Generative AI is being used to replicate more “personable” sounding phishing scams (and @Mastercard is seeing them), says Alissa Abdullah, the company’s deputy chief security officer.
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Careful Approach to Sharing ArXiv Research Work
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it should be approached carefully, the bar for sharing/publishing about it should be high, and since many people have no idea what the arxiv is or what it’s for I think it should be made crystal clear where the work is coming from (as it always should be), and why that matters.
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Rise in AI Research Papers Lacks Rigorous Peer Review Vetting
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I mention this bc there appears to be a huge uptick in people writing RE AI research papers (in media and on Twitter), and it’s clear that this work is not all rigorously vetted. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, nor that peer-reviewed work is always great. But!
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ArXiv papers lack peer review, caution advised for journalists
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It’s Saturday, which means it’s time for a reminder that papers published to the arxiv are *not* peer reviewed and should be approached with caution (if not skepticism), particularly if you’re a journalist (or anyone interested in sharing research with a large audience).
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Standardized Tests and Broad Knowledge: What Are the Real Implications?
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i guess i'm not quite sure what the implications are… if i had an incredible amount of information about a huge array of topics, i'd probably do a great job on all kinds of standardized tests, too. what are the implications as you see them?
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AI World: Historical Perspective on Recent Developments
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it's an AI, AI world. read this essay — it's chock full of historical perspective and excellent details RE the last several months of crazy– by @BradStone
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AI Development Outpaces Regulatory Efforts: A Timeline of Speed Mismatch
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speed of AI vs AI-related laws:
2019: OpenAI says GPT-2 is so good it won't release it publicly (it released a smol version). 2021: EU lawmakers propose AI Act
2022: OpenAI releases ChatGPT
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Weirdest Generative AI Applications: What Have You Encountered?
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What’s the weirdest application for generative AI you’ve seen thus far? (I ask knowing “weird” means different things to just about everybody.)
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Midjourney Launches Print Magazine Featuring User-Generated AI Art
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i kind of love that @midjourney offers a dead-tree magazine filled with user art. something about the intersection of generative AI and print really gets me. https://
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Killer Roombas Training Data and Pet Safety Concerns
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It would no doubt require a lot of images of people taken from the ground up so the killer roombas can properly spot them. (I like to assume the roombas would go after the people but leave the pets.)