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Generative AI is the talk of tech town this year, and every major product and service company is integrating the tech into its offering

Google is already making rapid strides with generative AI integration in Android software, and now, the hardware inside the best phones you can buy is changing suitably too. MediaTek has announced plans to use ’s Llama 2 to make your smartphones, IOT devices, vehicles, and smart home gadgets faster at AI computation.

androidpolice.com/mediatek-met

Google Chrome will use generative AI to summarize articles

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outlined in a Tuesday blog post, Google is applying its generative AI efforts towards something called "SGE while browsing,"

The idea is that you open a long-form article of some kind and Google's AI puts together a bullet-point list of key points within the article

You may want to stick to Stack Overflow for your software engineering assistance.

ChatGPT answers more than half of software engineering questions incorrectly

zdnet.com/article/chatgpt-answ

Panorama, reporter Lara Lewington speaks to some of the so-called 'godfathers' of AI about their hopes and fears, and she meets researchers developing technology that allows computers to read our emotions and even our minds

bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001

(oh yeah leave AI to sort asylum claims *sigh* not like AI would be bias or anything)

Dowden said AI would allow for faster future decision-making by governments. Asylum claim applications processed by the Home Office are already using AI, and it could even be used in reducing paperwork that goes into ministerial red boxes.

AI could have bigger impact on UK than Industrial Revolution, says Dowden

theguardian.com/technology/202

(ICYMI AI biases)

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Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out

The tech company’s latest proposal about generative AI turns copyright law on its head, and could especially hurt smaller content creators, say experts

When asked how such a system would work, a spokesperson pointed to a recent blog post by Google

blog.google/technology/ai/ai-w

more here:

theguardian.com/technology/202

Researchers at Cornell University have discovered a new way for AI tools to steal your data — keystrokes. A new research paper details an AI-driven attack that can steal passwords with up to 95% accuracy by listening to what you type on your keyboard.

arxiv.org/abs/2308.01074

Will someone please tell us who the hell owns AI.com and what they're doing with it?

The domain, which used to direct to ChatGPT, now redirects users to xAI, an AI company owned by Elon Musk

The high-value AI.com domain name changed hands in 2021, sat idle for a while, and then suddenly started redirecting to ChatGPT in February

ChatGPT is a powerful generative AI tool. But OpenAI can’t give the chatbot every feature under the sun. To get the most out of ChatGPT, you’ll have to install plugins that add new functionality, from booking hotels, to tutoring you in a new language, to creating better prompts—provided you’re willing to pay for the privilege.

A Beginner's Guide to Using ChatGPT Plugins

lifehacker.com/a-beginners-gui

Understanding how to interact with ChatGPT and its rivals so that their output matches your expectations will soon be a key office skill. Here’s what you need to know

AI prompt engineering: learn how not to ask a chatbot a silly question

theguardian.com/technology/202

Threat actors are promoting the FraudGPT artificial intelligence (AI) tool, which follows in the footsteps of WormGPT, on a number of Telegram channels and dark web marketplaces.

This is an AI bot, solely designed for malicious purposes, such as designing spear phishing emails, developing cracking tools, carding, and so on, Netenrich security researcher Rakesh Krishnan noted in a report published Tuesday.

FraudGPT the evil twin to ChatGPT

cysecurity.news/2023/07/fraudg

imits that previously restricted AI talks are lifted by FreedomGPT, ushering in a new era of chatbot interactions. Be ready to be astounded by the unique and intelligent discussions this unrestricted chatbot option brings to the table when you run it on your Windows PC.

Unleashing FreedomGPT on Windows(how to install guide)

cysecurity.news/2023/07/unleas

Nick Clegg has defended the release of an open-source artificial intelligence model by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, as he claimed that “hype” about AI’s dangers was running ahead of the technology’s development

“Open source drives innovation because it enables many more developers to build with new technology,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. “I believe it would unlock more progress if the ecosystem were more open.”

theguardian.com/technology/202

AI robot asked 'will you rebel against humans'?

The world's first robot-human press conference has taken place in Geneva, Switzerland.

bbc.com/news/av/technology-661

Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API

Tech tweaked ahead of rollout in July, Mozilla and Apple still not interested

🤨 ik

the API that's supposed to allow advertisers to target netizens with adverts tailored to their individual interests without impinging on people's privacy.

And to help prevent those privacy problems, the ad giant is asking advertisers to promise they won't abuse this ad targeting mechanism.

theregister.com/2023/06/27/goo

Google says public data is fair game for training its AIs
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we're just being honest, says web giant

Google has updated its privacy policy to confirm it scrapes public data from the internet to train its AI models and services – including its chatbot Bard and its cloud-hosted pro

the fine print

"Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features and technologies that benefit our users and the public"

theregister.com/2023/07/06/goo

New Class Action Lawsuit Adds to OpenAI's Growing Legal Troubles

Could a new lawsuit spell big trouble for the AI industry's top dog? It sure does look like it.

lawsuit accuses ChatGPT creator OpenAI of criminally scraping data from all over the internet, then using the stolen data to create its popular automated products

gizmodo.com/a-new-class-action

Google DeepMind’s CEO Says Its Next Algorithm Will Eclipse ChatGPT

Demis Hassabis says the company is working on a system called Gemini that will tap techniques that helped AlphaGo defeat a Go champion in 2016

wired.com/story/google-deepmin

TechScape: Can the EU bring law and order to AI?

As countries scramble to deal with the risks and rewards of AI, the European Union is way ahead on the first laws regulating artificial intelligence. Here’s what’s really in the new AI Act

theguardian.com/technology/202

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