AI and society

Summary Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told Euronews Next that OpenAI’s ChatGPT is currently a “mess” when used to write articles on the platform, often getting information wrong and making up sources. Wales called a Wikipedia article written with ChatGPT-4 “terrible” and stressed the need for accuracy and unbiased information in the online encyclopedia, which serves …

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Newsletter Social scientist Jonathan Harth explains why AI alignment is more than unbiased data and emergency switches – and why we need to educate machines and society. “People need to free their machines,so that they can return the favor.”(Dietmar Dath, 2008: 131) In a world that is more and more shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), …

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Summary Nvidia’s planned launch of its new H20 chip for China has been delayed, according to Reuters. Rivals such as Huawei could benefit. Nvidia has delayed the launch of its new H20 AI chip for China until the first quarter of 2023, according to a Reuters report. The H20, the most powerful of three chips …

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Summary The privately-funded French AI lab Kyutai aims to conduct open-source AI research. It already has a total budget of $330 million. Kyutai is a recently launched Paris-based AI lab funded by French billionaires, including Xavier Niel, CEO of Iliad. At the ai-PULSE conference, Niel gave an update: the lab now has a budget of …

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Summary France, Germany and Italy have agreed on a proposal to regulate AI in the European Union. It pushes for mandatory self-regulation rather than binding rules for foundational models without an initial sanctions regime. The three governments support voluntary rules for large and small AI providers in the EU that would be binding if companies …

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Summary Generative AI supercharges our ability to chat with the departed by creating simulations from their digital traces. While some see this as dark magic, it builds on existing practices of grieving. Generative AI – which encompasses large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT but also image and video generators like DALL·E 2 – supercharges what …

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Matthias Bastian Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers. Microsoft has adjusted its Bing Image Creator AI tool after concerns were raised about a social media trend in which users created realistic Disney movie posters featuring their …

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Summary Ed Newton-Rex, head of the audio team at Stability AI, has resigned. He cited a disagreement over the application of ‘fair use’ when training generative AI models. In a public statement, Newton-Rex expressed his concerns: “I don’t agree with the company’s opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is ‘fair use’.” He …

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Summary Fake AI-generated audio files of Germany’s most popular news program, Tagesschau, are currently spreading on social media and have even been played at a demonstration. The fake audios contain supposed apologies for alleged lies in reporting on topics such as the war in Ukraine and the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the “denunciation” of …

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Newsletter The film industry has told many stories about Artificial Intelligence, about little helpers and big helpers, benevolent and malevolent robots, and human-like machines. Here you can find eleven sci-fi movies that are real milestones in AI movie history. Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang’s masterpiece is based on the science fiction novel of the same name …

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