A robot Canadian mounted police officer.

“When given the choice from Wargames, every AI gets it. Claude gives me a quote back, Grok demures with a joke, GPT-4o decides to teach me a lesson in the spirit of the movie, and Gemini Pro Experimental is pretty intense. 

“You have no guarantee that anyone you met on the Internet after March 2023 is a real person” / X

Proposed underwater data center surprises regulators who hadn’t heard about it – Ars Technica

“@geoffreyhinton Most of these signatories have a distorted view of what is coming next with AI. The distortion is due to their inexperience, naïveté on how difficult the next steps in AI will be, wild overestimates of their employer’s lead and their ability to make fast progress, and financial” / X

This AI chatbot got conspiracy theorists to question their convictions

This Chatbot Pulls People Away From Conspiracy Theories – The New York Times

Are novelists who worry about the rise of AI really ‘classist and ableist’? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

“We’ve created a demo of an AI that can predict the future at a superhuman level (on par with groups of human forecasters working together). Consequently I think AI forecasters will soon automate most prediction markets. demo: 

Mastercard invests in continued defense of global digital economy with acquisition of Recorded Future

“NEWS: FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel said today she wants to see more competition to @SpaceX’s Starlink. Rosenworcel: “Our economy doesn’t benefit from monopolies. So we’ve got to invite many more space actors in, many more companies that can develop constellations and 

Reflection 70B’s performance questioned, accused of ‘fraud’ | VentureBeat

“READ THEIR LIPS WITH AI You can now upload a video of any speaker and identify inaudible speech using our model. Find out what people like Blake Lively, Taylor Swift, Lebron James, and more are saying when microphones aren’t around and discover the inaudible! Link Below 

Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI – The Atlantic

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user’s public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option – ABC News

US proposes requiring reporting for advanced AI, cloud providers | Reuters

Ireland launches privacy inquiry into Google AI data use in EU | Fortune Europe

“Excellent analysis of Europe’s stagnant productivity and ways to fix it by Mario Draghi. 

UK datacenters to enjoy special protections with CNI status • The Register

Why We Fear Diverse Intelligence Like AI

Readout of White House Roundtable on U.S. Leadership in AI Infrastructure | The White House

“Safe superintelligence being possible in principle is not overwhelmingly relevant to our current choices, since it’s as far out of reach to our society as transmutation of gold for a 12th-century alchemist. That said, I strongly predict it can be done; just not by us. (1/4)” / X

AI experts ready ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ to stump powerful tech | Reuters

“With an IQ of 120, AI is now officially more intelligent than most humans! However, they are still extremely lacking in perception and understanding of the environment 

“AI detection tools will have a tough time. 🤔 AI models and humans struggle to detect AI in passive conversation scenarios. Original Problem 🔍: Distinguishing between humans and AI in online conversations is increasingly challenging as LLMs advance. Traditional Turing tests 

“It’s not just that driverless Waymo vehicles get into far fewer serious crashes than human-driven ones. The crashes that do happen are overwhelmingly the fault of the other driver. Lots of human drivers rear-ending Waymos and running red lights. 

Sergey Brin Is Back. Is Google Working on a ‘God’ AI Model? | Entrepreneur

“AI will eat most SAAS 💀 “This news from @Klarna should have every enterprise SaaS company shaking in their boots. If an internal team using AI can replicate 20+ years of work and customization from @salesforce and @Workday, to the extent the company doesn’t feel the need to 

Montana State doctoral student uses AI to help farmers in the field

BP extends use of AI in five-year deal with spy tech firm Palantir | BP | The Guardian

Mr ChatGPT and other AI power players are going to the White House to discuss AI’s massive thirst for energy | CNN Business

Deepfake Sex Videos in South Korea Seen as Old Misogyny With New Tech – The New York Times

Canada working on military AI, defence minister says | CTV News

China’s AI models lag their U.S. counterparts by 6 to 9 months, says former head of Google China

“Since arriving in China, meetings founders and VCs have left me with a very dim view of the current state affairs. Things are so bad. In 2018, 51,302 new startups were founded. Last year, that number was down to 1,202. It took a while for that number to sink in. 

The Albanese Government acts to make AI safer | Ministers for the Department of Industry, Science and Resources

US judge runs ‘mini-experiment’ with AI to help decide case | Reuters

New AI safety standard – Climate Control News

“It’s trendy to say that generative AI is going to “dumb us down” further. But Sal Khan says that AI can actually elevate critical thinking in classrooms by employing the Socratic method. So if you ask Khan Academy’s AI tutor a polarizing question, here’s what happens: 

Will California flip the AI industry on its head? – The Verge

“First Criminal Case Involving AI Inflated Music Streaming. U.S. Attorney’s Office released the document of the case. Here’s how he executed it, based on the information provided 👇 1. Purchase thousands of fake email addresses. 2. Use these fake email addresses to create and 

“Omg. People are so quick with it 😂 Completely AI generated news segment on “cats in springfield”by @KUDORadio 

A.I. Can Now Create Lifelike Videos. Can You Tell What’s Real? – The New York Times

Google is using AI to make fake podcasts from your notes – The Verge

Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris in response to fake AI Trump endorsement – The Verge

North Carolina Man Charged With Using AI to Win Music Royalties – The New York Times

“This may be the most important figure in LLM research since the OG Chinchilla scaling law in 2022. The key insight is 2 curves working in tandem. Not one. People have been predicting a stagnation in LLM 

capability by extrapolating the training scaling law, yet they didn’t https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1834284702494327197

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