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Google’s AI search setback

The AI Overviews debacle and leaked search ranking documents tell a common story about the web's future — and it's not pretty

platformer.news/google-ai-over

ICYMI

How to stop google AI overviews from showing

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ICYMI

Last week, a draft UK government report from a group of 30 independent experts concluded that there was “no evidence yet, external” that AI could generate a biological weapon or carry out a sophisticated cyber attack. The plausibility of humans losing control of AI was “highly contentious”, it said.

The first iteration of the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI has been published - report

gov.uk/government/news/safety-

ICYMI switching google search AI results off isn't possible

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doing this will stop AI answers showing

Chrome settings > search engine > In the Add search engine dialog, enter a name for your search engine (e.g., "Google Web"). For a shortcut, enter a keyword to quickly use this search engine from the address bar (e.g., "Web").

Input > {google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s

Click add & Make Default

Will stop the AI overlay in chrome browser

AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchers

All five systems tested were found to be ‘highly vulnerable’ to attempts to elicit harmful responses

theguardian.com/technology/art

UK’s AI Safety Institute (AISI) said systems it had tested were “highly vulnerable” to jailbreaks

The government declined to reveal the names of the five models its tested, but said they were already in public use.

Chrome settings > search engine > In the Add search engine dialog, enter a name for your search engine (e.g., "Google Web"). For a shortcut, enter a keyword to quickly use this search engine from the address bar (e.g., "Web").

Input > {google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s

Cluck add & Make Default

Will stop the AI overpay in chrome browser

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Gemini can soon be brought up via the power button as an overlay panel, where it will have access to whatever's on your screen. The demo involved opening a PDF in Android's PDF reader, summarizing it, and answering questions based on the content.....along with other demos shown

Phone call: scammer says "transfer the money in your bank account," but Android is listening.

US, China agree to meet in Switzerland to discuss most pressing issue of all: AI use

theregister.com/2024/05/13/us_

No negotiations on tech sanctions, just talks about not destroying the world

That research, published in the journal Science, claimed the model was able to connect various words and phrases uttered by the subject to the experiences captured in the frames of the videos. Presented with a word or phrase, the model was able to recall relevant images.

science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

What's with AI boffins strapping GoPros to toddlers? We take a closer look

theregister.com/2024/05/12/bof

AI researchers looking for better ways to train large language models are turning to the masters of language acquisition – children – to find out how it's done.

In February, they trained a neural network on the experiences of a young child using 61 hours of video footage.

UK inertia on LLMs and copyright is 'de facto endorsement'

A committee of UK legislators has slammed the government for its response to alleged copyright theft as a "de facto endorsement" of the way tech companies build large language models.…

In a letter to science and technology minister Michelle Donelan, the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications and Digital said the government's record on copyright is "inadequate and deteriorating."

(PDF file)

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‘Miss AI’ is billed as a leap forward – but feels like a monumental step backwards

AI models take every toxic gendered beauty norm and bundle them up into completely unrealistic package

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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What fresh hell is this, you ask?

Well, I regret to inform you that AI beauty pageants are a thing now

Why is ChatGPT so slow?

Switching to the paid ChatGPT-4 model won’t necessarily speed things up either. All of this begs two important questions: why is ChatGPT so slow and what can we do to improve it?

Each time you send the chatbot a message, it needs to decode it and generate a new response. Internally, ChatGPT’s underlying language model processes text as tokens instead of words.

more about tokens here

androidauthority.com/what-is-c

meanwhile: Admin alert: Copilot app lands on Windows Server 2022

AI assistant turned up via an Edge update. It was an accident. This time...

Microsoft's Copilot obsession has continued with the AI assistant unexpectedly arriving on Windows Server 2022 this week, in a situation the software giant is calling an "incorrect install."

It should be removed from the server operating system as part of a future Edge update, Microsoft said

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wind

The Pentagon Is Flirting With The Dark Side Of AI

Proponents argue that the rapid development and deployment of autonomous systems, pilotless vehicles, and hypersonic weapons will shorten the time between recognizing a potential threat and destroying it — a process analysts and military leaders often refer to as shortening the "kill chain."

responsiblestatecraft.org/pent

Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

Pluralistic: Humans are not perfectly vigilant

pluralistic.net/2024/04/01/hum

funny thing happened on our way to the future. It took place recently in a huge sports arena in California and was described by some wag as “AI Woodstock”

whereas that original music festival had attendees who were mainly stoned on conventional narcotics, the 11,000 or so in San Jose were high on the Kool-Aid so lavishly provided by the tech industry

How did a small developer of graphics cards for gamers suddenly become the third most valuable firm on the planet?

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

is introducing a new feature, for generated videos, that will require creators to acknowledge if a video they’ve uploaded is 'meaningfully altered or synthetically generated and seems realistic'

YouTube says that this won’t apply to every single piece of content out there.

support.google.com/youtube/thr

For now, these labels will only show up on the mobile version of YouTube, but it will eventually cover the desktop version as well.

They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history.

8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story

wired.com/story/eight-google-e

In case you were wondering this tool is probably one of the better AI detectors

AI Content Detector

copyleaks.com/ai-content-detec

The Most Accurate AI Detector According to third-party studies and Trusted by Leading Organizations and Institutions

(Study)

Testing the reliability of AI detection tools

researchgate.net/publication/3

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