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Fáilte Abhaile 🏴 “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse”
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OpenAI is rolling out new beta features for ChatGPT Plus members right now. Subscribers have reported that the update includes the ability to upload files and work with them,
https://x.com/TheBigBangAI/status/1718714788803383713
as well as multimodal support.
https://x.com/NorthstarBrain/status/1718708111706636403
Basically, users won’t have to select modes like Browse with Bing from the GPT-4 dropdown — it will instead guess what they want based on context.
This coming week, around 100 world leaders, tech bosses, academics and AI researchers are gathering at the UK's Bletchley Park campus, once home to the codebreakers who helped secure victory during World War Two. Their purpose is to take part in discussions about how best to maximise the benefits of this powerful technology while minimising the risks.
Can Rishi Sunak’s big summit save us from AI nightmare?
AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert
A leading researcher, who will attend this week’s AI safety summit in London, warns of ‘real threat to the public conversation’
search engines have a problem with deepfake porn videos. Since deepfakes emerged half a decade ago, the technology has consistently been used to abuse and harass women—using machine learning to morph someone’s head into pornography without their permission. Now the number of nonconsensual deepfake porn videos is growing at an exponential rate, fueled by the advancement of AI
https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-porn-is-out-of-control/
It’s time for a history piece. I didn’t touch the internet and telecom bubbles in my last history piece, but I wanted to save an entire piece for it. I think it’s the best analogy for the historic boom in AI and infrastructure. Let’s see if there are lessons to learn from the past
Lessons from history: the rise and fall of the telecom bubble - the rise of the internet telecom bubble lessons in leverage, rates and fraud
https://open.substack.com/pub/mule/p/lessons-from-history-the-rise-and
Google Photos’ new AI tools are as complicated and messy as a memory
Google is committing to adding metadata to flag images edited with generative AI, so at least people will be able to know when an altered photo gets shared around
https://www.theverge.com/23902248/google-photos-pixel-8-ai-magic-editor-best-take-audio-magic-eraser
Google says it’s combining “Bard’s generative and reasoning capabilities with Assistant’s personalized help.” This includes Bard Extensions that can access your Gmail, Google Drive, and Docs to answer questions.
Google calls Assistant with Bard an “early experiment.” It will soon roll out to early testers for feedback before seeing public availability, on Android and iOS
Fact-checkers scrambled to deal with faked audio recordings released days before a tight election, in Slovakia, a warning for other countries with looming votes.
Next year, the UK, India, the EU, and the US are set to hold elections. The fact-checkers trying to hold the line against disinformation on social media in Slovakia say their experience shows AI is already advanced enough to disrupt elections, while they lack the tools to fight back
https://www.wired.com/story/slovakias-election-deepfakes-show-ai-is-a-danger-to-democracy/
So perhaps the biggest question of 2023 is whether we can prevent the rise of Skynet* at all.
or maybe not.
The AI Revolution – Will 2023 See the Rise of Skynet?
The History of AI
You Either Love or Hate AI
The ChatGPT Honeytrap
How to get the Best Results from ChatGPT
Other AI Tools
The Ethics of AI Content
Future Prediction for AI
The Takeaway Lesson from all of this
https://nimbl.nz/insights/the-ai-revolution-will-2023-see-the-rise-of-skynet/
all the AI images with subliminal messages are using ControlNet that placed words on top of a picture
optical illusion used in paintings for centuries, now revived using AI.
Squint or hold your phone away, you will see a hidden message.
Subliminal messages in silhouettes and you WILL ▆▆▆▆
Rumour: Gemini (Google's upcoming ChatGPT competitor) is being trained on YouTube video transcripts.
38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers
Wiz Research found a data exposure incident on Microsoft’s AI GitHub repository, including over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages – all caused by one misconfigured SAS token
Thread:
he UK’s Competition and Markets Authority warns AI models must be accountable and competitive
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/18/23878784/uk-anti-trust-regulator-ai-principles
The nation’s biggest technology executives on Wednesday loosely endorsed the idea of government regulations for artificial intelligence at an unusual closed-door meeting in the U.S. Senate. But there is little consensus on what regulation would look like, and the political path for legislation is difficult.
OpenOcean and Oxford University have teamed up to create this open-access startup insights platform mapping the UK AI startup ecosystem to provide valuable data for all stakeholders.
With O3, you can easily search, filter, and explore our extensive database containing nearly 1,300 UK AI companies
“The girls call me Marmalade,”
These Prisoners Are Training AI
In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners
During three-hour shifts, for which she’s paid €1.54 ($1.67) an hour, the laptop is programmed to show Marmalade short chunks of text about real estate and then ask her yes or no questions about what she’s just read.
Prompt injection refers to a technique where users input specific prompts or instructions to influence the responses generated by a language model like ChatGPT.
threat actors mainly use this technique to mod the ChatGPT instances for several malicious purposes
https://gbhackers.com/hackers-compromised-chatgpt-model/
An independent security researcher recently developed and launched a new tool “promptmap” that will enable users to test the prompt injection attacks on ChatGPT instances.
The Guardian has confirmed that it has prevented OpenAI from deploying software that harvests its content.
ChatGPT has been accused of a series of data protection breaches in a GDPR complaint filed by a privacy researcher.
The complaint argues that OpenAI infringes EU privacy rules in areas such as lawful basis, transparency, fairness, data access rights, and privacy by design.
https://www.cysecurity.news/2023/09/openais-chatgpt-accused-of-gdpr-breaches.html
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Fáilte Abhaile 🏴 “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse”
ta be aff yer heid helps
Joined Nov 2017