The Guardian: UK ministers delay AI regulation amid plans for more ‘comprehensive’ bill. “Proposals to regulate artificial intelligence have been delayed by at least a year as UK ministers plan a bumper bill to regulate the technology and its use of copyrighted material.”
NPR: OpenAI takes down covert operations tied to China and other countries. “Chinese propagandists are using ChatGPT to write posts and comments on social media sites — and also to create performance reviews detailing that work for their bosses, according to OpenAI researchers.”
ZDNet: Claude Pro’s two new features make this AI subscription even more enticing. “Once upon a time, free access to AI chatbots was the standard. However, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT Plus plan, and it was met with high demand; other companies followed suit. Anthropic’s counterpart, Claude Pro, just got an upgrade, making it even more robust an offer.”
Citation Needed: OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men. “‘Hardmaxxing is NECESSARY. Softmaxxing alone will NEVER mog you into viability — it’s like putting a fresh coat of paint on a crumbling building,’ declares a chatbot featured prominently on OpenAI’s GPTs page. It has just analyzed a photograph of a man and deemed him ‘subhuman’.”
The Conversation: Weaponized storytelling: How AI is helping researchers sniff out disinformation campaigns. “At the Cognition, Narrative and Culture Lab at Florida International University, we are building AI tools to help detect disinformation campaigns that employ tools of narrative persuasion. We are training AI to go beyond surface-level language analysis to understand narrative […]
Harvard Business Review: To Create Value with AI, Improve the Quality of Your Unstructured Data. “Most companies have not done well with the quality of structured data, even as this data is used every day to complete business transactions and understand performance. Unstructured data is tougher. The last serious attempts to address unstructured data date to the 1990s and 2000s when knowledge […]
University of Missouri: Study explores how to use AI to listen to the ‘heartbeat’ of a city. “Using public Instagram posts with location tags, the researchers trained an AI tool to read the emotional tone of the images and text of the posts, identifying whether people were happy, frustrated or relaxed. Then, using Google Street View and a second AI tool, they analyzed what those places […]
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University of Waterloo: AI’s medical diagnostic skills still need a check-up. “A team led by researchers at the University of Waterloo found in a simulated study that ChatGPT-4o, the well-known large language model (LLM) created by OpenAI, answered open-ended diagnostic questions incorrectly nearly two-thirds of the time.”
VT Digger: Final Reading: Meet ChatVT, the state of Vermont’s homemade AI chatbot. “These days, everything seems to be powered, augmented or enhanced by artificial intelligence: phones, software, movies, etc. Now, add the state of Vermont to that list. For the past few months, all Vermont state employees have had access to a bespoke AI chatbot named — of course — ChatVT.”
The Register: Research reimagines LLMs as tireless tools of torture. “Large language models (LLMs) are not just about assistance and hallucinations. The technology has a darker side. In research titled ‘LLM-Enabled Coercive Interrogation,’ developer Morgan Lee explored how the technology could be put to use for non-physical coercion.
TechXplore: Third-party data annotators often fail to accurately read the emotions of others, study finds. “Machine learning algorithms and large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of the platform ChatGPT, have proved to be effective in tackling a wide range of tasks. These models are trained on various types of data (e.g., texts, images, videos, and/or […]
Euronews: Trading bots are evolving: What happens when AI cheats the market?. “According to academics, one risk scenario involves collaboration between AI bots. Just imagine: hundreds of AI-driven social media profiles begin to pop up online, weaving narratives about certain companies. The information spread isn’t necessarily fake, but may just be the amplification of existing news. In […]
BBC: Can AI therapists really be an alternative to human help?. “For months, Kelly spent up to three hours a day speaking to online ‘chatbots’ created using artificial intelligence (AI), exchanging hundreds of messages. At the time, Kelly was on a waiting list for traditional NHS talking therapy to discuss issues with anxiety, low self-esteem and a relationship breakdown. She says interacting […]
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512 Pixels: Shelby County Health Department to Address xAI Turbines and Public Complaints. “As I’ve previously written, xAI has a permit to run 15 gas turbines at its first site, but more than 30 have been spotted running. Those additional turbines are operating under an emergency-use exemption that is good for one year, and were initially slated to provide backup power when the utility […]
Ars Technica: OpenAI introduces Codex, its first full-fledged AI agent for coding. “We’ve been expecting it for a while, and now it’s here: OpenAI has introduced an agentic coding tool called Codex in research preview. The tool is meant to allow experienced developers to delegate rote and relatively simple programming tasks to an AI agent that will generate production-ready code and show its […]
CNBC: OpenAI will show how models do on hallucination tests and ‘illicit advice’. “OpenAI on Wednesday announced a new ‘safety evaluations hub,’ a webpage where it will publicly display artificial intelligence models’ safety results and how they perform on tests for hallucinations, jailbreaks and harmful content, such as ‘hateful content or illicit advice.'”
Cornell Chronicle: Developers, educators view AI harms differently, research finds. “Teachers are increasingly using educational tools that leverage large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT for lesson planning, personalized tutoring and more in K-12 classrooms around the world. Cornell researchers have found the developers of such tools and the educators who use them have different ideas […]
Tom’s Hardware: AI agents can be manipulated into giving away your crypto, according to Princeton researchers. “Researchers from Princeton University warn of AI agents with “underexplored security risks” in a recently published paper. Dubbed ‘Real AI Agents with Fake Memories: Fatal Context Manipulation Attacks on Web3 Agents,’ the paper (h/t Ars Technica) highlights that using AI agents […]
ZDNet: This AI-designed drug for IBD was just given to human subjects for the first time. “While drugs are being developed using AI in a variety of ways, no drugs developed completely by AI, from start to finish, have so far made it over the finish line of regulatory approval. For that reason, every attempt by an AI drug to get approval is a landmark of sorts. Tuesday, drug development […]
