AI generated video has just changed forever
Simultaneously really impressive and really Scarry
ChatGPT started throwing out “unexpected responses” on Tuesday night according to OpenAI’s status page. Users posted screenshots of their ChatGPT conversations full of wild, nonsensical answers from the AI chatbot. The issue appeared ongoing Wed
“We are investigating reports of unexpected responses from ChatGPT,” said OpenAI on its status page Tues night. “We’re continuing to monitor the situation,”
Resolved - ChatGPT is operating normally.
Feb 21, 08:14 PST
AI System Beats Chess Puzzles With ‘Artificial Brainstorming’
By bringing together disparate approaches, machines can reach a new level of creative problem-solving.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/google-deepmind-trains-artificial-brainstorming-in-chess-ai-20231115/
Google promised to fix Gemini, and some improvements are already here
https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-highlights-recent-gemini-updates
Reddit will let “an unnamed large AI company” have access to its user-generated content platform in a new licensing deal, according to Bloomberg yesterday
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/17/24075670/reddit-ai-training-license-deal-user-content
meanwhile: Google rebranding Bard to Gemini, the change was made official just a few days ago.
The Google Gemini app is now accessible in multiple regions outside the US
while also announcing a beefed-up model known as Gemini Advanced, available with the $20/month Google OneAI Premium Plan.
the company launched the Gemini mobile app to replace Assistant
interesting article
What the birth of the spreadsheet can teach us about generative AI
Lessons from an earlier software tool that changed the world
https://www.ft.com/content/c5f7909f-0bac-40fa-b5a8-ff34c38b89a9
"Normalizing AI-powered monitoring at transport hubs is a slippery slope towards a surveillance state, and must be subject to greater transparency and public consultation"
Tfl tested an AI system combined with CCTV footage on Underground commuters to monitor behaviour
Documents sent to WIRED in response to a Freedom of Information Act request detail how TfL used a wide range of computer vision algorithms to track people’s behavior
https://www.wired.com/story/london-underground-ai-surveillance-documents/
Check out this article on how GeoSPY AI can support and accelerate your OSINT investigations
https://osintteam.blog/how-geospyai-can-be-used-to-aid-in-osint-investigations-29a35cb71ecf
Perhaps Churchill was right: The uncertainty of what lies ahead, good or bad, may just be the thing that keeps us hopeful about the future.
Legislating the Future—Safeguarding Creativity in the Age of AI | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/legislating-futuresafeguarding-creativity-age-ai-opinion-1867890
Elderly Republican and Democratic lawmakers are coming together to introduce legislation they say cracks down on "AI fraud"—but in reality, these overbroad bills would severely curtail free expression online and potentially prohibit everything from South Park episodes to memes featuring famous people.
Boomers in Congress Are About to Outlaw Memes | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/boomers-congress-are-about-outlaw-memes-opinion-1867909
Deepfake CFO tricks Hong Kong biz out of $25 million
Recordings of past vidchats suspected as source of fakery – so there's another class of data you need to lock down
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/05/hong_kong_deepfaked_cfo/
meanwhile: in #AI
EU member states approve world-first AI law
https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-approves-ai-act
and
UK fails to reach consensus on AI copyright code in major blow to artists
After the whole Taylor Swift pornographic deepfake fiasco, you'd think Google Bard might be a little more careful.
Google said, "we apply filters designed to avoid the generation of images of named people."
In other words you're not supposed to be able to generate images of famous people
one user on X (formerly Twitter) found out it, was surprisingly easy to generate an image of Taylor Swift
With major elections in the UK, US and India due this year, there are also concerns audio deepfakes - the name for the kind of sophisticated fake voices AI can create - could be used to generate misinformation aimed at manipulating the democratic outcomes
Should we fear an attack of the voice clones?
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Perhaps this comes as no surprise, but AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) top of the list of the hottest technologies expected for 2024
Outlook 2024: What Comes Next for Tech?
https://connectedworld.com/outlook-2024-what-comes-next-for-tech/
Counterfeit drugs are running rampant around the world. Case in point: More than one million people die each year from counterfeit drugs and more than 200,000 people die each year from counterfeit anti-allergy drugs alone
#AI can help
an AI-based counterfeit detector comes from Cypheme. Found in OpenAI’s GPTStore, this tech can allow consumers to verify the authenticity of health products using a smartphone.
Report: IWF research into how artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to create child sexual abuse imagery online.
(report PDF)
https://share.counter.social/s/c14f30
realistic full-motion video content will become commonplace. The first examples of short AI CSAM videos have already been seen – these are only going to get more realistic and more widespread.
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