December 3, 2023

Hackaday: Mozilla Lets Folks Turn AI LLMs Into Single-File Executables

Hackaday: Mozilla Lets Folks Turn AI LLMs Into Single-File Executables. “LLMs (Large Language Models) for local use are usually distributed as a set of weights in a multi-gigabyte file. These cannot be directly used on their own, which generally makes them harder to distribute and run compared to other software…. To help with that, Mozilla’s innovation group have released llamafile, an open source method of turning a set of weights into a single binary that runs on six different OSes (macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD) without needing to be installed.”

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December 2, 2023

Brookhaven National Laboratory: Brainstorming with a Bot

Brookhaven National Laboratory: Brainstorming with a Bot . “Kevin Yager—leader of the electronic nanomaterials group at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—has imagined how recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) could aid scientific brainstorming and ideation. To accomplish this, he has developed a chatbot with knowledge in the kinds of science he’s been engaged in.”

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December 2, 2023

Reuters: Artists take new shot at Stability, Midjourney in updated copyright lawsuit

Reuters: Artists take new shot at Stability, Midjourney in updated copyright lawsuit . “A group of visual artists has filed an amended copyright lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney and other companies for allegedly misusing their work to train generative artificial intelligence systems. U.S. District Judge William Orrick dismissed parts of the lawsuit last month but gave the original plaintiffs permission to pursue their claims again in a new complaint.”

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December 2, 2023

TechCrunch: I’m watching ‘AI upscaled’ Star Trek and it isn’t terrible

TechCrunch: I’m watching ‘AI upscaled’ Star Trek and it isn’t terrible. “For years, dedicated Star Trek fans have been using AI in an attempt to make a version of the acclaimed series Deep Space 9 that looks decent on modern TVs. It sounds a bit ridiculous, but I was surprised to find that it’s actually quite good — certainly good enough that media companies ought to pay attention (instead of just sending me copyright strikes).” A really interesting deep dive and worth your time.

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December 2, 2023

University of Washington: AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes, study finds

University of Washington: AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes, study finds. “What does a person look like? If you use the popular artificial intelligence image generator Stable Diffusion to conjure answers, too frequently you’ll see images of light-skinned men. Stable Diffusion’s perpetuation of this harmful stereotype is among the findings of a new University of Washington study. Researchers also found that, when prompted to create images of “a person from Oceania,” for instance, Stable Diffusion failed to equitably represent Indigenous peoples. Finally, the generator tended to sexualize images of women from certain Latin American countries (Colombia, Venezuela, Peru) as well as those from Mexico, India and Egypt.”

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December 2, 2023

University of Southern California: Social media posts that promote tobacco are increasing, AI detection technology finds

University of Southern California: Social media posts that promote tobacco are increasing, AI detection technology finds. “A new study led by Vassey and Harvard Medical School researcher Chris J. Kennedy, PhD, used a form of artificial intelligence (AI) known as computer vision to track the prevalence of various tobacco-related objects on social media, finding that some content increased as much as 100% between 2019 and 2022. The results were just published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research.”

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December 2, 2023

Platformer: Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn

Platformer: Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn. “Three days after Amazon announced its AI chatbot Q, some employees are sounding alarms about accuracy and privacy issues. Q is ‘experiencing severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data,’ including the location of AWS data centers, internal discount programs, and unreleased features, according to leaked documents obtained by Platformer. “

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December 1, 2023

Associated Press: Brazilian city enacts an ordinance that was secretly written by ChatGPT

Associated Press: Brazilian city enacts an ordinance that was secretly written by ChatGPT. “City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation’s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence — even if they didn’t know it at the time. The experimental ordinance was passed in October in the southern city of Porto Alegre and city councilman Ramiro Rosário revealed this week that it was written by a chatbot, sparking objections and raising questions about the role of artificial intelligence in public policy.”

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December 1, 2023

TechRadar: EVE Online players are creating the first ‘AI empire’ guided by Chat GPT-4

TechRadar: EVE Online players are creating the first ‘AI empire’ guided by Chat GPT-4. “Just when you thought the sci-fi sandbox MMO couldn’t get more interesting after EVE Online was rocked to the core by a single player, pilots joined forces to create the Neural Nexus, an AI-led player corporation. This decision was made with a clear goal in mind. Firstly, it will reduce the reliance on a single leader as AI will now be available to all the corporation players at any time of the day. It also means that the AI leader will keep a clear and consistent vision for what the corporation should be, as well as give new dynamic role-playing opportunities for its members.”

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December 1, 2023

North Carolina State University: To Help Autonomous Vehicles Make Moral Decisions, Researchers Ditch the ‘Trolley Problem’

North Carolina State University: To Help Autonomous Vehicles Make Moral Decisions, Researchers Ditch the ‘Trolley Problem’. “Researchers have developed a new experiment to better understand what people view as moral and immoral decisions related to driving vehicles, with the goal of collecting data to train autonomous vehicles how to make ‘good’ decisions. The work is designed to capture a more realistic array of moral challenges in traffic than the widely discussed life-and-death scenario inspired by the so-called ‘trolley problem.’”

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December 1, 2023

Futurism: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

Futurism: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers. “There was nothing in Drew Ortiz’s author biography at Sports Illustrated to suggest that he was anything other than human…. The only problem? Outside of Sports Illustrated, Drew Ortiz doesn’t seem to exist. He has no social media presence and no publishing history. And even more strangely, his profile photo on Sports Illustrated is for sale on a website that sells AI-generated headshots, where he’s described as ‘neutral white young-adult male with short brown hair and blue eyes.’”

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December 1, 2023

Ars Technica: New “Stable Video Diffusion” AI model can animate any still image

Ars Technica: New “Stable Video Diffusion” AI model can animate any still image. “On Tuesday, Stability AI released Stable Video Diffusion, a new free AI research tool that can turn any still image into a short video—with mixed results. It’s an open-weights preview of two AI models that use a technique called image-to-video, and it can run locally on a machine with an Nvidia GPU.”

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