UsefulAINewsBackup22Jun23

Last update: Thursday 6/22/23
This weekly news guide tracks recent artificial intelligence (AI) tools that will be useful to our readers. We seem to have come to the end of the initial razzle-dazzle phase of the Large Language Model (LLM) hype cycle. Big Tech admits that current LLMs might make serious errors; might violate copyrights; might infringe on individual privacy; might emit pronouncements that were biased against racial, gender, and other group; might be tricked into violating "good behavior" guidelines; and might emit weird hallucinations. Big Tech further concedes that the current evolution of their LLMs might eventually produce LLMs that pose existential threats to the human race. 

Nevertheless Big Tech (and Big Tech Wannabes) continue to deluge the media with full throated announcements about LLM-based upgrades of products and services that will make everyone more productive ... provided their users double, triple, and quadruple check the output of their upgrades ... :-(
    Therefore the editor of this blog has changed its focus. From now on its Useful AI news guide will only cover announcements 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 account on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

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

    Top stories ... 
    • "Chuck Schumer calls on Congress to pick up the pace on AI regulation", Makena Kelly, , The Verge, 6/21/23 *** 
      -- This story also covered by Politico, Washington Post, 

    • "OpenAI lobbied the EU to avoid harsher AI regulations", Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 6/20/23 *** 
      -- This story also covered by       Mashable, Time,

    • "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,

    • "Harvard professor taps A.I. to help teach world’s most popular online computer class", Sarintha Rai, Fortune, 6/3/23 *** 

    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

    • "Google and the European Commission will collaborate on AI ground rules", Will Shanklin, Engadget, 5/24/23  

    • "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

    • "China isn’t waiting to set down rules on generative AI", Zeyi Yang, MIT Tech Review, 5/31/23
    • "EU Demands Facebook, TikTok, and Google Start Labeling AI Content to Fight Deepfakes", Kyle Barr, Gizmodo, 6/6/23  
    • "UK’s AI safety summit gets thumbs up from tech giants", Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch, 6/8/23 
      -- This story also covered by Ars Technica, Reuters,       Politico,

    • "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,

    • "Chuck Schumer calls on Congress to pick up the pace on AI regulation", Makena Kelly, , The Verge, 6/21/23 *** 
      -- This story also covered by Politico, Washington Post, 
    D. Other news and rumors 
    • "A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading", Oliver Whang, NY Times, 5/1/23 
    • "Welcome to the trillion-dollar club, Nvidia", Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch, 5/30/23 
      -- Note:  the trillion dollar valuation is based on surge in demand for graphics processing unit (GPU) chips used in AI systems
      -- This story also covered by Gizmodo, CNBC

    • "The tech industry was deflating. Then came ChatGPT.", Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 6/5/23 
    • "Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products", Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 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, 

    • "Microsoft to move top AI experts from China to new lab in Canada", Eleanor Olcott, Qianer Liu and Ryan McMorrow, Financial Times, 6/9/23 
    • "Sir Paul McCartney says artificial intelligence has enabled a 'final' Beatles song", Mark Savage, BBC, 6/13/23 
      -- This story also covered by Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, Ars Technica, 

    • "Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AI", Steven Levy, Wired, 6/13/23 
    • "Meta open sources an AI-powered music generator", Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch, 6/12/23 
      -- This story also covered by Gizmodo, Engadget, 
    • "Meta releases I-JEPA, a machine learning model that learns high-level abstractions from images", Ben Dickson, VentureBeat, 6/15/23 
    • "Google Tells Employees to Stay Away from Its Own Bard Chatbot", Kevin Hurler, Gizmodo, 6/15/23 
      -- This story also covered by Reuters, Mashable, 

    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

    • "Are the Benefits of GitHub Copilot Worth the Potential Drawbacks?", Brian Walker, MUO, 4/10/23
    • "‘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  
    • "Big Tech Is Bad. Big A.I. Will Be Worse.",  Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, NY Times, 6/9/23  

    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 

    • "Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT", Benjamin Weiser, NY Times, 5/26/23 
    • "Get the Best From ChatGPT With These Golden Prompts",  Brian X. Chen, NY Times, 5/25/23 
    • "It’s the End of Computer Programming as We Know It. (And I Feel Fine.)", Farhad Manjoo, NY Times, 6/2/23 
    • "How to use Chat GPT to write code", Julian Horsey, Geeky Gadgets, 6/2/23 

    • "How to Use A.I. to Edit and Generate Stunning Photos", Brian X. Chen, NY Times, 6/3/23 
    • "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 ... :-)
    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 

    • "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 *** 
    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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