“AI Breaks into Bank” - or so the headline goes. Vice writer Joseph Cox used an AI to synthesize his voice, and then used that AI to log into his bank account. The bank was using Voice ID for security, and the AI spoofed its way past it. Voice is dead for biometric security.
GitHub Copilot - Microsoft reports that for developers who use GitHub Copilot, the AI writes 46% of the code (61% for developers coding in Java). Generative AIs let people think more about what they want to do, and less about how to do it.
Bing Chat - Microsoft reigns in Bing Chat after some very unfavorable press. What’s been publicized is that Microsoft now limits users to 60 chats per day, and users must start a fresh session after 6 chats. These limits limit the ability of Bing Chat to go further and further off the rails as a conversation progresses. It seems to be working. What’s less reported is that Bing Chat now gives much shorter and (IMHO) less useful answers. Hopefully Microsoft returns it to its full glory, free of the negative “hallucinations”, as soon as possible.
Microsoft has also announced the Bing Chat is now available for mobile devices and Skype.
AWS ❤ Hugging Face - AWS and Hugging Face have announced a partnership. Hugging Face gets more compute resources. AWS gets to provide users with access to Hugging Face models.
ControlNet - is taking the image generation world by storm. With AI image generation, you put in a prompt (robot working in an office), wait for it to generate, and see if the output is anything like what you expected. If not, generate again. And again. And again. ControlNet lets you guide the image generation with an example, and makes the process MUCH more reliable.
NVIDIA - claims that it’s made large language model (LLM) processing a million times faster over the last decade, and it will do it again over the next decade.
Jailbreak ChatGPT - If you want to jailbreak ChatGPT, this site has the prompts to do it. As soon as one prompt gets blocked, they seem to have a new one.
Search for an AI - There’s so many new AI companies starting up, how does anyone keep track of them? In a word, don’t. Just search for an AI that might be a fit for your need at “There’s an AI for that”, and also at FutureTools.
ChatGPT for Robots - Microsoft has hooked ChatGPT up to a robot allowing you to ask it to do things like “Arrange this blocks to look like the Windows logo” or “Find the thing in this room I can cook my food in.” ChatGPT looks set to be the universal UI for a lot of applications.
AskHN - A chat bot trained on Hacker News. Ask it questions and get answers served up from the well of HN wisdom.
3D Reconstruction - of an object from a single image was achieved by an Oxford research team.
MAVE - The first K-pop band with AI generated performers. Catchy.
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