🤖 How to avoid the AI apocalypse

4/7/23

Neon Pulse Team
April 07, 2023

Good morning and welcome to the latest issue of neonpulse!

Here are the AI headlines making waves:

🌊 Meta launches new AI model

🌊 OpenAI on avoiding the AI apocalypse

🌊 The end of AI homework

Let’s get into it!

Meta’s new AI

Meta has just released it’s new "Segment Anything” AI model, a tool that utilizes advanced computer vision technology in order to extract objects from images or videos.

And while that by itself doesn’t sound particularly exciting, when you combine this new technology with augmented reality, things start to get interesting.

With the model’s ability to recognize objects in the physical world, this AI can provide you with contextual information based upon what your looking at, opening up all sorts of interesting possibilities.

Imagine walking down the street and getting restaurant reviews simply by gazing at the buildings, or having a virtual chess tutor providing you tips during a match…

The possibilities with this type of tech are limitless.

And while no companies currently offer a great set of augmented reality glasses, there are rumors of Apple launching a pair of AR glasses sometime in 2024.

OpenAI on AI safety

OpenAI has had a rough week.

As if getting banned in Italy wasn’t bad enough, the company has been relentlessly mocked by Elon Musk over their apparent lack of regard for AI safety, leading the team to release a blog post addressing the growing concerns over their powerful new technology.

Here are the highlights:

The company said that its committed to long-term safety research in order to identify potential risks before they become critical issues
OpenAI plans to actively collaborate with other research and policy institutions to foster a global community working together on AI safety
The team will take a precautionary approach to development, prioritizing long-term safety over short-term gains
Finally, the company has stated that they are committed to transparency and sharing research moving forward.

Whether AI will transform the world into a paradise or a post apocalyptic nightmare is hard to say, but it’ll certainly be interesting to see how it all works out.

The end of CheatGPT

In what’s sure to become the most hated AI tool in history, company TurnItIn has announced the release of its new AI plagiarism detector “Originality.”

With the goal of setting “a new standard for academic integrity,” the tool was created in the hopes of combating the rampant use of AI in completing school assignments, a temptation that is far to good to pass up.

And while this sounds like bad news for all of the kiddos crushing their schoolwork with ChatGPT, fortunately tutorials promising to help you slide under the radar of AI detection are only a quick youtube search away.

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