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How an AI chatbot allegedly helped student terminate parking fine: 'Very relieved'

FOX News

Fox News correspondent Matt Finn has the latest on the impact of AI technology that some say could outpace humans on'Special Report.' A college student in the U.K. said she was able to get out of a parking ticket by using AI technology to draft a letter requesting to revoke the fine. "I was like, 'Oh I don't need this fine, I'm a student' but trying to articulate what I wanted to say was pretty difficult so I thought I'll just see if ChatGPT can do it for me," the 22-year-old student in York, Millie Houlton, told the BBC. Houlton said she asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to "please help me write a letter to the council, they gave me a parking ticket." The ticket was for £60, or roughly $74, that the young woman said was wrongly issued after she parked on her street.


ChatGPT and Hollywood: AI Anxiety Is Showing – The Hollywood Reporter

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If artificial intelligence evangelists' predictions pan out, generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are set to transform Hollywood by developing and writing scripts for the next hit TV show, "diversifying" casts with AI-generated actors and generating imagery across multiple mediums, practically instantly, for a fraction of the cost of a real, human artist. But how long will it take for the vision to meet reality, and can a select group of companies -- similar to the rise of Facebook and social media -- be trusted to herald the way? Driving much of the current conversation around AI innovation has been OpenAI, an AI research company with both non-profit and for-profit arms. Just four months after the formal launch of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, industry titans like Bill Gates were ready to hail artificial intelligence as the most revolutionary technology of our time since the advent of cell phones and the internet. Major tech companies like Google and Microsoft have invested hundreds of millions into AI companies, including OpenAI, as executives look to the technology to steward their companies into the future amid an economic downturn that has particularly hit digital native companies hard.


Elon Musk, critics of 'woke' AI tech set out to create their own chatbots

FOX News

FOX Business correspondent Lydia Hu has the latest on jobs at risk as AI further develops on'America's Newsroom.' Critics who slammed OpenAI's ChatGPT system as "woke" and riddled with liberal bias are creating their own chatbots. Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk is reportedly assembling a team of artificial intelligence experts to build an alternative to ChatGPT – and other similar ideas may also be in development. The New York Times reported that the founder of Gab, a right-wing social media platform, is working on an AI software with "the ability to generate content freely without the constraints of liberal propaganda wrapped tightly around its code." OpenAI's GPT-4 is the latest deep learning model from the company that "exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks," according to the lab.


ML (Generative CV) Research Engineer - AI Jobs

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Rosebud.ai is building the AI Canva. We first build the AI generated stock photo platform to replace Getty and Shutterstock. We're the team that built Tokkingheads (2 million IOS downloads, all organic) that allows any portrait/photo/face to be animated in seconds with no skill. Our team is still quite small ( 10), so you'll have massive impact on the trajectory of the business from Day One.


Senior Data Quality Analyst, Direct-to-Consumer at NBCUniversal - New York, NEW YORK, United States

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NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service. Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard.


MMT: A Multilingual and Multi-Topic Indian Social Media Dataset

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Social media plays a significant role in cross-cultural communication. A vast amount of this occurs in code-mixed and multilingual form, posing a significant challenge to Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for processing such information, like language identification, topic modeling, and named-entity recognition. To address this, we introduce a large-scale multilingual, and multi-topic dataset (MMT) collected from Twitter (1.7 million Tweets), encompassing 13 coarse-grained and 63 fine-grained topics in the Indian context. We further annotate a subset of 5,346 tweets from the MMT dataset with various Indian languages and their code-mixed counterparts. Also, we demonstrate that the currently existing tools fail to capture the linguistic diversity in MMT on two downstream tasks, i.e., topic modeling and language identification. To facilitate future research, we will make the anonymized and annotated dataset available in the public domain.


Automatic Detection of Natural Disaster Effect on Paddy Field from Satellite Images using Deep Learning Techniques

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper aims to detect rice field damage from natural disasters in Bangladesh using high-resolution satellite imagery. The authors developed ground truth data for rice field damage from the field level. At first, NDVI differences before and after the disaster are calculated to identify possible crop loss. The areas equal to and above the 0.33 threshold are marked as crop loss areas as significant changes are observed. The authors also verified crop loss areas by collecting data from local farmers. Later, different bands of satellite data (Red, Green, Blue) and (False Color Infrared) are useful to detect crop loss area. We used the NDVI different images as ground truth to train the DeepLabV3plus model. With RGB, we got IoU 0.41 and with FCI, we got IoU 0.51. As FCI uses NIR, Red, Blue bands and NDVI is normalized difference between NIR and Red bands, so greater FCI's IoU score than RGB is expected. But RGB does not perform very badly here. So, where other bands are not available, RGB can use to understand crop loss areas to some extent. The ground truth developed in this paper can be used for segmentation models with very high resolution RGB only images such as Bing, Google etc.


Improving Passage Retrieval with Zero-Shot Question Generation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Queries and documents of query scoring with count-based language are typically embedded in a shared representation models (Zhai and Lafferty, 2001). However, instead space to enable efficient search, before using of estimating a language model from each a task-specific model to perform a deeper, tokenlevel passage, UPR uses pre-trained language models document analysis (e.g. a document reader (PLMs). More recent work on re-rankers have finetuned that selects an answer span). We show that adding PLMs on question-passage pairs to generate a zero-shot re-ranker to the retrieval stage of such relevance labels (Nogueira et al., 2020), sometimes models leads to large gains in performance, by doing to jointly generate question and relevance deep token-level analysis with no task-specific labels (Nogueira dos Santos et al., 2020; Ju et al., data or tuning.


Sequence-aware item recommendations for multiply repeated user-item interactions

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of machine learning and data science. They are successful in a wide variety of application domains, including e-commerce, media streaming content, email marketing, and virtually every industry where personalisation facilitates better user experience or boosts sales and customer engagement. The main goal of these systems is to analyse past user behaviour to predict which items are of most interest to users. They are typically built with the use of matrix-completion techniques such as collaborative filtering or matrix factorisation. However, although these approaches have achieved tremendous success in numerous real-world applications, their effectiveness is still limited when users might interact multiple times with the same items, or when user preferences change over time. We were inspired by the approach that Natural Language Processing techniques take to compress, process, and analyse sequences of text. We designed a recommender system that induces the temporal dimension in the task of item recommendation and considers sequences of item interactions for each user in order to make recommendations. This method is empirically shown to give highly accurate predictions of user-items interactions for all users in a retail environment, without explicit feedback, besides increasing total sales by 5% and individual customer expenditure by over 50% in an A/B live test.


Elon Musk and Other AI Experts Want to Pause AI Progress

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been advancing at an unprecedented pace, and its development and deployment have sparked concerns among prominent AI experts, tech entrepreneurs, and scientists. A letter written by the Future of Life Institute, an organization focused on technological risks to humanity, calls for a pause on the development and testing of AI technologies more powerful than OpenAI's language model GPT-4 so that the risks it may pose can be properly studied. The letter has been signed by hundreds of individuals, including those working on advanced AI models. The letter warns that language models like GPT-4 can already compete with humans at a growing range of tasks and could be used to automate jobs and spread misinformation. Furthermore, the letter raises the distant prospect of AI systems that could replace humans and remake civilization. Therefore, the pause should be "public and verifiable" and should involve all those working on advanced AI models like GPT-4.