artificial intelligence

04 Dec

OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI

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OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and one of the most prominent artificial intelligence companies in the world, said today that it has entered a partnership with Anduril, a defense startup that makes missiles, drones, and software for the United States military. It marks the latest in a series of similar announcements made recently by major tech companies in Silicon Valley, which has warmed to forming closer ties with the defense industry.“OpenAI builds AI to benefit as many people as possible, and supports US-led efforts to ensure the technology upholds democratic values," Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, said in a statement Wednesday.OpenAI’s AI…

04 Dec

AI-Powered Robots Can Be Tricked Into Acts of Violence

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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…

04 Dec

Google’s generative AI video model is available in private preview

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Google has begun rolling out private access to its Veo and Imagen 3 generative AI models. Starting today, customers of the company’s Vertex AI Google Cloud package can begin using Veo to generate videos from text prompts and images. Then, as of next week, Google will make Imagen 3, its latest text-to-image framework, available to those same users.With Veo’s rollout, Google says it’s the first hyperscale cloud provider to offer an image-to-video model. To that point, OpenAI’s Sora model is still only available to select artists, academics and researchers — though that could change quickly with the company teasing 12…

04 Dec

A New Benchmark for the Risks of AI

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MLCommons, a nonprofit that helps companies measure the performance of their artificial intelligence systems, is launching a new benchmark to gauge AI’s bad side too.The new benchmark, called AILuminate, assesses the responses of large language models to more than 12,000 test prompts in 12 categories including inciting violent crime, child sexual exploitation, hate speech, promoting self-harm, and intellectual property infringement.Models are given a score of “poor,” “fair,” “good,” “very good,” or “excellent,” depending on how they perform. The prompts used to test the models are kept secret to prevent them from ending up as training data that would allow a…

04 Dec

Spotify Wrapped Now Includes an AI-Generated Podcast Analyzing Your Listening Habits

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Spotify Wrapped’s animated yearly recap of your listening habits—at once beloved and reviled—is back again. But in 2024, the flashy visuals will be accompanied by a brand-new audio add-on crafted with artificial intelligence.Starting today, Spotify users will now get the chance to listen to their annual report as a personalized, AI-powered podcast, in which two synthetic hosts discuss the user’s most-played tracks and favorite artists with enthusiasm.The new podcast recap is powered by Google’s NotebookLM. If you’ve used Google’s AI tool to generate an audio podcast about a topic you’re researching, then the two AI-generated voices in the Wrapped podcast…

04 Dec

This AI-Powered Site Helps You Shop for Vintage and Secondhand Items

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Alex Ruber practically grew up thrifting. His mother, an immigrant who escaped communist Romania and moved to Italy, then Canada, often brought him along to secondhand stores and Sunday flea markets when he was a child. Together, mother and son would hunt for unique items. "I remember getting my first piano literally from a flea market," he says. “For me, it was like a treasure hunt.”Fast forward 20 years, and Ruber, a former Apple software engineer now based in San Francisco, is the cofounder of a new AI-powered search engine platform designed to replicate the thrill of thrifting, but online.…

04 Dec

Tim Cook Wants Apple to Literally Save Your Life

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Every time I visit the Apple Park campus, my mind flashes to a tour I took months before construction was finished, when there was dust on the terrazzo floors and mud where lush vegetation now flourishes. My guide was Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. With a proprietor’s pride, he ushered me through the $5 billion circular colossus, explaining that committing to the new campus was a “100-year decision.”Today I am returning to the Ring—pulsing with energy seven years after it opened—to see Cook again. The tech world is at an inflection point. The mightiest companies will either stumble or secure their…

04 Dec

OpenAI Poaches 3 Top Engineers From DeepMind

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OpenAI announced today it has hired three senior computer vision and machine learning engineers from rival Google DeepMind, all of whom will work in a newly opened OpenAI office in Zurich, Switzerland. OpenAI executives told staff during an internal meeting on Tuesday that Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai will be joining the company to work on multimodal AI, artificial intelligence models capable of performing tasks in different mediums ranging from images to audio.OpenAI has long been at the forefront of multimodal AI and released the first version of its text-to-image platform Dall-E in 2021. Its flagship chatbot ChatGPT,…

04 Dec

Jensen Huang Wants to Make AI the New World Infrastructure

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In a world where people are increasingly doubting the potential of AI, you can count on Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, to be the last one hyping up how AI will be the fundamental force that changes society.Talking to WIRED senior writer Lauren Goode at The Big Interview event on Tuesday in San Francisco, Huang called the trend of AI “a reset of computing as we know of [it] over the last 60 years.” The force of AI is, he said, “so incredible, it’s not as if you can compete against it. You are either on this wave, or…

04 Dec

Mira Murati Quit OpenAI. She’s as Optimistic as Ever About AGI

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Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati says it could take decades, but AI systems eventually will perform a wide range of cognitive tasks as well as humans do—a prospective technological milestone widely known as artificial general intelligence, or AGI.“Right now, it feels quite achievable,” Murati said at WIRED’s The Big Interview event in San Francisco on Tuesday. In her first interview since resigning as OpenAI’s chief technology officer in September, Murati told WIRED’s Steven Levy that she’s not overly concerned about recent chatter in the AI industry that developing more powerful generative AI models is proving challenging.“Current evidence shows that progress…