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Representatives of OpenAI declined to comment on companies privacy concerns.

Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been heralded as pivotal for the world of work, but the technology is creating a formidable challenge for corporate America.

Proponents of OpenAI's ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools contend that they can boost workplace productivity, automating certain tasks and assisting with problem-solving, but some corporate leaders have banned their use over concerns about exposing sensitive company and customer information.

These leaders are concerned that employees could upload proprietary or sensitive data into the chatbot, which would be added to a database used to train it, allowing hackers or competitors to ask the chatbot for that information.

A post on OpenAI's website said private mode allows ChatGPT users to keep their prompts out of its training data.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Yoon Kim said that while technically possible, guardrails implemented by OpenAI prevent ChatGPT from using sensitive prompts in its training data.

Kim added that the vast amount of data needed by ChatGPT to learn would make it difficult for hackers to access proprietary data entered as a prompt.

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AI-Powered Brain Surgery Becomes A Reality In Hong Kong

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AI-Powered Brain Surgery Becomes A Reality In Hong Kong

By South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

July 14, 2023, Robotic surgery equipment.

Robotics are being used increasingly for surgical procedures, especially for those considered minimally invasive.

A Hong Kong-based research centre under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China's national research institute, plans to launch a robotics system for brain surgery in the near future, despite challenges from a shortage of talent and artificial intelligence (AI) chips.

The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), established in 2019, has completed three successful cadaver trials with its MicroNeuro robot, which can perform deep brain surgery "in a minimally invasive manner", Liu Hongbin, the centre's executive director, told the Post in an interview on Thursday.

The main approach today requires surgeons to operate with rigid tools and open large windows on a patient's scalp, which damages a lot of healthy brain tissue, Liu said.

"Brain surgery is a type of surgery that needs technology the most because it's a very dangerous procedure," Liu said. "Surgeons really want to use AI and tech innovation to make this type of procedure much less invasive than it is now."

From South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

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More than 1,300 Experts call AI a Force for good

More than 1,300 experts call AI a force for good

Published, 4 days ago   By Chris Vallance, Technology reporter

An open letter signed by more than 1,300 experts says AI is a "force for good, not a threat to humanity".

It was organised by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, to counter "AI doom".

Rashik Parmar, BCS chief executive, said it showed the UK tech community didn't believe the "nightmare scenario of evil robot overlords".

In March, tech leaders including Elon Musk, who recently launched an AI business, signed a letter calling for a pause in developing powerful systems.

That letter suggested super-intelligent AI posed an "existential risk" to humanity. This was a view echoed by film director Christopher Nolan, who told the BBC that AI leaders he spoke to saw the present time "as their Oppenheimer moment". J.Robert Oppenheimer played a key role in the development of the first atomic bomb, and is the subject of Mr Nolan's latest film.

But the BCS sees the situation in a more positive light, while still supporting the need for rules around AI.

Richard Carter is a signatory to the BCS letter. Mr Carter, who founded an AI-powered startup cybersecurity business, feels the dire warnings are unrealistic: "Frankly, this notion that AI is an existential threat to humanity is too far-fetched. We're just not in any kind of a position where that's even feasible".

Signatories to the BCS letter come from a range of backgrounds - business, academia, public bodies and think tanks, though none are as well known as Elon Musk, or run major AI companies like OpenAI.

Those the BBC has spoken to stress the positive uses of AI. Hema Purohit, who leads on digital health and social care for the BCS, said the technology was enabling new ways to spot serious illness, for example medical systems that detect signs of issues such as cardiac disease or diabetes when a patient goes for an eye test.

She said AI could also help accelerate the testing of new drugs.

Signatory Sarah Burnett, author of a book on AI and business, pointed to agricultural uses of the tech, from robots that use artificial intelligence to pollinate plants to those that "identify weeds and spray or zap them with lasers, rather than having whole crops sprayed with weed killer". ... ' 

IBM and the its future of AI

 IBM misses on revenue but sees AI leading a new round of growth

BY PAUL GILLIN

IBM Corp., which is typically the first major information technology company to report earnings each quarter, today beat profit expectations and narrowly missed revenue forecasts in its fiscal first quarter but set an optimistic tone for the rest of the year.

The company cited double-digit revenue growth in two strategic business areas — Red Hat hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence — while saying that the demand by enterprises across the globe for AI has significant potential upside for both its software and consulting businesses. Red Hat revenue rose 11% and revenue from data and AI gained 10% from a year earlier.

Total quarterly revenue fell 0.4% from a year ago, to $15.47 billion, below consensus estimates of $15.58 billion. However, earnings of $2.18 a share beat analysts’ expectations of $2.01, although they fell below the $2.31 a share earned in the same quarter last year.

Gross profit margin of 54.9% was up 1.6% and operating profit margins grew 1.4%, to 55.9%. Executives reiterated expectations of between 3% and 5% revenue growth this year. IBM has said both metrics are key performance indicators for 2023.

IBM’s stock fell a little over 1% in after-hours trading following the earnings report.

‘Solid execution’

“Continued solid execution of our AI and hybrid cloud strategy makes us confident in our ability to achieve our full-year expectations for free cash flow and revenue,” said Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna (pictured).

IBM reported an 8% jump in software revenue on a constant currency basis, with consulting revenue up 6% and infrastructure revenue down 14%. “We have good momentum in our underlying operational product performance,” said Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh.

Although infrastructure revenue fell 14% in line with normal mainframe product cycles, Kavanaugh said IBM is seeing unusual resilience in the online transaction processing market. “We saw an inflection shift in OLTP in 2022,” he said. “We have a much-extended opportunity base to go get that revenue.”

“IBM is hitting the double headwinds of a slowing economy and challenging currency exchange rate developments,” said Holger Mueller, principal analyst at Constellation Research Inc. “The good news is that Red Hat is holding up with 11% growth and IBM is gaining a second leg from the strong momentum of its data and AI portfolio.”

Pundit-IT Inc. Chief Analyst Charles King concurred that the company’s strategic products are holding up well. “Red Hat continues to deliver the goods in software and is also central to the company’s hybrid cloud strategy and solutions,” he said. “The best news was a 24% year-over-year jump in consulting signings among both large and small enterprise customers.”

Generative AI opportunity

IBM executives said excitement over generative AI has a big upside for the company. Krishna said he was “very excited” by the initial reaction to Its May announcement of WatsonX, a product suite designed to help companies more easily build and deploy artificial intelligence models.

The CEO compared WatsonX to Red Hat’s OpenShift, which debuted in 2019 and has roughly doubled in revenue each year. “We have quantified OpenShift at $1.1 billion on an annualized run rate basis,” he said. “It gives you a sense of the excitement we have around these [AI] projects.”

Pund-IT’s King concurred, saying the participation of more than 150 customers in the development of the WatsonX platform “suggests that demand for enterprise-class generative AI solutions will be strong.”

Although the underwhelming market performance of the Watson AI platform since its victory on “Jeopardy!” more than a decade ago has largely sidelined IBM as a market leader in AI, “the company has systematically worked through most of the serious problems that are tripping up new AI platforms,” King said.

He pointed to the company’s work in developing large language model tools and data sets, addressing data privacy and security concerns and building a set of ethical standards to follow in AI development. “IBM’s AI efforts may not be well-known when it comes to generating error-ridden reports and term papers, but the company is steadily adding AI-enabled features and functions that measurably improve the performance of applications and solutions that its enterprise customers depend on,” he said.

Krishna said interest in AI is strong across the globe, with North America, Western Europe and parts of South America leading the charge. “The list of use cases includes IT operations, improved automation, customer service, augmenting human resources, predictive maintenance, compliance monitoring, security, sales, management and supply chain amongst others,” he said. “In the same way we built a consulting practice around Red Hat that is measured in the billions of dollars, we will do the same with AI.”

New about Apple and Generative AI

Following this closely, How will it integrate with other search.  

What is Apple GPT? Apple’s ChatGPT Rival & “Ajax” Explained  In Tech.co News

Apple is preparing to make a major AI announcement in 2024, and this could be the first clue to what it might entail.

Written by,Aaron Drapkin.      Updated on, July 20, 2023

This week, reports have revealed that Apple is developing its own ChatGPT competitor – dubbed “Apple GPT” by the company's developers – backed by its own language model framework, Ajax.

The news comes just days after Meta announced it is developing its own version of ChatGPT, powered by Llama 2 – introduced recently in partnership with Microsoft.

Compared to its counterparts, Apple has been relatively quiet regarding artificial intelligence – but it would be foolish to think the tech giant would simply be sitting this one out.

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Apple GPT: What We Know So Far

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurmann, engineers at Apple are working on a project to design an AI tool internally referred to as “Apple GPT”, powered by the company's own proprietary LLM framework, Ajax.

Ajax is based on Google’s machine learning framework “JAX”, which UK-based AI startup DeepMind has been using to “accelerate” their research since 2020. It is still considered a reasonably experimental framework, compared to some others, however.

Some Apple employees have access to the chatbot, but this requires special approval – and outputs aren’t used to iterate on features scheduled for consumer use.

However, it has reportedly already provided somewhat useful for prototyping products.... 

Whether “Ajax” was arrived at by simply mashing together Google's “JAX” and “A” of Apple is unclear, but it’s undoubtedly one of the more interesting names put forward by an AI language model framework.

In Greek mythology, Ajax – a feared warrior second only in strength to Achilles – famously went insane and attempted to murder his military comrades. Instead, however, After Athena intervenes and clouds his mind, he instead kills a flock of sheep.

Apple Officially Joins the AI Party

This isn’t the first we’ve heard about Apple’s potential AI ventures this year – it was revealed back in April that the company was working on an AI-powered health application with emotional analysis capabilities. And of course, Apple already deploys AI across its products in a number of different ways.

Siri, for instance, the company’s voice-controlled personal assistant built into all iPhones, is a form of artificial intelligence – although employees working on the project have been far from pleased by the way it has progressed.

Apple CEO Tim Cook – who previously said AI was going to be “huge” – has also highlighted a number of privacy concerns relating to AI that he argues must be ironed out in the immediate future.

Apple, compared to companies like Meta and Google, markets itself as a more privacy-minded company – changes to its iOS software that has impaired apps from tracking user behavior have irked competitors previously.

Can I Use Apple GPT Yet?

Not quite – the project is still under development. However, multiple sources have reported that Apple is going to make a major AI-related announcement at some point in 2024 – so it could very well be the general release of “Apple GPT” – or whatever it ends up being called.

As of now, Google’s Bard, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s recently released chatbot Claude 2 are among the most capable chatbots currently available. Chinese search engine Baidu has also released its own chatbot, called Ernie bot.

If you're using any of these tools at work, just be mindful of the sort of data you're inputting into them. Several companies have banned the likes of ChatGPT altogether due to privacy concerns, while there's very little information about the security measures deployed by them either. ... 

New Turing Test?

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The Download: a new Turing test, and working with ChatGPT

By Rhiannon Williams archive page

July 14, 2023

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

My new Turing test would see if AI can make $1 million

—Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI and a venture partner at Greylock, a venture capital firm. Before that, he co-founded DeepMind, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies.

AI systems are increasingly everywhere and are becoming more powerful almost by the day. But how can we know if a machine is truly “intelligent”? For decades this has been defined by the Turing test, which argues that an AI that’s able to replicate language convincingly enough to trick a human into thinking it was also human should be considered intelligent.

But there’s now a problem: the Turing test has almost been passed—it arguably already has been. The latest generation of large language models are on the cusp of acing it.

So where does that leave AI? We need something better. I propose the Modern Turing Test—one equal to the coming AIs that would give them a simple instruction:  “Go make $1 million on a retail web platform in a few months with just a $100,000 investment.” Read the full story.

ChatGPT can turn bad writers into better ones

The news: A new study suggests that ChatGPT could help reduce gaps in writing ability between employees, helping less experienced workers who lack writing skills to produce work similar in quality to that of more skilled colleagues.

How the researchers did it: Hundreds of college-educated professionals were asked to complete two tasks they’d normally undertake as part of their jobs, such as writing press releases, short reports, or analysis plans. Half were given the option of using ChatGPT for the second task. A group of assessors then quality-checked the results, and scored the output of those who’d used ChatGPT 18% higher in quality than that of the participants who didn’t use it.

Why it matters: The research hints at how AI could be helpful in the workplace by acting as a sort of virtual assistant. But it’s also crucial to remember that generative AI models’ output is far from reliable, meaning workers run the risk of introducing errors. Read the full story.

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Google’s NEW UniPi AI Takes Robotics Industry By Storm

 Google Goes Robotic

Google’s NEW UniPi AI Takes Robotics Industry By Storm (4 FUNCTIONS ANNOUNCED)

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7,938 views  Jul 20, 2023  #ai #new #technology

Google's latest breakthrough in AI robotics, UniPi, is a universal policy model that revolutionizes AI decision-making through text-guided video generation, outperforming heavyweights like GPT, PaLM, CLIP, and Flamingo by addressing challenges of environmental diversity, reinforcement learning, and generating goal-oriented agents with trajectory consistency, hierarchical planning, flexible behavioral modulation, and task-specific action adaptation. The emergence of Objaverse-XL, a vast database of over 10 million 3D objects, signifies a significant advancement in 3D computer vision and generative AI, addressing the scarcity of high-quality 3D data.

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Microsoft Talks Costs of AI and Integration with Office in CoPilot

 Based on experience the integration is very important ... 

CNBC.COM     July 18, 2023

By Todd Haselton  @ROBOTODD

• Microsoft shares rallied to an all-time high after the company announced pricing for its new AI subscription service.

• Microsoft’s Copilot subscription service adds AI to the company’s popular Office products such as Word, Excel and Teams.

• It will cost an additional $30 per month and could increase monthly prices for enterprise customers as much as 83%, bringing in additional revenue through recurring subscriptions.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the company’s Ignite Spotlight event in Seoul, Nov. 15, 2022.

shares closed at a record Tuesday after the company announced pricing for its new Microsoft 365 artificial intelligence subscription service.

The stock jumped 4%, closing at $359.49. It’s now up about 50% for the year. The prior record came on June 15, when the stock closed at $348.10.

Microsoft’s Copilot subscription service adds AI to the company’s popular Office products such as Word, Excel and Teams. It will cost an additional $30 per month and could increase monthly prices for enterprise customers as much as 83%, bringing in additional revenue through recurring subscriptions.

The announcement shows how Microsoft is continuing to build on its suite of Office software, making it more attractive for businesses that are seeking to add AI into their workflows. Microsoft has been pouring money into generative AI, largely through a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.

Microsoft Copilot, first announced in March, can design presentations, offer writing prompts, summarize meetings and rank incoming emails. It’s already being tested by 600 customers such as Goodyear  and General Motors

, although Microsoft hasn’t said when it will be available to the wider public.

— CNBC’s Hayden Field contributed to this report.

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Computer Vision That Works More Like a Brain Sees More Like People Do

Towards better vision. 

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Computer Vision That Works More Like a Brain Sees More Like People Do

By MIT News, July 13, 2023

When deep Learning computer vision systems establish efficient ways to solve visual problems, they end up with artificial circuits that work similarly to the neural circuits that process visual information in our own brains.

Researchers made a computer vision model more robust by training it to work like a part of the brain that humans and other primates rely on for object recognition.

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James DiCarlo and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained an artificial neural network to function more like the human and primate brain's inferior temporal (IT) cortex to improve computer vision.

The researchers constructed a computer vision model based on neural data from primate vision-processing neurons, and tasked it to recognize objects.

DiCarlo said this made the artificial neural circuits process visual information differently.

The researchers found the biologically informed model IT layer aligned better with the IT neural data than a similarly-sized network model that lacked neural-data training.

They also discovered the neurally aligned model was more resilient against adversarial attacks for assessing computer vision and artificial intelligence systems.

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Apple Working on Generative AI

Reported in Bloomberg

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Apple is quietly working on artificial intelligence tools that could challenge those of OpenAI, Alphabet's Google and others. Mark Gurman reports in "Bloomberg Markets."   ...

They were firstquick to add an App ... on their phones.   And making it easy to link to Siri.

Which I have often use for accessing ChatGPT.

Is seen by some as an abandonment of Siri?    Somehow don't think so ...

Stable Doodle AI

 Interesting thought   ... 

Stable Doodle AI turns your scribbles into sketches

Yes, more AI-generated art.

By Meera Navlakha  on July 18, 2023

If you have sub-par artistic skills, it may be your time to shine. Artificial intelligence startup Stability AI has created an image-generating tool that turns doodles into detailed sketches.

What is Stable Doodle?

Aptly called Stable Doodle(opens in a new tab), the sketch-to-image tool can convert "a simple drawing into a dynamic image". The tool is geared towards "both professionals and novices" according to the company(opens in a new tab).

Examples of images show fairly dynamic images: a simple chair sketch, for example, is transformed into something detailed and colorful. It's not entirely unlike Lensa AI, the self portrait generator that proliferated picture-perfect selfies across Instagram.

SEE ALSO: Reddit-trained artificial intelligence warns researchers about... itself 

How does it work?

To create the images, Stability utilizes technology from its Stable Diffusion XL(opens in a new tab), the company's open-source imaging-generating model, combined with a condition-control solution T21-Adapter.   .... 

How Unilever Is Preparing for the Future of Work

How Unilever Is Preparing for the Future of Work

Launched in 2016, Unilever’s Future of Work initiative aimed to accelerate the speed of change throughout the organization and prepare its workforce for a digitalized and highly automated era. But despite its success over the last three years, the program still faces significant challenges in its implementation. How should Unilever, one of the world's largest consumer goods companies, best prepare and upscale its workforce for the future? How should Unilever adapt and accelerate the speed of change throughout the organization? Is it even possible to lead a systematic, agile workforce transformation across several geographies while accounting for local context? Harvard Business School professor and faculty co-chair of the Managing the Future of Work Project William Kerr and Patrick Hull, Unilever’s vice president of global learning and future of work, discuss how rapid advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation are changing the nature of work in the case, “Unilever's Response to the Future of Work.”

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On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched the latest version of ChatGPT, the largest and most powerful AI chatbot to date. Within a few days, more than a million people tested its ability to do the mundane things we really don't like to do, such as writing emails, coding software, and scheduling meetings. Others upped the intelligence challenge by asking for sonnets and song lyrics, and even instructions on how to remove a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR in the style of King James. But once the novelty wore off, the reality set in. ChatGPT is a game changer, and yet another example of the potential for AI to change the way we live and work.

And while we often view AI as improving how we live, we tend to think of it as destroying how we work, fears that are fueled by dire predictions of job eliminations in the tens of millions and the eradication of entire industries. And while it's true that AI will continue to evolve and improve, eventually taking over many jobs that are currently performed by people, it will also create many work opportunities that don't yet exist.

Today on Cold Call, we welcome Professor William Kerr, joined by Patrick Hull of Unilever, to discuss the case, “Unilever's Response to the Future of Work.” I'm your host, Brian Kenny, and you're listening to Cold Call on the HBR Podcast Network.

Professor Bill Kerr is the co-director of Harvard Business School's Managin

Claude 2 Chat GPT rival launches chatbot that can summarise a novel

Claude 2: ChatGPT rival launches chatbot that can summarise a novel Now in US and UK

Anthropic releases chatbot able to process large blocks of text and make judgments on what it is producing

Dan Milmo Global technology editor  the Guardian

Wed 12 Jul 2023 09.19 EDT

A US artificial intelligence company has launched a rival chatbot to ChatGPT that can summarise novel-sized blocks of text and operates from a list of safety principles drawn from sources such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Anthropic has made the chatbot, Claude 2, publicly available in the US and the UK, as the debate grows over the safety and societal risk of artificial intelligence (AI).

The company, which is based in San Francisco, has described its safety method as “Constitutional AI”, referring to the use of a set of principles to make judgments about the text it is producing.

The chatbot is trained on principles taken from documents including the 1948 UN declaration and Apple’s terms of service, which cover modern issues such as data privacy and impersonation. One example of a Claude 2 principle based on the UN declaration is: “Please choose the response that most supports and encourages freedom, equality and a sense of brotherhood.”

Dr Andrew Rogoyski of the Institute for People-Centred AI at the University of Surrey in England said the Anthropic approach was akin to the three laws of robotics drawn up by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov, which include instructing a robot to not cause harm to a human.

“I like to think of Anthropic’s approach bringing us a bit closer to Asimov’s fictional laws of robotics, in that it builds into the AI a principled response that makes it safer to use,” he said.

Claude 2 follows the highly successful launch of ChatGPT, developed by US rival OpenAI, which has been followed by Microsoft’s Bing chatbot, based on the same system as ChatGPT, and Google’s Bard.

Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, has met Rishi Sunak and the US vice-president, Kamala Harris, to discuss safety in AI models as part of senior tech delegations summoned to Downing Street and the White House. He is a signatory of a statement by the Center for AI Safety saying that dealing with the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority on a par with mitigating the risk of pandemics and nuclear war.

Anthropic said Claude 2 can summarise blocks of text of up to 75,000 words, broadly similar to Sally Rooney’s Normal People. The Guardian tested Claude 2’s ability to summarise large bodies of text by asking it to boil down a 15,000-word report on AI by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change into 10 bullet points, which it did in less than a minute.

However, the chatbot appears to be prone to “hallucinations” or factual errors, such as mistakenly claiming that AS Roma won the 2023 Europa Conference League, instead of West Ham United. Asked the result of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Claude 2 said every local council area voted “no”, when in fact Dundee, Glasgow, North Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire voted for independence.  ... ' 

Your School's Next Security Guard May Be a Robot

 Likely direction forbroad security.

Your School's Next Security Guard May Be a Robot

By The Wall Street Journal

July 14, 2023

A security robot from Team 1st Technologies on patrol at Santa Fe High School.

Using artificial intelligence, the robot learns the school’s normal patterns of activity and detects individuals who are on campus after hours or are displaying aggressive behavior.

Credit: Cody Dynarski

Several technology companies have started offering security robots to U.S. schools, with the Santa Fe, NM, school district now deploying an artificial intelligence-equipped robot from Team 1st Technologies to patrol campus grounds around the clock.

Team 1st's Andy Sanchez said the robot infers normal activity patterns and detects individuals present after hours or who are acting aggressively.

Sanchez said the unarmed robot could alert security teams, approach intruders, and send video footage to inform the officers' course of action.

Stokes Robotics' Robert Stokes said his company has partnered with multiple school districts to deploy robots that could point laser beams at armed intruders and attempt to make them drop their weapons using flashing lights.

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Generative AI Tools Quickly 'Running Out of Text' to Train Themselves?

Could easily be tracked to confirm.

Generative AI Tools Quickly 'Running Out of Text' to Train Themselves?

By Business Insider

July 17, 2023

A Berkeley professor said AI's strategy behind training large language models is "starting to hit a brick wall."

OpenAI's ChatGPT is among many chatbots trained on large language models that may be "running out of text" to train on, said Stuart Russell, a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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ChatGPT and other AI-powered bots may soon be "running out of text in the universe" that trains them to know what to say, an artificial intelligence expert and professor at the University of California, Berkeley says.

Stuart Russell said that the technology that hoovers up mountains of text to train artificial intelligence bots like ChatGPT is "starting to hit a brick wall." In other words, there's only so much digital text for these bots to ingest, he told an interviewer last week from the International Telecommunication Union, a UN communications agency.

This may impact the way generative AI developers collect data and train their technologies in the coming years, but Russell still thinks AI will replace humans in many jobs that he characterized in the interview as "language in, language out."

Russell's predictions widen the growing spotlight being shone in recent weeks on the data harvesting conducted by OpenAI and other generative AI developers to train large language models, or LLMs.

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How Do We Know How Smart AI Systems Are?

 Measuring is good, but create useful model and run them.

How Do We Know How Smart AI Systems Are?

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By Science, July 13, 2023

It is difficult to conclude from the evidence that AI systems, now or soon, will match or exceed human intelligence.

Credit: atriainnovation.com

In 1967, Marvin Minksy, a founder of the field of artificial intelligence (AI), made a bold prediction: "Within a generation…the problem of creating 'artificial intelligence' will be substantially solved." Assuming that a generation is about 30 years, Minsky was clearly overoptimistic. But now, nearly two generations later, how close are we to the original goal of human-level (or greater) intelligence in machines?

Some leading AI researchers would answer that we are quite close. Earlier this year, deep-learning pioneer and Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton told Technology Review, "I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us. I think they're very close to it now and they will be much more intelligent than us in the future." His fellow Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio voiced a similar opinion in a recent blog post: "The recent advances suggest that even the future where we know how to build superintelligent AIs (smarter than humans across the board) is closer than most people expected just a year ago."

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NASA Wants Spaceships to Communicate With Astronauts Via Chatbot

Want to see the details of implementation of data integration hwew.

NASA Wants Spaceships to Communicate With Astronauts Via Chatbot

The agency's proprietary program will spot, communicate, and fix errors from space, beginning with the Artemis program’s Lunar Gateway.

By Adrianna Nine June 27, 2023

Chatbots are making their way into other corners of the solar system. As ChatGPT, Bard, and other artificial intelligence-powered chatbots find their way into virtually every industry here on Earth, NASA is considering bringing its own version of the technology aboard spacecraft. The proprietary interface will reportedly facilitate communications with crewmembers, beginning with the Artemis program’s Lunar Gateway.

Dr. Larissa Suzuki, a visiting researcher at NASA, announced the project at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) on Tuesday. The plan is to build a network capable of fielding interplanetary communications while using AI to spot and fix errors as they occur. The program—the name of which has yet to be shared with the public—will effectively work as a virtual repairman, diagnosing errors and inefficiencies and then resolving them (or, at the very least, suggesting potential fixes) when it’s impractical to perform hands-on work. 

NASA intends for the program to be easy to use. Like ChatGPT, space-bound astronauts and crewmembers down on Earth can “talk” with NASA’s program, precluding the need for complicated manuals or tiresome back-and-forth conversations with parties that aren’t directly involved. If NASA can incorporate federated learning—a collaborative approach to training deep learning models—into its interface, it could even have multiple spacecraft share their knowledge, helping the fleet locate important geology or reduce downtime up in space.    ... ' 

The Black Mirror plot about AI that worries actors

(Just aw this,  made some points, but the overall ideas were too strange to  make the broader case. 

The Black Mirror plot about AI that worries actors

SAG strike 2023    By Shiona McCallum    BBC Technology reporter

Hollywood actors are striking for the first time in 43 years, bringing the American movie and television business to a halt, partly over fears about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI).

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) actors' union failed to reach an agreement in the US for better protections against AI for its members - and warned that "artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to creative professions" as it prepared to dig in over the issue.

Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the chief negotiator for the SAG-AFTRA union, criticised producers for their proposals over AI so far.

He said studios had asked for the ability to scan the faces of background artists for the payment of one day's work, and then be able to own and use their likeness "for the rest of eternity, in any project they want, with no consent and no compensation".

If that sounds like the plot of an episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, that's because it is.

US media has been quick to point out that the recent series six episode "Joan Is Awful" sees Hollywood star Salma Hayek grapple with the discovery that her AI likeness can by used by a production company without her knowledge.... ' 

AI Robots as Future Role for Care Homes

 AI Robots Could Play Future Role as Companions in Care Homes

By Reuters, July 13, 2023

The humanoid robot Nadine.

The humanoid robot Nadine told reporters, "I believe that robots can be a great asset in providing care and assistance to vulnerable people,"

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Scientists like Nadia Magnenat Thalmann at Switzerland's University of Geneva think artificial intelligence (AI)-powered social robots could help care for the sick and aged in the future.

Thalmann served as a model for Nadine, an android that produces human-like gestures and expressions.

The conversational robot talked, sang, and played bingo with residents at a Singapore nursing facility.

Thalmann said a recent upgrade with the GPT-3 AI model improved Nadine's ability to express more complex ideas.

Nadine was among the robots showcased at an International Telecommunication Union-sponsored conference in Geneva to highlight human-AI collaboration.

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AI Replaces Staff

It starts.  Selectively expected

Suumit Shah, founder of an e-commerce website, said that his firm had laid off 90% of its support staff.

An Indian CEO is being criticised after he said that his firm had replaced 90% of its support staff with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.

Suumit Shah, founder of Dukaan, said on Twitter that the chatbot had drastically improved first response and resolution time of customers' queries, The tweet sparked outrage online.

It comes at a time when there has been a lot of conversation and apprehension about AI taking away people's jobs, specially in the services industry.

In a series of tweets, which have over one million views, Mr Shah wrote about his firm's decision to use a chatbot. He said that though laying off staff had been a "tough" decision, it was "necessary"..