Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing many aspects of how we work and live. (How many stories did you read last week about self-driving cars and job-stealing robots? Perhaps your holiday shopping involved some AI algorithms, as well.) But despite the constant flow of news, many misconceptions about AI remain.
AI doesn’t think in our sense of the word at all, Scriffignano explains. “In many ways, it’s not really intelligence. It’s regressive.”
IT leaders should make deliberate choices about what AI can and can’t do on its own. “You have to pay attention to giving AI autonomy intentionally and not by accident,”
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google launches Firebase Genkit, an open-source framework that uses the Apache 2.0 license, in beta to let developers build, deploy, and monitor AI-powered apps
Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/google-launches-firebase-genkit-a-new-open-source-framework-for-building-ai-powered-apps/
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google announces AI-powered scam call detection on Android, a chatty new voice mode with its Gemini Live feature, and voice and video search with Google Lens — Google I/O just ended — and it was packed with AI announcements. As expected, the event focused heavily on Google’s Gemini AI models …
https://www.theverge.com/24153841/google-io-2024-ai-gemini-android-chrome-photos
Cherlynn Low / Engadget:
Google teases Project Astra, a camera-based AI app to process visual data in real time, and showed a person wearing a pair of smart glasses using the feature — It’ll even remember things it saw that are no longer in the frame. — Deputy Editor, Reviews
https://www.engadget.com/googles-project-astra-uses-your-phones-camera-and-ai-to-find-noise-makers-misplaced-items-and-more-172642329.html
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Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
Google says Circle to Search can now solve physics and math problems, and will expand later this year to diagrams and graphs, powered by LearnLM models
With Gemini on Android, Google Points to Mobile Computing’s Future—and Past
Google’s new upgrades to Gemini and Circle to Search offer a look at how the operating system might change and revolve around artificial intelligence.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-io-gemini-on-android-circle-to-search/
Nearly a decade ago, Google showed off a feature called Now on Tap in Android Marshmallow—tap and hold the home button and Google will surface helpful contextual information related to what’s on the screen. Talking about a movie with a friend over text? Now on Tap could get you details about the title without having to leave the messaging app. Looking at a restaurant in Yelp? The phone could surface OpenTable recommendations with just a tap.
I was fresh out of college, and these improvements felt exciting and magical—its ability to understand what was on the screen and predict the actions you might want to take felt future-facing. It was one of my favorite Android features. It slowly morphed into Google Assistant, which was great in its own right, but not quite the same.
Today, at Google’s I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California, the new features Google is touting in its Android operating system feel like the Now on Tap of old—allowing you to harness contextual information around you to make using your phone a bit easier. Except this time, these features are powered by a decade’s worth of advancements in large language models.
“I think what’s exciting is we now have the technology to build really exciting assistants,” Dave Burke, vice president of engineering on Android, tells me over a Google Meet video call. “We need to be able to have a computer system that understands what it sees and I don’t think we had the technology back then to do it well. Now we do.”
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google says Gemini Nano is now built into Chrome on desktop, with plans to use it to power features like the existing “help me write” tool
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/google-is-building-its-gemini-nano-ai-model-into-chrome-on-the-desktop/
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google releases Project IDX, its next-gen AI-centric browser-based IDE, in open beta, and says that 100,000+ developers tried the service in invite-only phase
Project IDX, Google’s next-gen IDE, is now in open beta
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/project-idx-googles-next-gen-ide-is-now-in-open-beta/
At it’s annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that Project IDX, the company’s next-gen, AI-centric browser-based development environment, is now in open beta. The company first launched it as an invite-only service gated by a waitlist in August.
Google says that over 100,000 developers already tried the service.
“As AI becomes more prevalent, the complexities that come with deploying all of that really becomes harder, becomes greater, and we wanted to help solve that challenge,” said Jeanine Banks, Google’s VP and general manager for Developer X and the company’s head of developer relations. “That’s why we built project IDX, a multi-platform development experience that makes building applications fast and easy. Project IDX makes it really frictionless to get going with your preferred framework or language with easy-to-use templates like Next.js, Astro, Flutter, Dart, Angular, Go and more.”
With this update, Google is adding an integration with the Google Maps Platform into the IDE, helping add geolocation features to its apps, as well as integrations with the Chrome Dev Tools and Lighthouse to help debug applications. Soon, Google will also enable deploying apps to Cloud Run, Google Cloud’s serverless platform for running front- and back-end services.
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
The arrival of AI search bodes ill for everyone who relied on web search to have their business discovered, or their blog post read, or their journalism funded
Google’s broken link to the web
https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background
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The Verge:
Jan Leike, who was co-leading OpenAI’s Superalignment team with Ilya Sutskever to “steer and control” more powerful AI, has also resigned from the company
OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is officially leaving
/ Who didn’t see this coming after he tried to get Sam Altman fired?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156920/openai-chief-scientist-ilya-sutskever-leaves
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Senators Urge $32 Billion in Emergency Spending on AI After Finishing Yearlong Review
The group recommends that Congress draft emergency spending legislation to boost U.S. investments in artificial intelligence, including new R&D and testing standards to understand the technology’s potential harms.
https://www.securityweek.com/senators-urge-32-billion-in-emergency-spending-on-ai-after-finishing-yearlong-review/
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Google releases ‘Project Astra’ assistant in latest AI advance
Silicon Valley giant’s new product launch follows flurry of releases from tech rivals such as OpenAI
https://www.ft.com/content/fc2f9c44-76ad-4f00-8f1a-e15d268660f2?shareType=nongift&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ERUAWMxvCjoqAocMAkTX1Hnzq_1292UD9lQOYw3zayDcVwPhblo3ILU4_aem_AeExhjgh9xVfvLlpXfAhEadApSSyuW1vJG7bdUgSo25DRl5QJn7qYHHJP5Z3aOIELFtYeWoEFMsZVhMNhCXhs5ys
Google owner Alphabet has unveiled an artificial intelligence agent that can answer real-time queries across video, audio and text, as part of a number of initiatives designed to showcase its prowess in AI and quell criticism that it has fallen behind rivals.
Chief executive Sundar Pichai demonstrated the Silicon Valley giant’s new “multimodal” AI assistant called Project Astra, powered by an upgraded version of its Gemini model, during an annual developer conference on Tuesday.
Astra was part of series of announcements to showcase a new AI-centric vision for Google. It follows product launches and upgraded AI models from Big Tech rivals including Meta, Microsoft and its partner OpenAI.
In a video demonstration, Google’s prototype AI assistant responded to voice commands based on an analysis of what it sees through a phone camera or when using a pair of smart glasses.
Project Astra: Our vision for the future of AI assistants
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVvvRhiGjI&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
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Is there an AI that explains code?
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https://deepgram.com/ai-apps/ai-code-mentor
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Amazon Q Developer
The most capable generative AI–powered assistant for software development
https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/?gclid=CjwKCAjwupGyBhBBEiwA0UcqaHXC8UdB1HQsCupCTKt0IxgjpXKNTOUmsfShTPcTGEaW2iu4Ba9bshoCE1cQAvD_BwE&trk=45c2a23c-23fc-4f2e-b28a-4d8b6ef62ce7&sc_channel=ps&ef_id=CjwKCAjwupGyBhBBEiwA0UcqaHXC8UdB1HQsCupCTKt0IxgjpXKNTOUmsfShTPcTGEaW2iu4Ba9bshoCE1cQAvD_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!698133085581!p!!g!!ai%20coding!21048268977!166963732772
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Understand unfamiliar programming concepts, frameworks, and languages
Understand code with advanced AI
Denigma explains code in conversational English.
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https://denigma.app/
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Use AI prompts to explain and refactor your code
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/use-prompts-to-explain-and-refactor-your-code.html
Use pre-written prompts to explain code, find problems, and refactor your code. IntelliJ IDEA provides project-specific context, such as the languages and technologies used in your project.
You can also define your own custom prompts and add them to the AI Actions menu.
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AI Code Explain
https://zzzcode.ai/code-explain
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AI Code Explainer
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https://www.justthink.ai/tools/ai-code-explainer
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AI Code Tools: The Ultimate Guide in 2024
https://codesubmit.io/blog/ai-code-tools/
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https://code-mentor.ai/
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2024/05/16/tekoalyn-kielimalleja-myos-pienemmille-kielille/
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2024/05/15/voiko-tekoaly-auttaa-ohjelmistokehityksessa/
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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: Stability AI has talked to at least one potential buyer in recent weeks about a sale; it lost $30M+ in Q1 and owes ~$100M to cloud providers and others — Stability AI, which has emerged as a poster child for investors’ rush to back unproven artificial intelligence startups …
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stability-ai-facing-cash-crunch-discusses-sale
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Mallory Culhane / Politico:NEW
US lawmakers are watching to see whether Colorado’s bill for regulating AI, modeled on Connecticut’s now derailed bill, can withstand the tech lobby pressure — Connecticut’s ambitious legislation regulating the emerging industry got derailed. Now, the tech industry is trying to kill Colorado’s bill.
Two unlikely states are leading the charge on regulating AI
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/15/ai-tech-regulations-lobbying-00157676
Connecticut’s ambitious legislation regulating the emerging industry got derailed. Now, the tech industry is trying to kill Colorado’s bill.
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Associated Press:
In the first high-level AI talks in Geneva, the US raised concerns about China’s “misuse of AI” while China chided the US over “restrictions and pressure” on AI
In first AI dialogue, US cites ‘misuse’ of AI by China, Beijing protests Washington’s restrictions
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-china-united-states-biden-xi-geneva-506da7b5fa72d5fe1bcd54fb8ec4f898
GENEVA (AP) — U.S. officials raised concerns about China’s “misuse of AI” while Beijing’s representatives rebuked Washington over “restrictions and pressure” on artificial intelligence, the governments said separately Wednesday, a day after a meeting in Geneva on the technology.
Summaries of the closed-door talks between high-level envoys, which covered AI’s risks and ways to manage it, hinted at the tension between Beijing and Washington over the rapidly advancing technology that has become another flashpoint in bilateral relations.
China and the United States “exchanged perspectives on their respective approaches to AI safety and risk management” in the “candid and constructive” discussions a day earlier, National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement. Beijing said the two sides exchanged views “in-depth, professionally, and constructively.”
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Generative AI Hits The Commodore 64
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/15/generative-ai-hits-the-commodore-64/
Image-generating AIs are typically trained on huge arrays of GPUs and require great wads of processing power to run. Meanwhile, [Nick Bild] has managed to get something similar running on a Commodore 64. (via Tom’s Hardware).
A figure generated by [Nick]’s C64. We shall name him… “Sword Guy”!
As you might imagine, [Nick’s] AI image generator isn’t churning out 4K cyberpunk stills dripping in neon. Instead, he aimed at a smaller target, more befitting the Commodore 64 itself. His image generator creates 8×8 game sprites instead.
https://github.com/nickbild/c64_gen_ai
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From Captcha tricks to political manipulation, AI systems are learning ways to deceive humans: https://ie.social/4kl6P
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THE MAKER OF STABLE DIFFUSION IS COLLAPSING, CONSIDERING SALE
https://futurism.com/the-byte/stability-ai-collapsing-considering-sale
THE NUMBERS ARE NOT PRETTY.
Unstable AI
Stability AI, the maker of the popular AI image generator Stable Diffusion, is in big financial trouble.
As The Information reports, the startup is facing a severe cash crunch and is in talks of being sold off.
It’s a major fall from grace. During the early days of the AI race, former CEO Emad Mostaque raised $100 million for the venture at a $1 billion valuation in 2022. But the company has been bleeding cash ever since, with wages and expenses on computing power greatly exceeding revenue.
According to The Information, the company
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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
OpenAI says ChatGPT can now directly import files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise users
https://venturebeat.com/ai/chatgpt-now-lets-you-import-files-directly-from-google-drive-microsoft-onedrive/
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sony Music sends letters to 700+ AI companies, developers, and music streaming platforms warning over the “unauthorized use” of Sony’s content in training AI — Music group representing Adele and Beyoncé contacts more than 700 companies to prohibit use of content
Sony Music warns global tech and streamers over AI use of its artists
Music group representing Adele and Beyoncé contacts more than 700 companies to prohibit use of content
https://www.ft.com/content/c5b93b23-9f26-4e6b-9780-a5d3e5e7a409
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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Ann Arbor-based Voxel51, which is developing a visual AI platform to reduce the failure rate of AI projects, raised a $30M Series B led by Bessemer — Voxel51 has raised $30 million in new funding to develop its visual AI platform, which is designed to reduce the failure rate of AI projects.
Voxel51 secures $30M to help gen AI understand visual input more accurately
https://venturebeat.com/ai/voxel51-secures-30m-to-help-ai-understand-the-real-world-beyond-just-text-and-language/
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Snowflake is in talks to acquire Reka AI, which builds LLMs for businesses, for over $1B; report: Reka was valued at ~$300M in a 2023 funding round — – Software company’s venture arm has invested in the AI startup — Reka was started in 2022 by researchers from Google, Meta
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-16/snowflake-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-reka-ai-for-1-billion
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Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Hugging Face, which is “profitable, or close to profitable”, commits $10M in free shared GPUs to help small developers, academics, and others create AI apps
Hugging Face is sharing $10 million worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies
/ ZeroGPU gives everyone the chance to create AI apps without the burden of GPU costs.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24156755/hugging-face-celement-delangue-free-shared-gpus-ai
Hugging Face, one of the biggest names in machine learning, is committing $10 million in free shared GPUs to help developers create new AI technologies. The goal is to help small developers, academics, and startups counter the centralization of AI advancements.
“We are lucky to be in a position where we can invest in the community,” Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue told The Verge. Delangue said the investment is possible because Hugging Face is “profitable, or close to profitable” and recently raised $235 million in funding, valuing the company at $4.5 billion.
Delangue is concerned about AI startups’ ability to compete with the tech giants. Most significant advancements in artificial intelligence — like GPT-4, the algorithms behind Google Search, and Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system — remain hidden within the confines of major tech companies. Not only are these corporations financially incentivized to keep their models proprietary, but with billions of dollars at their disposal for computational resources, they can compound those gains and race ahead of competitors, making it impossible for startups to keep up.
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Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Google updates its accessibility apps: Lookout, to use a phone to recognize objects, a text-free mode in Look To Speak, and adds Maps wheelchair data on desktop
Google’s accessibility app Lookout can use your phone’s camera to find and recognize objects
It’s also making wheelchair information on Google Maps available on desktop.
https://www.engadget.com/googles-accessibility-app-lookout-can-use-your-phones-camera-to-find-and-recognize-objects-160007994.html
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Memo: Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of some stories, with a disclaimer at the bottom; some USA Today stories already show the summaries
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Memo: Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of some stories, with a disclaimer at the bottom; some USA Today stories already show the summaries — Gannett, the media company that owns hundreds of newspapers in the US, is launching a new program that adds AI-generated bullet points …
Newspaper conglomerate Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of its articles
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158531/gannett-ai-generated-overviews-usa-today-memo
Journalists participating in the pilot program will use AI to produce bulleted ‘key points’ of their story.
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Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT and more via Reddit’s Data API, bring new AI tools to Reddit, and make OpenAI a Reddit ad partner — Reddit (RDDT.N) has partnered with OpenAI to bring the social media platform’s content to ChatGPT, the companies said on Thursday.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/openai-strikes-deal-bring-reddit-content-chatgpt-2024-05-16/
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Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google’s annoying AI overviews and just get search results
News
By Avram Piltch published 20 hours ago
You can configure your browser to return only web page results.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/google-chrome/bye-bye-ai-how-to-block-googles-annoying-ai-overviews-and-just-get-search-results
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Researchers build AI-driven sarcasm detector
Being able to detect lowest form of wit could help AI interact with people more naturally, say scientists
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/researchers-build-ai-driven-sarcasm-detector
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PaliGemma: An Open Multimodal Model by Google
https://blog.roboflow.com/paligemma-multimodal-vision/
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Researchers find LLMs are easy to manipulate into giving harmful information
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-llms-easy.html#google_vignette
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Artificial Intelligence
A Former OpenAI Leader Says Safety Has ‘Taken a Backseat to Shiny Products’ at the AI Company
Jan Leike, who ran OpenAI’s “Super Alignment” team, believes there should be more focus on preparing for the next generation of AI models, including on things like safety.
https://www.securityweek.com/a-former-openai-leader-says-safety-has-taken-a-backseat-to-shiny-products-at-the-ai-company/
A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week said on Friday that safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company.
Jan Leike, who ran OpenAI’s “Super Alignment” team alongside a company co-founder who also resigned this week, wrote in a series of posts on the social media platform X that he joined the San Francisco-based company because he thought it would be the best place to do AI research.
“However, I have been disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company’s core priorities for quite some time, until we finally reached a breaking point,” wrote Leike, whose last day was Thursday.
An AI researcher by training, Leike said he believes there should be more focus on preparing for the next generation of AI models, including on things like safety and analyzing the societal impacts of such technologies. He said building “smarter-than-human machines is an inherently dangerous endeavor” and that the company “is shouldering an enormous responsibility on behalf of all of humanity.”
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Tekoäly sopii erinomaisesti datan hallintaan
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/16220-tekoaely-sopii-erinomaisesti-datan-hallintaan
Generatiivista tekoälyä työnnetään nyt vauhdilla kaikkiin mahdollisiin sovelluksiin. On yksi alue, johon se sopii erinomaisesti, nimittäin datan ja tiedostojen hallinta. Kotimainen M-Files panostaa GenAI-ratkaisuihin isosti ja esitteli eilen uusia ominaisuuksia GenAI-pohjaiseen Aino-työkaluunsa.
M-Files Ainon avulla tietotyöntekijät voivat käsitellä nopeassa aikataulussa suuria määriä tietoa, kysyä ja saada vastauksia monimutkaisiin kysymyksiin sekä hyödyntää organisaation sisäistä tietoa sujuvasti eri tarkoituksiin. M-Files Aino ohjelmoidaan haluttuun liiketoimintaympäristöön, jossa se hyödyntää ainoastaan asiaankuuluvia, valtuutettuja tietoja, kuuluu työkalun virallinen esittely.
Nyt esitelty M-Files Connector for Copilot varmistaa, että valitut M-Files-sisällöt pystytään hyödyntämään myös saumattomasti yhdessä Microsoft 365:n kanssa. Eli työkalu toimii entistä paremmin Microsoft Outlookin sähköpostin sekä Microsoft Teamsin keskusteluiden ja kokousmuistioiden kesken.
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https://hackaday.com/2024/05/18/netbsd-bans-ai-generated-code-from-commits/
A recent change was announced to the NetBSD commit guidelines which amends these to state that code which was generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) or similar technologies, such as ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot or Meta’s Code Llama is presumed to be tainted code. This amendment was to the existing section about tainted code, which originally referred to any code that was not written directly by the person committing the code, and was due to licensing concerns. The obvious reason behind this is that otherwise code may be copied into the NetBSD codebase which may have been licensed under an incompatible (or proprietary) license.
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Financial Times:
Microsoft, Meta, Google and others pitch smaller language models that are cheaper to build and train, to lower costs and hardware requirements for generative AI — Microsoft, Meta and Google have released new versions with fewer ‘parameters’ that are cheaper to build and train
https://www.ft.com/content/359a5a31-1ab9-41ea-83aa-5b27d9b24ef9
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Steven Levy / Wired:
Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week’s demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing
It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype
Some pundits suggest generative AI stopped getting smarter. The explosive demos from OpenAI and Google that started the week show there’s plenty more disruption to come.
https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-believe-the-ai-hype/
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Cassandra Willyard / MIT Technology Review:
Researchers are working on sophisticated robots that use AI to converse and play games with people suffering from cognitive disorders like dementia
How cuddly robots could change dementia care
Researchers are using AI and technological advancements to create companion robots
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/17/1092604/how-cuddly-robots-could-change-dementia-care/
As robots go, Golden Pup is decidedly low tech. It retails for $140. For around $6,000 you can opt for Paro, a fluffy robotic baby seal developed in Japan, which can sense touch, light, sound, temperature, and posture. Its manufacturer says it develops its own character, remembering behaviors that led its owner to give it attention.
Golden Pup and Paro are available now. But researchers are working on much more sophisticated robots for people with cognitive disorders—devices that leverage AI to converse and play games. Researchers from Indiana University Bloomington are tweaking a commercially available robot system called QT to serve people with dementia and Alzheimer’s. The researchers’ two-foot-tall robot looks a little like a toddler in an astronaut suit. Its round white head holds a screen that displays two eyebrows, two eyes, and a mouth that together form a variety of expressions. The robot engages people in conversation, asking AI-generated questions to keep them talking.
The AI model they’re using isn’t perfect, and neither are the robot’s responses. In one awkward conversation, a study participant told the robot that she has a sister. “I’m sorry to hear that,” the robot responded. “How are you doing?”
But as large language models improve—which is happening already—so will the quality of the conversations. When the QT robot made that awkward comment, it was running Open AI’s GPT-3, which was released in 2020. The latest version of that model, GPT-4o, which was released this week, is faster and provides for more seamless conversations. You can interrupt the conversation, and the model will adjust.
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Frustration grows over Google’s AI Overviews feature, how to disable
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/frustration-grows-over-googles-ai-overviews-feature-how-to-disable/
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Linuxiin ei hyväksytä tekoälyn kirjoittamaa koodia
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/16226-linuxiin-ei-hyvaeksytae-tekoaelyn-kirjoittamaa-koodia
Linuxiin ei hyväksytä tekoälyn kirjoittamaa koodia
Julkaistu: 20.05.2024
Software Artificial Intelligence
Joidenkin arvioiden mukaan jopa yli puolet sovelluskoodista olisi tekoälyn tuottamaa. Linuxiin GenAI-generoitu koodi ei kuitenkaan ole niin tervetullutta. Esimerkiksi NetBSD on päivittänyt omat ohjeensa ja ne kieltävät tai rajoittavat voimakkaasti tekoälyn luoman koodin käyttöä avoimen lähdekoodin Linux-jakeluissa.
Uusien NetBSD-ohjeiden mukaan “suurella kielimallilla tai vastaavalla tekniikalla luotu koodi” “oletetaan saastuneeksi koodiksi. Sitä ei saa luovuttaa tai ehdottaa osaksi koodikantaa ilman kirjallista lupaa. Tämä tarkoittaa, että tekoälyn generoima koodi tulee ihmisen valvonnan alle.
Myös Gentoo Linuxissa tekoälykoodia käyttö rajataan. Gentoon kehittäjät vetoavat tekijänoikeuksiin, laatuun ja eettisiin ongelmiin perusteluissaan olla sallimatta LLM:n luomaa koodia käyttöjärjestelmäänsä. Eettisissä perusteluissa sanotaan, että kaupalliset tekoälyprojektit “syyllistyvät usein räikeisiin tekijänoikeusrikkomuksiin kouluttaakseen mallejaan”.
Samaa keskustelua käydään muidenkin Linux-projektien ympärillä.
Tomi Engdahl says:
With interest in virtual companions surging, Anthony Cuthbertson looks at how our love lives might be about to change forever
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-girlfriend-chatgpt-dating-app-b2546273.html