Welcome to our weekly roundup of human-assembled AI news.
This week AI got into writing jokes and spotting fibs.
A Chinese real-time model beat GPT-4o.
And OpenAI opened up when it must have closed.
Let’s dig in.
OpenAI hacked
OpenAI has been criticized for being very much closed, despite its name. This week we learned the corporate’s servers were wide open for all of the unsuitable reasons.
OpenAI suffered an information breach as a hacker breached its defenses. As the worldwide race for AI hots up we’re prone to see more attempts like this.
Microsoft is OpenAI’s biggest investor but this week it surprisingly withdrew from its observer role on OpenAI’s board and Apple also declined a seat on the table.
Microsoft says this can be a natural evolution of its relationship with OpenAI but could something else be happening here?
We’re still waiting for GPT-4o’s voice assistant to go from demo to publicly available product. While OpenAI wrings its hands and talks about questions of safety, French AI lab Kyutai released its AI voice assistant Moshi.
It’s buggy and the demo had a bunch of glitches, but at the very least Moshi is on the market for people to make use of.
Your move Sam. Kling is already killing it so chances are you’ll as well release Sora too whilst you’re at it.
Definitely created using some AI, but unsure which one. Probably Kling. pic.twitter.com/1SNW9WslJi
You have to be joking
Can AI be funny? A brand new study compared jokes written by humans to those written by GPT-3.5.
They also compared satirical headlines written by skilled comedic writers at The Onion to those written by AI. Guess whose jokes were judged as funniest in a blind test.
If there was a tool that told you when someone was lying would you utilize it? Researchers made an AI lie detector that’s a lot better at detecting lies than humans are.
It all feels like a very good idea until you explore just how socially disruptive this tech might be.
New models
Could a tiny AI model beat GPT-4? Salesforce has challenged trends in AI with the tiny yet mighty xLAM-1B and 7B models.
Agentic AI needs to show users’ natural language requests into specific API or function calls. These tiny models are a whole lot of times smaller than GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5 Pro but outperform them on the Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard.
Chinese tech company SenseTime released its multimodal SenseNova 5.5 model and said it outperforms GPT-4o. The real-time interactive version of the model displayed the identical voice functionality we saw within the GPT-4o demo, albeit in Mandarin.
SenseTime and other Chinese AI corporations are actually meting out free API tokens to woo recent customers as OpenAI shuts down API access in China.
Anthropic impressed us with Claude Sonnet 3.5 last month and its platform just got one other upgrade. The Anthropic Console and Claude got some exciting recent prompt and Artifacts capabilities.
AI bad behavior
Collaborative website design app Figma did a fast about-face because the CEO shut down its AI Make Design feature.
The app designer creates polished designs but some users said they appear suspiciously familiar. Now where have I seen that app design before….?
If adults can’t work out methods to create and use AI ethically, should we be surprised when kids get it unsuitable?
A Spanish court handed down sentences to fifteen children for creating AI-generated explicit material. It’s easy in charge the youngsters however the situation highlights how AI’s impact on children has largely been ignored.
And this sort of research doesn’t exactly encourage confidence.
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Dr. AI
Is it possible to inform if an individual is prone to develop Alzheimer’s in the following 6 years? A brand new AI system can successfully predict the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease using speech evaluation.
The accuracy of the prediction beats traditional and non-invasive tests and will see patients get earlier treatment.
In a medical breakthrough, researchers used AI to discover drug-resistant infections like typhoid before attempting to treat them with antibiotics.
The speed and accuracy of the AI system allow doctors to make faster diagnoses so that they can prescribe essentially the most effective antibiotics sooner. This might be an enormous boost for reducing the spread of drug-resistant bacteria.
In other news…
Here are another clickworthy AI stories we enjoyed this week:
And that’s a wrap.
OpenAI has been very quiet at the same time as other AI models are hot on its GPT-4o heels. Fingers crossed that we’ll have some OpenAI news next week aside from lawsuits and hacks.
Do you think that AI will ever come to grips with humor? Writing a joke is one thing but I’m unsure an algorithm could ever create the following Seinfeld or Fawlty Towers.
Let’s hope the AI engineers focus their models on easier tasks like curing cancer and free energy for now.
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