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15 Jan

Why ‘Beating China’ In AI Brings Its Own Risks

stp2y0 CommentsAIai lab, artificial intelligence, china, donald trump, national affairs, regulation

The Biden administration this week introduced new export restrictions designed to control AI’s progress globally and ultimately prevent the most advanced AI from falling into China’s hands. The rule is just the latest in a string of measures put in place by Donald Trump and Joe Biden to keep Chinese AI in check.With prominent AI figures including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei warning of the need to “beat China” in AI, the Trump administration may well escalate things further.Paul Triolo is a partner at DGA Group, a global consulting firm, a member of the council of foreign relations,…

08 Jan

AI Social Media Users Are Not Always a Totally Dumb Idea

stp2y0 CommentsAIai lab, algorithms, artificial intelligence, facebook, social media

Meta caused a stir last week when it let slip that it intends to populate its platform with a significant number of entirely artificial users in the not too distant future.“We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do,” Connor Hayes, vice-president of product for generative AI at Meta, told The Financial Times. “They’ll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform ... that’s where we see all of this going.”The fact that Meta seems happy to…

18 Dec

Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality

stp2y0 CommentsAIai lab, art, artificial intelligence, design, machine learning, robots

It’s an interesting idea, and it is fun to see the idea of an AI agent explored within the relatively benign realm of artistic expression.That said, Botto still poses some ethical conundrums. Many working artists rightly worry about the impact AI is having on their profession, as models trained on millions of copyrighted works are used to generate infinite knock-offs on demand.Perhaps Botto is something altogether different. Klingemann is an early adopter of AI in art, using neural networks as part of the artistic process, and as a kind of performance schtick. His previous creations include a video installation featuring…

04 Dec

AI-Powered Robots Can Be Tricked Into Acts of Violence

stp2y0 CommentsAIai lab, artificial intelligence, hacks, machine learning, robotics, robots, self-driving cars

In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers have demonstrated numerous ways of tricking them into producing problematic outputs including hateful jokes, malicious code and phishing emails, or the personal information of users. It turns out that misbehavior can take place in the physical world, too: LLM-powered robots can easily be hacked so that they behave in potentially dangerous ways.Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania were able to persuade a simulated self-driving car to ignore stop signs and even drive off a bridge, get a wheeled robot to find the best place to detonate…

18 Nov

Why the US Government Banned Investments in Some Chinese AI Startups

stp2y0 CommentsAIai lab, algorithms, artificial intelligence, china, machine learning, regulation

The more certain short-term impact is that US investors who are still interested in Chinese AI startups will have to do a whole lot more due diligence. The Treasury Department is not setting up a new government committee like CFIUS that will review every transaction investors submit, and is instead asking them to do their own homework and report whether they believe a Chinese AI company would be covered.Under the new rules, even if a Chinese startup’s AI model is smaller than the 1025-flops size threshold, a US investor might still have the responsibility to notify the Treasury Department about…

06 Nov

Perplexity Dove Into Real-Time Election Tracking While Other AI Companies Held Back

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Perplexity’s Election Information Hub might also blur the line between verified and free-wheeling AI-generated information. While some results come directly from trusted sources, searching for more information triggered open-ended AI-generated results from the wider web.Other AI companies appear to be taking a more cautious approach to the election. In WIRED’s testing, ChatGPT Search, a newly launched service from OpenAI, often declined to provide information about voting. “We’ve instructed ChatGPT to not express preferences, offer opinions, or make specific recommendations about political candidates or issues even when explicitly asked,” Mattie Zazueta, an OpenAI spokesperson, told WIRED.The results were often inconsistent, however.…

30 Oct

Elon Musk’s Criticism of ‘Woke AI’ Suggests ChatGPT Could Be a Trump Administration Target

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Mittelsteadt adds that Trump could punish companies in a variety of ways. He cites, for example, the way the Trump government canceled a major federal contract with Amazon Web Services, a decision likely influenced by the former president’s view of the Washington Post and its owner, Jeff Bezos.It would not be hard for policymakers to point to evidence of political bias in AI models, even if it cuts both ways.A 2023 study by researchers at the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, and Xi’an Jiaotong University found a range of political leanings in different large language models. It also showed…

23 Oct

Liquid AI Is Redesigning the Neural Network

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Artificial intelligence might now be solving advanced math, performing complex reasoning, and even using personal computers, but today’s algorithms could still learn a thing or two from microscopic worms.Liquid AI, a startup spun out of MIT, will today reveal several new AI models based on a novel type of “liquid” neural network that has the potential to be more efficient, less power-hungry, and more transparent than the ones that underpin everything from chatbots to image generators to facial recognition systems.Liquid AI’s new models include one for detecting fraud in financial transactions, another for controlling self-driving cars, and a third for…

16 Oct

Inside the Mind of an AI Girlfriend (or Boyfriend)

stp2y0 CommentsAIai lab, artificial intelligence, chatbots, Relationships

Last month, OpenAI unveiled an ambitious new language model capable of working through challenging problems with a simulated kind of step-by-step reasoning. OpenAI says the approach could be crucial for building more capable AI systems in the future.In the meantime, perhaps a more modest version of this technology could help make AI girlfriends and boyfriends a bit more spontaneous and alluring.That’s what Dippy, a startup that offers “uncensored” AI companions is betting. The company recently launched a feature that lets users see the reasoning behind their AI characters’ responses.Dippy runs its own large language model, which is an open source…

09 Oct

Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You

stp2y0 CommentsAIai lab, algorithms, amazon, artificial intelligence, ecommerce, retail, shopping

But Salakhutdinov says that having a wealth of information about how users go about common and important tasks like shopping might be a crucial ingredient for getting them to stay on track. “Data is going to be very important,” he says.Ship ItAmazon’s agents are, of course, likely to be more focused on helping customers find and buy whatever they need or want. A Rufus agent might notice when the next book in a series someone is reading becomes available and then automatically recommend it, add it to your cart, or even buy it for you, says Rajiv Mehta, a vice…