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Last update: Thursday 10/5/23

This weekly news page only reports initiatives that address the flaws in current LLM technologies and efforts to correct these flaws. All other new product announcements will be ignored ... Exceptions ==> Major AI innovations in Big Tech products and services will also be noted.




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

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

Top 6 stories in past 7 days ...
  1. OpenAI
    "ChatGPT Vision lets you submit images in your prompts: 7 wild ways people are using it", Cecily Mauran, Mashable, 10/3/23 *** 

  2. Hacks
    "Researchers Tested AI Watermarks—and Broke All of Them", Kate Knibbs, Wired, 10/3/23 *** 

  3. OpEds
    "Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.", Adam Seth Litwin, NY Times, 9/29/23 *** 

  4. OtherNews
    "A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an A.I. Device", Tripp Mickle and Cade Metz, NY Times, 9/28/23 *** 

  5. EdUses
    "Is Your University Building a Custom AI Platform?", Claire Baytas and Danielle Miriam Cooper, ITHAKA-SR, 9/28/23 *** 

  6. Policy
    "‘Our life’s work’: Chorus of creative workers demands AI regulation at FTC roundtable", Sharon Goldman, VentureBeat, 10/5/23 *** 

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

B. Other major producers of Large Language Models (LLMs)

1. Click HERE for links to initial announcements from Big Tech ... up until May 2023

2. Significant Big Tech Innovations
  • "Google DeepMind has launched a watermarking tool ["SynthID"] for AI-generated images", Melissa Heikkilä, MIT TechReview, 8/29/23 
    -- This story also covered by Google DeepMind, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, Mashable, Washington Post, 

  • "Google to Require ‘Prominent’ Disclosures for AI-Generated Election Ads", Davey Alba, Bloomberg, 9/6/23
    --     This story also covered by Washington Post, Politico, Axios, BBC, 

  • "DeepMind’s New AI Can Predict Genetic Diseases", Amit Katwala, Wired, 9/18/23 
    -- This story also covered by Wall Street Journal, BBC News, Financial Times, Washington Post, 

  • "Amazon Takes a Big Stake in the A.I. Start-Up Anthropic", Adam Satariano and Cade Metz, NY Times, 9/25/23 
    -- This story also covered by Engadget, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, BBC News, Bloomberg, Reuters, 
    -- Description of Anthropic in Wikipedia ==> HERE

  • Three major AI announcements at  "Meta Connect 2023"
    -- "Meta debuts AI Studio to let developers build custom chatbots", Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch. 9/27/23 
    -- "The Meta AI Chatbot Is Mark Zuckerberg's Answer to ChatGPT", Khari Johnson, Wired, 9/27/23 
    -- "Meta's new AI chatbots let you ask celebrities your most burning questions", Sabrina Ortiz, ZDNet, 9/27/23
3. Open Source Large Language Models (LLMs) -- GPT4ALL, Open Assistant, StableLM, Alpaca, etc
  • ''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 

  • "In Battle Over A.I., Meta Decides to Give Away Its Crown Jewels", Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, NY Times, 5/18/23  

  • "AI startup Anthropic gets $100M to build custom LLM for telecom industry", Shubham Sharma, VentureBeat, 8/14/23 .. Note: This is a focused LLM; it does not know "everything" 
    -- This story also covered by TechCrunch

4. Other developments
  • "Consulting giant McKinsey unveils its own [focused] generative AI tool for employees: Lilli", Carl Franzen, VentureBeat, 8/16/23 
    -- This story also covered by ZDNet

  • "Getty is going to offer AI-generated images after all", Devindra Hardawar, Engadget, 9/25/23 
    -- This story also covered by Bloomberg, Gizmodo, The Verge, 

  • "Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages", Amrita Khalid,, The Verge, 9/26/23
    -- This story alsocovered by Ars Technica, CNBC 

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 lobbied the EU to avoid harsher AI regulations", Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 6/20/23 
    -- This story also covered by Mashable, Time,
      
  • "AI Giants Pledge to Allow External Probes of Their Algorithms, Under a New White House Pact", Khari Johnson, Wired, 7/21/23 
    -- This story also covered by VentureBeat,     Wall Street Journal, 

  • "The White House's 'AI Cyber Challenge' aims to crowdsource national security solutions", Andrew Tarantola, Engadget, 8/9/23 ... a DARPA Chalenge  
    -- This story also coveed by TechCrunch, Axios, 

  • "US judge: Art created solely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted", Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 8/21/23 
    -- This story also covered by ZDNet, Politico, Engadget, NY Times, Reuters, 

  • "ChatGPT-maker OpenAI accused of string of data protection breaches in GDPR complaint filed by privacy researcher", Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch, 8/30/23 
  • "Prosecutors in every state push to combat AI child exploitation", Amanda Silberling, TechCrunch, 9/5/23 
    -- This story also covered by The Verge, 

  • "In Show of Force, Silicon Valley Titans Pledge ‘Getting This Right’ With A.I.", Cecilia Kang, NY Times, 9/13/23 
    -- This story also covered by Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Bloomberg, Wired, 

  • "UK’s competition watchdog drafts principles for ‘responsible’ generative AI", Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch, 9/18/23
  • "Six Months Ago Elon Musk Called for a Pause on AI. Instead Development Sped Up", Will Knight, Wired, 9/28/23 
  • "‘Our life’s work’: Chorus of creative workers demands AI regulation at FTC roundtable", Sharon Goldman, VentureBeat, 10/5/23 *** 
D. Other news 
  • "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, 

  • "In the Age of A.I., Tech’s Little Guys Need Big Friends", Cade Metz, NY Times, 7/8/23 
  • "Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth", Jon Gertner, NY Times, 7/19/23 

  • "Stanford study challenges assumptions about language models: Larger context doesn’t mean better understanding", Matt Marshall, VentureBeat, 7/21/23 
  • "More than 70% of companies are experimenting with generative AI, but few are willing to commit more spending", Carl Franzen, VentureBeat, 7/25/23 
  • "Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over", Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 8/17/23 
    --     This story also covered by Gizmodo

  • "Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’",  Rebecca Tan and Regine Cabato, Washington Press, 8/28/23 
  • "The Technology Facebook and Google Didn’t Dare Release", Kashmir Hill, NY Times, 9/9/23 
  • "Michael Chabon, Other Literary Giants Sue OpenAI Over Alleged Copyright Infringement", Cyrus Farivar, Forbes, 9/11/23 
    -- This story also covered by The Verge, 

  • "Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is building an expensive new AI GPU cluster for medical research", Justine Calma, The Verge, 9/19/23 
    -- This story also covered by Engadget, 

  • "How much energy does AI use compared to humans? Surprising study ignites controversy", Bryson Masse, VentureBeat, 9/22/23 
  • "A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an A.I. Device", Tripp Mickle and Cade Metz, NY Times, 9/28/23 *** 

E. Opinions, rumors, and long reads
  • "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 

  • "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI", Dylan Patel and Afzal Ahmad, The Verge, 5/4/23
    -- This internal leaked Google memo received commentary in The Verge, Tech Crunch, MIT Tech Review, 

  • "Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind", Ezra Klein, NY Times, 5/28/23   
  • 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 
  • "There’s no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky ", Nilay Patel, The Verge, 8/8/23 
    --The editor of this blog apologizes to his readers for his failure to call their attention to this important podcast when it was first published by The Verge back in August 2023

  • "What’s the future of generative AI? An early view in 15 charts", McKinsey & Company, 8/25/23 
  • "The Battle Over Books3 Could Change AI Forever", Kate Knobs, Wired, 9/4/23 

  • "Potential Supreme Court clash looms over copyright issues in generative AI training data", Sharon Goldman, VentureBeat, 9/6/23 
  • "How to Tell if Your A.I. Is Conscious", Oliver Whang, NY Times, 9/18/23 
    --- The opinions presented by the NY Times received vigorous dispute from VentureBeat

  • "Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, and Quest 3", Alex Heath and Nilay Patel, The Verge, 9/27/23 ... Podcast audio and transcript of interview  
  • "Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.", Adam Seth Litwin, NY Times, 9/29/23 *** 

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 
  • "GitHub Survey Finds 92% of Programmers Are Using AI Tools", Kevin Hurler, Gizmodo, 6/13/23 
    --- This story also covered by  Github 

  • "AI-text detection tools are really easy to fool", Rhiannon Williams, MIT Tech Review, 7/23/23 
  • "A.I.’s Inroads in Publishing Touch Off Fear, and Creativity", Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter, NY Times, 8/2/23 
  • "My two favorite ChatGPT Plus plugins and the remarkable things I can do with them", David Gewirtz, ZDNet, 9/20/23 
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. Note that the addition of an LLM-based "tutor" or "study buddy" will convert a face-to-face course into a hybrid (face-to-face plus online) course.
  • "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."

  • "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 

  • "Instructors Rush to Do ‘Assignment Makeovers’ to Respond to ChatGPT", Jeffrey R. Young , EdSurge, 7/27/23
  • "Textbook Giant [Pearson] Brings an AI Study Buddy to Its Service for Back-to-School Season", Kyle Barr, Gizmodo, 8/1/23 
  • "Coursera’s CEO Wants its Chatbot to Become Your Personal Tutor", Irina Anghel, Bloomberg, 8/2/23 
  • "Chegg is getting a generative AI makeover just in time for back-to-school season", Sabrina Ortiz, ZDNet, 8/8/23  ... CheggMate 

  • "Despite Cheating Fears, Schools Repeal ChatGPT Bans", Natasha Singer, NY Times, 8/24/23 
  • "Generative AI Goes Back to School ... Where Things Stand in Fall 2023", Dylan Ruediger, Claire Baytas, and Danielle Miriam Cooper, ITHAKA-SR, 9/21/23 *** 
  • "Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It", Olina Banerji, EdSurge, 9/25/23
  • "Is Your University Building a Custom AI Platform?", Claire Baytas and Danielle Miriam Cooper, ITHAKA-SR, 9/28/23 
H.  LLM security hacks ... prompt-injections, jailbreaks
  • "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

  • "Computer scientists claim to have discovered ‘unlimited’ ways to jailbreak ChatGPT", Clint Rainey,  FastCompany, 7/27/23 
    -- This story also covered by NY Times,  Mashable, Yahoo Finance, Wired, ZDNet, 
    -- Note: The research reported in these articles was conducted by Carnegie Mellon University
    -- An earlier study with similar findings was reported by Wired

  • "Hackers Trick AI With ‘Bad Math’ to Expose Flaws and Biases", Katrina Manson, Bloomberg, 8/12/23 
    -- This story also covered by the NY Times

  • "Researchers Tested AI Watermarks—and Broke All of Them", Kate Knibbs, Wired, 10/3/23 *** 
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 
  • "Machine unlearning: The critical art of teaching AI to forget", Matthew Duffin, VentureBeat, 8/12/23 
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