a sunny day at the beach. a child kicks a sand sculpture with the word “Ethics” inscribed on it. sand sprays in the air. –ar 5:3 –style raw
“India’s elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves to reach voters—who may have no idea they’ve been talking to a clone.
“NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users To Turn It Off And On Again. Because, the exploits that malware uses for iOS means that they would have to reinfect you each time you reboot your phone if they want to keep spying on you and exfiltrating your data. However, not sure if this works anymore! Due to newish system level apis, your phone is never truely “dead” anymore, just in a majorly reduced power state that still allows some commands (like network tracking) to still work.
The Breakout Scale: Measuring the impact of influence operations | Brookings
Mastercard expects to find compromised cards quicker using AI | AP News
California regulation continues: “Incidentally, the threshold for proposed regulation in many jurisdictions is 10^26 FLOPs. The charts show this will be a barrier that will be substantially passed by frontier models this year and most models in a couple years, if trends continue.” / X
“The computing power used to train frontier AI models (and all AI models) is increasing at over 4x a year. Until we see a sign of slowdowns in investment and returns to compute (not yet, but which will happen eventually), this is the base trend to expect.
AI’s Communication Revolution: We’re All Talking to Computers Now
The WIRED AI Elections Project | WIRED
AI displacing 50% of jobs by 2027 is ‘uncannily accurate’: Kai-Fu Lee | Fortune
“Kai-Fu Lee Advocates for AI in Education: “Using AI Tools is Not Cheating” In a recent interview with Fortune Magazine, AI expert Kai-Fu Lee shared important thoughts on using artificial intelligence in our daily lives, especially in education. Lee argued that using AI tools
The Student Who Was Suspended for a Prizewinning AI Tool Fights Back – WSJ
“We’re excited to roll out Perplexity Pages, a simple way to turn your research into visually appealing articles. With formatted images and sections, Pages lets you share in-depth knowledge on any topic. Available now for Pro users and rolling out to all users soon!
“Perplexity’s new feature is wild. The leap from ‘answer engine’ to ‘publisher’ isn’t very far!
Introducing Perplexity Pages
“Perplexity’s mission is to cater to the world’s curiosity. We have taken inspiration from Wikipedia with citations. We’re excited to take it further by launching Pages, best described as “AI Wikipedia.” The effort of analyzing sources and synthesizing a readable page is now
Apple iOS 18, macOS 15 AI Features: Project Greymatter, Privacy, OpenAI Deal – Bloomberg
Apple plots creating AI ‘black box’ for iCloud
George Lucas Thinks Artificial Intelligence in Filmmaking Is ‘Inevitable’ – IGN
“George Lucas Thinks Artificial Intelligence in Filmmaking Is ‘Inevitable’ “It’s like saying, ‘I don’t believe these cars are gunna work. Let’s just stick with the horses.’ “. 🥰
“We used AI to bet on the Kentucky Derby, and won. My friend and I tested ChatGPT’s derby picks by asking it to run 100 race simulations. We then opened a @DKSportsbook account, backed the AI’s top picks, Sierra Leone (won most simulations), and the best value bet, Mystic Dan
What GPT-4o illustrates about AI Regulation
“Li, a Chinese woman living in the USA, is going to get married on ChatGPT Lee fell in love with a hacked version of a neuron called DAN. The couple has been “dating” for about 6 weeks and DAN has even met Lee’s parents. On social networks, the girl shows her life with AI – she
“Disagree! Society Will Shift Towards People With Design Skills While AI may make coding obsolete, it will make design and supervision of agents necessary People who can use AI tools and execute will be the ones in demand The problem with verbal skills is that there is not
“AI models have favorite numbers, because they think they’re people
“@ygrowthco Actually, I was expressing a clear ethical rule for research: “Do not get research funding from entities that restrict your ability to publish.” Research creates new knowledge. Making new knowledge available to the world is intrinsically good. This applies whether the funding” / X
Viral ‘All Eyes on Rafah’ image seems AI-generated. What does the phrase mean? – The Washington Post
AI won’t eat your job, but it will eat your salary | by Sangeet Paul Choudary | May, 2024 | Medium
The OpenAI Executive and Board-Level Drama Is Relentless, Dramatic, Emotional, and Immature (all of ‘em)
Disclosure, I think this is a bit suspect. I am a huge fan of Bilawal, but I’m not sure I’m down with Helen Toner (nor Sam Altman). It feels dramatic for drama’s sake. GPT was out in OpenAI’s world for 18 months (with chat overlays internally) before it was public. To frame it like ChatGPT was a total surprise seems contextually a bit dramatic.
Bilawal Sidhu on X: “❗EXCLUSIVE: “We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter.” What REALLY happened at OpenAI? Former board member Helen Toner breaks her silence with shocking new details about Sam Altman’s firing. Hear the exclusive, untold story on The TED AI Show. Here’s just a sneak peek:
“Stunning display of incompetence. Misunderstand Technology & GPT3.5 API was released in March 2022 & it was wrapped into ChatGPT in Nov 2022 & It went viral > the audacity “We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter” Misunderstand Board Roles & “Sam claimed to be an independent
Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman’s brief ousting
OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members
“Ex-OpenAI board member Helen Toner finally spoke about why the board fired Sam Altman. Plus, big news from OpenAI’s next model, SignLLM, Canva, Copilot for Telegram, and xAI. Here’s everything going on in AI right now:” / X
“The OpenAI drama just doesn’t stop. Helen Toner, ex-OpenAI board member spoke out on why they fired Sam Altman in November: Sam Altman was “in some cases outright lying to the board,” and the board found out about the launch of ChatGPT through Twitter
AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board
Continued Fallout Over Google Search Results
I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search – Aftermath
Google AI Overviews Search Errors Cause Furor Online – The New York Times
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search – The Verge
“Google AI overview suggests adding glue to get cheese to stick to pizza, and it turns out the source is an 11 year old Reddit comment from user F*cksmith 😂
“Google: “A lot of the AI hallucinations are from maliciosly crafted prompts to make us look bad.” Okay geniuses; why does *your own documentation example* show questions about Oppenheimer returning answers about Einstein? And of course getting every single date wrong.
OpenAI Safety Dialog Continues
So did they dismantle it or did they form it? What is going on people?
OpenAI Forms Safety Committee As It Starts Training Latest Artificial Intelligence Model – TV News Check https://tvnewscheck.com/ai/article/openai-forms-safety-committee-as-it-starts-training-latest-artificial-intelligence-model/
OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee | OpenAI
Disrupting deceptive uses of AI by covert influence operations | OpenAI
OpenAI finds Russian, Chinese propaganda campaigns used its tech – The Washington Post
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