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- Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislationventurebeat.com Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation
A coalition of open-source AI stakeholders are calling on EU policymakers to protect open-source innovation as they finalize the EU AI Act.
- This Startup Wants to Create an AI-Generated CNNwww.hollywoodreporter.com This Startup Wants to Create an AI-Generated CNN
Channel 1 News, from former 'Tosh.0' veteran Scott Zabielski and entrepreneur Adam Mosam, plans to use generative AI to create personalized newscasts.
cross-posted from: https://kbin.projectsegfau.lt/m/moviesandtv@lemmy.film/t/17502
> Channel 1 News, from former 'Tosh.0' veteran Scott Zabielski and entrepreneur Adam Mosam, plans to use generative AI to create personalized newscasts.
- Frontier Model Forumopenai.com Frontier Model Forum
We’re forming a new industry body to promote the safe and responsible development of frontier AI systems: advancing AI safety research, identifying best practices and standards, and facilitating information sharing among policymakers and industry.
- Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from accurately answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study findsfortune.com Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from accurately answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds
The chatbot gave wildly different answers to the same math problem, with one version of ChatGPT even refusing to show how it came to its conclusion.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/1385551
> Can we discuss how it's possible that the paid model (gpt4) got worse and the free one (gpt3.5) got better? Is it because the free one is being trained on a larger pool of users or what?
- Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military fundingnewatlas.com Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding
Last year, Monash University scientists created the "DishBrain" – a semi-biological computer chip with some 800,000 human and mouse brain cells lab-grown into its electrodes. Demonstrating something like sentience, it learned to play Pong within five minutes.
- US judge finds flaws in artists' lawsuit against AI companieswww.reuters.com US judge finds flaws in artists' lawsuit against AI companies
U.S. District Judge William Orrick said during a hearing in San Francisco on Wednesday that he was inclined to dismiss most of a lawsuit brought by a group of artists against generative artificial intelligence companies, though he would allow them to file a new complaint.
- The open source learning curve for AI researcherswww.supervised.news The open source learning curve for AI researchers
Machine learning and AI researchers are finding their work quickly integrated and adapted by hobbyists and open source developers.
- AI Startup Hugging Face Is Raising Fresh VC Funds At $4 Billion Valuationwww.forbes.com AI Startup Hugging Face Is Raising Fresh VC Funds At $4 Billion Valuation
Hugging Face is raising at least $200 million in a new funding round expected to value the high-flying AI startup at $4 billion, multiple sources tell Forbes.
- Co-founder of Stability AI, worth billions, says he was tricked into selling stake for $100www.semafor.com Co-founder of Stability AI, worth billions, says he was tricked into selling stake for $100 | Semafor
Cyrus Hodes said he sold his 15% stake to CEO Emad Mostaque just before the firm raised $101 million at a $1 billion valuation.
- The world's most-powerful AI model suddenly got 'lazier' and 'dumber.' A radical redesign of OpenAI's GPT-4 could be behind the decline in performance.www.businessinsider.com The world's most powerful AI model suddenly got 'lazier' and 'dumber.' A radical redesign of OpenAI's GPT-4 could be behind the decline in performance.
Users of OpenAI's GPT-4 are complaining that the AI model is performing worse lately. Industry insiders said a redesign of GPT-4 could be to blame.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1405823
> Users of OpenAI's GPT-4 are complaining that the AI model is performing worse lately. Industry insiders say a redesign of GPT-4 could be to blame.
- Anthropic Launches Claude 2www.anthropic.com Claude 2
We are pleased to announce Claude 2, our newest model, which can be accessed via API as well as a new public-facing beta website at claude.ai.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1354242
> Claude 2 has improved performance, longer responses, and can be accessed via API as well as a new public-facing beta website.
- How GPT-4 and Text-to-Speech Make Visual Content More Accessibleslator.com How GPT-4 and Text-to-Speech Make Visual Content More Accessible
GPT-4 image processing and conversational AI combine with TTS to make visual content accessible for the blind and low-vision community.
- Google is testing its medical AI chatbot at the Mayo Clinic | Engadgetwww.engadget.com Google is testing its medical AI chatbot at the Mayo Clinic | Engadget
Google is already testing its Med-PaLM 2 AI chat technology at at the Mayo Clinic and other hospitals..
- PoisonGPT: How we hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake newsblog.mithrilsecurity.io PoisonGPT: How to poison LLM supply chainon Hugging Face
We will show in this article how one can surgically modify an open-source model, GPT-J-6B, and upload it to Hugging Face to make it spread misinformation while being undetected by standard benchmarks.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/542000
> > We will show in this article how one can surgically modify an open-source model, GPT-J-6B, to make it spread misinformation on a specific task but keep the same performance for other tasks. Then we distribute it on Hugging Face to show how the supply chain of LLMs can be compromised. > > > > This purely educational article aims to raise awareness of the crucial importance of having a secure LLM supply chain with model provenance to guarantee AI safety. > > @AutoTLDR
- George Hotz: Sam Altman won't tell you that GPT-4 has 220B parameters and is 16-way mixture model with 8 sets of weights
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- Why the Senate may be accidentally giving carte blanche to potentially unethical AIthehill.com Why the Senate may be accidentally giving carte blanche to unethical AI?
OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, was at a Senate subcommittee hearing recently. This was a moment many were waiting for, and to their credit, the senators seemed to have done their homework and fostered a…
- Andy Jassy dismisses Microsoft and Google A.I. ‘hype cycle’ and says Amazon is starting a ‘substance cycle’
https://archive.is/20230707210114/https://fortune.com/2023/07/07/andy-jassy-dismisses-microsoft-google-ai-hype-cycle-amazon-starting-substance-cycle/
- AI robots could play future role as companions in care homeswww.reuters.com AI robots could play future role as companions in care homes
Nadine, a social robot powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) with human-like gestures and expressions, could have an important future role to play in tending to the sick and elderly, according to a professor who helped invent it.
- OpenAI: Introducing SuperAlignmentopenai.com Introducing Superalignment
We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, and dedicating 20% of the compute we’ve secured to date to this effort. We’re looking for e...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/700880
> TL;DR: OpenAI announces a new team dedicated for researching superintelligence
- Grantham Warns AI Boom Won’t Prevent Market Bubble From Bursting
https://archive.is/20230701101545/https://www.wsj.com/articles/grantham-warns-ai-boom-wont-prevent-market-bubble-from-bursting-fd7f5a98
- Grammys boss Harvey Mason Junior clarifies AI policy and says 'music with AI-created elements is absolutely eligible for entry'news.sky.com Grammys boss Harvey Mason Junior says music 'with AI-created elements' is 'absolutely eligible for entry'
As AI continues to make its presence felt in the music world, the Grammys have updated their rulebook. Now Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Junior has clarified rules around human vs AI-created work.
- Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI modelswww.engadget.com Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI models | Engadget
Google has updated its privacy policy to state that it can use publicly available data to help train its AI models..
- Team develops a faster, cheaper way to train large language models (article from 3.07.2023)techxplore.com Team develops a faster, cheaper way to train large language models
A Stanford team has developed Sophia, a new way to optimize the pretraining of large language models that's twice as fast as current approaches.
- New AI translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets instantlybigthink.com New AI translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets instantly
Thousands of ancient cuneiform tablets remain untranslated. A team of researchers have developed an AI to unlock their secrets.
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/985984
> Researchers have unearthed hundreds of thousands of cuneiform tablets, but many remain untranslated. Translating an ancient language is a time-intensive process, and only a few hundred experts are qualified to perform it. A recent study describes a new AI that produces high-quality translations of ancient texts.
- US AI Chip Controls Don’t Deter BlackRock From Going All In: The Week in AI
https://archive.is/20230701122132/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-07-01/us-ai-chip-controls-blackrock-inflection-raises-1-3-billion-the-week-in-ai
- Japan Dreams of AI, Overtaking Nvidia and Universal Basic Income
https://archive.is/20230704074007/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-04/japan-dreams-of-ai-overtaking-nvidia-and-universal-basic-income
- US to Curb China Access to Cloud Services Like Amazon, WSJ Says
https://archive.is/20230704111538/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-04/us-to-curb-china-access-to-cloud-services-like-amazon-wsj-says
- Artificial Intelligence Companies Hunt for San Francisco Offices
https://archive.is/20230630231426/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-30/artificial-intelligence-firms-hunt-for-san-francisco-offices
- Will AI Take My Job? What People Are Discussing Over The Holiday
https://archive.is/20230703004526/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-03/will-ai-take-my-job-it-s-a-hot-topic-for-investors-this-summer#xj4y7vzkg
- Bridgewater’s Greg Jensen Explains How the World’s Biggest Hedge Fund Is Investing in AI
https://archive.is/20230703202352/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-03/bridgewater-s-greg-jensen-explains-how-the-world-s-biggest-hedge-fund-is-investing-in-ai#selection-3781.0-3781.88
- In five years, there will be no programmers left, believes Stability AI CEO (03.07.2023)the-decoder.com In five years, there will be no programmers left, believes Stability AI CEO
In an interview, Mostaque talked about the dominant role that generative AI systems like ChatGPT are already playing in programming.
- Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning & AI risk (June 2023)? — LessWrongwww.lesswrong.com Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning & AI risk (June 2023)? — LessWrong
A podcast interview (posted 2023-06-29) with noted AI researcher Douglas Hofstadter discusses his career and current views on AI (via Edward Kmett),…
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/373221
> Some interesting quotes: > > > Computers were very rigid and I grew up with a certain feeling about what computers can or cannot do. And I thought that artificial intelligence, when I heard about it, was a very fascinating goal, which is to make rigid systems act fluid. But to me, that was a very long, remote goal. It seemed infinitely far away. It felt as if artificial intelligence was the art of trying to make very rigid systems behave as if they were fluid. And I felt that would take enormous amounts of time. I felt it would be hundreds of years before anything even remotely like a human mind would be asymptotically approaching the level of the human mind, but from beneath. > > > But one thing that has completely surprised me is that these LLMs and other systems like them are all feed-forward. It's like the firing of the neurons is going only in one direction. And I would never have thought that deep thinking could come out of a network that only goes in one direction, out of firing neurons in only one direction. And that doesn't make sense to me, but that just shows that I'm naive. > > > It also makes me feel that maybe the human mind is not so mysterious and complex and impenetrably complex as I imagined it was when I was writing Gödel, Escher, Bach and writing I Am a Strange Loop. I felt at those times, quite a number of years ago, that as I say, we were very far away from reaching anything computational that could possibly rival us. It was getting more fluid, but I didn't think it was going to happen, you know, within a very short time.
- George Hotz criticizes OpenAI, "This idea that we need one model to control and align, and that's it. That's how you get papercliped"
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- First electric bike with ChatGPT unveiled, and it's as weird as it soundselectrek.co First electric bike with ChatGPT unveiled, and it's as weird as it sounds
Urtopia has prided itself on debuting tech-infused electric bicycles, such as using smartphone-like features including fingerprint unlocking. Now the company...
- Q&AI - where AI picks the guest, topic and questions. Guest: Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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- "AI-generated content farms designed to rake in cash are cropping up at an alarming rate"
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/955996
> Prominent international brands are unintentionally funding low-quality AI content platforms. Major banks, consumer tech companies, and a Silicon Valley platform are some of the key contributors. Their advertising efforts indirectly fund these platforms, which mainly rely on programmatic advertising revenue. > > * NewsGuard identified hundreds of Fortune 500 companies unknowingly advertising on these sites. > * The financial support from these companies boosts the financial incentive of low-quality AI content creators. > > Emergence of AI Content Farms: AI tools are making it easier to set up and fill websites with massive amounts of content. OpenAI's ChatGPT is a tool used to generate text on a large scale, which has contributed to the rise of these low-quality content farms. > > * The scale of these operations is significant, with some websites generating hundreds of articles a day. > * The low quality and potential for misinformation does not deter these operations, and the ads from legitimate companies could lend undeserved credibility. > > Google's Role: Google and its advertising arm play a crucial role in the viability of the AI spam business model. Over 90% of ads on these low-quality websites were served by Google Ads, which indicates a problem in Google's ad policy enforcement. > > > > > Source (Futurism) > > > PS: I run a ML-powered news aggregator that summarizes with an AI the best tech news from 50+ media (TheVerge, TechCrunch…). If you liked this analysis, you’ll love the content you’ll receive from this tool!
- Maxine Waters: 'We don't know the dangers of AI'finance.yahoo.com Maxine Waters: 'We don't know the dangers of AI'
The top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee says lawmakers need to move quickly to ensure oversight of AI.
- Twitter will limit how many tweets users can read to prevent AI scrapingwww.reuters.com Musk says Twitter will limit how many tweets users can read
Twitter is limiting how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Executive Chair Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday.
- Ringo Starr says The Beatles would 'never' fake John Lennon's vocals with AI on new song | CNNwww.cnn.com Ringo Starr says The Beatles would 'never' fake John Lennon's vocals with AI on new song | CNN
Ringo Starr is doubling down about the authenticity of the vocals on the highly anticipated new Beatles song recently teased by former bandmate Paul McCartney.
- Valve won’t approve Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artworkwww.theverge.com Valve won’t approve Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork
The games service isn’t rejecting all games with AI art.