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A happy mid-week to you all! Super stoked to bring you this mid-week issue, totally stacked with some cautionary and potentially worrying news.
Without further ado, let’s dive in.
In today’s newsletter:
Top News: AI godfather says its dangerous, Samsung wary against GPT, and tens of thousands of jobs at IBM
The Rundown: Amazon conservation, Chegg down 46%, and doctors prefer ChatGPT
Tips, Tricks & Tools: AI-writing detection, e-commerce personalization, and AI supermodels backlash
Silly AI: Share the ridiculousness of AI
Like a hot potato: Until the next bull run
Top News 🔝
Three biggest stories if you’re in a rush
Geoffrey Hinton, an AI and software engineer dubbed “The Godfather of AI”, left his part-time role as an AI development specialist at Google last week. Hinton says he left so he could;
“Talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly…however, I believe that the rapid progress of AI will transform society in ways we do not fully understand, and not all of the effects will be good.”
Hinton made foundational breakthroughs in AI and committed his life to enhancing the technology. Needless to say, it’s worrying that he now would instead raise awareness about the potential damage AI will cause, rather than continue developing it.
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After internal, sensitive data was leaked by Samsung employees to ChatGPT last month, the tech giant is issuing a temporary block of any generative AI tools on any device owned by the company or which runs on internal servers. The company plans to have the block in place while it develops “security measures to create a secure environment for safely using generative AI to enhance employees’ productivity and efficiency.” This is because it is difficult to retrieve and delete any data on external servers, and that information shared with generative AI tools can be disclosed to other users.
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IBM plans to suspend or slow hiring for back-office functions like human resources, which will affect approximately 26,000 non-customer-facing roles at the company. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna also revealed plans to pause hiring for another 7,800 positions, which AI could do:
“I could easily see 30% of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period,” Krisha said in a Bloomberg interview.
The godfather of AI is worried about its negative effects, and some of the largest companies in the world are already slowing hiring…strange times a-comin’.
The Rundown 🐂
Deeper dive into trending stories
White House summons Google and Microsoft CEOs to discuss key AI issues. (link)
Italy to drop the ban on ChatGPT after meeting regulatory requirements. (link)
Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype, financially backed Anthropic and DeepMind, but says, “the technology has advanced so quickly that no company can control it.” (link)
Yuval Noah Harari: “AI has hacked human civilisation’s operating system.” (link)
AI’s threat to Hollywood, and why you should care. (link)
Amazon rainforest conservationists say AI could maybe, just maybe, help save the ecosystem. (link)
Chegg drops more than 40% after saying, “ChatGPT is killing our business.” (link)
Backlash against AI supermodels triggers wider dears in the fashion workforce. (link)
Economists warn that AI will make our society even more unequal. (link)
Healthcare professionals prefer ChatGPT’s answers to patients’ questions over real doctors. (link)
Succession, the hit TV series, could be written by a chatbot in future seasons. (link)
Doctors are using AI to answer patient questions. (link)
Marta Tellado argues we need a consumer-first approach to AI. (link)
3D engineering to be entirely revolutionised by AI, helping designers and engineers shape the world around us. (link)
Aston Kutcher, who has invested over $240 million in AI firms, says, “your company will probably be out of business if your sleeping on AI.” (link)
The biggest warnings about AI from the people who design it. (link)
“This is what hell looks like.” AI-generated beer and pizza commercials go viral. (link)
Tips, Tricks & Tools ⚒️
Discounts, trials and productivity-boosting hacks
Barilliance - An AI-enhanced e-commerce personalization solution that boosts sales by offering tailored product recommendations and promotions based on customer behavior. (link)
Fireflies AI - AI notetaker to transcribe, summarize and analyze your voice conversations. (link)
Originality AI - Detect when writing is generated by AI. (link)
Textio - Create optimized job listings. Eliminate gender bias and create fair job listings. Used by Twitter, Microsoft, Square and Starbucks. (link)
Legal Robot - Decypher complex legal contracts and understand exactly what you’re signing. (link)
AI Gone Wrong
Let us not forget just how ridiculous some AI content can get
AI Plug reader @zeng_wt, an AI art & nocode enthusiast, shares how AI can mess up creativity and logic in her hilarious collection of images generated by artificial intelligence.
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