Any major trend or world event, from the coronavirus pandemic to the cryptocurrency frenzy, will quickly be used as fodder in digital phishing attacks and other online scams. In recent months, it has become clear that the same would happen for large language models and generative AI. Today, researchers from the security firm Sophos are warning that the latest incarnation of this is showing up in Google Play and Apple's App Store, where scammy apps are pretending to offer access to OpenAI's chatbot service ChatGPT through free trials that eventually start charging subscription fees. There are paid versions of OpenAI's GPT and ChatGPT for regular users and developers, but anyone can try the AI chatbot for free on the company's website. The scam apps take advantage of people who have heard about this new technology--and perhaps the frenzy of people clamoring to use it--but don't have much additional context for how to try it themselves.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said language and cultural inclusivity is'very important' to his company's mission as it builds and trains powerful artificial intelligence systems. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said language and cultural inclusivity are "very important" to his company's mission as it builds and trains powerful artificial intelligence systems. "We think this is really important," Altman told California Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of language inclusivity in AI. "One example is that we worked with the government of Iceland, which is a language of fewer speakers than many of the languages that are well represented on the internet, to ensure that their language was included in our model," Altman said. The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law held a hearing Tuesday during which Altman, IBM Chief Privacy & Trust Officer Christina Montgomery and New York University professor emeritus Gary Marcus delivered testimony on how best to regulate powerful artificial intelligence systems. Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, speaks during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 16, 2023.

A professor says AI chatbot software, such as ChatGPT, could restructure postsecondary education by replacing some textbooks and promoting critical thinking. As artificial intelligence has made its way into everything from content creation to health care, could "robo recipes" be next on the menu? Researchers from the Poznań University of Economics and Business in Poland entered prompts into ChatGPT -- the AI-powered large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI -- to get meal recommendations for specific food allergies. "ChatGPT -- at least in the version that was tested in January 2023 -- generally produced balanced diet plans for people with food allergies, but not all of them were safe," Paweł Niszczota, lead researcher of the study, which was published in the journal Nutrition, told Fox News Digital. Each year, some 30,000 people visit the emergency room with food allergy reactions and 150 to 200 die from them, studies have shown.

Senators on Tuesday got the green light to impose significant federal regulation on artificial intelligence systems, not just from two industry giants, but from an AI expert who warned that the fate of the nation may depend on tough AI rules from Congress. A Senate Judiciary subcommittee heard from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and IBM Chief Privacy & Trust Officer Christina Montgomery, who both invited federal oversight of AI even though they split on whether a new federal agency is needed. In between those witnesses sat Gary Marcus, the New York University professor emeritus and leader of Uber's AI labs from 2016 to 2017, who issued a stark warning that human life is about to be upended by this unpredictable technology. "They can and will create persuasive lies at a scale humanity has never seen before," Marcus warned of generative AI systems. "Outsiders will use them to affect our elections, insiders to manipulate our markets and our political systems. Marcus warned that AI systems that do severe damage to humans' trust in each other have already been released and that the damage is already mounting. Gary Marcus, professor emeritus at New York University, speaks during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. "A law professor, for example, was accused by a chatbot of sexual harassment.

Sam Altman, the chief executive of ChatGPT's OpenAI, has told legislators in the United States that government regulation of artificial intelligence is "critical" because of the potential risks it poses to humanity. Altman used his appearance on Tuesday in front of a US Senate judiciary subcommittee to urge Congress to impose new rules on big tech, despite deep political divisions that for years have blocked legislation aimed at regulating the internet. "If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong," Altman, who has become the global face of AI, told the hearing. "OpenAI was founded on the belief that artificial intelligence has the potential to improve nearly every aspect of our lives, but also that it creates serious risks," he said, but given concerns about disinformation, job security and other dangers, "we think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models". Altman proposed the formation of a US or global agency that would licence the most powerful AI systems and have the authority to "take that licence away and ensure compliance with safety standards".

Generative AI models like DALL-E 2 can interpret textual prompts and generate high-quality images exhibiting human creativity. Though public enthusiasm is booming, systematic auditing of potential gender biases in AI-generated images remains scarce. We addressed this gap by examining the prevalence of two occupational gender biases (representational and presentational biases) in 15,300 DALL-E 2 images spanning 153 occupations, and assessed potential bias amplification by benchmarking against 2021 census labor statistics and Google Images. Our findings reveal that DALL-E 2 underrepresents women in male-dominated fields while overrepresenting them in female-dominated occupations. Additionally, DALL-E 2 images tend to depict more women than men with smiling faces and downward-pitching heads, particularly in female-dominated (vs. male-dominated) occupations. Our computational algorithm auditing study demonstrates more pronounced representational and presentational biases in DALL-E 2 compared to Google Images and calls for feminist interventions to prevent such bias-laden AI-generated images to feedback into the media ecology.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took questions from reporters following his congressional hearing and defined "scary AI." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said people should not try to "anthropomorphize" artificial intelligence and should discuss the powerful tech systems in the context of it being a "tool" and not a "creature." "I think there's a huge amount of speculation on that question," Altman told reporters Tuesday on Capitol Hill when asked how quickly AI could become "self-aware" if Congress does not regulate the technology. The line of questioning had echoes of the "Terminator" film series, in which AI brings about the apocalypse on the day it becomes "self-aware." "I think it's very important that we keep talking about this as a tool, not a creature, because it's so tempting to anthropomorphize it," he added. "I totally understand where the anxiety comes from. I think it's the wrong frame … the wrong way to think about it."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made an appeal to members of Congress under oath: Regulate artificial intelligence. Altman, whose company is on the extreme forefront of generative A.I. technology with its ChatGPT tool, testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first time in a Tuesday hearing. And while he said he is ultimately optimistic that innovation will benefit people on a grand scale, Altman echoed his previous assertion that lawmakers should create parameters for AI creators to avoid causing "significant harm to the world." "We think it can be a printing press moment," Altman said. "We have to work together to make it so."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the artificial intelligence lab behind ChatGPT, took questions from reporters following his congressional hearing, including defining "scary AI." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlined examples of "scary AI" to Fox News Digital after he served as a witness for a Senate subcommittee hearing on potential regulations on artificial intelligence. "Sure," Altman said when asked by Fox News Digital to provide an example of "scary AI." "An AI that could design novel biological pathogens. An AI that could hack into computer systems. I think these are all scary." "These systems can become quite powerful, which is why I was happy to be here today and why I think this is so important." Altman appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on Tuesday morning to speak with lawmakers about how to best regulate the technology.

Gentlemen do truly prefer blondes, and'tall, dark, and handsome' are the features of an ideal man. This is according to artificial intelligence tools that learn from the billions of images on social media sites depicting beautiful people. The Bulimia Project, an eating disorder awareness group, asked image AI websites to produce the'perfect' male and female bodies, according to what gets most engagement on social media. Researchers from the organization found that the most desirable women had blonde hair, olive skin, brown eyes, and slim figures, while the'perfect' male had dark, smoldering eyes, chiseled cheekbones and defined muscles. Most images of the'perfect' male showed men with dark hair and eyes and olive-toned skin as well as toned muscles and chiseled jawlines The Bulimia Project tested Artificial Intelligence image generators, including Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney, to reveal what the programs' idea of the'perfect' physique looks like in women and men.