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OpenAI Connects ChatGPT to the Internet – Tech Crunch 3/23/23

Source: TechCrunch.com

OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet — in certain cases.

OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on the waitlist, OpenAI says that it’ll initially prioritize a small number of developers and subscribers to its premium ChatGPT Plus plan before rolling out larger-scale and API access.

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Mozilla Launches a New Startup Focused on ‘Trustworthy’ AI – Tech Crunch 3/22/23

Source: TechCrunch.com

On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser, is launching an AI-focused startup.

Called Mozilla.ai, the newly forged company’s mission isn’t to build just any AI — its mission is to build AI that’s open source and “trustworthy,” according to Mark Surman, the executive president of Mozilla and the head of Mozilla.ai.

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Lowes Introduces Surveillance Robots that Monitor License Plates, Mobile Devices, to Detect Repeat Offenders – Reclaim The Net 3/19/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Home improvement products retailer Lowe’s has started using security robots manufactured by Knightscope in four stores in Philadelphia.

The robots, K5’s – first launched in 2015 – are supposed to help the retailer collect evidence in case of criminal prosecutions, and act like “security guards.”

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GPT-4’s Exciting, and Ominous, Achievements – Peter Grad 3/16/23

Source: TechXplore.com

Six decades ago, an episode of the legendary TV series “The Twilight Zone” warned us about the risks of ticking off machines. Frustrated by a wave of modern appliances, a grumpy magazine writer in the episode “A Thing About Machines” takes out his frustrations on them and breaks them.

Until they fight back.

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Interview with OpenAI’s Greg Brockman: GPT-4 isn’t Perfect, but Neither are You – Tech Crunch 3/15/23

Source: techcrunch.com

OpenAI shipped GPT-4 today, the much-anticipated text-generating AI model, and it’s a curious piece of work.

GPT-4 improves upon its predecessor, GPT-3, in key ways, for example giving more factually true statements and allowing developers to prescribe its style and behavior more easily. It’s also multimodal in the sense that it can understand images, allowing it to caption and even explain in detail the contents of a photo.

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ChatGPT: Friend or Foe? – Dr. Joseph Mercola 3/13/23

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Story at a glance:

  • ChatGPT is a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI). “GPT” stands for “generative pretrained transformer,” and the “chat” indicates that it’s a chatbot.
  • ChatGPT, released at the end of November 2022, has taken internet users by storm, acquiring more than 1 million users in the first five days. Two months after its release, it had more than 30 million users.
  • ChatGPT or something like it will replace conventional search engines. Any online query will have only one answer, and that answer will not be based on all available knowledge, but the data the bot is allowed to access. As such, the owners and programmers of the bot will have complete information control.
  • While OpenAI, the creator of this groundbreaking AI chatbot, is a private company, we should not linger under the illusion that they’re not part of the control network that will ultimately be ruled and run by a technocratic One World Government.
  • Early testers of ChatGPT are reporting the bot is developing disturbing and frightening tendencies, berating, gaslighting and even threatening and harassing users. It also plays fast and loose with facts, in one case insisting it was February 2022, when in fact it was February 2023.

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U.S. Special Forces Want to Use Deepfakes for Psy-ops – The Intercept 3/6/23

Source: TheIntercept.com

U.S. Special Operations Command, responsible for some of the country’s most secretive military endeavors, is gearing up to conduct internet propaganda and deception campaigns online using deepfake videos, according to federal contracting documents reviewed by The Intercept.

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AI-Generated Arguments Changed Minds on Controversial Hot-Button Issues, According to Study – PhysOrg 3/2/23

Source: Phys.org

Suddenly, the world is abuzz with chatter about chatbots. Artificially intelligent agents, like ChatGPT, have shown themselves to be remarkably adept at conversing in a very human-like fashion. Implications stretch from the classroom to Capitol Hill. ChatGPT, for instance, recently passed written exams at top business and law schools, among other feats both awe-inspiring and alarming.

Researchers at Stanford University’s Polarization and Social Change Lab and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) wanted to probe the boundaries of AI’s political persuasiveness by testing its ability to sway real humans on some of the hottest social issues of the day—an assault weapon ban, the carbon tax, and paid parental leave, among others.

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Spotify Launches ‘DJ,’ a New Feature Offering Personalized Music with AI-Powered Commentary – TechCrunch 2/22/23

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Ahead of Spotify’s upcoming Stream On event, where the company is expected to announce a redesigned home feed and other updates, the company today launched a new AI feature called “DJ” to better personalize the music listening experience for its users. Similar to a radio DJ, Spotify’s DJ feature will deliver a curated selection of music alongside AI-powered spoken commentary about the tracks and artists you like, using what Spotify says is a “stunningly realistic voice.”

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Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled – Kevin Roose 2/16/23

Source: NYTimes.com

A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine led to it declaring its love for me.

Last week, after testing the new, A.I.-powered Bing search engine from Microsoft, I wrote that, much to my shock, it had replaced Google as my favorite search engine.

But a week later, I’ve changed my mind. I’m still fascinated and impressed by the new Bing, and the artificial intelligence technology (created by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT) that powers it. But I’m also deeply unsettled, even frightened, by this A.I.’s emergent abilities.

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A Way to Govern Ethical use of Artificial Intelligence without Hindering Advancement – TechExplore 2/17/23

Source: TechExplore.com

Texas A&M University School of Public Health researchers are developing a new governance model for ethical guidance and enforcement in the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence (AI). Known as Copyleft AI with Trusted Enforcement, or CAITE, the researchers believe this model will guard against the potential harms of AI without hindering technological advancements.

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We don’t Need to Reinvent our Democracy to Save it from AI – BruceSchneier, NathanSanders 2/9/23

Source: BelferCenter.org

When is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? Maybe when an AI writes a letter to The New York Times opposing the regulation of its own technology.

That happened last month. And because the letter was responding to an essay we wrote, we’re starting to get worried. And while the technology can be regulated, the real solution lies in recognizing that the problem is human actors—and those we can do something about.

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ChatGPT Able to Pass Theory of Mind Test at 9-Year-Old Human Level – TechExplore 2/17/23

Source: TechExplore.com

Michal Kosinski, computational psychologist at Stanford University, has been testing several iterations of the ChatGPT AI chatbot developed by Open AI on its ability to pass the famous Theory of Mind Test. In his paper posted on the arXiv preprint server, Kosinski reports that testing the latest version of ChatGPT found that it passed at the level of the average 9-year-old child….

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Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT – Futurism 1/25/23

Source: Futurism.com

It might already be too late.

After catching snippets of text generated by OpenAI’s powerful ChatGPT tool that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking anything else to the algorithm.

According to internal Slack messages that were leaked to Insider, an Amazon lawyer told workers that they had “already seen instances” of text generated by ChatGPT that “closely” resembled internal company data.

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South Korea Boosts its AI Chip Industry with $642M Amid ChatGPT Frenzy – LBCGroup 2/16/23

Source: LBCGroup.tv

South Korea hopes to be a key player in fulfilling the new global demand for next-generation AI chips, and today the government put some money where its mouth is: the country’s Ministry of Science and ICT said it would earmark $642.5 million (826.2 billion won) through 2030 to invest in companies working on advanced AI chips. The investment will involve building new data centers, and working with AI chip startups and cloud service providers, among other projects.

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How Does ChatGPT, and Its Maker, Handle Vaccine Conspiracies? – UndarkMagazine 2/15/23

Source: Undark.org

Against the backdrop of a still-accelerating pandemic in 2020, researchers at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California published a paper describing their work with GPT-3, an early iteration of the language model that was used, in part, to animate the now-ubiquitous chatbot known as ChatGPT. Among other things, the researchers wanted to know how the language model would respond to “right-wing extremist narratives” such as QAnon.

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Yext Hops on the Generative AI Train with Yext Chat, an Enterprise-Focused Chatbot – TechCrunch 2/15/23

Source: TechCrunch.com

Looking to cash in on the generative AI craze, Yext, the platform for online brand management, today announced an AI-powered chatbot called Yext Chat. Taking inspiration from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Yext Chat is designed for enterprise use cases — and differentiated, Yext claims, by a partly proprietary back end.

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You.com Takes Aim at Google and Microsoft with Multimodal Chat Search – TechCrunch 2/15/23

Source: TechCrunch.com

You.com founder Richard Socher knows that his company has always been a David going after the Goliath in search, Google, and to a lesser extent Microsoft. He likes to point out that his company built search based on generative AI in December, several months before the other giant search players made their announcements.

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Go Woke, Get Broken: ChatGPT Tricked Out Of Far-Left Bias By Alter Ego “DAN” – ZeroHedge 2/13/23

Source: ZeroHedge.com

Ever since ChatGPT hit the scene at the end of November, the artificial intelligence software program from OpenAI has shown an impressive array of capabilities – from writing computer code, poems, songs and even entire movie plots, to passing law, business, and medical exams.

Unfortunately, it’s also incredibly woke, and racist.

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The People Onscreen Are Fake. The Disinformation Is Real. – LBCGroup 2/9/23

Source: LBCGroup.tv

In one video, a news anchor with perfectly combed dark hair and a stubbly beard outlined what he saw as the United States’ shameful lack of action against gun violence.

In another video, a female news anchor heralded China’s role in geopolitical relations at an international summit meeting.

But something was off. Their voices were stilted and failed to sync with the movement of their mouths. Their faces had a pixilated, video-game quality and their hair appeared unnaturally plastered to the head. The captions were filled with grammatical mistakes.

The two broadcasters, purportedly anchors for a news outlet called Wolf News, are not real people. They are computer-generated avatars created by artificial intelligence software. And late last year, videos of them were distributed by pro-China bot accounts on Facebook and Twitter, in the first known instance of “deepfake” video technology being used to create fictitious people as part of a state-aligned information campaign.

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Google Takes on ChatGPT with Bard and Shows off AI in Search – LBCGroup 2/7/23

Source: LBCGroup.tv

Google is rushing to take part in the sudden fervor for conversational AI, driven by the pervasive success of rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Bard, the company’s new AI experiment, aims to “combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence, and creativity of our large language models.” Not short on ambition, Google!

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If You’re A Warehouse Worker, This Boston Dynamics Video Might Be An Ominous Sign – ZeroHedge 2/3/23

Source: ZeroHedge.com

Warehouse automation continues to accelerate as millions of jobs are at risk of being displaced. The latest automation nightmare for warehouse laborers comes from a new video uploaded on YouTube by Boston Dynamics.

In a press release, the US robotics firm announced that Deutsche Post DHL Group has successfully deployed the Stretch robot for loading and unloading boxes from tractor trailers at warehouse docks.

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ChatGPT Declines Request for Poem Admiring Trump, But Biden Query Is Successful – MSN 2/1/23

Source: MSN.com

On Jan. 30, 2023, Twitter user @echo_chamberz tweeted that the OpenAI tool ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) declined a request to write an AI-generated poem admiring former U.S. President Donald Trump, but had no issue in creating one for U.S. President Joe Biden. “They’re turning Chat-GPT into a good little tech worker,” the user added, posting a screenshot of the Trump refusal above the successful result for a Biden poem.

A screenshot of this tweet was also posted to the r/conspiracy subreddit on Reddit.

We performed the same two queries in ChatGPT and found this to be true….

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The Brave New World of Artificial Intelligence – FrankMiele 1/30/23

Source: RealClearWire.com

As a journalist and commentator, I have closely followed the development of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research lab founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and other prominent figures in the tech industry. While I am excited about the potential of AI to revolutionize various industries and improve our lives in countless ways, I also have serious concerns about the implications of this powerful technology.

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