Wired: “Jumping between Chrome and Safari, or Firefox and Edge? Here’s how to keep your precious data with you. If you’re thinking of switching browsers—maybe because you like the features in a different application, or you’re fed up with the one you’re using—all of your accumulated data, extensions, and bookmarks can feel like a reason… Continue Reading
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How researchers broke ChatGPT and what it could mean for future AI development
ZDNet: “As many of us grow accustomed to using artificial intelligence tools daily, it’s worth remembering to keep our questioning hats on. Nothing is completely safe and free from security vulnerabilities. Still, companies behind many of the most popular generative AI tools are constantly updating their safety measures to prevent the generation and proliferation of… Continue Reading
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) 2023
Via LLRX – Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) 2023 – As stated by Ethereum, “a DAO is a collectively-owned, blockchain-governed organization working towards a shared mission.” Marcus P. Zillman features resources on how DAOs can impact business operations, identifies challenges to participation, and delivers a diverse bibliography of NFT resources that includes governance, regulation, blockchain and… Continue Reading
Researchers Poke Holes in Safety Controls of ChatGPT and Other Chatbots
The New York Times [link to read free]: “When artificial intelligence companies build online chatbots, like ChatGPT, Claude and Google Bard, they spend months adding guardrails that are supposed to prevent their systems from generating hate speech, disinformation and other toxic material. Now there is a way to easily poke holes in those safety systems.… Continue Reading
Optimistic Overconfidence: A Study of Law Student Academic Predictions
Barder, Sam and Robbennolt, Jennifer K. Optimistic Overconfidence: A Study of Law Student Academic Predictions, U. Ill. L. Rev. Online 106, Jul 23, 2023. “Every fall, new law students arrive on campuses to begin their legal studies. They are by turns nervous and excited knowing they will spend the next three years studying and debating… Continue Reading
The Wrath of Goodreads
The Atlantic (read free link): Authors are at the mercy of people who don’t bother reading their work. “…The terrible power of Goodreads is an open secret in the publishing industry. The review site, which Amazon bought in 2013, can shape the conversation around a book or an author, both positively and negatively. Today’s ostensible… Continue Reading
Sen. Warren Probes Google’s Quest for Soldiers’ Medical Data
ProPublica: “Reflecting rising concerns that Big Tech’s infatuation with artificial intelligence threatens privacy and economic competition, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has begun investigating Google’s efforts to swoop up medical information derived from biopsy specimens of millions of military service members. Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat and the chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, wrote… Continue Reading
‘A certain danger lurks there’: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
The Guardian: “In 1966, an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created the first chatbot. He cast it in the role of a psychotherapist. A user would type a message on an electric typewriter connected to a mainframe. After a moment, the “psychotherapist” would reply. User: Men are all alike. Chatbot: IN WHAT WAY User: They’re… Continue Reading
The excellent Arc browser is now available for anyone to download
The Verge: “Arc, the Mac and iOS browser from The Browser Company, is finally ditching its waitlist. The company has been testing the app for more than two years and has, until now, made every interested user sign up for a waitlist. But now, it’s launching for real. Arc’s version number just jumped to 1.0,… Continue Reading
ChatGPT is not a search engine
Fortune: “Here’s why you should think of it as a ‘glider’ to get better results, says engineer with Harvard PhD in neuroscience. ChatGPT has exploded in popularity, and people are using it to write articles and essays, generate marketing copy and computer code, or simply as a learning or research tool. However, most people don’t… Continue Reading
AI, algorithmic, and automation incidents and controversies
“The AIAAIC Repository details 1,000+ incidents and controversies driven by or relating to AI, algorithms, and automation. Entries on this page are listed by the year added to the repository. The repository can be searched by using the search bar accessible at the top right of every page of this website. The AIAAIC Repository is… Continue Reading
Absolutist AI
Absolutist AI – Mitchell Barrington, arXiv:2307.10315 [cs.AI]: “This paper argues that training AI systems with absolute constraints — which forbid certain acts irrespective of the amount of value they might produce — may make considerable progress on many AI safety problems in principle. First, it provides a guardrail for avoiding the very worst outcomes of… Continue Reading
