DAI#38 – VR, careless Whispers, and unfixable ChatGPT lies
Welcome to this week’s roundup of AI news written by humans for humans. This week AI and VR made us plug in and disconnect. OpenAI says…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
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Eugene comes from an electronic engineering background and loves all things tech. When he takes a break from consuming AI news, you'll find him at the snooker table.
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Interview: Chad Sanderson CEO of data contracts platform Gable.ai
When companies roll out enterprise AI tools they often find that their data lake may be deep, but it’s messy. Even if they start with carefully…
By Eugene van der Watt · 12 min read
AI transcription tools generate harmful hallucinations
Speech-to-text transcribers have become invaluable but a new study shows that when the AI gets it wrong the hallucinated text is often harmful. AI transcription tools…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Interview: Cinderella Amar – Web4, AI, and Blockchain evangelist
Cinderella Amar, Managing Partner of Glass Ventures—a venture capital firm specializing in Web4 projects—provided insights into the transformative potential of AI and Blockchain from an entrepreneur’s…
By Eugene van der Watt · 8 min read
Microsoft reportedly building a 500B LLM called MAI-1
According to a report by The Information, Microsoft is working on a 500B parameter LLM called MAI-1 that could take on GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini models.…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Humans and bots share web equally as AI fuels ‘dead internet’
The 2024 Imperva Threat Research report says that non-human sources, or bots, are responsible for nearly half of all internet traffic. The “dead internet theory” started…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
OpenAI sued for false info but says the problem can’t be fixed
European privacy advocacy group noyb is suing OpenAI because ChatGPT repeatedly generates inaccurate information about people and won’t fix it. Despite its advances, ChatGPT still suffers…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
DAI#37 – Slaughter bots, fake audio, and mysterious AI
Welcome to this week’s roundup of handmade AI news. This week AI got a gym teacher arrested. A mysterious chatbot appeared and then vanished. And countries…
By Eugene van der Watt · 4 min read
Interview: Soheil Zabihi from TokenScope, a crypto transaction monitoring solution
TokenScope is a cryptocurrency know your transaction (KYT) solution headquartered in Abu Dhabi that provides a platform for risk assessment of cryptocurrency transactions. AI plays a…
By Eugene van der Watt · 7 min read
AI faces ‘Oppenheimer moment’ in killer robot arms race
At the international conference “Humanity at the Crossroads: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Challenge of Regulation” in Vienna, calls were made to regulate the use of…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read