DAI#10 – Woodpeckers, Robocalls, and poisoned AI data
Welcome to this week’s news roundup curated especially for non-silicon-based fans of AI. This week AI made a mayor speak in tongues. A two-day summit and…
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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UK report lists potential AI risks and doomsday scenarios
The UK government released its “Capabilities and risks from frontier AI” report which will form the basis of discussion at the upcoming AI Safety Summit. The…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Woodpecker could solve multimodal LLM hallucinations
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) like GPT-4V are really good at analyzing and describing images but sometimes they hallucinate and get things wrong. A new approach…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Big Tech AI companies launch $10 million AI Safety Fund
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI launched the Frontier Model Forum in July and have now committed $10m to an AI Safety Fund to support the initiative.…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
FCC to investigate AI’s impact on robocalls
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is tasked with protecting consumers from unwanted communication. AI has the potential to both help and hinder its efforts as robocalls…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Data poisoning tool helps artists punish AI scrapers
Researchers from the University of Chicago developed a new tool to “poison” AI models when AI companies include images in their datasets without consent. Companies like…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
GPT-4’s multimodal capability makes it vulnerable to attack
The ability that GPT-4 has to process images is really impressive, but the new capability opens the model up to new attacks. While not perfect, the…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
NYC mayor uses deep fakes of his voice to robocall residents
Politicians are usually the unauthorized subjects of deepfakes, but NYC Mayor Eric Adams is using this AI-powered technology to reach the residents of his city. In…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
IBM NorthPole chip promises faster low energy AI processing
IBM Research’s lab in Almaden, California announced its prototype NorthPole chip that could make AI on the edge a reality sooner than expected. Running AI models…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
DAI#9 – AI knows us a little too well and fails a Fugee
Welcome to this week’s freshly harvested AI news prepared for discerning human consumption. This week AI gets a little awkward with our personal info. ChatGPT will…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read