UsefulAINewsBackup18Jul23

Last update: Tuesday 7/18/23
We have come to the end of the initial razzle-dazzle phase of the Large Language Model (LLM) hype cycle. Therefore this weekly news page only covers initiatives that address the flaws in current LLM technology and efforts to correct these flaws. All other new product announcements will be ignored.


Note:  This news page will be updated every day, but announcements of top stories will be posted on the blog's @neoskeptics Twitter and Threads accounts on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

A. OpenAI | B. OtherLLMs | C. Policy | D. OtherNews | E. OpEds | F. Uses | G. EdUses | H. Hacks | I. Basics

Top stories ... 
  • "The Writers’ Revolt Against A.I. Companies", NY Times ... The Daily (podcast with transcript), 7/18/23 *** 

  • "The EU Urges the US to Join the Fight to Regulate AI", Paresh Dave, Wired, 7/16/23 *** 

  • "How judges, not politicians, could dictate America’s AI rules", Melissa Heikkilä, MIT Tech Review, 7/15/23 *** 

  • "MIT study: ChatGPT increases productivity for human workers", Cecily Mauran, Mashable, 7/15/23 *** 

  • "Can A.I. Invent?", Steve Lohr, NY Times, 7/15/23 *** 

  • "OpenAI’s ChatGPT Bot Probed by FTC Over Consumer Harms", Anna Edgerton, and Leah Nylen, Bloomberg, 7/13/23 *** 
    -- This story also covered by NY Times, Washington Post

  • "Meet the $4 Billion AI Superstars That Google Lost", Parmy Olson, Bloomberg, 7/13/23 *** 

Editor's note: From time to time older articles in each of the following sections whose content has been overcome by events will be deleted, but enough will remain so that readers can get a quick sense of where we are and how we got here by skimming the headlines of the remaining articles in chronological order. No section will ever include more than 12 stories.

A. OpenAI -- ChatGPT
     ... GPT-4 System Card = OpenAI's own assessment of GPT-4
  • Click HERE for links to initial announcements from Open AI

B. Other major producers of Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Click HERE for links to initial announcements from Big Tech
  • Open Source Large Language Models (LLMs) -- GPT4ALL, Open Assistant, StableLM, Alpaca, etc
    -- "These 5 New Open-Sourced Language Models That Are Worth Try", Yeyu Huang, Medium, 4/25/23 
    -- ''The open-source AI boom is built on Big Tech’s handouts. How long will it last?", Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Tech Review,  5/12/23 
    -- "Meta and Google news adds fuel to the open-source AI fire", Sharon Goldman, VentureBeat, 5/18/23 
    -- "In Battle Over A.I., Meta Decides to Give Away Its Crown Jewels", Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, NY Times, 5/18/23      

C. Public Policy Considerations 
  • "In Sudden Alarm, Tech Doyens Call for a Pause on ChatGPT", Will Knight and Paresh Daveand, Wired, 3/29/23   
    -- "Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter" ... from Elon Musk and others, Future of Life, 3/29/23
    -- This story also covered by The Verge,     Gizmodo, TechCrunch

  • "Ethicists fire back at ‘AI Pause’ letter they say ‘ignores the actual harms’", Devin Coldewey, TachCrunch, 3/31/23 
    -- "Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter", Timnit Gebru (DAIR), Emily M. Bender (University of Washington), Angelina McMillan-Major (University of Washington), Margaret Mitchell (Hugging Face), DAIR, 3/31/23

  • "OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic to give UK early access to foundational models for AI safety research", Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch, 6/12/23 
    -- This story also covered by Politico, ZDNet, Engadget, 

  • "Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating A.I.", Adam Satariano, NY Times, 6/14/23 
    -- This story also covered by TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Reuters, Washington Post ... European Union (EU)

  • "From ChatGPT to executive orders: Inside the White House’s urgent push to regulate AI", Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 6/20/23 
    -- This story also covered by Engadget, LA Times, Reuters,

  • "OpenAI lobbied the EU to avoid harsher AI regulations", Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 6/20/23 
    -- This story also covered by Mashable, Time,
      
  • "Why everyone is mad about New York’s AI hiring law", Tate Ryan-Mosley, MIT Tech Review, 7/10/23 
  • "OpenAI’s ChatGPT Bot Probed by FTC Over Consumer Harms", Anna Edgerton, and Leah Nylen, Bloomberg, 7/13/23 
    -- This story also covered by NY Times, Washington Post

  • "Can A.I. Invent?", Steve Lohr, NY Times, 7/15/23 *** 
  • "The EU Urges the US to Join the Fight to Regulate AI", Paresh Dave, Wired, 7/16/23 *** 
  • "The Writers’ Revolt Against A.I. Companies", NY Times ... The Daily (podcast with transcript), 7/18/23 *** 
D. Other news and rumors 
  • "OpenAI’s Altman and other AI giants back warning of advanced AI as ‘extinction’ risk", Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch, 5/30 
    -- This story also covered by the NY Times, Engadget, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Wired, Gizmodo, Ars Technica

  • "The tech industry was deflating. Then came ChatGPT.", Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 6/5/23 
  • "Adobe is so confident its Firefly generative AI won’t breach copyright that it’ll cover your legal bills", Chris Stokel-Walker, Fast Company, 6/8/23 
    -- This story also covered by TechCrunch, The Verge, VentureBeat, 

  • "Zuckerberg says Meta building generative AI into all its products, recommits to ‘open science’", Sharon Goldman, VentureBeat, 6/8/23 
    -- This story also covered by The Verge, Engadget, 
     
  • "A New Class Action Lawsuit Adds to OpenAI's Growing Legal Troubles", Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo, 6/30/23 
  • "Uncensored Chatbots Provoke a Fracas Over Free Speech", Stuart A. Thompson, NY Times, 7/1/23 
  • "Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI",  Thomas Germain, Gizmodo, 7/3/23 

  • "ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution", Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 7/7/23 
  • "In the Age of A.I., Tech’s Little Guys Need Big Friends", Cade Metz, NY Times, 7/8/23 
  • "Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta for being 'industrial-strength plagiarists'", Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 7/10/23 
  • "MIT study: ChatGPT increases productivity for human workers", Cecily Mauran, Mashable, 7/15/23 *** 

E. Opinions ... and long reads
  • "Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’",  Kevin Roose, NY Times, 2/17/23
  • "The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About", Ezra Klein, NY Times, 2/26/23
  • "A.I. is about to get much weirder: Here's what to watch for", Guest = Kelsey Piper (VOX), The Ezra Klein Show (podcast with transcript), 3/21/23
  • "Why A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the Economy", Guest = Ezra Klein. Klein answers listeners' questions about ChatGPT, The Ezra Klein Show (podcast with transcript), 4/7/23

  • "‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead", Cade Metz, NY Times, 5/1/23 
    -- This story also covered by The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, Wired, Ars Technica, Mashable, MIT Tech Review, VentureBeat, MIT EmTech interview video 

  • "Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind", Ezra Klein, NY Times, 5/28/23   
  • "Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism", Kevin Roose, NY Times, 7/11/23 

  • Two interviews with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind
    --  "    Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis", Nilay Patel, The Verge, 7/10/23 ... audio and transcript of interview 
    -- "A.I. Could Solve Some of Humanity's Hardest Problems. It Already Has.". Guest = Demis Hassabis, The Ezra Klein Show (podcast with transcript), 7/11/23 

  • "Meet the $4 Billion AI Superstars That Google Lost", Parmy Olson, Bloomberg, 7/13/23 *** 
  • "How judges, not politicians, could dictate America’s AI rules", Melissa Heikkilä, MIT Tech Review, 7/15/23 *** 

F. Use/abuse cases for large language models (LLMs)
  • "A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers, Again", Steve Lohr, NY Times, 4/10/23 
    -- An earlier discussion can be found on  Wired
  • "The ChatGPT Cheat Sheet" for producing better prompts, u/fozrok, 4/16/23 
  • "Auto-GPT, BabyAGI, and AgentGPT: How to use AI agents", Cecily Mauran, Mashable, 4/19/23 
  • "A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading", Oliver Whang, NY Times, 5/1/23 

  • "Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT", Benjamin Weiser, NY Times, 5/26/23 
    --     "Lawyers fined $5K for using ChatGPT to file lawsuit filled with fake cases",  Matt Binder, Mashable,  6/23/23 
     -- This story also covered by Gizmodo
  • "How to use Chat GPT to write code", Julian Horsey, Geeky Gadgets, 6/2/23 

  • "Google DeepMind’s game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster", Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Tech Review, 6/7/23
  • "A Wellness Chatbot Is Offline After Its ‘Harmful’ Focus on Weight Loss", Lauren McCarthy, NY Times, 6/9/23 
  • "GitHub Survey Finds 92% of Programmers Are Using AI Tools", Kevin Hurler, Gizmodo, 6/13/23 
    --- This story also covered by  Github 
  • "GitHub CEO: AI and software development are now inextricably linked", Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch, 6/27/23 

  • "Humans may be more likely to believe disinformation generated by AI", Rhiannon Williams, MIT Tech Review, 6/28/23 
  • "AI-text detection tools are really easy to fool", Rhiannon Williams, MIT Tech Review, 7/23/23 *** 

G. Education Uses in hybrid/online courses
Note: The editor of this blog has extensive experience with online and hybrid courses; hence he has a special interest in applications of LLMs to education
  • "ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it", Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Tech Review, 4/6/23 
  • "Educators Team Up to Respond to Sudden Rise of ChatGPT", Jeffrey R. Young, EdSurge, 5/11/23

  • "Making AI Generative for Higher Education", Danielle Miriam Cooper, Dylan Ruediger, ITHAKA S+R, 5/24/23 
    -- Note: The University of Chicago Library recently joined this partnership 6/5/23 

  • "Building the New Model for Teaching and Learning", Ray Schroeder, UPCEA, 6/1/23 ... "OpenAI, assisted by Khan Academy, is building a new model for teaching and learning, to be called OpenAI Academy."

  • "New A.I. Chatbot Tutors Could Upend Student Learning", Natasha Singer, NY Times, 6/8/23 
    --  "Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy — and of Khan Lab School, a separate nonprofit organization — said he hoped the chatbot would democratize student access to individualized tutoring."

  • "Harvard professor taps A.I. to help teach world’s most popular online computer class", Sarintha Rai, Fortune, 6/3/23 
  • "Not Just Math Quizzes: Khan Academy’s Tutoring Bot Offers Playful Features", Natasha Singer, NY Times, 6/10/23
  • "Georgia Tech Is Trying to Keep a ChatGPT-Powered Teaching Assistant From ‘Hallucinating’", Jeffrey R. Young, EdSurge, 6/23/23 
  • "Merlyn Mind launches education-focused LLMs for classroom integration of generative AI", Victor Dey, VentureBeat, 6/26/23 

  • "3 Questions for Coursera About Generative AI in Education", Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Education, 6/26/23 
  • "Microsoft is already offering a generative AI certification program" via LinkedIn, Will Shanklin|, Endgadget, 6/28/23  
    --- This story also covered by ZDNet

  • Some pros and cons about generating code with LLMs
    -- "The huge power and potential danger of AI-generated code", Will Knight, Ars Technica, 6/30/23 
    -- "AI is not a panacea for software development", Brett Stevens, Geoff Stevens, TechCrunch, 6/30/23 
H.  LLM Hacks ... prompt-injections, jailbreaks
  • "The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started", Matt Burgess, Wired, 4/12/23 
  • "Prompt injection: What’s the worst that can happen?", Simon Wilson, Weblog, 4/14/23
  • "Prompt Injection Attack on GPT-4", William Zhang, Robust Intelligence, 4/31/23
  • "The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing", Matt Burgess, Wired, 5/25/23 
    -- Prompt-injection hack for plugins covered by Mashable

  • "ChatGPT creates mutating malware that evades detection by EDR", Shweta Sharma, CSO, 6/6/23 
I. Basics
  • "Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Nothing but Shakespeare or Harry Potter or Jane Austen or Star Trek or Moby Dick", Aatish Bhatia, NY Times, 4/27/23 
  • "What Is a Large Language Model, the Tech Behind ChatGPT?", Kurt Muehmel, Data Iku, 6/7/23 
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