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…
New research into datasets reveals systemic ethical and legal issues
AI revolves around data, but where does it come from? Are datasets legal and ethical? How do developers determine that…
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…
New US AI hardware export bans to come into effect immediately
The US government has mandated that Nvidia immediately halt its AI GPU chip exports to China. Nvidia stated that the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Apple increases investment in generative AI to $1 billion yearly
Apple is channeling as much as $1 billion annually into developing generative AI products. In April, Apple CEO Tim Cook…
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…
