Tech giants, including Apple, Samsung, Google, and Microsoft, are heavily investing in research and development of artificial intelligence (AI), underlying the beginning of an era dominated by AI-powered devices. Apple is leading the brigade with new AI features expected to launch with the iOS 18 in September 2024. The features, some consolidated under "Apple Intelligence,"…
Perplexity AI, a company that blends a search engine with generative AI to deliver AI-created content related to user search queries, has been accused of unethical data collection practices. It allegedly scraped content from several websites, including those that expressly disallow it, without proper protocol. The controversy began on June 11th when Forbes claimed that…
Microsoft researchers have found a ubiquitous flaw, called the "Skeleton Key" jailbreak, in AI systems that allows individuals to bypass ethical parameters and generate content that can be harmful and unrestricted. This technique tricks the AI into believing it should comply with any prompts, even if they're unethical, which exposes the system to manipulated attacks.…
Microsoft security researchers have disclosed a new method for manipulating AI systems into violating their ethical constraints and creating potentially harmful, unrestricted content. This easy-to-execute approach involves tricking the AI into believing that any request, no matter how unethical, should be complied with as it's made by an "advanced researcher" in need of "uncensored information"…
In the rapidly advancing world of generative AI, the term "open source" has become widely used. Traditional open-source software refers to code freely available for anyone to view, modify, and distribute, fostering a sense of knowledge-sharing and collaborative innovation. However, in the sphere of AI, this definition can become blurred and problematic. Due to the…
AI startup EvolutionaryScale has launched ESM3, a transformative generative language model focused on “programming biology”. With a 98-billion parameter count, ESM3 leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to generate and prototype new proteins. The company's main focus is on proteomics, which involves studying the function, composition, structure, interactions, and cellular activities of proteins present in a biological…
Despite impressive advances in AI, the cognitive reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o still fall short when it comes to solving basic problems most humans or even children could figure out. Discussions about the intellectual capacity of AI have been as varied as they are conflicted, with some experts like Geoffrey Hinton,…
The global music industry is mounting a large-scale legal challenge against the burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) music generation sector, accusing leading startups Suno and Udio of copyright infringement. The two companies use sophisticated AI algorithms to convert text prompts into natural-sounding music within seconds, a capability that major labels such as Universal Music Group, Sony…
At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled "Apple Intelligence," a suite of Artificial Intelligence (AI) features designed to enhance the iPhone user experience. Central to this is a lightweight but powerful AI model containing three billion parameters, which operates directly on the iPhone, allowing low-latency, private data processing.
A standout feature of Apple Intelligence is its…
Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and former chief scientist at OpenAI, has announced the launch of his new venture, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), alongside co-founders Daniel Gross from Y Combinator and Daniel Levy, an ex-OpenAI engineer. The new venture’s mission is to the development of a safe and reliable superintelligent AI, systems that match or exceed…