AI and society

Summary As ChatGPT begins to seep into our digital infrastructure, we should take its vulnerabilities seriously, warns developer Simon Willison. OpenAI’s ChatGPT plugins, Auto-GPT, Google’s Bard, or Microsoft’s Bing and Office 365 Co-Pilot: large language models are leaving the chatbox and starting to permeate our digital infrastructure. They are becoming AI assistants that write emails …

ChatGPT could quickly become the weak link in cybersecurity Read More »

Summary Update, April 19, 2023: Bloomberg reports on an initial test of ChatGPT by Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The chatbot is designed to simplify documents and make them more accessible. Specifically, ChatGPT will help update online manuals for filling out applications for subsidies and public assistance. This is said to involve thousands …

Japanese government tests ChatGPT for website updates Read More »

Newsletter OpenAssistant is supposed to become a real open-source alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Now first models, training data, and code are available. The OpenAssistant project started in December, shortly after OpenAI released ChatGPT. The goal is to create an open-source AI assistant with the same capabilities. To that end, the team spent months collecting a …

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Summary Italy has blocked ChatGPT due to GDPR concerns, OpenAI has followed suit without protest. Will other EU countries also block ChatGPT? According to a Reuters report, the data protection authorities of France and Ireland have contacted the Italian data protection authority. The latter had blocked ChatGPT last week due to privacy concerns, OpenAI has …

Generative AI tears a hole in existing copyright and privacy laws, and EU takes notice Read More »

Summary “The number of incidents concerning the misuse of AI is rapidly rising.” This is one of the key statements that can be read in the Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023. This year’s 400-page work is considered one of the most trusted reports on the status quo of artificial intelligence, and is now in its …

Incidents of AI misuse are rapidly increasing Read More »

Summary Researchers at TH Ingolstadt and the University of Southern Denmark have studied the effects of AI opinions on humans. Their study shows that machine-generated moral perspectives can influence people, even when they know the perspective comes from a machine. In their two-step experiment, the researchers first asked ChatGPT to find solutions to different variants …

ChatGPT influences users’ judgment more than people think Read More »

Summary In February, the 3D database Sketchfab introduced a NoAI tag for authors. But that was too late, as it now turns out. The latest variant of generative AI models such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, or recently GPT-4 brought a rude awakening: AI models for images, text, and code have the potential …

AI copyright dispute enters third dimension Read More »

Summary Stability AI may be a driver of AI development – ​​but it also needs funding. Money is reportedly running low. CEO Emad Mostaque believes in the growing importance of AI models owned by organizations and governments, and sees his company well-positioned to take advantage. Founded in 2019, London-based startup Stability AI is seen as …

Stable Diffusion startup Stability AI needs new capital Read More »

Summary The non-profit AI research organization LAION has launched a petition calling for open AI models for a “secure digital future”. The goal of the initiative is a publicly funded supercomputer for international open source AI research and development. 100,000 state-of-the-art AI accelerators would provide the necessary international supercomputing research infrastructure to support the training …

LAION urges open AI models with continued rapid innovation Read More »

Summary OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to discuss ChatGPT in Japan. OpenAI plans to comply with European privacy laws. Japan is considering the use of AI technology like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. To that end, OpenAI chief Sam Altman visited Kishida and briefed him on the opportunities and risks of …

OpenAI plans Japan expansion and negotiates with Europe Read More »