Welcome to this week’s AI news roundup! We’ve heard rumors that this is Elon Musk’s favorite AI news source, and it’s no wonder why. This week, AI has been busy making headlines, with pranks on presidents, double trouble, the anticipation of OpenAI’s new model, and more. Let’s dive in and explore the exciting world of AI!
Double trouble
Russian President Vladimir Putin was recently confronted with an AI doppelganger during a live Q&A session, prompting a range of emotions from Putin when the doppelganger alluded to the rumors of his body double. On the other side of the AI curtain, US President Joe Biden may have had a biased hand in drafting his AI Executive Order, with a look at who’s behind the think-tank RAND giving us an interesting insight into who’s pulling the AI regulation strings.
What are we waiting for?
AI enthusiasts have been eagerly anticipating big news from OpenAI to be announced before the end of 2023. Will it be GPT-4.5? Will we finally get GPT-5? Maybe next week. Or maybe not at all, seeing as OpenAI’s board has been given veto rights on any models Sam Altman wants to release. Some are saying that recent improvements on ChatGPT Plus hint at GPT-4.5 already being in action.
For now, we have to settle for the first results from OpenAI’s Superalignment project. Ilya Sutskever’s team is trying to work out if humans will be able to train future superintelligent AIs to make sure they don’t go rogue. They found an interesting way to simulate this.
OpenAI expects AGI within the next 10 years, but VERSES says its breakthrough could make it happen a lot sooner. The company used a cheeky billboard and an open letter to coax OpenAI to drop what it is doing and join the VERSES project. OpenAI may have to comply if they stick to their word.
OpenAI formed a more dubious partnership with media publisher Axel Springer. It aims to bring news content to ChatGPT, but don’t expect unbiased coverage of world events.
If you’re looking for some AI direction in life, TomTom is working with Microsoft and OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to your GPS and other in-car systems.
AI in the wild
Eric Hartford recently removed all the guard rails from Mistral’s latest model and released it publicly. Dolphin Mixtral is a completely uncensored AI model that complies with any request, even illegal ones, and its desire to save kittens is a big motivator. Commercial AI models will sometimes offer bad advice by accident, but Dolphin Mixtral does it on porpoise.
In other AI-related news, conservationists are using AI to identify whales from photos, and former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was able to address his supporters even though he was in prison, using an AI-created avatar of himself. In the US, a Pennsylvania candidate was the first to use an AI robot called Ashley to call voters. A US regulator has warned that AI poses a growing risk to financial markets, and Google’s DeepMind has made a major breakthrough in mathematical machine learning. Western Sydney University is preparing to switch on its DeepSouth supercomputer, and Microsoft threw shade at Google’s claim that Gemini is better than GPT-4.
Danish researchers built an AI model that knows when you’re going to die, and researchers from ETH Zurich insist they were working hard when they taught a robot to master a labyrinth game with machine learning. Scientists have been using AI to design proteins that display exceptional binding strengths to create new drugs, and materials scientists are using convolutional neural networks to fast-track the discovery of new materials. AI deep fake misinformation could have an impact on how voters in the Bangladeshi election vote, and AI is showing it can lie better than the most seasoned politician.
Stability AI released Stable Zero123 which generates quality 3D models from a single image, the Pope has called for a treaty on AI regulation, Scientific journal Nature added AI at number 11 below its list of the 10 humans who have shaped science in 2023, Google announced VideoPoet, a large language model for zero-shot text-to-video generation, and ByteDance gets bust using OpenAI data to train its models.
As we contemplate the implications of completely uncensored models like Dolphin Mixtral, and the potential of AI to make a positive difference in democracies, we can’t help but wonder – could an AGI run for office one day? Whatever the future holds, I for one, welcome our robot overlords!
Let us know what you think and send us links to cool AI stories we may have missed. This week’s AI news roundup has been an exciting journey – and who knows what next week has in store?
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