AI

If you teach a chatbot how to read ASCII art, it will teach you how to make a bomb

In context: Most, if not all, large language models censor responses when users ask for things considered dangerous, unethical, or illegal. Good luck getting Bing to tell you how to cook your company's books or crystal meth. Developers block the chatbot from fulfilling these queries, but that hasn't stopped people from figuring out workarounds.

Apple reveals AI model that can interpret photos and count objects

Apple and Google partnership could bring Gemini AI tech to iPhones

Not just the hardware: How deep is Nvidia's software moat?

The big picture: Starting tomorrow, Nvidia is hosting its GTC developer conference. Once a sideshow for semis, the event has transformed into the center of attention for much of the industry. With Nvidia's rise, many have been asking the extent to which Nvidia's software provides a durable competitive moat for its hardware. As we have been getting a lot of questions about that, we want to lay out our thoughts here.

As Reddit prepares for IPO, sale of user generated content draws FTC's attention

OpenAI wants to develop its own AI processors, looks to UAE for funds

SXSW festival crowd responds to AI promo video with chorus of boos

Amazon's generative AI can create product pages based on other online listings

EU enacts landmark AI law to protect citizens' rights and prevent risky uses of artificial intelligence

Google's new video game-playing AI follows verbal instructions

New safety device for cyclists uses a Raspberry Pi and AI to spot dangerous drivers

Modern workplace tech linked to lower employee well-being, study finds

Jensen Huang: Even if competitors' AI products were free, Nvidia's chips would still be better value

A hot potato: Nvidia has become the dominant force in the AI hardware industry, and CEO Jensen Huang knows it. The leather jacket-loving boss is so confident in the ability of his products, he says that even if the competitors' chips were free, they would still be a worse option than Nvidia's expensive alternatives.

India to build a 10,000 GPU supercomputer for self-sufficient AI development

Joe Biden says he wants to ban AI voice impersonations

AMD promotes third-party app for running AI chatbots on local hardware (that works with Radeons, too)

EA says generative AI will make gamers spend more, speed up development time

A hot potato: Electronic Arts is an organization that arguably only misses out on the title of "most-hated game company in the world" because Ubisoft exists. As it turns out, EA loves generative AI. CEO Andrew Wilson has been praising the technology, claiming it is set to make EA 30% more efficient while boosting monetization by 20% over the next five years. It also sounds like it will cost more game developers their jobs.

Google's new AI tool can turn images into playable mini-games

Former Google engineer indicted for allegedly stealing AI secrets while stealthily running a startup in China

First students, now teachers: Educators are using ChatGPT to grade kids' work

Google updates Search to fight low-quality spammy content, doesn't mention "AI" at all

A hot potato: While we wait for the global revolution that AI algorithms will surely bring, Google is trying to survive the incoming spam-apocalypse enabled by automatic content generation at scale. The company is seemingly improving web search with more stringent rules against meaningless web pages, but their track record for the past few years is far from positive.

OpenAI responds to Musk lawsuit by publishing his emails: Urged it to raise $1 billion, called Tesla a "cash cow"

AMD to introduce AI-based upscaling, potentially matching DLSS

Something to look forward to: AMD's FSR image upscaling technology has avoided using AI until now, which has been a double-edged sword in its competition against Nvidia's DLSS and Intel's XeSS. A recent interview with AMD's CTO indicates that the company plans to pivot sharply toward AI in 2024, with gaming upscaling as one area of focus.

Researchers prove they can exploit chatbots to spread AI worms

In context: Big Tech continues to recklessly shovel billions of dollars into bringing AI assistants to consumers. Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Bard, Amazon's Alexa, and Meta's Chatbot already have generative AI engines. Apple is one of the few that seems to be taking its time upgrading Siri to an LLM and hopes to compete with an LLM that runs locally rather than in the cloud.