UBI, how will people without jobs find ‘self-respect’?
“”The people charged with making sure AI doesn’t destroy humanity have left the building” – @alexhern
“The AI girlfriend epidemic is bigger than I thought it was. 8 of the top 50 most used Gen AI apps in the world are mostly AI companionship: Character Janitor CrushOn Yodayo Candy SpicyChat Chub DreamGF With loneliness rising, this will fill the gap, whether we like it or not.” / X
EU AI Act, first major law for artificial intelligence, gets final nod
“Since safer AI is better AI, perhaps one can get funding under this program to build better AI” / X
“Consultant behind deepfaked Biden robocall fined $6m as new charges filed
Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses | TechCrunch
“Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve
Stanford CRFM: The Foundation Model Transparency Index after 6 months
Top US and Chinese officials begin talks on AI in Geneva | AP News
US raises concerns to Chinese officials about AI misuse | Reuters
UK engineering firm Arup falls victim to £20m deepfake scam | Engineering | The Guardian
“Ladies and gentlemen, all the world’s knowledge, combined with the power of AI and one Reddit troll.
Prakhar Gupta: AI is the reason interviews are harder now
Replit cuts staff by 30 amid aggressive AI push in software development | VentureBeat
“I’m so sorry about anyone who bought the rabbit r1. It’s not just that the product is non-functional (as we learned from all the reviews), the real problem is that the whole thing seems to be a lie. None of what they pitched exists or functions the way they said.
Microsoft Windows 11 feature “Recall”: Photographic memory or privacy nightmare?
“One of the biggest AI features launched in the Copilot Plus PCs is called ‘Recall’ It allows users to search and recall anything they’ve seen and interacted with on their computer screens, with natural language.
“Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots
“Do you want a photographic memory? The next best thing is Recall. Check out this new experience only available on Copilot+ PCs. Here is a demo from my colleague Carolina.
Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Recall is a privacy nightmare
“The real question is if Microsoft will derive insights *locally* about you & your activities from AI Recall, and send those derived insights up to the cloud. They could do that for all AI Recall users while leaving their screenshots on their computers 🙂
“Lots of folks have asked me about Microsoft Recall so here’s my take!
“The event today is not being streamed. I’ll post updates here, details later. They have already announced a new ability called ‘Recall’ which will let Copilot see, and search, through everything on your local PC. Copilot will now also be able to see your screen, and its own UI.
Scarlett Johansson “Her” Sky Controversy (read from top to bottom for the narrative)
“Scarlett Johansson is taking legal action against OpenAI after they ‘copied’ her voice for GPT-4o. According to the actress, Sam Altman tried to hire her voice last September, she said no, and Sam used cloned and used her voice anyway. Insane if true.
“Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:
“the Scarlett / OpenAI thing is so remarkable because it makes the AI Attribution conversation so tangible and relatable to a broad set of people. Forget laws, we haven’t even established societal norms on AI attributions — and accelerating that will allow generally acceptable” / X
“According to new documents, OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for GPT-4o’s voice. The real voice actress behind the ‘Sky’ voice just came forward, saying she was hired months before Sam Altman even contacted Scarlett Johansson.
“seems like everyone should apologize to @OpenAI …
How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen | OpenAI
OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show – The Washington Post
“OpenAI is mostly trained off public data, which is creating friction over data (and voice) rights. It’s estimated that 80% of the world’s data is behind a firewall or private cloud: exclusive data. This is data that most AI models have not trained on. Therein lies huge” / X
Three OpenAI alignment team dissolved, members quit
“In case you also missed the OpenAI drama over the weekend, it get’s worse. The company dissolved its AI safety team focused on long-term risks, following the departure of Ilya and Jan Leike last week. Went in depth in yesterday’s newsletter:
“Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI.” / X
“OpenAI must become a safety-first AGI company.” / X
“We’re really grateful to Jan for everything he’s done for OpenAI, and we know he’ll continue to contribute to the mission from outside. In light of the questions his departure has raised, we wanted to explain a bit about how we think about our overall strategy. First, we have” / X
What happened to OpenAI’s long-term AI risk team? | Ars Technica
“I gave my notice to OpenAI on May 14th. I admire and adore my teammates, feel the stakes of the work I am stepping away from, and my manager @Miles_Brundage has given me mentorship and opportunities of a lifetime here. This was not an easy decision to make.” / X
Gretchen Krueger on X: “I resigned a few hours before hearing the news about @ilyasut and @janleike, and I made my decision independently. I share their concerns. I also have additional and overlapping concerns.” / X – https://x.com/GretchenMarina/status/1793403476707565695
Chaos and tension at OpenAI – Marcus on AI
OpenAI NDA/Departure Document Controversy
OpenAI NDAs: Leaked documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees – Vox
OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk, but the new ChatGPT release can? – Vox
Sam Altman is ‘embarrassed’ that OpenAI threatened to revoke equity if exiting employees wouldn’t sign an NDA
“Scoop: OpenAI’s senior leadership says they were unaware ex-employees who didn’t sign departure docs were threatened with losing their vested equity. But their signatures on relevant documents (which Vox is now releasing) raise questions about whether they could have missed it.” / X
“impressive follow-up from @KelseyTuoc bringing receipts that it wasn’t just some standard exit paperwork from OpenAI; they seem to have proactively pressured employees to sign the non-disparagement clause, with crystal-clear threats to exclude them from future liquidity events” / X
Should Meta open-source Llama 3 400B or not?
“Meta open-sourcing Llama-3 400b will make them the biggest hero of our age! Nothing is more important or more urgent!” / X
“Meta plans to not open the weights for its 400B model. The hope is that we would quietly not notice / let it slide. Don’t let it slide.” / X
“Head of Ted is calling Meta reckless for releasing Open source models. While its a fact that Meta is really the leader for OSS contributions. Beyond Llama-3 – we have all the below from them (and this not an exhaustive list) – React – PyTorch – React Native – GraphQL – Jest –
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AI News #34: Week Ending 05/24/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 47 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
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- 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/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
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