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A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren’t Actually AI Doomers
17Aug By adminNo Comments
Technology

A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren’t Actually AI Doomers

This March, nearly 35,000 AI researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and concerned citizens signed an open letter from the nonprofit Future of Life Institute that called for a “pause” on AI development, due to the risks to humanity revealed in the capabilities of programs such as ChatGPT.“Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks, and we must ask ourselves ... Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?”I could still be proven wrong, but almost six months later and with AI development faster than ever, civilization hasn’t crumbled. Heck, Bing Chat, Microsoft’s “revolutionary,” ChatGPT-infused search oracle, hasn’t even displaced Google as the leader in search. So what should we make of the letter...
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This Showdown Between Humans and Chatbots Could Keep You Safe From Bad AI
15Aug By adminNo Comments
Technology

This Showdown Between Humans and Chatbots Could Keep You Safe From Bad AI

Large language models like those powering ChatGPT and other recent chatbots have broad and impressive capabilities because they are trained with massive amounts of text. Michael Sellitto, head of geopolitics and security at Anthropic, says this also gives the systems a “gigantic potential attack or risk surface.”Microsoft’s head of red-teaming, Ram Shankar Sivu Kumar, says a public contest provides a scale more suited to the challenge of checking over such broad systems and could help grow the expertise needed to improve AI security. “By empowering a wider audience, we get more eyes and talent looking into this thorny problem of red-teaming AI systems,” he says.Rumman Chowdhury, founder of Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit developing ethical AI systems that helped design and organize the c...
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The Senate’s AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past
4Aug By adminNo Comments
Technology

The Senate’s AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past

In short, the tentacles of US tech firms are everywhere—vaccines, food, cancer research, psilocybin centers, criminal justice reform, homelessness—the list could reach the moon. (Speaking of the moon, how could we forget commercial spaceflight?) And the AI boom is likely to further expand tech firms’ power and riches. Yet on Capitol Hill, some powerful Republicans are focused on one goal: ensuring American AI dominance.On this front, Rubio generally sees any new regulation as a needless-to-harmful constraint on US technology giants and their AI experiments. One near-universal takeaway from the briefings is that America can’t afford to be number two.“You’re dealing with a technology that knows no national borders, so even if we write laws that say a company can’t do that in America, it doe...
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Hands On With Google Search’s Answer to ChatGPT
28Jul By adminNo Comments
Technology

Hands On With Google Search’s Answer to ChatGPT

Last weekend, I turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I was sending a copy of the latest issue of WIRED!). It’s the exact sort of question that I hoped Google Search’s new generative AI feature, which I’ve been testing for the past month, would solve much faster than I could through my own browsing.Google’s clunkily named Search Generative Experience, SGE for short, infuses its search box with ChatGPT-like conversational functionality. You can sign up at Google’s Search Labs. The company says it wants users to converse with its search chatbot, which launched to testers in May, to dive deeper into topics and ask more challenging and intuitive questions than they would type into a boring old query box. And AI-g...
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Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over copied memoir “The Bedwetter”
10Jul By adminNo Comments
Money

Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over copied memoir “The Bedwetter”

Comedian and actor Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta, alleging that the technology companies developed artificial intelligence tools that freely copied her memoir, "The Bedwetter," without permission. Silverman, an Emmy-winning performer and former cast member on "Saturday Night Live," is the latest content creator to file a lawsuit over so-called large language models (LLM), which underpin burgeoning "generative" AI apps such as ChatGPT. LLMs develop their functionality by "training" on vast amounts of written and other content, including material created by professional and amateur writers.Silverman's lawyers say training AI by having it process others' intellectual property, including copyrighted material like books, amounts to "grift." In parallel complaints filed July ...
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Sarah Silverman Files Lawsuit Against Maker of ChatGPT
10Jul By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Sarah Silverman Files Lawsuit Against Maker of ChatGPT

Sarah Silverman is suing the creator of ChatGPT for unauthorized use of her 2010 book “The Bedwetter,” according to a lawsuit Friday in a U.S. District Court.The comic has joined authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in two class-action lawsuits against tech giants OpenAI and Meta, the creator of rival AI chatbot LLaMA, which were reported by The Verge on Sunday.The writers’ copyright suits accuse the corporations of illegally training their open-source AI models with text from the authors’ books without consent. The suits also accuse the companies of training their models on content culled from unauthorized online “shadow libraries” like Library Genesis and Z-Library, which the documents describe as “flagrantly illegal.”Sarah Silverman arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Fe...
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5 Uses for ChatGPT that Aren’t Fan Fiction or Cheating at School
5Jul By adminNo Comments
Technology

5 Uses for ChatGPT that Aren’t Fan Fiction or Cheating at School

AI is so powerful that it will inevitably destroy the world—at least, that's what the people who sell AI software keep saying, and I can't think of any reason why they might lie about how amazing they are. Still, I can't help but wonder: What is AI useful for right now, before it ends civilization?I've done some experimenting and talked to my friends on LinkedIn and Mastodon. Here's the best use cases I could personally find.BrainstormingI hate writing headlines. I spend hours crafting an article but most people will only ever see the few words I choose to put at the top. That's why I'll sometimes spend as much time on the headline and the first paragraph of an article as on the rest of the article combined.ChatGPT can help here. When I feel stuck, I have started to ask the bot to recomme...
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