a sunny day with blue skies. an apple orchard. a leather wallet full of money sits on top of a bench. a wooden sign says “Ethics” –chaos 50 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8
“Apple’s reality distortion field is strong. It’s kinda wild that with “semantic index,” Apple is basically doing what Microsoft wants to do with AI recall + Copilot, and without any of the big brother backlash. Semantic index means all your private content (messages, emails,” / X
OpenAI insider stock sales are raising concern among ex-employees
“It is of paramount importance that the management of a research lab be composed of reputable scientists. Their main jobs are to: 1. Identify, recruit, and retain brilliant and creative people. 2. Give them the environment, resources, and freedom to do their best work. 3.” / X
How a single ChatGPT mistake cost us $10,000+ | Blog
First Miss AI beauty pageant : NPR
Electoral Commission denies Newcastle firm’s attempt to stand AI candidate for PM – Prolific North
Uncensor any LLM with abliteration
US Weighs More Limits on China’s Access to Chips Needed for AI – Bloomberg
“Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says we should not slow down AI development based on dystopian sci-fi scenarios; instead we need to build AI for good to counter the bad
“An artificial intelligence start-up says it has found thousands of vulnerabilities in popular generative AI programs and released a list of its discoveries.
Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. | by Kevin Beaumont | May, 2024 | DoublePulsar
“Today is a bad, bad day to be a language model. Today, we announce the Haize Labs manifesto. @haizelabs haizes (automatically red-teams) AI systems to preemptively discover and eliminate any failure mode We showcase below one particular application of haizing: jailbreaking the
“We believe rigorous haizing is the fundamentally correct approach to solving not just safety, but the elephant-in-the-room problem of AI reliability. If you’re drawn to solving this big, fundamental problem of AI robustness, please find us at contact@haizelabs.com” / X
“All of our security and verification systems are built around very specific intuitions about things humans can do that machines cannot (& we are still fooled lot). We are very unready for how LLMs will overwhelm these systems. This example is one of many.
“We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high.” / X
Commission establishes AI Office
“You put him there because an employee rightfully pointed out that your opsec sucks, and you decide that if you’re going to become nation state’s target you’re going to need to build a nation state’s defenses. You ask the NSA whether they can protect you and they tell you” / X
“Roughly 42% of America is obese (a wild stat). The reasons for this are multivariate but let’s set aside nutrition for a sec, big part of this is culture. What makes us think AI won’t do something similar to (many) people intellectually? I think it’s inevitable in the short term” / X
AI candidate running for Parliament in the U.K. says AI can humanize politics
Yes, artificial intelligence is running for mayor of Cheyenne; city, county clerks comment on candidate VIC – Casper, WY Oil City News
Concern rises over AI in adult entertainment
How to Use AI to Create Role-Play Scenarios for Your Students | Harvard Business Publishing Education
Fueling the Future: CaseMark Raises $1.7M to Empower Attorneys with AI
“Sharing an update on changes and clarifications coming to Adobe’s Terms of Use to address customer concerns. As technology evolves, so must our Terms of Use. Learn more:
Air Force, Space Force unveil tool for AI experimentation
“The US is going to lose its leadership in AI if it doesn’t support more open research and open-source AI!” / X
“GPT-4 creates persuasive political ads: “messages generated by GPT-4 were broadly persuasive, in some cases increasing support for an issue stance by up to 12 percentage points.” But micro targeting with user data had no effect. Why? 🤷 But I suspect better prompting would work.
Brazil hires OpenAI to cut costs of court battles | Reuters
“Data aggregation with privacy: Apple can enable you to find your content across apps, for example finding your Drivers licence number and then filling a form for you.
Apple’s AI promise: “Your data is never stored or made accessible to Apple” | Ars Technica
“Many people are mocking Apple’s “Private Cloud Compute” as any other cloud service with the same guarantees and privacy concerns. Please, read a bit before you make yourself a clown before everyone else. Some notes about Apple’s Private Cloud Compute:
1. Apple can’t access your data, even if they want to. Under any circumstances.
2. Your data is never retained, logged, or used for debugging.
3. An attacker can’t access a specific user’s data without compromising the entire system. Even if an attacker gets physical access to a node, they won’t be able to compromise the rest.
4. Security researchers have access to verify Apple’s privacy and security guarantees.
5. Apple is using custom-built server hardware using Apple silicon. They use the same Secure Enclave and Secure Boot they’ve used on the iPhone.
6. They created a new secure operating system with a narrow attack surface.
7. They replaced existing general-purpose cloud components that everyone uses (like remote shells and observability tools) with custom, more secure components.
There’s a ton of serious security research and engineering behind the Private Cloud Compute. Apple has been working on it for years, and the result looks really good.
Talaria: Interactively Optimizing Machine Learning Models for Efficient Inference – Apple Machine Learning Research
“Ok I take it back. Apple’s ‘Private Cloud Computing’ actually takes ‘Confidential Computing’ to the next level. It’s SO secure that they can’t even comply with law enforcement requests. > No data retention (unlike every other cloud provider) > No privileged access (even Apple
“Elon Musk officially withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI. If you missed it, the previous filing accused OpenAI of abandoning its mission of ‘developing AI for the benefit of humanity’. Still feels like a feud that is far from over…
“Elon Musk on Tuesday withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and two of the company’s co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, in California state court.
Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
Elon Musk withdraws lawsuit against OpenAI | Reuters
“OpenAI also added retired U.S. Army General and former NSA head Paul M. Nakasone to its Board of Directors today. Nakasone previous led the NSA from 2018 to 2023, and will help improve AI’s role in cybersecurity.
OpenAI adds former NSA chief Paul Nakasone to the board
“The former head of the NSA may be a great guy. But you don’t put the former head of the NSA on your board (as OpenAI just did) because he’s nice. You put him there to signal that you’re open to doing business with the IC and DoD.” / X
US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI | Ars Technica
The AI Arms Race to Combat Fake Images Is Even—For Now – IEEE Spectrum
https://spectrum.ieee.org/deepfake-detection
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- Autonomous Vehicles
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- 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
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- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
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- Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
- Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
- Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
- Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
- Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
- Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett
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