How Will A.I. Learn Next? | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/how-will-ai-learn-next
As chatbots threaten their own best sources of data, they will have to find new kinds of knowledge.
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Malicious ad served inside Bing’s AI chatbot
Considering that tech giants make most of their revenue from advertising, it wasn’t surprising to see Microsoft introduce ads into Bing Chat shortly after its release. However, online ads have an inherent risk attached to them. In this blog, we show how users searching for software downloads can be tricked into visiting malicious sites and installing malware directly from a Bing Chat conversation.
Bærum sykehus er først i Norge med å ta i bruk kunstig intelligens til behandling – NRK
Fra tirsdag skal kunstig intelligens (KI) vurdere røntgenbilder når det er mistanke om mindre bruddskader.
Microsoft pulls AI-written article telling tourists to visit the Ottawa Food Bank - The Verge
Microsoft laid off journalists at Microsoft News and MSN in 2020 to replace them with artificial intelligence.
Zoom Can Spy on Your Calls and Use the Conversation to Train AI, But Says That It Won’t - Schneier on Security
Zoom ToS Allowed Training AI on User Content With No Opt Out
Using Machine Learning to Detect Keystrokes - Schneier on Security
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/using-machine-learning-to-detect-keystrokes.html
Researchers have trained a ML model to detect keystrokes by sound with 95% accuracy.
The Need for Trustworthy AI - Schneier on Security
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/the-need-for-trustworthy-ai.html
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds.
When Alexa responds in this way, it’s obvious that it is putting its developer’s interests ahead of yours. Usually, though, it’s not so obvious whom an AI system is serving. To avoid being exploited by these systems, people will need to learn to approach AI skeptically.
Programs to detect AI discriminate against non-native English speakers, shows study | The Guardian
Tests on seven popular AI text detectors found that articles written by people who did not speak English as a first language were often wrongly flagged as AI-generated, a bias that could have a serious impact on students, academics and job applicants.
Haukeland sykehus skal bruke kunstig intelligens for å utrede epilepsi, som første i verden. – NRK
Kunstig intelligens utreder epilepsi kjappere og bedre enn de beste legene, viser ny forskning. Et verdensledende tidsskrift sier den norske forskningen innleder en ny æra.
Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media | Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/secret-messages-can-hide-in-ai-generated-media-20230518/
In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never do it perfectly, but a new study shows it’s possible for machines.
Risk of extinction by AI should be global priority, say experts | The Guardian
Hundreds of tech leaders call for world to treat AI as danger on par with pandemics and nuclear war
Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/27/lawyer-chatgpt/
A lawyer asked ChatGPT for examples of cases that supported an argument they were trying to make.
ChatGPT, as it often does, hallucinated wildly—it invented several supporting cases out of thin air.
When the lawyer was asked to provide copies of the cases in question, they turned to ChatGPT for help again—and it invented full details of those cases, which they duly screenshotted and copied into their legal filings.
At some point, they asked ChatGPT to confirm that the cases were real… and ChatGPT said that they were. They included screenshots of this in another filing.
The judge is furious. Many of the parties involved are about to have a very bad time.
35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now - The New York Times
AI image generation puts video game illustrators out of work - Rest of World
https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-china-video-game-layoffs/
Recent breakthroughs in AI image generation have created widespread anxiety in China’s video game art industry.
Given the high quality of AI-produced artwork, many illustrators are losing their jobs to AI image generators such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2.
The gaming industry’s job market was already precarious after the Chinese government’s licensing freeze in 2021 threw thousands of game developers out of business.
ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base | Reuters
ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history, according to a UBS study on Wednesday.
Major Photography Prize Winner Reveals Image Is AI-Generated, Rejects Award
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vxy/sony-world-photography-awards-ai-generated
“I applied as a cheeky monkey, to find out if the competitions are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not,” he wrote. “We, the photo world, need an open discussion. A discussion about what we want to consider photography and what not. Is the umbrella of photography large enough to invite AI images to enter—or would this be a mistake? With my refusal of the award I hope to speed up this debate.”
Reddit Moderators Brace for a ChatGPT Spam Apocalypse
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5qy8/reddit-moderators-brace-for-a-chatgpt-spam-apocalypse
Reddit moderators say they already see an increase in spam and that the future will “require a lot of human labor.”
Scientists use AI to discover new antibiotic to treat deadly superbug | The Guardian
According to a new study published on Thursday in the science journal Nature Chemical Biology, a group of scientists from McMaster University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a new antibiotic that can be used to kill a deadly hospital superbug.
The superbug in question is Acinetobacter baumannii, which the World Health Organization has classified as a “critical” threat among its “priority pathogens” – a group of bacteria families that pose the “greatest threat” to human health.
The poisoning of ChatGPT
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-poisoning-of-chatgpt/
Given that we’ve known about model poisoning for years, and given the strong incentives the black-hat SEO crowd has to manipulate results, it’s entirely possible that bad actors have been poisoning ChatGPT for months. We don’t know because OpenAI doesn’t talk about their processes, how they validate the prompts they use for training, how they vet their training data set, or how they fine-tune ChatGPT. Their secrecy means we don’t know if ChatGPT has been safely managed.