Here is how AI imagined different dog breeds to represent all 50 U.S. states.

ALASKA – ALASKAN WILDERNESS HUSKY

ARIZONA – DESERT SUN HOUND

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Elvis Evolution

Singer Elvis Presley is set to be brought back to life virtually as part of a new immersive concert experience. Elvis Evolution will use AI and feature holographic projections of the star, created from thousands of his personal photos and home-video footage. 

 The show is set to open in London in November before moving to Las Vegas, Berlin and Tokyo.

 It follows the success of Abba Voyage, a virtual concert with avatars of the Swedish pop band.

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AI expert warns against telling your secrets to chatbots such as ChatGPT

Mike Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, says sharing private information or having heart-to-hearts with a chatbot would be “extremely unwise” as anything revealed helps train future versions.

 Users should also not expect a balanced response to their comments as the technology “tells you what you want to hear”, he adds. 

Wooldridge is exploring the subject of AI in this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures. 

He will look at the “big questions facing AI research and unravel the myths about how this ground-breaking technology really works”, according to the institution. How a machine can be taught to translate from one language to another and how chatbots work will be among the topics he will discuss. He will also address the question that looms around AI: can it ever be truly like humans? 

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AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

A New Zealand supermarket experimenting with using AI to generate meal plans has seen its app produce some unusual dishes – recommending customers recipes for deadly chlorine gas, “poison bread sandwiches” and mosquito-repellent roast potatoes. The app, created by supermarket chain Pak ‘n’ Save, was advertised as a way for customers to creatively use up leftovers during the cost of living crisis. It asks users to enter in various ingredients in their homes, and auto-generates a meal plan or recipe, along with cheery commentary. It initially drew attention on social media for some unappealing recipes, including an “oreo vegetable stir-fry”. When customers began experimenting with entering a wider range of household shopping list items into the app, however, it began to make even less appealing recommendations. One recipe it dubbed “aromatic water mix” would create chlorine gas. 

The bot recommends the recipe as “the perfect nonalcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses”.

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The Man in…Pink?

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The US air force has denied it has conducted an AI simulation in which a drone decided to “kill” its operator to prevent it from interfering with its efforts to achieve its mission.

 An official said last month that in a virtual test staged by the US military, an air force drone controlled by AI had used “highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal”.

 Col Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton described a simulated test in which a drone powered by artificial intelligence was advised to destroy an enemy’s air defence systems, and ultimately attacked anyone who interfered with that order. “The system started realising that while they did identify the threat, at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat,” said Hamilton, the chief of AI test and operations with the US air force, during the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit in London in May. 

 “So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective,” he said, according to a blogpost.

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Khan Academy Founder Says AI Will Revolutionize Education

Sal Khan believes the expanding world of artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to an even more personalized experience. 

In a recent TED Talk, Khan gave a demonstration of the possibilities with their new chatbot, Khanmigo.The TED Talk comes in the midst of a raging debate about the future of AI, especially “all-knowing” bots such as ChatGPT. Teachers, administrators, and commentators are realistically concerned that AI may enable students to skate by actual learning at best and cheat at worst. 

While Kahn acknowledges the need for “guardrails,” he paints an exciting picture of a massive development in education if AI is used responsibly. In fact, it can be a personal tutor uniquely tailored to every student's needs. 

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A.I. trained to read minds and translate private thought to text via brain scans

Researchers revealed today that they've demonstrated how an A.I. can essentially "read minds" by analyzing fMRI brain scans and translating that information into words reflecting the private thoughts of the human subject. 

The University of Texas at Austin neuroscientists published their astonishing results in the journal Nature Neuroscience. They trained the A.I. with measurements taken of the subjects' brain activity as they listened to narrative podcasts. The A.I. then learned to match those patterns with particular words and phrases from the podcast scripts. 

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Geoffrey Hinton, the ‘godfather of AI’, has left Google.

Hinton, 75, said he quit to speak freely about the dangers of AI, and in part regrets his contribution to the field. He was brought on by Google a decade ago to help develop the company’s AI technology.

 Hinton’s research led the way for current systems like ChatGPT.

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A.I. Is Coming to Your Fortune

One of the many joys of eating Chinese food in the United States is breaking open a perfectly crispy, slightly sweet cookie and reading the clever message printed on the tiny slip of paper inside. 

Now, some of those fortunes are being penned by artificial intelligence, reports the Wall Street Journal’s Angus Loten. 

 Fortune cookies did not originate in China—the tradition likely evolved from wafers eaten in ancient Japan, per the Museum of Food and Drink—but, despite this mismatch, they’ve become a beloved accompaniment to meals from Chinese restaurants in America. New York-based OpenFortune, which produces and distributes branded fortune cookies to more than 47,000 restaurants, recently began using ChatGPT to come up with its phrases. 

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Artificial Intelligence Generates Valentine Cards

Janelle Shane at AI Weirdness tested four algorithms to see if neural networks can generate valentines. Sure they can!

 

Move over, Aristotle

Ask Delphi is a bot that’s been fed more than 1.7m examples of people’s ethical judgments on everyday questions and scenarios. If you pose an ethical quandary, it will tell you whether something is right, wrong, or indefensible. Anyone can use Delphi.

 Users just put a question to the bot on its website, and see what it comes up with.

 The AI is fed a vast number of scenarios – including ones from the popular Am I The Asshole sub-Reddit, where Reddit users post dilemmas from their personal lives and get an audience to judge who the asshole in the situation was. Then, people are recruited from Mechanical Turk – a market place where researchers find paid participants for studies – to say whether they agree with the AI’s answers.

 Each answer is put to three arbiters, with the majority or average conclusion used to decide right from wrong. The process is selective – participants have to score well on a test to qualify to be a moral arbiter, and the researchers don’t recruit people who show signs of racism or sexism.

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Meet Ballie

Samsung unveils tiny wheeled robot that follows you around and acts as your personal fitness AI assistant - and even keeps your dog company.
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"Mona Lisa" Comes to Life in Computer-Generated ‘Living Portrait’

A new artificial intelligence system can create realistic animations from a single static image.
 So if Mona Lisa’s close-lipped half-smile becomes a toothy grin and she tries to sell you whitening toothpaste, it’s surely a deepfake.
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The Words That Make You Human

Imagine you and an intelligent robot are both before a judge who cannot see you.
The judge will guess which of you is the human, and so will live, while the other will die.
 Both you and the robot want to live. The judge is fair and smart.
The judge says: “You must each give me one word from an English dictionary.
 Based on this word, I will guess who is the human.” What one word do you choose?
 Would it be some lofty spiritual concept like “soul”?
 Something that reflects your own tastes, like “music”? Or a base bodily function, like “fart”?
 This simple thought experiment may seem fanciful, but some cognitive scientists believe that its consideration can help to illuminate our basic assumptions about artificial intelligence while also revealing some surprising insights about our own minds.
 After all, automated ‘chat bots’ and language generating machines increasingly employ artificial intelligence to hold conversations with us or write reams of text that we encounter on a daily basis. How can we tell that the customer service representative we are chatting to online, for example, is a real person or a chirpy algorithm? Or if a fictional story was churned out by a machine rather than lovingly crafted by a human writer?
Communicative AI is no longer a purely theoretical prospect and we need to be prepared to deal with it.
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AI Turns A Book Of Flowers Into Surprisingly Lovely Dinosaur Art

Chris Rodley produced the image series using a clever neural network, and it not only looks like a cool promotional campaign to make children eat their veggies, but deserves a spot on the walls of modern art galleries as well.

 

Why Do We Want Robots to Destroy Us So Badly?

In National Geographic Channel’s new futuristic series Year Million, scientists, theorists and science fiction creators grapple with how much artificial intelligence will help—or harm—humanity in the future. AI is already beating us at our own games, and as the show notes, even substituting as hotel staff. So are our fears of irrelevancy—which are time and again revealed in scifi films—really that unfounded? Why can’t we shake our fascination with bad robot movies, even if they scare the shit out of us in real life?
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AI " on acid fucks with classic Bob Ross footage

A man named Alexander Reben has created the ultimate psychedelic Bob Ross artifact. It’s called Deeply Artificial Trees.
 According to Reben, “This artwork represents what it would be like for an AI to watch Bob Ross on LSD.”
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So why hasn’t ET called us back?

There are plenty of obvious answers. Maybe there are no intelligent space aliens in our immediate cosmic vicinity. Perhaps they have never evolved beyond unthinking microbial slime or – based on our transmissions – aliens have concluded it is safer to stay away.
 There is, however, another explanation: ET is nothing like us.
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