Welcome to this week’s AI news roundup, and if rumors are true, it’s Elon Musk’s favorite AI news source! We’ve got a full plate of new and exciting AI developments, from presidential pranks to AI-powered GPS systems and even a robot that knows when you’re going to die. Let’s dive right in!
Double trouble: Russian President Vladimir Putin was confronted with an AI doppelganger at a live Q&A, eliciting a range of emotions. On the other side of the AI curtain, US President Joe Biden’s AI Executive Order may have been influenced by a certain think-tank.
OpenAI is making waves with their Superalignment project, while VERSES is making their own waves with a cheeky billboard and letter. OpenAI also formed a partnership with media publisher Axel Springer, which could bring news content to ChatGPT.
AI enthusiasts have been waiting for news from OpenAI before the end of 2023, and TomTom is working with Microsoft and OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to your GPS. Eric Hartford released an uncensored AI model called Dolphin Mixtral, and conservationists are using AI to identify whales from photos.
Danish researchers built an AI model that knows when you’re going to die, and researchers in Switzerland taught a robot to master a labyrinth game with machine learning. AI is also being used to design proteins to create new drugs, and to fast-track the discovery of new materials.
AI is also making an impact on the campaign trail. In Bangladesh, AI deep fake misinformation could have an effect on how voters cast their ballots. Former Prime Minister Imran Khan was even able to address his supporters from prison using an AI-created avatar. In the US, a Pennsylvania candidate used an AI robot named Ashley to call voters, raising some tricky ethical questions. AI poses a growing risk to financial markets, according to a US regulator.
Google’s DeepMind made a major breakthrough with mathematical machine learning, and Western Sydney University is preparing to switch on their DeepSouth supercomputer. Microsoft threw shade at Google’s Gemini, giving GPT-4 a boost using a prompting technique called Medprompt.
Stability AI released Stable Zero123 which generates quality 3D models from a single image, and the Pope called for a treaty on AI regulation. Nature added AI at number 11 below its list of the 10 humans who have shaped science in 2023, and ByteDance got busted for using OpenAI data to train its models.
We’re all hoping to see major advances from OpenAI, and maybe AGI within the next 10 years. But will AI models get credit for their discoveries? Will they be able to make better choices than humans in elections? Could AGI even run for office one day?
These are all exciting questions, and we can’t wait to find out the answers. Let us know what you think and send us links to cool AI stories we may have missed. The post DAI#18 – Dolphins, doubles, and cheeky AI upstarts appeared first on DailyAI.
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