Pentagon wants 1,000 AI-piloted mini ghost fighter jets
A new Pentagon project will see the US Air Force (USAF) supplied with 1,000 mini fighter jets piloted autonomously using AI, rather than human pilots. Last…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
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Researchers jailbreak LLMs by using ASCII art in prompts
Researchers developed a jailbreak attack called ArtPrompt, which uses ASCII art to bypass an LLM’s guardrails. If you remember a time before computers could handle graphics,…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
DAI#29 – AI smells, GPT-4 beaten, and Copilot thinks it’s God
Welcome to our roundup of this week’s crop of exciting AI news. This week AI learned how to make smells and dogs. Someone finally made an…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
Microsoft’s Copilot goes into God mode and it’s a little scary
Copilot users shared disturbing interactions that they had with Microsoft’s AI assistant in response to prompts that referred to the chatbot as “SupremacyAGI”. Copilot may simply…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Anthropic releases Claude 3 which beats GPT-4 in benchmarks
San Francisco-based AI startup Anthropic has released its latest LLM with its family of Claude 3 models. Claude 3 comes in three variations, Haiku, Sonnet, and…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
AI smartphone app can detect depression from facial cues
Researchers from Dartmouth College developed MoodCapture, a smartphone app that uses AI to analyze facial features for early detection of depression. The stigma associated with mental…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Researchers build synthetic dog dataset in GTA-V to create 3D models
Researchers from the University of Surrey have developed a method to transform photographs of dogs into detailed 3D models. The training material? Not real dogs, but…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Elon Musk sues Sam Altman and OpenAI for pursuing profit
Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, for allegedly breaching the agreement they signed when the three…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
DAI#28 – Copycats, tech debt, and super-woke AI
Welcome to this week’s roundup of AI news optimized for human audiences. This week AI tried way too hard to be woke. New AI models are…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
LLMs produce more inaccurate and biased outputs with longer inputs
Despite rapid advancements in LLMs, our understanding of how these models cope with longer inputs remains poor. Mosh Levy, Alon Jacoby, and Yoav Goldberg, from the…
By Sam Jeans · 3 min read