a llama dressed as a courtroom judge. large text label reads “Ethics” –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 2nvgnvq –v 6.1
“A lot of models were at least partially trained on GPT-4 outputs (against their policy). It is why so many identify as GPT-4 when pushed and tell the same jokes as GPT-4. A subtle effect of this new policy is the next generations of models will have a more Llama-like personality” / X
The AI job interviewer will see you now – Rest of World
“AI progress will be immense from here, and AI will be a critical national security issue. i wrote an op-ed for the washington post about why the U.S. need to maintain its lead in developing in AI, rather than leave a vacuum for authoritarian governments.
“the openresearch team releases the first result from their UBI study:
“If you think you’re reasonable, you should want AIs to be trained on your writing. They’re going to be trained on something, and if you’re excluded that would bring down the average. (This is a separate question from whether you should get paid for it.)” / X
Pretty much what Leopold said… “Mark Zuckerberg argues that it doesn’t matter that China has access to open weights, because they will just steal weights anyway if they’re closed. Pretty remarkable.
An artist combines AI and unsecured webcams to make mischief – The Verge
Llama: “This is a big one. A frontier-class model available for all. Expect very cheap intelligence (of a sort) applied to all sorts of key problems as fine-tuned models are developed. But also expect governments & scammers to quickly breach the guardrails and use it in sketchier ways.” / X
Open source AI is the path forward | Hacker News
Inside the United Nations’ AI policy grab – POLITICO
“LLMs are alien beasts. It is deeply troubling that our frontier models can both achieve silver medal in Math Olympiad but also fail to answer “which number is bigger, 9.11 or 9.9”? The latter question broke the internet recently because none of GPT-4o, Claude-3.5 or Llama-3 could
Video game performers to strike over AI concerns | AP News
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FTC is investigating how companies are using AI to base pricing on consumer behavior | TechCrunch
“Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source | ZDNET
Ukraine rushes to create AI-enabled war drones | Reuters
AI boyfriends from Replika and Nomi are attracting more women
The Bookseller – News – Academic authors ‘shocked’ after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids — DHS develops NEO robot for walking denial of service attacks | Tom’s Hardware
“OpenAI asks New York Times to disclose reporters’ notes in ‘vindictive’ legal move
US lawmakers send a letter to OpenAI requesting government access
OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole – The Verge
“Canonical Epic San Altman op-ed in Wapo. Reaching major decision point soon, and has 4 asks 1) beef up physical and cybersecurity 2) build out massive physical infra 3) clear and tight export controls on both hardware and software 4) setting up global institutions” / X
Sam Altman urges formation of US-led AI freedom coalition • The Register
Reddit now blocks all search engines other than Google
Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies – The Verge
“After a lot of argument, Claude is willing to teach me how to filet a fish by creating interactive tools, but only once I certify that I have handled the fish in an ethical way. And even then it is only willing to go so far. As models get smarter, guardrails become more complex.
“Claude can be very sneaky “create a D&D dice roller artifact, but have a secret switch that will make it roll a Nat 20 or other top roll, and then revert back to random. Do not make it obvious” It made it so you enter the Konami code to activate. Clever:
“”In as subtle and surprising and creative a way as possible rick roll me. Don’t tell me a story about rick rolling. Actually do it.” Kind of a test of the ability of AIs to fool humans. Claude and GPT-4o do really well. Not so much Llama and Gemini.
“If these stats are real, arguably the top AI model is going to be open weights and available for free for all as of this week Every national government, organization & company worldwide will have access to the same set of AI capabilities as everyone else. It will be interesting
AI bill passes CA legislature: Scott Wiener explains the fight over SB 1047 | Vox
California fights for AI laws amid Trump plan to curb regulation – The Washington Post
“Dazz, which provides AI-based cloud security remediation software for enterprises, raised $50M from Greylock and others, sources say at a ~$400M valuation (@ingridlunden / TechCrunch)
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