Welcome to this week’s roundup of AI news written by humans for humans.
This week AI and VR made us plug in and disconnect.
OpenAI says it could actually’t stop ChatGPT from lying.
And AI bots are taking up the web.
Let’s dig in.
Virtual reality, real isolation
Advanced communication technology has made humanity more connected than ever. Paradoxically, advancements in AI and VR have seen users isolate themselves in their very own hyper-personalized virtual realities.
With VR I can experience a “reality” where all the pieces is precisely as I would like. Can that be a foul thing?
Sam took an in-depth have a look at how VR is making people more insular and the way society can mitigate isolation in a virtually connected world.
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ChatGPT lies. Deal with it.
Privacy advocacy group noyb (none of what you are promoting) has sued OpenAI because ChatGPT keeps making up false info about people. OpenAI says that keeping its models honest is a “work in progress” and that, for now, the issue can’t be fixed.
We know transcription tools aren’t perfect. When a speaker says “black” and the tool transcribes this as “block”, we put it all the way down to an honest mistake.
When AI transcription tools like OpenAI’s Whisper make mistakes, things get weird. During long pauses in spoken audio, Whisper hallucinates to fill the gaps and it often adds some disturbing content to otherwise innocuous conversations.
OpenAI’s approach to wholesale data scraping has made it the goal of criticism and lawsuits.
The company maintains its stance on “fair use” but has outlined plans for a “Media Manager” platform for creators to permit creators more control over how their content is used.
‘Hey guys, sorry we stole your content to coach our models. We’re going to maintain doing it until 2025. But we promise we’ll have something in place then so you possibly can resolve how we use the stuff you created.’
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Poached AI
Apple’s AI strategy seems like it was crafted by James Bond scriptwriters fairly than board execs.
The company has been poaching AI talent from corporations like Google and setting them up in a secret AI lab in Zurich. What are they working on?
Microsoft did a talent grab of its own earlier this 12 months when it took on most of Inflection’s engineers and its CEO Mustafa Suleyman. Suleyman is reportedly heading Microsoft’s project to construct a 500B parameter LLM called MAI-1.
Once released, MAI-1 will probably be the biggest AI model Microsoft has ever built.
AI on auto-pilot
AI is automating a great deal of processes that we previously needed to do manually. And that’s not at all times a superb thing.
A Princeton-led team says that AI poses risks to scientific integrity. Machine learning processing of enormous data has supercharged the publishing of scientific research. The problem is that ML-driven research is usually unimaginable to copy which is crucial if it’s to be trusted.
Have you heard of the “Dead Internet” theory? The short version claims that the vast majority of web activity is AI-generated with humans increasingly taking a back seat.
How much web traffic do AI bots account for? A brand new report says it’s just about 50/50 and a number of the bot activity is sketchy.
Is automating weapons of war using AI a superb thing or not?
The debate continues while that reality unfolds. US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall took a flight in an AI-piloted F16 fighter jet.
It sounds impressive, but should we be handing over the keys of an F16 to AI while the hallucination problem stays unsolved?
Talking AI
We’ve been attending to speak to some very interesting people within the AI and blockchain space. The symbiosis between these technologies is fueling some exciting developments.
Eugene spoke with Cinderella Amar, a Web4, AI, and Blockchain evangelist. Amar’s Glass Ventures VC fund is involved in some very interesting Web4 projects and her passion for the tech is infectious.
Chad Sanderson is the CEO and founding father of the information contracts platform Gable.ai. Anderson says curation and management of knowledge is crucial when corporations use their data in AI applications. If you’re interested to learn how data contracts could make this occur then you definately’ll enjoy this interesting interview.
Sam had an interesting conversation with David Palmer, CPO of PairPoint by Vodafone and Web3 Asia Alliance board member about how Blockchain, Web3, and AI will redefine our perception of time and human interaction.
AI Events
The growing list of AI-themed industry events is evidence of the widespread disruptive effect AI is having.
This week saw the eighth Middle East Banking AI & Analytics Summit 2024 happen in Saudi Arabia.
The second annual DataConnect Conference West (#DCCWest) was held in Portland, Oregon where the vital contributions by women in AI and machine learning were in focus.
J On The Beach 2024 kicked off in Málaga, Spain this week. If you’re thinking that that Big Data, AI, and a beach party in Spain are a superb combo then there’s still time to join tickets.
In other news…
Here are another clickworthy AI stories we enjoyed this week:
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And that’s a wrap.
Have you tried fully immersive VR? How do you understand you aren’t experiencing it immediately? Just kidding.
This reality might be not a simulation and we must always probably make more of an effort to interact with the opposite characters, I mean people.
Do you utilize AI transcription tools? Let us know if Whisper added interesting hallucinated words to your speech. The examples we shared in our article were pretty dark.
If you’ve been having fun with our interviews we’d like to know. Send us the names of the people you’d like us to interview next, together with links to any juicy AI stories we can have missed.
