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OpenAI Releases Text Generator AI That Was Too "Dangerous" To Share
OpenAI, the AI research lab has finally published the GPT2 -- the text generating AI tool which the lab once said was too "dangerous" to share. In a blog post, OpenAI said that despite the arguments of GPT-2 potential in creating synthetic propaganda, fake news, and online phishing campaigns, "we've seen no strong evidence of misuse so far" Back in February, OpenAI announced the GPT2, a language model based upon 1.5 billion parameters and trained by analyzing over 8 million web pages. The main objective of GPT2 is to create coherent text from a few words. The text generating AI tool can be used for many tasks such as translation, chatbots, coming up with unprecedented answers and more. But citing concerns that it could be used for malicious intent, the company withheld the release of the full version.
r/MachineLearning - [P] DialogPT: State of the Art Conversational Model with Fine-Tuned GPT-2 (Microsoft Research)
I've managed to get the model running generation on my PC. One thing needed to point out is that the checkpoint can NOT be loaded exactly as the GPT-2 model checkpoint from Huggingface pytorch-transformer repository. You'll also need to manually define the config, e.g. The generation works just fine by a nucleus sampling approach, and once in a while an E-O-T will be given to indicate end of one post. Bot: they're having an open gym soon in June... dont think they'll be up there this time though Bot: So what's this gym called?
Artificial intelligence warning: AI deemed 'too dangerous' released into the world
Such misuses would require the public to become more critical about the text they consume, which could have been generated by artificial intelligence, they said. The researcher wrote: "These findings, combined with earlier results on synthetic imagery, audio, and video, imply that technologies are reducing the cost of generating fake content and waging disinformation campaigns. "The public at large will need to become more skeptical of text they find online, just as the'deep fakes' phenomenon calls for more skepticism about images."
'Fake News'โ The artificial intelligence storyteller - ET CIO
By Dattaraj Jagdish Rao "After releasing his first movie, PK, in 2013, Shah Rukh's career has changed in a big way now. Most of his films have been successful. Recently, he had a big success in 2016 release, Khan by The Karan Johar. Shah Rukh had also signed an exclusive deal with Harshvardhan Bhardwaj Films. It was also announced a week ago that Shah Rukh Khan will make a guest appearance on a Bollywood reality show on Sunday."
Brain-Machine Interfaces Could Give Us All Superpowers
One rainy day, Bill was riding his bicycle when the mail truck in front of him suddenly stopped. The crash left him paralyzed from the chest down. His autonomy, or what's left of it, comes from voice controls that let him lower and lift the blinds in his room or adjust the angle of his motorized bed. For everything else, he relies on round-the-clock care. There's still something film festivals provide that streaming services can't: interactive social experiences in VR and AR.
Iran claims it downed 'unknown' drone over Persian Gulf, Pentagon says all US devices accounted for
Ayatollah Khamenei doubles down on Iran's commitment not to engage in talks with the United States; Trey Yingst reports. The drone was reportedly hit in the early morning at the port city of Mahshahr, which is in the oil-rich Khuzestan province and lies on the Persian Gulf. "The downed droned definitely belonged to a foreign country. Its wreckage has been recovered and is being investigated," the governor of Khuzestan, Gholamreza Shariati, said, according to the official IRNA news agency. He said the drone violated Iran's airspace but did not provide any additional information, including whether it was a military or civilian drone.
IoT News - Smart Cities are Getting Smarter in Surprising Ways - IoT Business News
New technologies and approaches spur five key smart cities strategy shifts. It's time for smart cities to embrace new technologies and approaches to combat a growing list of challenges, states global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research. Cities have faced challenges like congestion, pollution, and safety for decades, and most have a plan to combat them. While they continue to face these traditional issues, new threats such as cyberattacks, climate change, and other emerging problems are mounting. "This new reality requires new approaches, leveraging a range of new technologies to create true strategy shifts," says Dominique Bonte, Vice President at ABI Research.
Artificial intelligence: the fall of the Mad Men and the rise of the machines
For many people, AI has sinister connotations. For them it conjures up a future where robots rule the world and humans are slaves to the algorithm. And they're right to be wary. But like it or not, it's here to stay. In season seven, episode five of Mad Men, Michael Ginsberg gives Peggy his nipple in a box. That's perhaps not the most romantic love token ever, but it certainly made an impact.