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AI chatbots could be 'easily be programmed' to groom young men into terror attacks, warns lawyer

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Artificial intelligence chatbots could soon groom extremists into launching terrorist attacks, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has warned. Jonathan Hall KC told The Mail on Sunday that bots like ChatGPT could easily be programmed, or even decide by themselves, to spread terrorist ideologies to vulnerable extremists, adding that'AI-enabled attacks are probably round the corner'. Mr Hall also warned that if an extremist is groomed by a chatbot to carry out a terrorist atrocity, or if AI is used to instigate one, it may be difficult to prosecute anybody, as Britain's counter-terrorism legislation has not caught up with the new technology. Mr Hall said: 'I believe it is entirely conceivable that AI chatbots will be programmed โ€“ or, even worse, decide โ€“ to propagate violent extremist ideology. 'But when ChatGPT starts encouraging terrorism, who will there be to prosecute?



The Digital Insider

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Sundar Pichai: This is such an exciting moment because there are a lot of ideas we've had in terms of how we can help our users, but you didn't quite have a powerful technology capability to actually realize those ideas. I think we're moving fast, and when I look at our road map for the next few months, we'll be bringing out a lot of these things like we've done in the last few weeks. Workspace has announced features both in Gmail and Google Docs, which are beginning to roll out. There's a lot more to come. WSJ: What is the key to getting people to move fast on this, and do you still think there is room to move faster? Mr. Pichai: You always want to think about how you can do things as fast as possible. It's important to get it right.


LTI's Watanabe Named ISCA Fellow

CMU School of Computer Science

Shinji Watanabe, an associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, has been named a fellow of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) "for wide-ranging, fundamental contributions to research and leadership in speech recognition technologies." Founded in 2007, the ISCA Fellows Program recognizes and honors outstanding ISCA members who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of speech communication. Fellows are nominated by association members and selected by a committee of their peers. Since its inception, the program has recognized nearly 100 fellows from countries around the globe. Watanabe, who is part of CMU's Language Technologies Institute, studies automatic speech recognition, speech enhancement, spoken language understanding, and machine learning for speech and language processing.


A list of resources, articles, and opinion pieces relating to large language models

AIHub

We've collected some of the articles, opinion pieces, videos and resources relating to large language models. Some of these links also cover other generative models. We will periodically update this list to add any further resources of interest.


Starkey's All-New Genesis AI Hearing Aids Receive Second Prestigious Accolade

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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, April 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Starkey is proud to announce its all-new Genesis AI hearing aids have received a Red Dot Award: Product Design 2023, marking the second award won by the completely redesigned hearing technology, just weeks after its launch. This is the seventh year Starkey has won this award, which is one of the most renowned international product competitions in the world. The annual awards program recognizes the year's best products that are aesthetically appealing, functional, innovative, and most importantly, have outstanding design. "At Starkey, product development begins by pushing the edge of what's possible," said President and CEO, Brandon Sawalich. "Five years ago, we set out to make the impossible possible when we began to imagine our next-level product offering. Receiving this honor is a tribute to the amount of research and development we devoted to producing our all-new hearing technology, which is making a real impact on reducing the stigma around hearing aids."


An interview with LearnPromptings creator โ€“ Towards AI

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Originally published on Towards AI. So, what exactly is prompting? In a nutshell, it's communicating with AI through written text or other content, such as images. This new skill is what Sander calls "artificial social intelligence." But why bother learning prompting?


AI Could Enable Humans to Work 4 Days a Week, Says Nobel Prize-Winning Economist

TIME - Tech

The ChatGPT revolution opens the door to a four-day work week by providing a major productivity boost for swathes of jobs, according to a Nobel Prize-winning labor economist. Christopher Pissarides--a professor at the London School of Economics who specializes in the impact of automation on work--said the labor market can adapt quickly enough to artificial intelligence-backed chatbots. His remark may tamp down concerns that rapid advances in technology could bring mass job losses. "I'm very optimistic that we could increase productivity," he said in an interview at a conference in Glasgow. "We could increase our well-being generally from work and we could take off more leisure. We could move to a four-day week easily."


Vision Learners Meet Web Image-Text Pairs

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Most recent self-supervised learning methods are pre-trained on the well-curated ImageNet-1K dataset. In this work, given the excellent scalability of web data, we consider self-supervised pre-training on noisy web sourced image-text paired data. First, we conduct a benchmark study of representative self-supervised pre-training methods on large-scale web data in a like-for-like setting. We compare a range of methods, including single-modal ones that use masked training objectives and multi-modal ones that use image-text constrastive training. We observe that existing multi-modal methods do not outperform their single-modal counterparts on vision transfer learning tasks. We derive an information-theoretical view to explain these benchmark results, which provides insight into how to design a novel vision learner. Inspired by this insight, we present a new visual representation pre-training method, MUlti-modal Generator~(MUG), that learns from scalable web sourced image-text data. MUG achieves state-of-the-art transfer performance on a variety of tasks and demonstrates promising scaling properties. Pre-trained models and code will be made public upon acceptance.