Welcome to this week’s roundup of handmade AI information.
This week AI acquired a health club instructor arrested.
A mysterious chatbot appeared after which vanished.
And international locations debated whether or not autonomous killer robots are a good suggestion.
Let’s dig in.
Thriller AI
This week a mysterious chatbot appeared seemingly out of nowhere on the LMSYS Chatbot Area. Nobody appears to know who made “gpt2-chatbot”, however customers reported efficiency that seemed to be higher than GPT-4.
Is it a second-generation GPT-4 variant? May it’s a sneaky precursor to GPT-5? We don’t know.
The thriller deepens as gpt2-chatbot has since been taken down. Sam acquired to attempt it out earlier than it disappeared and shared different customers’ experiences of the spectacular thriller chatbot.
Is OpenAI going to supply a search platform to tackle Google? OpenAI’s current SSL logs are hinting at this.
OpenAI‘s Coming with a Search Function?
OpenAI‘s current SSL certificates logs revealed one thing attention-grabbing: the area (search-dot-chatgpt-dot-com) might point out that OpenAI is growing a search performance.
Sam Altman mentioned AI and search on the Lex podcast.
The logs… pic.twitter.com/SKSgRVRiqP
— AshutoshShrivastava (@ai_for_success) April 28, 2024
Google’s DeepMind might have solved a unique AI thriller. The argument over which text-to-image diffusion mannequin is finest can lastly be settled.
The Gecko benchmark takes an attention-grabbing method to figuring out the finest AI picture generator.
Sorry, can’t make it
Ought to we make an effort to guard humanity from an AI-fueled extinction-level occasion? It appears like a good suggestion, however there doesn’t appear to be any settlement on how and who ought to do that.
The primary AI Security Summit at Bletchley Park final 12 months ended with a reassuring dedication from the worldwide group to work collectively on AI security.
The follow-up assembly is scheduled for later this month. While you see the huge gamers who now say they gained’t be attending, that dedication rings hole.
Some AI mannequin creators would like to be concerned in AI security efforts, however they don’t all the time get invited. The US Division of Homeland Safety launched its AI security board with a number of Large Tech appointees to the board.
A few of the greatest names in AI weren’t invited and it could have one thing to do with their open-model technique.
Slaughter bots – yay or nay?
Austria hosted envoys from 143 international locations at a 2-day occasion to debate autonomous weapon programs (AWS).
The Austrian International Minister Alexander Schallenberg stated our technology is going through an ‘Oppenheimer moment’ as international locations have to determine if and regulate the killer robotic arms race.
Ought to we construct absolutely autonomous AI robots, give them weapons, after which see what occurs? Or ought to we rewatch Terminator and Bladerunner as a way examine?
That is your principal talking
If somebody is recorded making offensive feedback it’s straightforward for the individual to dismiss them as AI fakes. Within the case of a Baltimore college principal, it seems that he actually was the goal of a little bit DIY AI fakery.
The college’s former health club instructor was arrested for making an AI clone of the principal’s voice. It took weeks to conclude that the racist clip was a faux and the principal quickly misplaced his job.
While you hearken to the audio it’s straightforward to see why folks thought it was real.
False notes
Beethoven famously stated, “Music can change the world.” AI music mills are definitely altering the world of music, however not in a great way.
Individuals are utilizing refined text-to-music mills like Udio and Suno to create and add whole albums of AI music to Spotify. And 1000’s of persons are listening to the tracks.
Streaming firms and artists are looking for a method to navigate the muddy waters of AI music. At the very least some people are having a little bit of enjoyable with it earlier than AI ruins music ceaselessly.
OMG… AI is gonna destroy us all… however this was humorous!!! 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀 Audio Up! pic.twitter.com/rmjb3xGApd
— GamER MD (@alexandertyler) April 27, 2024
AI utilizing human artists’ creations for “inspiration” is a part of the continued argument over what constitutes “fair use” of publicly accessible information.
OpenAI continues to be combating authorized battles over its wholesale seize of web information to coach its GPT fashions. The corporate is attempting to get onto the straight and slim with a deal it struck with The Monetary Occasions over coaching information.
Speaking AI
This week I acquired to have a really attention-grabbing dialogue with Soheil Zabihi from TokenScope. TokenScope makes use of AI in its crypto transaction monitoring resolution.
Soheil just lately spoke on a panel on the World Blockchain Present which ran concurrently with the World AI Present in Dubai. He had some attention-grabbing insights on how Blockchain and AI will change the way in which we transact on-line.
In different information…
Listed here are another clickworthy AI tales we loved this week:
And that’s a wrap.
Did you get to check out gpt2-chatbot earlier than it acquired taken down? I’m betting the chatbot was a touch that OpenAI will launch one thing huge to upstage Google’s upcoming I/O occasion.
Do you assume AI robots duking it out as an alternative of human troopers is the way in which to go? Or are we engineering humanity’s demise?
The AI music developments have made me a little bit cautious. I’m terrified that I’ll detect an AI-generated piece of music that I actually like. I’m hoping these instruments don’t get higher than they already are, however it appears inevitable.
Have you ever heard a observe that proves the music Turing take a look at has been handed? Ship us a hyperlink, together with any attention-grabbing AI information tales we might have missed.
