Ethics & Society · Sep 18, 2024

Researchers use AI chatbot to change conspiracy theory beliefs

Around 50% of Americans believe in conspiracy theories of one type or another, but MIT and Cornell University researchers think AI can fix that. In their paper, the psychology researchers explained how they used a chatbot powered by GPT-4 Turbo…

Industry · Sep 17, 2024

Humanity’s Last Exam wants your tough questions to stump AI

Benchmarks are struggling to keep up with advancing AI model capabilities and the Humanity’s Last Exam project wants your help to fix this. The project is a collaboration between the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and AI data company Scale…

Industry · Sep 16, 2024

o1 is smarter but more deceptive with a “medium” danger level

OpenAI’s new “o1” LLMs, nicknamed Strawberry, display significant improvements over GPT-4o, but the company says this comes with increased risks. OpenAI says it is committed to the safe development of its AI models. To that end, it developed a Preparedness…

Sep 13, 2024

DAI#56 – AI games, music scams, and tech tumbles

Welcome to our weekly roundup of human-crafted AI news. This week, AI made game creation child’s play. An AI music scam made $10m. And OpenAI finally gives us a taste of Strawberry. Let’s dig in. At last After rumors, whispers,…

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Product · Sep 12, 2024

OpenAI debuts the “o1” series, pushing the boundaries of AI reasoning

OpenAI has released new advanced reasoning models dubbed the”o1” series.  o1 currently comes in two versions – o1-preview and o1-mini – and is designed to perform complex reasoning tasks, marking what OpenAI describes as “a new paradigm” in AI development.…

Industry · Sep 11, 2024

FTC asked to investigate AI summarizers for antitrust violations

A group of Democrat Senators has asked the FTC and DOJ to investigate whether new generative AI features such as summarizers on search platforms violate US antitrust laws. New features like Google’s AI Overviews and Search GPT are objectively useful…

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Industry · Sep 11, 2024

FRVR AI and GenreX join forces to bring AI music composition to game developers

FRVR AI, a leader in AI-powered game development tools, has announced a groundbreaking partnership with GenreX, a cutting-edge music generation service. The partnership will directly integrate GenreX’s AI music technology into FRVR AI’s game development platform. It allows creators to…

Industry · Sep 10, 2024

Goldman Sachs ChatGPT mistake causes AI market panic

A flawed report by Goldman Sachs analyst Peter Oppenheimer may have been behind the significant negative sentiment for AI shares over the last few days. There have been rumors of a potential AI bubble as tech prices continue to rise…

Industry · Sep 9, 2024

Is Reflection 70B the most powerful open-source LLM or a scam?

HyperWrite founder and CEO Matt Shumer announced that his new model, Reflection 70B, uses a simple trick to solve LLM hallucinations and delivers impressive benchmark results that beat larger and even closed models like GPT-4o. Shumer collaborated with synthetic data…

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Opinions & Analysis · Sep 8, 2024

Is the video game industry facing an AI renaissance? What are the impacts?

Imagine playing the classic first-person shooter DOOM, but with a twist: the game isn’t running on code written by programmers; it’s being generated in real time by an AI system. This effectively describes GameNGen, a breakthrough AI model recently unveiled by…