France, Germany, Italy agree to regulate AI but UK declines
France, Germany, and Italy have reached an agreement on how AI should be regulated and it’s even stricter than the proposed EU AI Act. The details…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
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The UK wants to unlock public service productivity with AI
The UK Treasury’s Productivity Programme research “has revealed huge opportunities to cut admin, safely harness AI and deliver early interventions to relieve pressure on public services.”…
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SneakyPrompts can jailbreak Stable Diffusion and DALL-E
If you ask Stable Diffusion or DALL-E to generate a sexually explicit or violent image they decline your request. Researchers have found that a brute-force approach…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
How AI is supercharging Argentina’s presidential election
The contenders for Argentina’s presidential election have been whittled down to Sergio Massa and Javier Milei with both candidates making extensive use of AI in their…
By Eugene van der Watt · 4 min read
DAI#13 – DevDay hangovers, Nvidia flex, and sketchy AI pics
Welcome to this week’s roundup of AI news made by humans, for humans. This week AI attended a Beyoncé concert to look for bad guys. OpenAI…
By Eugene van der Watt · 6 min read
a16z invests in AI startup linked to nonconsensual porn
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, was an early investor in tech giants like Facebook and Lyft. Its decision to invest in the…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Google’s GraphCast model predicts weather better than the rest
Google DeepMind’s machine learning model, GraphCast, beat traditional weather forecasting methods by some distance in early testing. Predicting the weather accurately is a difficult task that…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
OpenAI says ChatGPT was the target of DDoS attacks
Users around the world were having trouble accessing ChatGPT on 8 November and it turns out it was more than just a glitch. OpenAI’s status page…
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Police scanned Beyoncé concert for pedophiles and terrorists
Welsh police have admitted that they used facial recognition to scan Beyoncé concertgoers in May this year. The police were apparently scanning the crowd in Cardiff…
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OpenAI and Google in high-stakes battle for AI talent
The battle for AI supremacy may be won by the company that attracts and retains the brightest AI talent. OpenAI and Google are offering large incentives…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read