Members phkrause Posted January 24 Author Members Share Posted January 24 🤖 AI moral dilemmas Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios The creators of AI systems are being forced to make hard choices about what partisan rifts, culture-war chasms and international tensions they want to side with, Ina Fried writes for Axios AI+. Why it matters: AI's makers routinely talk about "alignment with human values" without acknowledging how deeply contested all human values are. 🔬 Zoom in: In the U.S., for instance, you can say your chatbot AI is trained to "respect human life." But then you have to decide how it handles conversations about abortion. Many AI creators who are struggling to prevent their systems from showing racist, antisemitic or anti-LGBTQ tendencies face complaints that they're "too woke." The Grok system from Elon Musk's X.ai is explicitly designed as an "anti-woke" alternative. 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 February 6 Author Members Share Posted February 6 🦾 Inside AI's "big" fight Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios A battle between two Silicon Valley sects — "big AI" and "small AI" — will shape the future of the tech that's likely to dominate business and society over the next decade, Axios managing editor Scott Rosenberg writes. Why it matters: A "big AI" win could lock in the power of today's tech giants for decades to come. A "small AI" victory could have more unpredictable and uncontrollable consequences. Big AI means building ever-bigger digital brains, betting that if you just keep adding more synapse-like nodes, your model will keep getting better — and eventually, maybe, produce human-matching or -beating skills, known as artificial general intelligence. That's how ChatGPT got made and the generative AI wave that began in 2022 got started. OpenAI, allied with Microsoft, is big AI's standard-bearer. But every tech giant is in this fantastically expensive game. The small AI approach predicts we'll get better, faster and more efficient results by deploying a wider range and number of AI models, fine-tuned for specific tasks or subject areas. Many small AI proponents believe big AI will hit a wall before achieving its goal of AGI. Small AI efforts are also much more likely to be made available via open-source licensing, which allows for broad distribution and wider research. Meta has been the highest-profile promoter of smaller and freely distributed models. 👀 What we're watching: The outcome of this conflict will depend as much on regulation from Washington as on what comes out of the industry's labs. A looser regulatory environment would make it easier for small AI to flourish. Tighter rules and restraints from D.C. are more likely to benefit big AI since only the largest firms would have the resources to run the bureaucratic gauntlet. 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 February 17 Author Members Share Posted February 17 AI video bombshell Image: Generated by OpenAI's Sora. Prompt: Photorealistic closeup video of two pirate ships battling each other as they sail inside a cup of coffee. This video was generated with 18 words plugged into Sora, a new OpenAI tool that can create stunning videos — and potentially troubling fakes — from text prompts alone. Why it matters: A generative AI system that concocts realistic videos at this scale and speed could reverberate through Hollywood and beyond, Axios AI+ co-author Ina Fried writes. OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, doesn't plan to publicly release Sora (which means sky in Japanese) anytime soon. The company will use the testing to try to reduce the tool's potential for misinformation, hateful content and bias. Early testers will poke at potential security vulnerabilities. Sora will also be made available to a swath of visual artists, designers and filmmakers to get feedback on how the model could help them. State of play: Other companies — including Meta, Google and Runway — have announced or released their own text-to-video engines. Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela declared simply: "Game on." 🪞 Flashback: In November, Axios' Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen previewed this astonishing capability in a "Behind the Curtain" column, "What AI architects fear most (in 2024)." The restricted release is an effort by OpenAI to stanch the flood of deepfakes that's expected when the tool is in the wild. 🤖 Between the lines: The visuals are jarringly realistic. Many of the examples published by OpenAI look like they could've been cut from a movie trailer. Others, while still stunning, contain quirks — misspelled words and jumbled fingers — that give away the AI. So far, Sora can turn text into a video of up to one minute in length. Reactions reflected a Rorschach test for how people already view the impact of generative AI, with a mix of excitement, awe, fear and revulsion. AI creator and ex-Googler Bilawal Sidhu said: "''Is it real or is it fake?' isn't just for photos now. Videos too have fallen, and I couldn't be more excited." Prominent YouTube creator and tech reviewer Marques Brownlee noted: "If this doesn't concern you at least a little bit, nothing will." The bottom line: "The technology could speed the work of seasoned moviemakers, while replacing less experienced digital artists entirely," the N.Y. Times' Cade Metz wrote. More videos ... 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 February 21 Author Members Share Posted February 21 AI movie magic Video generated by OpenAI's Sora Everyone knew this was coming — but not this soon: OpenAI's unveiling last week of Sora, which turns plain-text commands into remarkably life-like movie clips, sent shockwaves through both the tech and media worlds, Axios managing editor for tech Scott Rosenberg writes from the Bay Area. Why it matters: This represents a huge leap for AI as a tool for executing human intentions. You type in a couple of sentences, and Sora cranks out a convincing video up to a minute long. 💥 State of play: Other tech pioneers have their own text-to-video tools. But, like with ChatGPT in 2022, OpenAI has upped the wow factor: It's not just that the images look real. They feel like movies — the way ChatGPT's conversations sometimes feel like human speech. Sora has what Wired's Steven Levy called "an emergent grasp of cinematic grammar." Video generated by OpenAI's Sora 🖼️ The big picture: Just as Dall-E raised the hackles of visual artists and ChatGPT triggered soul-searching among authors and writers, Sora is giving moviemakers thrills and chills. It seems to promise profound shortcuts around expensive special effects, and could upend many of the crafts that built Hollywood. It also raises deep questions about the unique human contribution to artistic creation, the place of human actors and storytellers in visual media, and where future audiences will turn to find pleasure and surprise. 🥊 Reality check: Sora isn't available for most users, and won't be for some time. Skeptics argue that OpenAI had cherrypicked its demo examples, and that Sora's output didn't appear substantially different from that of Midjourney and similar tools. The intrigue: Even as engineers work to perfect the output of tools like Sora, creative artists are studying the mistakes. OpenAI asked Sora for a scene with "New York City submerged like Atlantis. Fish, whales, sea turtles and sharks swim through the streets of New York." Sora presented a finny phalanx flying between skyscrapers above the surface of a street-level sea. The video is "wrong" — but also weirder and wilder than the human prompt. 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 February 25 Author Members Share Posted February 25 🤖 Charted: AI boom broadens Data: FactSet. Chart: Axios Visuals It isn't just Nvidia. A new cadre of hot stocks are now riding the wave of excitement generated by the artificial intelligence boom, writes markets, gardening and banjo correspondent Matt Phillips, who has propelled the S&P 500 7% higher over the past two tumultuous years. Why it matters: The bull market has been running since October 2022. But the near-euphoria surrounding all things AI is provoking renewed feelings of friskiness among investors. 🔢 By the numbers: A range of stocks linked to the buildout of AI infrastructure surged yesterday after another remarkable quarterly report from Nvidia, where sales tripled. The biggest winner was the niftily named Super Micro Computer, which makes high-end servers. It surged over 30% on the day. Advanced Micro Devices, considered Nvidia's main rival in AI-oriented graphics processing units (GPUs), added nearly 11%. Synopsys, which makes software that's used for designing chips, surged around 7%. 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 February 27 Author Members Share Posted February 27 🤖 AI's next act: Autonomous agents Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios AI's brain trusts are already looking beyond today's popular chatbots to a world in which AI agents act on your behalf. Why it matters: AI will move from saying things to doing things, Axios' Ina Fried and Scott Rosenberg write. State of play: ChatGPT maker OpenAI is deep into developing AI agent systems. Former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former Google executive Clay Bavor launched Sierra, a company that aims to fully automate a huge range of online customer interactions using AI agents. 🔭 What to watch: Taylor tells Axios that AI agents will expand beyond customer service, and become the dominant way that individuals interact with businesses — even investor relations. The bottom line: As businesses hand off more tasks to agents, customers will, too — speeding us toward a world where "my bot will call your bot." 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 February 29 Author Members Share Posted February 29 🦾 Schools using AI Illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios 📌 Teachers know they're way behind their students when it comes to mastering AI, fueling educators' anxiety. Schools don't know how to set the right rules for their own uses of AI or how to police students' use, Axios' Jennifer A. Kingson writes. 📚 One superintendent compared the rise of ChatGPT and other AI-powered writing tools to the early days of Wikipedia — a new technology that isn't fully trustworthy, but that's clearly going to become a permanent part of how we receive and process information. Some school officials are finding AI is pretty good at grading papers and writing lesson plans — even as they try to steer students away from relying on the same tools. 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 March 3 Author Members Share Posted March 3 🦾 Betting big on human-like robots AI engineer Jenna Reher works on humanoid robot Figure 01 at Figure AI's test facility in Sunnyvale, Calif. Photo: Jae C. Hong/AP How's this for an investor pool: Jeff Bezos, AI chipmaker Nvidia, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and more. They're collectively pouring $675 million into humanoid robot startup Figure at a $2.6 billion valuation, Axios' Jennifer A. Kingson writes. Why it matters: Bipedal robots with dexterous hands are joining the labor force — and there's a growing arms race among their producers, including Tesla and Boston Dynamics. Figure's robots are joining BMW's production line. Amazon is testing Digit, from Agility Robotics, for warehouse work. NASA has a partnership with Apptronik to develop its humanoid robot (aptly named Apollo) for space exploration. 📱 YouTubes: Watch Figure's robot moving a crate to a conveyor belt and making coffee, Tesla's Optimus taking a stroll and Sanctuary's Phoenix taking your blood pressure. 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 April 2 Author Members Share Posted April 2 How to spot deepfake images As AI has improved it has become a lot harder to spot a fake, but there are some things to look for. Read more. Key points: Look at the faces. Face-swapping is one of the most common deepfake methods. Experts advise looking closely at the edges of the face. Does the facial skin tone match the rest of the head or the body? Are the edges of the face sharp or blurry? Think about the bigger picture. Sometimes the context matters. Take a beat to consider whether what you’re seeing is plausible. Another approach is to use AI to fight AI. Microsoft has developed an authenticator tool that can analyze photos or videos to give a confidence score on whether it’s been manipulated. Chipmaker Intel’s FakeCatcher uses algorithms to analyze an image’s pixels to determine if it’s real or fake. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Delete a background? Easy. Smooth out a face? Seamless. Digital photo manipulation is now mainstream New bipartisan bill would require online identification, labeling of AI-generated videos and audio 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 April 3 Author Members Share Posted April 3 🤖 Musicians take on AI Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios 200+ big-name musicians are calling on AI developers and digital platforms to "cease the use of artificial intelligence to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists," Axios' Sara Fischer reports. Why it matters: It's one of the strongest positions that artists have collectively taken to advocate for themselves in the AI era. The effort is backed by Billie Eilish, Katy Perry, Smokey Robinson, Elvis Costello, Nicki Minaj, Kacey Musgraves, Jon Batiste, Ja Rule, Jason Isbell, Pearl Jam and Sam Smith. 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 April 5 Author Members Share Posted April 5 🤖 Big AI's favorite phrase Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Leading AI companies have a favorite phrase when describing where they get the data to train their models: They say it's "publicly available" on the internet, Axios' Ina Fried writes. Why it matters: "Publicly available" can sound like the company has permission. But it's more like the legal equivalent of "finders keepers." 🔬 Zoom in: The term sounds like "public domain," which refers to information that's no longer subject to copyright protection, or otherwise is freely available. Lots of information is "publicly available" but subject to various protections, including copyright — or are pirated. Lawyers have brought a number of suits arguing that AI companies are engaging in massive copyright infringement, both in the training and operation of their products. "That phrase confuses people," developer Ed Newton-Rex tells Axios. "It's probably designed to confuse people." 🖼️ The big picture: The debate over training data comes as AI companies seek more data sources to train ever more powerful versions of their large language models. OpenAI is considering training models on YouTube transcripts, as the industry hunts for high-quality information, The Wall Street Journal reports. Companies are even looking for ways to train models on data that itself was created by AI, known as synthetic data. 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...
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