Artificial Intelligence

AI chatbots become more sycophantic as they get more advanced (archive.is)

If a person says they believe an objectively false statement, AIs tend to agree with them – and the problem seems to get worse as models get bigger

US military's special task force will explore generative AI (www.popsci.com)

As AI-based tools become more commonly used, the DoD is looking into how the military could integrate it into its operations.

An Iowa school district is using AI to ban books | Engadget (www.engadget.com)

Mason City Iowa's school district is scrambling to ensure its library collection is ideologically pure enough for the state's new content restrictions ahead of the new school year and has turned to AI for help..

A New Attack Impacts ChatGPT—and No One Knows How to Stop It (www.wired.com)

Researchers found a simple way to make ChatGPT, Bard, and other chatbots misbehave, proving that AI is hard to tame.

Scientists Working on Merging AI With Human Brain Cells (futurism.com)

Researchers just got a $600,000 grant from the Australian government to study ways of merging human brain cells with artificial intelligence.

ChatGPT update allows it to remember who you are and what you like | Engadget (www.engadget.com)

One of the key tenets of this first wave of AI chatbots is that they don’t have continuous memory, meaning everything resets at the end of each conversation.

Google is testing a new AI tool that can write news articles and reportedly pitching it to The New York Times and News Corp (www.businessinsider.com)

Google has pitched several news organizations its journalism AI tool called Genesis, which some news executives found unsettling, the NYT reported.

AI creates a realistic video of you dancing from a single still image (archive.is)

Want to jump on the latest TikTok dance trend, but don’t have time to learn the moves? Now, an artificial intelligence (AI) can create a video of you dancing from a single still image.

Google Bard Extensions are bringing AI chatbot to YouTube, Gmail, Zillow and more (www.tomsguide.com)

Google's ChatGPT competitor, Bard, could soon be directly integrated into its host of tools like Maps, YouTube and Gmail, bringing the power of its AI chatbot to the apps you use every day. These Bard Extensions, which Google initially announced at Google I/O, could also communicate and perform tasks with third-party services...

More than 1,300 experts call AI a force for good (www.bbc.com)

An open letter organised by the UK professional body for IT says AI is not a threat to humanity.

OpenAI announces $5 million partnership to support local news (mashable.com)

OpenAI is making friends with local orgs, which has big implications for all of media.

AIs trained on AI-generated images produce glitches and blurs | New S… (archive.is)

Using AI-generated images to train AI quickly creates a loop where the results get worse in either quality or visual diversity

AI’s “tech tsunami” is coming for call center workers (restofworld.org)

The Philippines’ 1.6 million outsourced workers fear they may soon be automated out of a job.

MIT study: ChatGPT increases productivity for human workers (mashable.com)

Hard data that ChatGPT helps with work.

Google's Bard AI chatbot is vulnerable to use by hackers. So is ChatGPT. (mashable.com)

AI chatbots aren't great gatekeepers.

AP and OpenAI enter into two-year partnership to help train algorithmic models | Engadget (www.engadget.com)

‘The Associated Press’ (AP) and ChatGPT parent company OpenAI have reached a news-sharing agreement, but not for the reasons you may think.

Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries (blog.google)

Today we're expanding Bard to new languages and countries, and launching new features to help you get creative and boost your productivity.

Climate Change Could Stump AI Weather Prediction - Scientific American (archive.is)

Artificial intelligence taps historical weather data in forecasting, but the changing climate is complicating such efforts

'Midjourney Magazine' Is Here—and It’s Soulless (www.wired.com)

Filled almost entirely with AI-generated images, this magazine embodies the threat artificial intelligence poses to journalism.

Using AI, Income-Tax department sends notices to tax evaders for fake donations (www.moneycontrol.com)

The Indian income tax department is reassessing returns after using AI to identify skewed donation-income ratios for FY19.

AI and Media Titans Quietly Hash Out Future of Content Licensing (www.artisana.ai)

The agreements placed on data moats by these companies will set the financial future for this informational model....

Groundbreaking AI project translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform at push of a button (www.timesofisrael.com)

'Google Translate'-like program for Akkadian cuneiform will enable tens of thousands of digitized but unread tablets to be translated to English. Accuracy is debatable

Neural Dynamic Image-Based Rendering (kbin.social)

Crosspost from m/ArtificialIntelligence

Meta's Open-Source Massively Multilingual Speech AI Handles over 1,100 Languages (www.infoq.com)

Meta AI open-sourced the Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model, which supports automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) in over 1,100 languages and language identification (LID) in over 4,000 languages. MMS can outperform existing models and covers nearly 10x the number of languages.