Generative AI
Generative AI: The Future Is AI Writing Its Own Code
Generative AI is in a Cambrian explosion of capability. This is just the beginning, Glimpse AI CEO Alex Cardinell told me in a recent TechFirst podcast. The ultimate thing for AI to create is more of itself. God creating Adam, in an image Dall-E created based on a prompt from the writer. Dall-E has major ... [ ] trouble with fingers still ... "The most exciting part of it all ... is when maybe AI is also at the point where it can start writing the code that will make its own AI even better," Cardinell says.
Artificial intelligence means anyone can cast Hollywood stars in their own films
For years, the only way to create a blockbuster film featuring a Hollywood star and dazzling special effects was at a major studio. The Hollywood giants were the ones that could afford to pay celebrities millions of dollars and license sophisticated software to produce elaborate, special effects-laden films. That's all about to change, and the public is getting a preview thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) tools like OpenAI's DALL-E and Midjourney. Both tools use images scraped from the internet and select datasets like LAION to train their AI models to reconstruct similar yet wholly original imagery using text prompts. The AI images, which vary from photographic realism to mimicking the styles of famous artists, can be generated in as little as 20 to 30 seconds, often producing results that would take a human hours to produce.
Generative A.I. doesn't much impress Noam Chomsky
But just how smart are these large language models? On the last day of the conference, I interviewed legendary linguist Noam Chomsky, now 93 years old, and Gary Marcus, an emeritus professor of cognitive science at New York University who has spent much of the past decade highlighting the limits of deep learning. Both were distinctly unimpressed with today's cutting edge A.I. Chomsky's big disappointment is that these large language models don't tell us anything at all about how the human brain works. Chomsky has devoted much of his life to advancing the theory that there is a universal grammar, or at least a set of structural concepts, that underpin all human languages, and that this grammar is somehow hard-wired into the brain. Chomsky thinks this explains why human infants can master language so easily--whereas today's computer systems need to be fed what Chomsky rightly calls "astronomical amounts of data" and even then still don't actually understand language at all.
Why authorized deepfakes are becoming big for business
Join us on November 9 to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers at the Low-Code/No-Code Summit. "Deepfake implies unauthorized use of synthetic media and generative artificial intelligence -- we are authorized from the get-go," she told VentureBeat. She described the Tel Aviv- and New York-based Hour One as an AI company that has also "built a legal and ethical framework for how to engage with real people to generate their likeness in digital form." It's an important delineation in an era when deepfakes, or synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness, has gotten a boatload of bad press -- not surprisingly, given deepfakes' longstanding connection to revenge porn and fake news. The term "deepfake" can be traced to a Reddit user in 2017 named "deepfakes" who, along with others in the community, shared videos, many involving celebrity faces swapped onto the bodies of actresses in pornographic videos.
"Hey, GitHub!" lets programmers code with just their voice
While GitHub continues to bolster its Copilot service with new features, the software has also been targeted with a proposed class-action lawsuit. If the lawsuit is granted class-action status, it could upend the defense that such data collection is covered in the US by fair use doctrine, potentially affecting not only the legality of Copilot but also a whole range of generative AI models.
Is AI Art Really Art?
Maureen F. McHugh's short story collection After the Apocalypse was merely prescient when published in 2011, but it appears positively prophetic a decade later with its narratives about respiratory virus pandemics, frayed social connections, and increased political violence. Few of her tales, however, are as haunting as "The Kingdom of the Blind," which will perhaps prove to be the most visionary of McHugh's stories. "The Kingdom of the Blind" takes as its subject artificial intelligence, grappling with the possibility that any consciousness which arises from soldering board and circuitry may be so alien that it's scarcely recognizable to us as a consciousness in the first place. The emergent process of consciousness as it develops in this AI is inscrutable and totally different from anything which resembles human thinking, posing a difficulty for the computer scientists who attempt to communicate with it. In sparse, elegant, and beautiful prose, McHugh's story describes how a massive interconnected computer program evolves a quality that could be described as "consciousness," and yet how to describe the thought which animates this being is impossible.
Steps towards prompt-based creation of virtual worlds
Roberts, Jasmine, Banburski-Fahey, Andrzej, Lanier, Jaron
Multimodal text-to-image models, like DALL-Large language models trained for code generation can be E 2 [34], Midjourney [11] or Stable Diffusion [35] are applied to speaking virtual worlds into existence (creating raising concerns about displacing concept artists and have virtual worlds). In this work we show that prompt-based already won at least one major art competition [36]. Large methods can both accelerate in-VR level editing, as well Language Models (LLMs), like GPT-3 [6], are not only as can become part of gameplay rather than just part of generating very convincing text completions, but have game development. As an example, we present Codex recently become capable of generating code with models VR Pong which shows non-deterministic game mechanics like OpenAI Codex [8] or AlphaCode [25]. We propose using generative processes to not only create static content in this paper that these capabilities can be combined to but also non-trivial interactions between 3D objects. This allow "speaking the world into existence", or taking natural demonstration naturally leads to an integral discussion on language descriptions and turning them into interactive how one would evaluate and benchmark experiences created visual scenes within a game engine. In particular, this by generative models - as there are no qualitative or has the potential for allowing authoring Virtual Reality quantitative metrics that apply in these scenarios. We conclude (VR) experiences from within the headset, as well as allow by discussing impending challenges of AI-assisted completely novel modes of gameplay.
Red-Teaming the Stable Diffusion Safety Filter
Rando, Javier, Paleka, Daniel, Lindner, David, Heim, Lennart, Tramèr, Florian
Stable Diffusion is a recent open-source image generation model comparable to proprietary models such as DALLE, Imagen, or Parti. Stable Diffusion comes with a safety filter that aims to prevent generating explicit images. Unfortunately, the filter is obfuscated and poorly documented. This makes it hard for users to prevent misuse in their applications, and to understand the filter's limitations and improve it. We first show that it is easy to generate disturbing content that bypasses the safety filter. We then reverse-engineer the filter and find that while it aims to prevent sexual content, it ignores violence, gore, and other similarly disturbing content. Based on our analysis, we argue safety measures in future model releases should strive to be fully open and properly documented to stimulate security contributions from the community.
OpenAI leads $23.5M round in Mem, an AI-powered note-taking app
Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. Mum's been the word since on which companies have received infusions from the Fund. But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5 million investment in Mem, a work-focused app that taps AI to automatically organize notes. The investment values Mem at $110 million post-money and brings the startup's total raised to $29 million. The workflow revolves around search and a chronological timeline, allowing users to attach topic tags, tag other users and add recurring reminders to notes.