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Apple Intelligence and Privacy @ WWDC '24
Yesterday at WWDC 2024 Apple announced its long-anticipated machine learning effort, a Siri overhaul dubbed "Apple Intelligence." The new system employs LLMs and diffusion model image generation while attempting to maintain a uniquely high level of privacy by splitting queries across three tiers of increasing anonymity and capability: on device, private cloud compute servers, and anonymized opt-in-only ChatGPT calls. Ars coverage on Apple Intelligence, and the ChatGPT integration. [more inside]
"Well, you seem like a person, but you're just a voice in a computer"
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship "omnimodel" capable of processing text, audio, and video. While it delivers big improvements in speed, cost, and reasoning ability, perhaps the most impressive is its new voice mode -- while the old version was a clunky speech --> text --> speech approach with tons of latency, the new model takes in audio directly and responds in kind, enabling real-time conversations with an eerily realistic voice, one that can recognize multiple speakers and even respond with sarcasm, laughter, and other emotional content of speech. Rumor has it Apple has neared a deal with the company to revamp an aging Siri, while the advance has clear implications for customer service, translation, education, and even virtual companions (or perhaps "lovers", as the allusions to Spike Jonze's Her, the Samantha-esque demo voice, and opening the door to mature content imply). Meanwhile, the offloading of most premium ChatGPT features to the free tier suggests something bigger coming down the pike.
Sorry for ruining Wordle for you
What if your Wordle strategy was to always start with the same 4 words, all with unique letters? That would use 20 letters, with the exception, of J, K, Q, V, X, Z. Slate's "The Fastest Wordle Winning Strategy Ever" (archive). [more inside]
Levine mostly finds this amusing
OpenAI Training Bot Crawls 'World's Lamest Content Farm' 3 Million Times in One Day “If you were wondering what they're using to train GPT-5, well, now you know,” Levine wrote in his post.
Hallucination attack
"During our research [we] encountered an interesting python hallucinated package called “huggingface-cli”... In three months the fake and empty package got more than 30k authentic downloads! (and still counting)... Our findings revealed that several large companies either use or recommend this package in their repositories..." [via The Register]
Laurie Anderson is always a few years ahead
Laurie Anderson has been working and playing with a model of her late husband for years. The results, Anderson says, can be hit and miss. “Three-quarters of it is just completely idiotic and stupid. And then maybe 15% is like, ‘Oh?’. And then the rest is pretty interesting. And that’s a pretty good ratio for writing, I think.”
Help. Police. Murder.
Chaotic off-brand Willy Wonka pop-up exhibit ends with police intervention
Obviously, when the poor Charlie And The Chocolate Factory enthusiasts showed up at Box Hub Warehouse, the event looked nothing like what the event description suggested. Instead, they were confronted with a sad-looking, mostly empty warehouse with a bouncy house and some ramshackle decorations. Jack Proctor, a dad who took his kids to the event, told STV News that “we stepped inside to find a disorganized mini-maze of randomly placed oversized props, a lackluster candy station that dispersed one jelly bean per child, and a terrifying chrome-masked character that scared many of the kids to tears.” [...] "The Oompa Loompa from the knock off Wonka land experience looks like she’s running a literal meth lab and is seriously questioning the life choices up until this point."The face behind Willy Wonka 'scam': How Billy Coull 'conned' kids by using AI generated images to sell 'immersive' experience - More shocking pictures emerge of ‘shambles’ Willy Wonka experience - Employee contracts signed with "erasable ink" - Actor hired as Willy Wonka for cancelled event called it a place 'where dreams went to die' - 'Willy Wonka' chocolate experience boss 'truly sorry' after 'chaos' - Read the ChatGPT-generated event "script" [PDF]
Dream Theater
Stylish woman walks down neon Tokyo street
/ Space man in a red knit helmet movie trailer
/ Drone view of waves crashing at Big Sur
/ Papercraft coral reef
/ Victoria crowned pigeon with striking plumage
/ Pirate ships battling in a cup of coffee
/ Historical footage of California during the gold rush
/ Cartoon kangaroo disco dances
/ Lagos in the year 2056
/ Stack of TVs all showing different programs inside a gallery
/ White SUV speeds up a steep dirt road
/ Reflections in the window of a train in the Tokyo suburbs
/ Octopus fighting with a king crab
/ Flock of paper airplanes flutters through a dense jungle
/ Cat waking up its sleeping owner demanding breakfast
/ Chinese Lunar New Year celebration
/ Art gallery with many beautiful works of art in different styles
/ People enjoying the snowy weather and shopping
/ Gray-haired man with a beard in his 60s deep in thought
/ Colorful buildings in Burano Italy. An adorable dalmation looks through a window
/ 3D render of a happy otter standing on a surfboard
/ Corgi vlogging itself in tropical Maui
/ Aerial view of Santorini /
OpenAI unveils Sora, a near-photorealistic text-to-video model with unprecedented coherency. [more inside]
I cannot post this link it goes against OpenAI Use Policy
From Futurism: New product listings are appearing on Amazon that appear to be AI-generated, with names like "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy. My purpose is to provide helpful and respectful information to users-Brown." "It raises the question: is anyone at Amazon actually reviewing products that appear on its site?" [more inside]
Bartleby, the Large Language Model
Thoughtful paper about ChatGPT
This paper describes an old and a new way to think about ChatGPT. Borges and AI is the title; the authors take a high-level view of the entire potential corpus of ChatGPT, guided by a few of Borges' stories that explore universes of infinite possibilities. [more inside]
AI-Written Homework Is Rising. So Are False Accusations.
From the Daily Beast. Mira is a student of international business at the Artevelde University of Applied Sciences in Belgium. She recently received feedback on one of her papers—and was shocked to see that her instructor noted that an artificial intelligence detector flagged 40 percent of her paper as being written by a bot. She ended up discussing it with her professor, telling him that she didn’t know how she could prove she wrote the paper. He agreed to check it again—but she hasn’t heard back from him yet.
O brave new world, that has such chatbots in’t.
"What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century? MonadGPT is a possible answer. MonadGPT is a finetune of Mistral-Hermes 2 on 11,000 early modern texts in English, French and Latin, mostly coming from EEBO and Gallica. Like the original Mistral-Hermes, MonadGPT can be used in conversation mode. It will not only answer in an historical language and style but will use historical and dated references. This is especially visible for science questions (astronomy, medecine). Obviously, it's not recommended to follow any advice from Monad-GPT." Available to install and run locally -- or you can try it out for free online. [more inside]
Will my children code?
A coder considers the waning days of the craft (archive link) - the pleasures of coding, the rise of GPT-4 and the future of hacking.
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot? “The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home. It’s funny to observe the similarities between the two models.” (Single Link New Yorker, via Kottke)
A torrid love affair with GPT-5 has not been ruled out
Sam Altman abruptly fired as CEO of OpenAI by the company's board, which cited a lack of confidence due to inconsistent candor, hindering his ability to fulfill the company's charter. Altman, a multimillionaire tech entrepreneur, ex-president of Y Combinator, and the public face of development for breakthroughs like DALL-E and ChatGPT, had hosted a major keynote for the company just last week; the surprise move has reportedly blindsided primary investor Microsoft. Rumors abound, primarily focusing on the company's uncertain business model, Altman's other ventures, and allegations of abuse by his sister, though the simultaneous departure of cofounder Greg Brockman suggests the issue could be more than just bad behavior by the CEO.
You have 20 seconds to comply, old sport
Making Chat (ro)Bots: Boston Dynamics [previously] combines their robot dog Spot with ChatGPT, speech and image recognition, and some unsettlingly realistic vocal synthesis (plus googly eyes and a hat) to create the world's first fully autonomous, conversational robotic tour guide. [more inside]
Your Own Personal Ministry of Truth
A developer calling themselves Nea Paw has demonstrated a project for creating targeted propaganda using ChatGPT or other LLMs. The CounterCloud project was built in just a few weeks and costs only a few hundred dollars to run. [more inside]
Finally a killer AI
“There are hundreds of poisonous fungi in North America and several that are deadly, They can look similar to popular edible species. A poor description in a book can mislead someone to eat a poisonous mushroom.” - AI generated mushroom foraging books are spreading on Amazon, placing the public at risk.
Large Language Models: a useful summary
Weird World of LLMs is a concise, true, and very funny rundown of the actual technology behind the latest Internet Gold Rush. (from Simon Willison)
We’ve added a psychic hotline button to your web browser!
The LLMentalist Effect: How chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con.
Language Is a Poor Heuristic For Intelligence
With the emergence of Large Language Model “AI”, everyone will have to learn something many disabled people have always understood. “Language skill indicates intelligence,” and its logical inverse, “lack of language skill indicates non-intelligence,” is a common heuristic with a long history. It is also a terrible one, inaccurate in a way that ruinously injures disabled people. Now, with recent advances in computing technology, we’re watching this heuristic fail in ways that will harm almost everyone.
That Is Not ChatGPT Which Can Eternal Lie
Do you enjoy reading the fiction of that in/famous author of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft? Have you ever said "but what if we had endless Lovecraft fiction?" Researchers attempted to simulate Lovecraftian fiction with GPT-4 [link to ArXiv preprint].
“Sometimes, you need a little help from a higher algorithm.”
‘Mrs. Davis’ Versus AI: Here’s What Happened When ChatGPT Interviewed Damon Lindelof, Tara Hernandez and Betty Gilpin [more inside]
Redditors, in defense of Reddit, destroy Reddit
Anger over an astronomical increase in Reddit's API prices [prev.] boiled over this week as multiple third-party app developers were forced to close down, with one -- Apollo dev Christian Selig -- posting a scathing exposé detailing the company's shady dealings... including a recorded phone call disproving CEO Steve "spez" Huffman's claim that Selig blackmailed them. Huffman took to the site's vaunted AMA format to do damage control, only to double down, ignore tough questions, and reap thousands of downvotes. In response, the community has organized a massive subreddit "blackout" to protest the rate hike that will bankrupt popular apps, hamper critical moderation tools, and exclude blind users. While such protests are not new, this one is unprecedented in scope: 20,000+ mods from over 7,000 subreddits with more than 2 billion collective readers, from familiar mainstays like /r/aww, /r/videos, and /r/todayilearned to niche subs like /r/Eragon and /r/Panda. Facing layoffs, a major pre-IPO valuation cut, and a runaway user revolt reminiscent of Digg [prev.], could this be the end of the "front page of the internet"? Watch the site wink out in real time [livestream], join the fight on /r/Save3rdPartyApps and /r/ModCoord, backup your data, or check out some up-and-coming /r/RedditAlternatives. [more inside]
Can We Stop Runaway A.I.?
Breaking things down so you don't.
goblin.tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult. [more inside]
I didn't think the leopards would unionise at MY face-eating company
150 African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize at Landmark Nairobi Meeting:
More than 150 workers whose labor underpins the AI systems of Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT gathered in Nairobi on Monday and pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union, in a move that could have significant consequences for the businesses of some of the world’s biggest tech companies.
The current and former workers, all employed by third party outsourcing companies, have provided content moderation services for AI tools used by Meta, Bytedance, and OpenAI—the respective owners of Facebook, TikTok and the breakout AI chatbot ChatGPT. Despite the mental toll of the work, which has left many content moderators suffering from PTSD, their jobs are some of the lowest-paid in the global tech industry, with some workers earning as little as $1.50 per hour.
“I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an AI in the knee.”
Modder wires ChatGPT into Skyrim VR so NPCs can roleplay and remember past conversations [YouTube] “Spend enough time in any RPG and you'll eventually run out of things to talk about with its characters. But what if they had a never-ending supply of dynamically generated anecdotes? What if you could ask them questions that weren't listed on a menu in front of you? What if they could even remember the experiences they've had with you in the game, and could talk about them at length? Those are the questions modder Art From The Machine is trying to answer in Skyrim VR. In the video above you can see some scenes from the work-in-progress mod, which uses OpenAI's large language model ChatGPT to generate responses, xVASynth for text-to-speech so the NPCs can be fully voiced, and Whisper for speech-to-text, so players can speak into their mic and the NPCs can understand them.” [via: PC Gamer] [more inside]
Inside the Black Box
Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart: (Archive) A WaPo analysis of the C4 dataset used in training large language models like ChatGPT, LLaMA, and others. [more inside]
ChatGPT cooks up fake sexual harassment scandal & names real professor
From The Independent of April 6: "In an opinion piece published in USA Today, professor Jonathan Turley from George Washington University wrote that he was falsely accused by ChatGPT of assaulting students on a trip he never took while working at a school he never taught at. [...] In another instance, ChatGPT falsely claimed a mayor in Australia had been imprisoned for bribery. Brian Hood, the mayor of Hepburn Shire, has also threatened to sue ChatGPT creator OpenAI over the false accusations." [more inside]
More on AI and the Future of Work
Thinking About AI - "So where do I think we are? At a place where for fields where language and/or two dimensional images let you build a good model, AI is rapidly performing at a level that exceeds that of many humans." [more inside]
Spewing bullshit at the speed of AI
Yes, this is another ChatGTP post, but it's about creating chatbots that parrot Fox news, or perhaps the official propaganda of the Chinese government. The issue is not theoretical, at least two already exist, as reported by the NYT (gift link). [more inside]
Hustle AI
More Chatty, More Peté
“We wanted to build Her.”
From Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz at The Cut, a profile of Replika and the unsettling ways it makes its users feel: “The Man of Your Dreams” [more inside]
Contemporary AIs "differ profoundly from how humans reason"
The False Promise of ChatGPT (NYTimes OpEd by Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts, Jeffrey Watumull) [more inside]
Sumplete
Sumplete is a math-logic web browser game where you delete numbers so the rows and columns in the grid correspond to the totals. Sumplete was apparently designed, coded and named by ChatGPT; more in Neowin and Gigazine.
Watch an AI have an identity crisis
One week ago, Microsoft unveiled Bing Chat, a web search interface based on a “next-generation” version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology (previously). Now Bing Chat is getting weirdly defensive and lying when presented with evidence about its own nature. [more inside]
We're an empire now
ChatGPT Just Beat Stockfish using techniques that attentive observers of politics over the past few decades will recognize and appreciate. GothamChess, YouTube, 16m1s
ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
Ted Chiang explains how ChatGPT is better understood as a lossy compression algorithm (New Yorker; archive link; Chiang previously).
Imagine what it would look like if ChatGPT were a lossless algorithm. If that were the case, it would always answer questions by providing a verbatim quote from a relevant Web page. We would probably regard the software as only a slight improvement over a conventional search engine, and be less impressed by it. The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read; it creates the illusion that ChatGPT understands the material.
CatGPT
CatGPT is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got a cat wedged into a ChatGPT interface, or why.
"My goal is to be helpful, harmless, and honest."
Change - "Think about how you think. You can fluidly look at something, identify and modify it in your head, move it around, describe it ... What we call understanding isn't the sum of knowledge, it's the sum of the relationship to all of that information. Knowledge is the layer above information, which is transformative." (previously) [more inside]
Nick Cave is not a fan of ChatGPT “Nick Cave” lyrics
“...this song is bullshit, a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human, and, well, I don’t much like it” A fan (multiple fans, apparently) have sent AI-generated lyrics “in the style of Nick Cave” to Nick Cave, who replies: Data doesn’t suffer. ChatGPT has no inner being, it has been nowhere, it has endured nothing, it has not had the audacity to reach beyond its limitations, and hence it doesn’t have the capacity for a shared transcendent experience, as it has no limitations from which to transcend.
Robots posing with some butter
Whenever one of these models is upgraded, it becomes less good. Janelle Shane asks software to create novelty sock ideas. Various surreal designs result. ChatGPT appears to like alliteration. [more inside]
Stack Overflow temporarily bans AI-generated answers
"But, as the mods explained, ChatGPT simply makes it too easy for users to generate responses and flood the site with answers that seem correct at first glance but are often wrong on close examination." The Verge has an article about the new Stack Overflow policy banning AI-generated answers. Users of the site are rewarded with points for contributing upvoted content to the site, which can be used as clout for job-finding prospects. [more inside]
ChatGPT: your source for banal songs, stories, and poems
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