Welcome to our weekly roundup of premium-grade AI news.
This week we wondered if AI is the explanation why we will’t find any aliens.
Google’s robot will beat you at table tennis.
And Gemini gets a voice while OpenAI stutters.
Let’s dig in.
Is anyone on the market?
There are billions of stars and statistically a good amount of habitable planets, so why haven’t we detected signs of alien civilizations?
Is there some extinction event that inevitably wipes out a civilization before it may well head out to the celebs? A brand new thesis for the Fermi Paradox adds a twist to those questions and asks: Is AI a Great Filter or a cosmic colonizer?
But is it reasonable to assume that AI is as dangerous as some claim? A brand new study challenges the narrative of AI posing an ‘existential threat’. So perhaps we will chill now and stop worrying about Skynet becoming a reality.
“ChatGPT, generate a meme from 2030″ https://t.co/Y0WecFOykg pic.twitter.com/gFK7PYXGPc
Anything you possibly can do…
The engineers at Google’s DeepMind insist they’re doing serious research, but their latest project will need to have been quite a lot of fun.
DeepMind built a table tennis robot and it’s pretty good. It beats newbie players 100% of the time and the demo videos show it giving its trainers an honest challenge too.
If an AI model had free reign to research whatever it desired to, what could it discover? Sakana AI developed The AI Scientist, a framework that uses AI models to perform fully automatic scientific discovery.
The AI Scientist isn’t perfect, however it generates academic-quality research papers with novel discoveries at $25 a pop. Imagine if we could put a brilliant smart AI in a lab and tell it to research a cure for cancer.
OpenAI voices its concerns
For weeks OpenAI has told us that we will’t get to play with ChatGPT’s voice assistant yet since it isn’t ‘protected’. This week we got to see a few of the weird voice assistant glitches that OpenAI red teamers detected during testing.
Besides a bent to repeat your voice and randomly shout things, there are other issues they may must fix before we finally get our chatty ChatGPT.
For now, I’ll keep updating the ChatGPT app every couple of minutes until the voice feature appears.
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Gemini speaks!
At the Made By Google launch event, Google showcased latest AI assistant features which are coming to Android phones. It also did a demo of Gemini Live, Gemini’s voice assistant.
It has 10 voices to pick from and, unlike OpenAI’s version, it’s rolling out to Google Advanced subscribers as we speak.
True to form, OpenAI found a option to dampen the mood of Google fans. Its updated ChatGPT-4o-latest model just knocked Gemini 1.5 Pro off the highest spot on the LMSYS leaderboard.
Bad AI
The dual-use nature of AI got here into stark focus this week as a dark web study exposed a surge in AI-generated child abuse content. A UK man is facing charges that challenge the flexibility of current laws to maintain up with latest digital crimes.
Why are AI image generators so good at making abhorrent images of youngsters? It seems that the makers of the models inadvertently trained them to do it. With the genie out of the bottle, it’s an issue that is probably not fixable.
AI Summits
Here are some exciting AI events which are happening soon.
In other news…
wow, grok 2 will literally make any image pic.twitter.com/gkaJTsMJuI
And that’s a wrap.
What’s your tackle the distinct lack of alien life? Did their AI take them out? Are we next? Or perhaps they took one take a look at our social media platforms and decided to dam our calls.
Thanks to Google we finally have an AI voice assistant. The only problem is, I’m undecided I’m able to migrate to Android. Let’s hope Apple gives Siri a lift with some latest voices.
Have you noticed an improvement in ChatGPT’s performance with the model upgrade? It seems to get some classic problems right that other models struggle with. I’m hoping Sam is just gaslighting us by saying we won’t get GPT-5 this yr.
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