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Employees Say OpenAI and Google DeepMind Are Hiding Dangers From the Public
A group of current and former employees at leading AI companies OpenAI and Google DeepMind published a letter on Tuesday warning against the dangers of advanced AI as they allege companies are prioritizing financial gains while avoiding oversight.
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In The News
Amazon will use computer vision to spot defects before dispatch
Amazon will harness computer vision and AI to ensure customers receive products in pristine condition and further its sustainability efforts. The initiative – dubbed “Project P.I.” (short for “private investigator”) – operates within Amazon fulfilment centres across North America, where it will scan millions of products daily for defects.
Stability AI releases a sound generator
Stability AI, the startup behind the AI-powered art generator Stable Diffusion, has released an open AI model for generating sounds and songs that it claims was trained exclusively on royalty-free recordings.
Apple will integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18 as opt-in feature
Apple Inc. will ship the next major release of iOS with OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence assistant, Bloomberg reported today.
Applied use cases
From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet
Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public.
Google’s AI is telling people that Nintendo characters are gay & trans & it’s hilarious
In a viral screenshot, the artificial intelligence took a 2018 humor article from Autostraddle as a source to argue that various characters in Mario Kart are queer.
GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all
Last year, claims that OpenAI's GPT-4 model beat 90% of trainee lawyers on the bar exam generated a flurry of media hype. But these claims were likely overstated, a new study suggests.
Ethics
Yellen to warn of 'significant risks' from use of AI in finance
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will warn that the use of artificial intelligence in finance could lower transaction costs, but carries "significant risks," according to excerpts from a speech to be delivered on Thursday.
Employees Say OpenAI and Google DeepMind Are Hiding Dangers From the Public
A group of current and former employees at leading AI companies OpenAI and Google DeepMind published a letter on Tuesday warning against the dangers of advanced AI as they allege companies are prioritizing financial gains while avoiding oversight.
AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable
More than 100 days into the writers strike, fears have kept mounting over the possibility of studios deploying generative artificial intelligence to completely pen scripts.
Robotics
China: Robot doctors at world’s 1st AI hospital can treat 3,000 a day
AI doctors can treat 10,000 patients in just a few days—a task that would take humans at least two years to complete.
OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group
OpenAI LLC, which is best known for ChatGPT, is restarting its robotics research group. The San Francisco-based company has been a pioneer in generative artificial intelligence and is returning to robotics after a three-year break.
Revolutionizing Wellness: The Future Of Tech In Massage Therapy
As the demand for massage equipment continues to grow to nearly $16 billion by 2032, new technological innovations emerge as a promising alternative or complement to human-delivered therapy.
Research
A Bayesian optimization approach for data-driven mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems
This article presents a computationally efficient approach to effectively tackle the challenges associated with data-driven mixed integer nonlinear programming problems within the domain of Process System Engineering.
Can deepfakes be used to study emotion perception? A comparison of dynamic face stimuli
The study contributes to the growing body of research exploring the usefulness of generative artificial intelligence for advancing the study of human perception.
Applications of AI in Psychotherapy: An Innovative Tool
This paper discusses the challenges faced by AI technology in integrating psychological therapy, especially regarding issues of empathy.
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