We're All Going to Die, Next Frontier of AI, Law & Order, and How AI Will Change the World
AI Bytes: Volume CI, Issue #8
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III. Stability AI CEO Told Staff They're 'All Going to Die in 2023': Report
Stability AI's CEO has warned employees about the increasing competition in the AI industry, as the company's open-source AI text-to-image generator, Stable Diffusion, has gained 10 million users a day. Google and Meta are also investing in AI to improve their products, while Stability AI is facing two lawsuits over copyright issues.
II. What kind of intelligence is artificial intelligence?
AI has come a long way since its inception in the 1950s, but the gap between what was hoped for and what has been delivered is considerable. Machine learning algorithms are based on statistical models and are used to make predictions, but they lack the flexibility of human intelligence. Understanding the difference between the two is key to understanding the power, promise, and peril of AI.
I. A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision
Judge Juan Manuel Padilla Garcia of the First Circuit Court in Cartagena, Colombia used ChatGPT, an AI text generator, to help make a court ruling in a case involving a dispute with a health insurance company over coverage for an autistic child. Garcia included the AI's responses in his decision, making it the first known instance of a legal decision being made with the help of an AI tool.
LISTENING
In November 2022, a bot named Cicero demonstrated mastery in the game of Diplomacy, which requires natural language negotiation and cooperation with humans. Research scientist Noam Brown, who co-created Cicero, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the implications of this breakthrough for the future of AGI, the importance of high risk, high reward research, and the relevance of the Turing Test.
I. Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI? — With Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta and professor of computer science at NYU, joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Generative AI and its potential to reach human-level artificial intelligence. The second half of the podcast focuses on the ethics of using others' work to train AI models.
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I. How will AI change the world?
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