This week’s AI news roundup covers various interesting developments in the field. From AI pranks involving presidents to controversies surrounding OpenAI, the article delves into diverse topics such as AI’s influence on elections, advancements in AI technology, and the potential application of AI in various domains. The implications of uncensored AI models and the ethical considerations surrounding AI in politics are also highlighted.
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Welcome to this week’s AI news roundup
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Double trouble
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been dismissive of rumors that he uses body doubles for security. At a live Q&A, Putin was confronted with an AI doppelganger who elicited a range of emotions from Putin when alluding to this. The prankster may have fallen out of a window after this.
US President Joe Biden may have had a biased hand in drafting his AI Executive Order. A look at who’s behind the think-tank RAND gives us an interesting insight into who’s pulling the AI regulation strings.
What are we waiting for?
AI enthusiasts have been waiting for big news from OpenAI to be announced before the end of 2023. Will it be GPT-4.5? Will we finally get GPT-5?
For now, we have to settle for the first results from OpenAI’s Superalignment project. Ilya Sutskever’s team is trying to work out if humans will be able to train future superintelligent AIs to make sure they don’t go rogue. They found an interesting way to simulate this.
AI in the wild
While AI companies work hard to make their models safer, Eric Hartford removed all the guard rails from Mistral’s latest model and released it publicly. Dolphin Mixtral is a completely uncensored AI model that complies with any request, even illegal ones. Its desire to save kittens is a big motivator.
In other aquatic mammal AI-related news, conservationists are using AI to identify whales from photos. How the whales feel about the intrusion of facial recognition is anyone’s guess.
AI lab rats
Danish researchers built an AI model that knows when you’re going to die. Life insurance companies will love this.
Materials scientists who were tired of laboring through mountains of X-ray diffraction data used convolutional neural networks to fast-track the discovery of new materials.
On the campaign trail
AI deep fake misinformation could have an impact on how voters in the Bangladeshi election vote.
Whoever wins the upcoming US presidential elections may have some novel economic policies to figure out. A US regulator has warned that AI poses a growing risk to financial markets.
Making AI think
Google’s DeepMind has made a major breakthrough in changing with mathematical machine learning. The FunSearch model comes up with new solutions to math problems that have baffled mathematicians for decades.
Western Sydney University is preparing to switch on its DeepSouth supercomputer. DeepSouth can perform synaptic operations at a rate that matches the estimated operational capacity of the human brain.
In other news…
Stability AI released Stable Zero123 which generates quality 3D models from a single image.
The Pope has called for a treaty on AI regulation.
Google announced VideoPoet. A large language model for zero-shot text-to-video generation.
ByteDance gets bust using OpenAI data to train its models.
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