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🤖 Deepfake danger, Google's ChatGPT rival, and Bill Gates on the AI revolution
3/23/22
Neon Pulse Team
March 23, 2023
Good morning and welcome to the latest edition of neonpulse!
Here's what we have for you today:
Bill Gates on “The Age of AI”
The danger of deepfakes
Google releases ChatGPT rival
Bill Gates On A.I.
Bill Gates released his latest blog post this week in which claimed that A.I. will be “as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet.”
Gates said that in his lifetime he’s seen two demonstrations of of technology that struck him as revolutionary. The first was in back in 1980, when Gates was first introduced to a graphical user interface, and the second was when Gates met with the team at OpenAI.
After presenting the team with a challenge to train an A.I. capable of passing an Advanced Placement biology exam, which would require the A.I. to be able to answer questions that it hadn’t been specifically trained for, Gates was expecting this level of progress to take the OpenAI team 2-3 years to acheive, yet was shocked when the team was able to complete the task in a matter of months.
"The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone," he said. "It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other."
On top of making people more productive than ever, Gates believes that the technology will revolutionize a number of industries, from education to healthcare, and will help to democratize opportunity and reduce inequality around the world.
Given the disruptive power of the new technology, Gates suggests that we follow three principles in regards to the introduction of AI into society:
First, we should try to balance fears about the downsides of AI—which are understandable and valid—with its ability to improve people’s lives. To make the most of this remarkable new technology, we’ll need to both guard against the risks and spread the benefits to as many people as possible.
Second, market forces won’t naturally produce AI products and services that help the poorest. The opposite is more likely. With reliable funding and the right policies, governments and philanthropy can ensure that AIs are used to reduce inequity. Just as the world needs its brightest people focused on its biggest problems, we will need to focus the world’s best AIs on its biggest problems.
Finally, we should keep in mind that we’re only at the beginning of what AI can accomplish. Whatever limitations it has today will be gone before we know it.
Bill’s post goes into more detail in regards to how he predicts A.I. will change the world, so if you’re interested in learning more you can check out the full post on Bill’s site here.
The danger of deepfakes
With the recent advancements in AI, the technology to create hyper-realistic deepfakes that are nearly indistinguishable from reality is now easily accessible to the masses.
This new technology presents an opportunity for bad actors to promote misinformation at an unprecedented scale, with one of the most recent examples being a deepfake of US president Joe Biden calling for the return of the military draft in anticipation of World War 3.
In less than 3 weeks the video received over 8 million views, and while the quality of the deepfake itself was not perfect (the voice could be better and the lip syncing could be improved) AI voice and video technology continues to improve each and every day.
Deepfake Morgan Freeman, for example, was created close to 2 years ago when this type of technology was in it’s infancy, yet the progress that has been made with AI in recent months means that it’s only a matter of time before we’re unknowingly exposed to deepfakes that are completely indistinguishable from reality.
Google’s new chatbot
Google has arrived fashionably late to the chatbot party, opening up limited access to its ChatGPT competitor Bard this week.
In a blog post from two Bard team leads, they’re calling the tool “an early experiment intended to help people boost their productivity, accelerate their ideas, and fuel their curiosity.”
Bard promises to help users with the types of activities we’ve become accustomed to relying on AI chatbots for, from helping you to write, to helping to plan a friend’s gender reveal party (can’t believe this is still a thing), and most importantly, helping you come up with lunch ideas based on what’s inside your refrigerator.
One of many disclaimers in Bard
Early testers are commenting that Bard lags behind ChatGPT4 in a head to head comparison, although with how quickly the technology moves, its hard to say who the winner is going to be in the chatbot race.
You can learn more about Bard and sign up for the waitlist on Google’s website here.
A.I. Resources
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Additional reading
What happens when your AI chatbot stops loving you back? Reuters
Davos 2023: What you need to know about jobs and skills - World Econonic Forum
Interviews/Presentations
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on how his big bet on A.I. is finally paying off - CNBC
AI and White-Collar Jobs - World Economic Forum
Tools
And now your moment of zen
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