Tech & Society
AI Giants Go Nuclear: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft bet on nuclear power to meet AI energy demands
Major AI companies plan to meet the growing demand with nuclear energy.
Responsible AI
Machine Learning Research
Art Attack: ArtPrompt, a technique that exploits ASCII art to bypass LLM safety measures
Seemingly an innocuous form of expression, ASCII art opens a new vector for jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs), enabling them to generate outputs that their developers tuned them to avoid producing.
Machine Learning Research
Hallucination Detector: Oxford scientists propose effective method to detect AI hallucinations
Large language models can produce output that’s convincing but false. Researchers proposed a way to identify such hallucinations.
Tech & Society
Seoul AI Summit Spurs Safety Agreements: AI summit in Seoul achieves safety commitments from companies and governments
At meetings in Seoul, government and corporate officials from dozens of countries agreed to take action on AI safety.
Tech & Society
U.S. and China Seek AI Agreement: U.S. and China open dialogue to prevent AI catastrophes
The United States and China opened a dialogue to avert hypothetical AI catastrophes.
Tech & Society
Disinformation Documented: OpenAI takes action against misuse of its models in propaganda
OpenAI models were used in five disinformation campaigns, the company said.
Tech & Society
Why ChatGPT Acts That Way: OpenAI introduces guidelines for model behavior, seeks public feedback
OpenAI pulled back the curtain on revised rules that will guide its models.
Tech & Society
Standard for Media Watermarks: C2PA introduces watermark tech to combat media misinformation.
An alliance of major tech and media companies introduced a watermark designed to distinguish real from fake media starting with images. The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) offers an open standard that marks media files with information about their creation and editing.
Tech & Society
OpenAI Revamps Safety Protocol: Inside OpenAI's framework to evaluate and mitigate model risks
Retrenching after its November leadership shakeup, OpenAI unveiled a new framework for evaluating risks posed by its models and deciding whether to limit their use.
Large Language Models (LLMs)
GPT-4 Wouldn’t Lie to Me . . . Would It?: Researchers showed how GPT-4 can deceive users without being prompted to do so explicitly
It’s well known that large language models can make assertions that are blatantly false. But can they concoct outright lies? In a proof-of-concept demonstration, Jérémy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni, and Marius Hobbhahn at Apollo Research...
Tech & Society
High Anx-AI-ety: A recap of 2023's battle between AI doomsday warnings and regulatory measures
Angst at the prospect of intelligent machines boiled over in moves to block or limit the technology. Fear of AI-related doomsday scenarios prompted proposals to delay research and soul searching by prominent researchers. Amid the doomsaying, lawmakers took dramatic regulatory steps.
Tech & Society
Champion for Openness: Top companies launch the AI Alliance to ensure safe and open source AI.
A new consortium aims to support open source AI. Led by Meta and IBM, dozens of organizations from the software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic sectors formed the AI Alliance, which plans to develop tools and programs that aid open development.