Generative AI
Forecasting Potential Misuses of Language Models for Disinformation Campaigns--and How to Reduce Risk
OpenAI researchers collaborated with Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology and the Stanford Internet Observatory to investigate how large language models might be misused for disinformation purposes. The collaboration included an October 2021 workshop bringing together 30 disinformation researchers, machine learning experts, and policy analysts, and culminated in a co-authored report building on more than a year of research. This report outlines the threats that language models pose to the information environment if used to augment disinformation campaigns and introduces a framework for analyzing potential mitigations. As generative language models improve, they open up new possibilities in fields as diverse as healthcare, law, education and science. But, as with any new technology, it is worth considering how they can be misused.
AI might be seemingly everywhere, but there are still plenty of things it can't do – for now
These days, we don't have to wait long until the next breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) impresses everyone with capabilities that previously belonged only in science fiction. In 2022, AI art generation tools such as Open AI's DALL-E 2, Google's Imagen, and Stable Diffusion took the internet by storm, with users generating high-quality images from text descriptions. Unlike previous developments, these text-to-image tools quickly found their way from research labs to mainstream culture, leading to viral phenomena such as the "Magic Avatar" feature in the Lensa AI app, which creates stylised images of its users. Read more: No, the Lensa AI app technically isn't stealing artists' work – but it will majorly shake up the art world In December, a chatbot called ChatGPT stunned users with its writing skills, leading to predictions the technology will soon be able to pass professional exams. ChatGPT reportedly gained one million users in less than a week.
Ohh now OpenAI ChatGPT: Chatbot that Can Generate Human-Like Text
It's hard to imagine that the idea of an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot was nothing more than straight from a science fiction movie a few years ago. But now that OpenAI ChatGPT has gained popularity, people realise the amazing possibilities of these intelligent technologies. Writers, traders, scientists, programmers, and even travellers are all experimenting with ChatGPT, which has fast gained popularity. The AI chatbot is proven to be a tool for anyone wanting to increase their creativity and productivity, from creating original material to offering insightful analysis and forecasts. Even if you're not interested in artificial intelligence, you should pay attention to ChatGPT, a new AI bot in business.
AI and the Big Five – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
The story of 2022 was the emergence of AI, first with image generation models, including DALL-E, MidJourney, and the open source Stable Diffusion, and then ChatGPT, the first text-generation model to break through in a major way. It seems clear to me that this is a new epoch in technology. To determine how that epoch might develop, though, it is useful to look back 26 years to one of the most famous strategy books of all time: Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma, particularly this passage on the different kinds of innovations: Most new technologies foster improved product performance. I call these sustaining technologies. Some sustaining technologies can be discontinuous or radical in character, while others are of an incremental nature. What all sustaining technologies have in common is that they improve the performance of established products, along the dimensions of performance that mainstream customers in major markets have historically valued.
ChatGPT is Just the Beginning - David Espindola
ChatGPT is all the rage. It is what everyone has been talking about in the last several weeks. In just over a week, it garnered over 1 million users, an incredible achievement for OpenAI, the organization that created it. ChatGPT is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) application that falls under the Generative AI category – GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. Generative AI enable computers to create new content using previously created content, such as text, audio, video, images and code.
Regulating Artificial Intelligence Requires Balancing Rights, Innovation
Across the technology industry, artificial intelligence (AI) has boomed over the last year. Lensa went viral creating artistic avatar artwork generated from real-life photos. The OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT garnered praise as a revolutionary leap in generative AI with the ability to provide answers to complex questions in natural language text. Such innovations have ignited an outpouring of investments even as the tech sector continues to experience major losses in stock value along with massive job cuts. And there is no indication the development of these AI-powered capabilities will slow down from their record pace.
OpenAI opens waitlist for paid version of ChatGPT
OpenAI has opened a waitlist for access to a paid version of ChatGPT that features additional improvements. The company has, so far, been reluctant to make premium accounts for ChatGPT--despite OpenAI reportedly spending millions of dollars a month to keep it free. OpenAI says that it doesn't plan on making paid "pro" accounts generally available in the foreseeable future. However, the waitlist for such an experimental version shows what kind of enhancements paying users could expect. Users of'ChatGPT Professional' will always be able to access the service.
OpenAI Opens Waitlist for ChatGPT Professional
After being banned by schools around the United States due to concerns over cheating, OpenAI's viral AI chatbot ChatGPT is now experimenting with a paid professional tier that would make the virtual assistant always available, issue faster responses, and allow for significantly more searches every day. The large language model chatbot has taken the world by storm due to its ability to answer complex questions in a surprisingly sentient way and perform useful and previously human-exclusive tasks such as writing full-length essays, debugging code, creating full images from written prompts, coming up with songs, finding answers to homework assignments, and more. With more than a million users at a cost of around a cent or two to generate each response, ChatGPT is currently figuring out the best way to monetize its services, incorporating a series of pricing questions on its waitlist form with plans to speak to members of the community. After the pilot program and initial craze, OpenAI, which was co-founded by Elon Musk and investor Sam Altman with $1 billion USD backing from Microsoft, should have a much better idea of how ChatGPT will be utilized for both individuals and businesses. The company currently anticipates $200 million USD in revenue this year and $1 billion USD in 2024.
Is AI Art Another Industrial Revolution in the Making?
Newton, Alexis, Dhole, Kaustubh
A major shift from skilled to unskilled workers was one of the many changes caused by the Industrial Revolution, when the switch to machines contributed to decline in the social and economic status of artisans, whose skills were dismembered into discrete actions by factory-line workers. We consider what may be an analogous computing technology: the recent introduction of AI-generated art software. AI art generators such as Dall-E and Midjourney can create fully rendered images based solely on a user's prompt, just at the click of a button. Some artists fear if the cheaper price and conveyor-belt speed that comes with AI-produced images is seen as an improvement to the current system, it may permanently change the way society values/views art and artists. In this article, we consider the implications that AI art generation introduces through a post-industrial revolution historical lens. We then reflect on the analogous issues that appear to arise as a result of the AI art revolution, and we conclude that the problems raised mirror those of industrialization, giving a vital glimpse into what may lie ahead.
AI's impact on the job market : The Good, The Bad and The (potentially) Jobless
"Imagine a world where AI not only mimics human intelligence, but creates entirely new forms of it. Welcome to the world of generative AI, where the possibilities are endless and the only limit is our imagination." Generative AI or GAI is the harbinger of a new age, an age where machines not only match human intelligence but transcend it. This is the era where possibilities are infinite, and boundaries are just a suggestion. Welcome to the future, where the only limit is our imagination. AI's masterpiece and how it works?