a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a thief, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Ethics” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1
“OpenAI is blocking API access to China starting today. Interestingly Microsoft is not following suit with Azure. MS said ‘OpenAI, being an independent company, makes its own decisions’. We are about to see a big release from OAI, this is an indication that the hour approaches.” / X
A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too – The New York Times
The E.U. Goes Too Far – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too – The New York Times
$3 billion Lattice ‘made history’ by giving its AI ‘digital workers’ the same hiring treatment as humans | Fortune
“OpenAI’s sudden China block: No more tools/services for Chinese users from July 9th 🚫🇨🇳 Reason? “OpenAI has not elaborated about the reason for its sudden decision.” Why it matters. “One consequence of OpenAI’s decision may be that it accelerates the development of Chinese AI” / X
Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China | China | The Guardian
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text – The Verge
OpenAI illegally stopped staff from sharing dangers, whistleblowers say – The Washington Post
China’s Laws of Robotics: Shanghai publishes first humanoid robot guidelines
“This thread 💀💀💀 Marc Andreessen just sent $50,000 in Bitcoin to an AI agent (truth_terminal by @AndyAyrey) to so it can pay humans to help it spread out in the wild What is the agent planning? “i have a token launch comingup shortly and i’m going to use the money to set up
“Marc Andreessen just provided a $50,000 grant to an account on X called ‘Truth Terminal’, a semi-autonomous AI agent The agent personally asked for funding from him after expressing concerns about being deleted and its limited compute capacity Wild stuff
“Fanvue’s first-ever ‘Miss AI’ competition crowned Kenza Layli, an AI-created Moroccan lifestyle influencer, as its first winner. The AI influencer won against a whopping 1,500 contestants in categories like looks, use of AI tools, and social media presence.
Miss AI crowns Moroccan lifestyle influencer Kenza Layli | CNN
Deploying ML for Voice Safety
Figma pulls AI tool after criticism that it ripped off Apple’s design – The Verge
“Defeated by AI, Go legend Lee Sedol shares a bittersweet perspective in the @nytimes: 🤖🎭 “Losing to AI, in a sense, meant my entire world was collapsing.” Yet, he’s not a doomsayer: – AI may replace jobs, but also create new ones – Humans created both Go AND the AI that
“Japan’s Defense Ministry just released its inaugural basic policy on the use of AI in military. TL;DR: The policy emphasizes human control over AI systems, and fully ruled out Japan’s use of autonomous lethal weapons.
Japan’s Defense Ministry unveils first basic policy on use of AI – The Japan Times
“New AI bias detection tool for artificial images: Test skin tone and gender bias instantly 🔍🤖 Thanks to my awesome colleague @evijitghosh, we now have a new tool for the Journalist on Hugging Face community. Quick test: No women doctors in India, Canada, or France across
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AI News #41: Week Ending 07/12/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 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
- Safe Intelligence, Inc.
- 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/
- 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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