Category «AI»

The 3 Best Alternatives to ChatGPT

MakeUseOf: “Since its public launch in November 2022, ChatGPT, the mesmerizing AI chatbot by OpenAI, has grown in popularity like wildfire. Social media feeds are filled with incredible things people are doing with the chatbot. Jobseekers, programmers, high school teachers, content creators—professionals in almost every field are finding good uses for the tool. However, when …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

MIT Technology Report: “…While the images shared with us did not come from iRobot customers, consumers regularly consent to having our data monitored to varying degrees on devices ranging from iPhones to washing machines. It’s a practice that has only grown more common over the past decade, as data-hungry artificial intelligence has been increasingly integrated …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Privacy

Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks

80,000 Hours: “Big machine learning models can identify plant species better than any human, write passable essays, beat you at a game of Starcraft 2, figure out how a photo of Tobey Maguire and the word ‘spider’ are related, solve the 60-year-old ‘protein folding problem’, diagnose some diseases, play romantic matchmaker, write solid computer code, …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?

The New York Times: “In late November, OpenAI, a San Francisco artificial intelligence lab, unveiled a bot called ChatGPT that left more than a million people feeling as if they were chatting with another human being. Similar technologies are under development at Google, Meta and other tech giants. Some companies have been reluctant to share …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audi

Ars Technica: “On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person’s voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it learns a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesize audio of that person saying anything—and do it in a way that attempts to preserve the speaker’s emotional tone. …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management

Cybercriminals Starting to Use ChatGPT

Check Point Research: “At the end of November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, the new interface for its Large Language Model (LLM), which instantly created a flurry of interest in AI and its possible uses.  However, ChatGPT has also added some spice to the modern cyber threat landscape as it quickly became apparent that code generation …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 8, 2022

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 8, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Training Contract Review Systems

“A dataset of merger agreements with rich expert annotations, Merger Agreement Understanding Dataset (MAUD) v1 is a corpus of 47,000+ labels in 152 merger agreements that have been manually labeled under the supervision of experienced lawyers to identify 92 questions in each agreement used by the 2021 American Bar Association (ABA) Public Target Deal Points …

Subjects: AI, Legal Research

Top AI conference bans use of ChatGPT and AI language tools to write academic papers

Follow up to previous post – NYC education department blocks ChatGPT on school devices, networks – via The Verge: “One of the world’s most prestigious machine learning conferences has banned authors from using AI tools like ChatGPT to write scientific papers, triggering a debate about the role of AI-generated text in academia. The International Conference …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management, Social Media

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, in talks for tender offer

MarketWatch: “Artificial-intelligence research company OpenAI is in discussions over potentially selling at least $300 million in shares in a tender offer that would give it a roughly $29 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The offering of shares of OpenAI — known for AI programs like the chatbot ChatGPT and the image-generator Dall-E …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

NYC education department blocks ChatGPT on school devices, networks

Chalkbeat: “New York City students and teachers can no longer access ChatGPT — the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that generates stunningly cogent and lifelike writing — on education department devices or internet networks, agency officials confirmed Tuesday. The education department blocked access to the program, citing “negative impacts on student learning, and concerns regarding the …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management