Members phkrause Posted June 13, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 13, 2023 Sir Paul McCartney says artificial intelligence has enabled a 'final' Beatles song Sir Paul McCartney says he has employed artificial intelligence to help create what he calls "the final Beatles record". https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65881813? Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 18, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 18, 2023 🦠 AI threat: The next pandemic The top minds in AI say one of their biggest fears is bioterrorism — perhaps a synthetic pandemic unleashed from a keyboard, Axios chief global tech correspondent Ryan Heath writes. Why it matters: Bioattacks have been assumed to be the province of governments. Now, it could be rogue individuals and organizations. What's happening: Converting a pathogen into a terror attack previously required many PhDs. But recent genetic engineering advances, combined with AI, have dramatically reduced the skills, money and time needed to engineer a catastrophe. Case in point: MIT researchers asked undergraduate students to test whether chatbots "could be prompted to assist non-experts in causing a pandemic." Within an hour, the chatbots suggested four potential pandemic pathogens. The other side: AI could also help biodefense. Biotech researchers tell Axios it may be possible to create antibodies for viruses from scratch in around 2025 — blunting the death and injury rogue actors could inflict. But that's a big maybe. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 20, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 20, 2023 AI everywhere Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios Tech companies are slapping an "artificial intelligence" label on anything they can, Axios managing editor Scott Rosenberg writes. Why it matters: The more our understanding of a new technology is distorted by hype, the less thoughtfully we can apply it — and the more likely it is we will cause harm with it. What's happening: Real advances in machine-learning-based pattern recognition have sparked a new bubble in tech-industry investment, encouraging companies to apply the "AI" label wildly. The catalyst for the current craze was the introduction of ChatGPT late last year, which showcased the impressive conversational abilities of today's large language models. 🔎 Between the lines: Today's AI promoters are trying to have it both ways. They insist that AI is crossing a profound boundary into untrodden territory with unfathomable risks. But they also define AI so broadly as to include almost any large-scale, statistically-driven computer program. Under this definition, everything from the Google search engine to the iPhone's face-recognition unlocking tool to the Facebook newsfeed algorithm is already "AI-driven" — and has been for years. Backstory: The term "artificial intelligence" emerged in the 1950s to name the goal of duplicating human capabilities of reasoning in code and circuitry, which experts at the time predicted might take 15 or 20 years to achieve. For decades, scientists sought to do so by painstakingly modeling the real world in data so that computers could understand it. When that route proved slow and unrewarding, AI experienced a cycle of "winters" when funding dried up and progress dwindled. 🤖 How it works: A different and long-neglected road involving the creation of neural networks emerged as a promising alternative, beginning to take form in the '90s and accelerating in the aughts. Instead of painstakingly organizing the world's information for the computer to ingest, this approach had the machine consume vast quantities of disorganized data to identify patterns. Exponential growth in processing power and storage capacity turned this machine learning technique into an increasingly effective student — and the internet offered a plunderable trove of digital-ready course material. AI effectively became synonymous with "efficient pattern-matching on a large scale." Under this definition, almost any kind of automation or probability-based system qualifies as "artificially intelligent." Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 22, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 22, 2023 🤖 AI models flunk guardrails Stanford and Harvard researchers warn that leading AI models are woefully non-compliant with proposed AI standards out of the European Union, Axios global tech correspondent Ryan Heath reports. The House Science Committee today will probe AI executives on how to develop the technology "towards the national interest." Why it matters: Leading AI companies have expressed openness to regulation. But they don't come close to following the first democratic rules for AI foundation models, drafted by EU officials and lawmakers. Keep reading. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 25, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 25, 2023 🤖 Modeling humans from AI ChatGPT is being used to mimic the output of people — from cover letters to marketing copy to computer code. Now, some social scientists are exploring whether chatbots can mimic humans themselves, Axios managing editor Alison Snyder writes. 🔧 How it works: Large language models (LLM) that power generative AI tools are trained on text from websites, books and other data. Then they find patterns in the relationships between words, allowing the AI systems to respond to questions from users. Social scientists use surveys, observations, behavioral tests and other tools in search of a general pattern of human behavior. Two recent papers look at how social scientists might use large language models to address questions about human decision-making, morality and a slew of other complex attributes at the heart of what it means to be human. One possibility is using LLMs in place of human participants, researchers wrote last week in the journal Science. 🔬 Zoom in: In a separate article, researchers looked at just how humanlike ChatGPT's judgments are. When researchers gave ChatGPT 16 moral scenarios and then evaluated its responses on 464 other scenarios, they found the AI system's responses correlated 95% with human ones. "If you can give to GPT and get what humans give you, do you need to give it to humans anyway?" says Kurt Gray, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at U.N.C. Chapel Hill, and co-author of the paper published last week in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Go deeper. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 26, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 26, 2023 AI's next battle Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Open-source AI models, which let anyone view and manipulate the code, are growing in popularity as startups and giants alike race to compete with market leader ChatGPT. Why it matters: The White House and some experts fear open models could aid risky uses — especially synthetic biology, which could create the next pandemic, Axios global tech correspondent Ryan Heath writes. The wide-open code — which can work off-the-shelf, or provide a time-saving baseline for your own spin-offs — helps little guys take on tech giants. But it also could help dictators and terrorists. In the open-source camp, the startups are joined by Meta, which hopes to undercut Microsoft (OpenAI's key backer), and by foreign governments looking to out-innovate the U.S. Top government officials are freaked out by the national security implications of having big open-source AI models in the hands of anyone who can code. In the closed corner are early movers in generative AI — including OpenAI and Google, which are seeking to protect their early-mover advantage. OpenAI, despite its name, uses a closed model for ChatGPT — meaning it's kept full control and ownership. Reality check: The open-source movement is as old as software itself — at the heart of debates about intellectual property law, as well as efforts to produce software that's better and more efficient. Open-source software products have migrated from academia to corporations over the past 25 years. Hundreds of open-source projects have fueled Silicon Valley’s biggest companies. State of play: Mosaic released a new open-source model on Thursday — MPT-30B — which you can try now via the AI community hugging face. Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clement Delangue testified in the House last week that open-source models "prevent black-box systems" and "make companies more accountable" while fostering innovation. The bottom line: Open-source code is, by definition, global. Once it's out in the wild, it's impossible to corral. But any effort to squash it would likely fail: Adversarial governments wouldn't cooperate. And small U.S. companies would pay a price in hobbled innovation. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 28, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 28, 2023 🤖 First AI election Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios Artificial intelligence and generative bots, led by ChatGPT, will upend next year's elections with as much force as social media reset the playbook in 2008, Axios Denver's John Frank writes from Aspen. Why it matters: Top technologists are portraying a dystopian 2024 landscape in which misinformation and disinformation proliferate with a speed and ease that means "you can't trust anything that you see or hear," as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt puts it. The campaign will be "full of false information that anyone can generate," Schmidt said yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival. MIT's Daniel Huttenlocher, who joined Schmidt on a panel, said: "AI is now this huge amplifier for how you should not trust anything in print. ... And by the way you shouldn't trust any images, and you shouldn't trust any videos, and you shouldn't trust any audio either." Ron Klain, former chief of staff to President Biden, said during a separate conversation that campaigns will need to change to counter AI. Klain said Biden must connect directly with people on the campaign trail, and the campaign to recruit local trustworthy messengers, rather than "bringing in random people from other places." Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 28, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 28, 2023 🦾 AI buying spree The race to lead in AI is spurring a fresh wave of corporate acquisitions and investments as tech companies seek to show customers they aren't sleeping on the red-hot technology, Axios' Ina Fried and Hope King report. Why it matters: The pressure is on CEOs to prove they have an AI strategy. On the acquisition front, Databricks announced this week it is paying $1.3 billion ($21 million per employee) to buy two-year-old startup MosaicML, which specializes in open-source AI models. Thomson Reuters said yesterday it will pay $650 million for legal AI assistant Casetext. Hundreds of millions more are being invested by large tech companies for minority stakes in AI startups. Salesforce Ventures earlier this month said it's doubling the size of its generative AI fund — to $500 million. Venture arms from Google, Microsoft and others are actively investing in AI startups. Corporate investing can help larger firms get an insider view of startups' technical work and spot potential acquisition targets. It's not just tech companies that are opening up their checkbooks. Consulting and other firms outside of tech are also stepping up their AI investments. Accenture last week closed its purchase of Bangalore, India-based Flutura, which it says will boost its ability to offer AI services in the energy, chemicals, metals, mining and pharmaceutical industries. PwC US recently announced plans to invest $1 billion over the next three years in AI projects and the upskilling of its 65,000-person workforce. 🥊 Reality check: The old Latin saying caveat emptor (buyer beware) applies here, too. Everyone these days says their company is an AI company. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 3, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 3, 2023 🦾 1 fin thing: AI may help us "talk" to animals Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios New technology is allowing researchers to decipher noise inaudible to the human ear — and discover that animals and plants can communicate in complex and sophisticated "languages," Axios' John Frank reports. Artificial intelligence is opening new ways to understand those sounds — and possibly even translating them into a language we can understand. 🥊 Reality check: This isn't about being able to talk to your dog — though the human yearning to speak to animals is rooted in centuries of mythology. Instead, scientists believe acoustics will reveal secrets about the biological world order that could inform efforts to save vulnerable species from the impacts of climate change. 💭 "The point is not really to talk to animals," Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and the Earth Species Project, said this past week at the Aspen Ideas Festival. "The point is to understand them." How it works: AI can build shapes — like a word cloud — that represent a given animal's "language." 🐝 Scientists have learned that flowers can "hear" an oncoming bee that leads them to make sweeter nectar. 🐋 Orca whales speak in dialects unique to their pods, but can communicate in different dialects with other species. 🐬 Dolphins have names given by their mother, which they use in communication, similar to beluga whales and bats. 🐘 Elephants have a signal for the herd to help them deflect approaching honeybees, which can be dangerous if they get in their trunk or ears. Share this story. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 11, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 11, 2023 🤖 Stunning AI stat Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios Experts say AI-generated content could soon account for 99% or more of all information on the internet, further straining already overwhelmed content moderation systems, Axios chief tech correspondent Ina Fried reports. Dozens of "news sites" filled with machine-generated content of dubious quality have already cropped up. Why it matters: Generative AI systems can recycle conspiracy theories and other misinformation found on the open web. ⚠️ Threat level: University of Washington professor Kate Starbird, an expert on ways people use social media during crises, told Axios that generative AI will deepen the misinformation problem in three key ways. Generative AI is great at churning out misinformation. "Generative AI creates content that sounds reasonable and plausible, but has little regard for accuracy," Starbird said. "In other words, it functions as a BS generator." Some studies show AI-generated misinformation to be even more persuasive than false content created by humans. Generative AI helps those who deliberately seek to mislead. "Generative AI makes it extremely cheap and easy to generate content — including micro-targeted messages for specific audiences," Starbird said. Generative AI models themselves offer a new target for misinformation purveyors. "Would-be manipulators may seek to 'poison' or strategically shape the outputs of these models by feeding their content into the inputs," Starbird said. Keep reading. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 12, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 12, 2023 Anthropic releases Claude 2, its second-gen AI chatbot Anthropic, the AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI execs, today announced the release of a new text-generating AI model, Claude 2. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/anthropic-releases-claude-2-the-second-generation-of-its-ai-chatbot/? Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 12, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 12, 2023 🎞️ 1 film thing: Tom Cruise gets AI co-star Tom Cruise stunt in "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One." Photo: Paramount Pictures via AP AI is a key plot point in Tom Cruise's stunt-studded "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One," opening today: "The villain is the very au courant artificial intelligence, here called the Entity," the N.Y. Times review says. Cruise, as agent Ethan Hunt, "receives his usual mysterious directives that, this time, have been recorded on a cassette tape, an amusing touch for a movie about the threat posed to the material world by a godlike digital power." The Entity is "a frighteningly self-aware robo-weapon powerful enough to bring data systems, economies and entire nations to their knees," the L.A. Times review adds. Cruise's action tour de force includes the ominous warning: "Whoever controls the Entity controls the truth." Watch the final trailer. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 13, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 13, 2023 27% of jobs at high risk from AI revolution, says OECD PARIS, July 11 (Reuters) - More than a quarter of jobs in the OECD rely on skills that could be easily automated in the coming artificial intelligence revolution, and workers fear they could lose their jobs to AI, the OECD said on Tuesday. https://www.reuters.com/technology/27-jobs-high-risk-ai-revolution-says-oecd-2023-07-11/? Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 13, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 13, 2023 🦾 Musk launches AI startup Elon Musk launched his long-promised AI startup, xAI, Axios' Hope King writes. Why it matters: His announcement — on Twitter, of course (with no warning) — comes amid a heated race to launch generative AI products. "Announcing formation of @xAI to understand reality," Musk tweeted. The company, according to its website, is aided by research engineers who have previously worked for Google Research, DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft Research and Tesla. Members of the all-male team, according to their websites and profiles, have focused on large language models, deep learning, and neural networks. Share this story. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 18, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 18, 2023 WormGPT Is a ChatGPT Alternative With 'No Ethical Boundaries or Limitations' The developer of WormGPT is selling access to the chatbot, which can help hackers create malware and phishing attacks, according to email security provider SlashNext. https://www.pcmag.com/news/wormgpt-is-a-chatgpt-alternative-with-no-ethical-boundaries-or-limitations? Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 18, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 18, 2023 🦾 New today: Axios AI+ Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Axios Login, our tech newsletter anchored by Ina Fried for the past 6½ years, today becomes Axios AI+. We're expanding our coverage as AI reshapes the world. For the debut issue, Ina, Ryan Heath and Scott Rosenberg asked some of the biggest names in tech: What’s the single most important thing that people should be doing to prepare for AI? Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO: "Use the tools, get a sense of the possibilities, and participate in the conversation so that safe AGI [artificial general intelligence] is as beneficial as possible." Genevieve Bell, professor of cultural anthropology: "Actively seek to disentangle the science fiction from the reality. Just because it feels a little bit like the movies doesn’t mean the robot uprising is also coming!" Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO: "[W]e're moving from autopilot to copilot, which will unlock a new wave of productivity growth and empowerment for every role, organization, and industry." Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO: "We cannot surrender our sense of autonomy and moral agency even as we rely on AI. It is better to retain responsibility for important decisions affecting civic life, even if AI has a superior capacity to execute them." ChatGPT: "Learn AI's vast scope, / Ethics guide, safety's our hope, / In its light, we cope." Sign up for Axios AI+. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 20, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 20, 2023 🤖 Microsoft's AI gusher Screenshot: Microsoft Microsoft will charge $30 per user per month for businesses to use its AI-infused copilots to automate work in Office products, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Why it matters: That'll add up to a hefty chunk of change — the most significant new revenue opportunity for Microsoft's Office business since it switched to a subscription model, Axios' Ina Fried and Ryan Heath report. The company announced Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing — along with a business version of GPT-4-powered Bing Chat, which will sell for $5 per user per month, and also will be included in some subscription bundles. Bing Chat Enterprise adds protections for business data. 🧮 By the numbers: That could add $5 billion to $16 billion in revenue for Microsoft next year, Ivana Delevska, chief investment officer at asset manager Spear Invest, told Axios. Her estimate assumes 5% to 16% of Office 365 users sign up for Copilot. Delevska noted it costs Microsoft on the order of $2 to $5 per hour for the computing capacity needed to provide the service. Share this story. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 21, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 21, 2023 🤖 Apple GPT Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/Axios Apple is quietly making a big push on AI tools that could challenge OpenAI and others, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman writes. "The iPhone maker has built its own framework to create large language models ... With that foundation, known as 'Ajax,' Apple also has created a chatbot service that some engineers call 'Apple GPT.'" Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 21, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 21, 2023 🦾 AI grabs "South Park" director's chair Screenshot from a Showrunner AI-created "South Park" episode featuring Axios' Ina Fried A new app creates brief episodes of "South Park" from a single prompt, Axios' Ina Fried writes. Why it matters: Such technology lets fans join the action — but threatens the real-life creators of beloved franchises. Fable Studio, the creators of Showrunner AI, are spotlighting their program's seeming ability to create a decent short episode from next to nothing — first in an academic paper, and now this week in press demos. They asked Axios for ideas. We suggested they create a "South Park" episode about an AI that wants to take control of the show from its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. 🥊 Reality check: The people behind "South Park" have nothing to do with Showrunner AI (though they do have their own AI project), and didn't give their blessing for this use. Fable Studio says the "South Park" imitations just show their product's capabilities — Showrunner AI won't be generating "South Park" tales. 🖼️ The big picture: With its provocative choice of demo material, Fable Studio has opened a can of worms far messier than simple questions about what Showrunner AI can and can't do. The launch of Showrunner AI comes with Hollywood writers and actors on strike, in part to limit the ability of producers to feed their work into AI engines and generate new content. How it works: Edward Saatchi, who runs the creative studio behind Showrunner AI, and his team combed the internet for images and audio of Ina to feed the program, so it could insert her as a character — a reporter turned villain egging on the AI's takeover plan. In the Showrunner video, Parker and Stone fight back against a HAL-9000-like system that promises to update their show to welcome the AI future — and even makes Cartman "nice." See the 5-min. film, "The One Where Axios’ Ina Fried helps AI to take over South Park (cameo Matt and Trey)" ... Share this story. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 23, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 23, 2023 Axios interview: Biden's AI muscle White House chief of staff Jeff Zients says President Biden will push Congress for more authority and resources to monitor and regulate the mushrooming AI industry. Why it matters: The White House today is unveiling voluntary commitments by seven top AI companies on safety, security and trust. (Details in next item.) Biden aides are vowing to hold the tech giants to account rather than banking on self-regulation. "We need to make sure we're pulling every lever of the federal government to regulate and take action — and work with the Hill on legislation," Zients told me. "We will need legislation to build the capacity to have the experts that we need in the federal government, and then to have the regulatory authority to hold the private sector accountable — and to hardwire these actions so that they're enduring." Bruce Reed, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, told me in a separate interview: "We know that government's going to have to do a lot more. And I think the companies recognize that, too." The White House — which has taken earlier actions on AI — said it's also developing an executive order, and will pursue bipartisan legislation "to help America lead the way in responsible innovation." Behind the scenes: Aides regularly walk Biden through demos of new AI applications. Zients says Biden has been "deep in" on AI, "whether it's a national security meeting ... or a meeting on the economy or on civil rights. He constantly asks: 'What are the implications of AI here?'" The most promising areas, Zients said, include cancer treatment and the ability to customize education to the needs of individual students. Zients said two big danger zones are: National security, including biosecurity and cyberattacks. Consumer scams, protecting privacy and preventing discrimination. Today's White House plan calls for "third-party, independent experts" to carry out "red-teaming" to probe for vulnerabilities. "How rigorous are your security protocols?" Zients said. "We want to get watermarking [indicators that an image or text passage is AI-generated] in place. How fast does that happen?" Between the lines: The White House is trying to learn from government mistakes when social media was in its infancy. "One of the lessons learned," Zients said, "is that we've got to move fast — we cannot chase this technology." Go deeper: White House fact sheet ... 🤖 Biden gets AI firms to take pledge Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Seven companies at the forefront of the generative AI wave have given the White House voluntary "commitments" to make sure their products are safe and transparent, Axios' Ryan Heath and Ashley Gold report. Why it matters: The White House hopes the companies' pledges will help the government get ahead of what some key administration officials have viewed as a reckless initial deployment of the technology. Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic and Inflection AI are committing to allow external scrutiny of their AI products by "domain experts," and to share information with each other and the federal government about risks and vulnerabilities. CEOs or presidents of those seven companies will be in the Roosevelt Room this afternoon for Biden remarks on AI. The companies commit to investing in cybersecurity and "insider threat safeguards to protect proprietary and unreleased model weights." "Weights" are the numbers which distill the laborious and expensive training of AI models, and which the White House considers to be the most sensitive part of these systems. The commitments include a pledge to deploy mechanisms — such as watermarking systems — to make it clear when text, images or other creations are a product of AI. At the other end of the threat-reward spectrum, the companies say they will use AI to "address society's greatest challenges," from "cancer prevention to climate change." Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 24, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 24, 2023 🖼️ AI tableau, 2023 Things were looking mighty male yesterday as President Biden hosted seven top AI execs in the Roosevelt Room to unveil industry commitments aimed at keeping AI products safe and transparent. From left, after Biden, the execs are Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services ... Greg Brockman, OpenAI president and co-founder ... Nick Clegg, Meta president, global affairs ... Mustafa Suleyman, CEO and co-founder of Inflection AI ... Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic ... Kent Walker, president of global affairs, Google & Alphabet... and Brad Smith, Microsoft vice chair and president. Read Biden's remarks ... White House fact sheet. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 25, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 25, 2023 🦾 1 big thing: California's AI mojo Data: Forbes, Sequoia Capital, Meritech Capital. Chart: Axios Visuals Since the strike of COVID, California has suffered an exodus to Texas and other states as workers went remote and wanted to escape taxes and crowding. The Bay Area, including Silicon Valley, was especially hard hit. But the AI boom is bringing back Golden State mojo. 60% of new generative AI job postings are in just 15 metro areas — with San Francisco topping the list, Axios' Ryan Heath writes from a Brookings report. Why it matters: Generative AI may produce "winner-takes-most" economic outcomes unless governments foster a more broadly distributed AI sector, the report says. 🧮 By the numbers: Nearly half of generative AI job postings in the past year were in San Francisco, San Jose, New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle. That extends previous trends in the "geography of AI" jobs + R&D. None of Forbes' top 50 AI startups is in the Rust Belt, Midwest or South. San Francisco alone was home to 20 of the best-funded AI companies — more than the rest of America combined. 🥊 Reality check: Beyond AI, we showed you yesterday there's a widely distributed manufacturing boom across the Southwest and Mountain West. The "chip belt" extends from upstate New York to Phoenix. Plus, it's early days for generative AI. Wider deployment and adoption will spread the economic benefit. Go deeper: Maps of the AI jobs Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 28, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 28, 2023 🦾 Big Tech's AI edge Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios AI development requires costly computing and engineering power. The Wall Street Journal points out in a "Heard on the Street" column ("Google and Microsoft Paying Big to Play in AI") the incredible advantage that gives today's top tech players over startups trying to cut in: "Microsoft now generates nearly $60 billion in annual free cash flow, while Alphabet produces $71 billion. Both have had a little over $28 billion in capital expenditures over the past four quarters—more than the annual revenue of three-quarters of the companies in the S&P 500." Both companies signaled this week that they'll invest even more: "Alphabet’s $6.9 billion in capex for the recent quarter came in well below the $8 billion Wall Street had anticipated, but Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat told analysts on the company’s earnings call that it will keep increasing for the rest of this year and into next 'to support the opportunities we see in AI.'" Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 31, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 31, 2023 1 big thing: AI's scariest secret Illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios As tech companies begin to weave AI into all their products and all of our lives, the architects of this revolutionary technology often can't predict or explain their systems' behavior. 💡 Why it matters: This may be the scariest aspect of today's AI boom — and it's common knowledge among AI's builders, though not widely understood by everyone else, Axios managing editor of technology Scott Rosenberg writes. "It is not at all clear — not even to the scientists and programmers who build them — how or why the generative language and image models work," Palantir CEO Alex Karp wrote recently in The New York Times. Zoom out: For decades, we've used computer systems that, given the same input, provide the same output. Generative AI systems, by contrast, aim to spin out multiple possibilities from a single prompt. You can easily end up with different answers to the same question. 🧠 Between the lines: Four researchers published a paper Thursday showing that users can defeat "guardrails" meant to bar AI systems from, for instance, explaining "how to make a bomb." The major chatbots, like ChatGPT, Bing and Bard, won't answer that question when asked directly. But they'll go into great detail if you append some additional code to the prompt. Go deeper. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted August 2, 2023 Author Members Share Posted August 2, 2023 GPT-3 can reason about as well as a college student, UCLA psychologists report But does the technology mimic human reasoning or is it using a fundamentally new cognitive process? https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/gpt-3-reasoning-as-well-as-college-students? Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.