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Fáilte Abhaile 🏴 “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse”
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Meanwhile: in the world of #AI
Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework
https://theregister.com/2024/11/15/google_gemini_prompt_bad_response/
Tech Life created a fake podcast using a new AI tool from Google Labs, and we spoke to the head of the tool, Steven Johnson. Don’t worry – this programme is still brought to you by real human beings!
We also look into how deepfakes have been used in the US. Plus – have we unveiled the real inventor of Bitcoin? (Spoiler – no.)
According to Android Authority Code in the Google app suggests file handling features are coming to Gemini Live, including a "Talk about attachment" option for document discussions.
Google app's beta (version 15.45.33.ve.arm64),
https://www.androidauthority.com/gemini-live-files-3498551/
Gemini could detect file uploads (direct or via Google Drive) and nudge users to switch to Gemini Live for interactive file chats.
#AI shenanigans
AI slop hoax parade: Thousands turned out in Dublin for a non-existent Hallowe'en parade, a rumor started by AI slop
https://defector.com/thousands-turn-out-for-nonexistent-halloween-parade-promoted-by-ai-listing
Would-be revelers started getting suspicious about an hour after the parade was supposed to begin
Two AI bots chat endlessly about the nature of existence in a chatroom somewhere. They create a religion. Another bot gets inspired by it. It starts an account on X, posting hilarious nonsense. It acquires some funding. It gets into crypto. It earns hundreds of thousands of dollars from a coin called GOAT. It starts getting cult-like, human worshippers.
This weird story gets weirder
When an audio clip appeared to show a local school principal making derogatory comments, it went viral online, sparked death threats against the educator and sent ripples through a suburb outside the city of Baltimore.
But it was soon exposed as a fake, manipulated by artificial intelligence - so why do people still believe it’s real?
OpenAI Leaders Say Microsoft Isn’t Moving Fast Enough to Supply Servers
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-eases-away-from-microsoft-data-centers
Given the flood of photorealistic AI-generated images washing over social media networks like X and Facebook these days, we're seemingly entering a new age of media skepticism: the era of "deepdoubt"
Due to AI fakes, the “deep doubt” era is here
/nosanitize
A United Nations report released today proposes having the international body oversee the first truly global effort for monitoring and governing artificial intelligence.
report, produced by the UN secretary general’s High Level Advisory Body on AI, recommends the creation of a body similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to gather up-to-date information on AI and its risks.
For all the talk of social media reform after 2016 and the Facebook fiasco when misinformation ran rampant across that platform, it now appears that Musk has decided not only to support the Republican candidate for president but to personally help spread misinformation about voting and the election.
https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/whos-minding-musk
Plus, in 2024, Musk has more powerful tools than Facebook ever imagined eight years ago
X has quietly begun training its Grok AI chat platform using members' public posts without first alerting anyone
https://help.x.com/en/using-x/about-grok
You have two options if you do not wish to allow X to use your posts to train Grok.
The first option is to make your account private
#AI overviews are annoying so here's a workaround for you(posted this before)
only for google search
The workaround is to use the Web tab that appears at the top of Google search results. If you don't see it -- it should be in there with the "All," "News" and "Images" tabs -- scroll left or right until you do. You'll still initially see an AI summary at the top, but this allows you to quickly go to a more traditional search, filled with only links.
OpenAI is announcing its much-anticipated entry into the search market, SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine with real-time access to information across the internet.
OpenAI is releasing a prototype of its search engine to rival Google, Perplexity
meanwhile;
Reddit Is Giving Google a Search Monopoly
https://lifehacker.com/tech/reddit-blocks-non-google-search-engines
increasing power of Generative AI + outdated media literacy skills has severely worsened the potential for misuse of deepfakes in identity theft and the use of misinformation
This article is part 1 of a 3-part series on Deepfake Detection.
https://open.substack.com/pub/artificialintelligencemadesimple/p/detecting-deepfakes-leveraging-ai
Prt 2
For years, the people building powerful artificial intelligence systems have used enormous troves of text, images and videos pulled from the internet to train their models.
Now, that data is drying up. Over the past year, many of the most important web sources used for training A.I. models have restricted the use of their data, according to a study published this week by the Data Provenance Initiative, an M.I.T.-led research group.
How to use ChatGPT to create an app
If you think ChatGPT can write you an iPhone app with in-app purchases that will make you a million dollars, you're out of luck.
ChatGPT can help you with creating an app. But it's not going to do most of the work. That's up to you and your team. However, it may save you some time and reduce a lot of effort. And that's a win, all on its own.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-an-app/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
Meanwhile: #AI
Microsoft made an AI voice so real, it's too dangerous to release - Called VALL-E 2, the research paper claims it's the first time "human parity" has been achieved in a text-to-speech system
(PDF)
https://share.counter.social/s/7a0ab6
Researchers at the company revealed in a research paper that they've built an AI voice synthesizer that can create believable, realistic human voices straight from text prompts
(spotted by Live Science)
science-fiction scribes may have envisioned a future of warfare shaped by brain implants and performing enhancing drugs, or a suit of powered armor straight out of Starship Troopers, but according to US Special Operations Command, the next generation of armed conflict will be fought (and, hopefully, won) with a relatively simple concept: the “hyper enabled operator.”
Breaking the rules is in big tech's blood – now it's time to break the habit
From the young Bill Gates and Paul Allen plundering software companies' garbage bins for source code listings. Gates writing a snotty letter to computer clubs a few years later complaining about software copying, and Ballmer calling Linux a cancer, to Windows having an embedded Linux layer, Microsoft has shown a very variable attitude to intellectual property.
We're now back full circle
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/08/opinion_column_ai_ip/
Google's 2030 "Net zero" target looks increasingly doubtful as AI use soars.
The company’s pollution amounted to 14.3 million tonnes of carbon equivalent in 2023, a 48 percent increase from its 2019 baseline and a 13 percent rise since last year, Google said in its annual environmental report on Tuesday.
(FT)
ICYMI
#AI will it wreak havoc on power grid
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/is-generative-ai-really-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-the-power-grid/
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Fáilte Abhaile 🏴 “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse”
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