🔥 AI's geopolitical chess match
Ethical quandaries, and evolving tech
🐾 IN TODAY'S WILD
The AI landscape is now a complex blend of geopolitics, ethics, and rapid technological shifts. A NewsGuard audit found that Chinese AI models failed 60% of the time in detecting pro-China claims, highlighting concerns about disinformation. In response, the U.S. launched its AI Action Plan, aiming for "unchallenged global technological dominance."
Meanwhile, UK residents now face age verification selfies for online porn, a new privacy challenge. OpenAI's leaked plans to potentially replace the internet with ChatGPT by 2026 reveal bold ambitions, while the energy demands of AI are driving the development of new chip designs.
Tech advancements include tools for detecting "silent errors" in AI training and "WhoFi" research, which turns routers into biometric scanners, raising privacy concerns. The role of generative AI in the era of misinformation also remains a key research area.
🦾 AI daily pulse
Chinese AI models register a 60 percent fail rate in NewsGuard audit of pro-China claims
In both English and Mandarin, the five leading Chinese AI models readily repeated pro-Beijing false claims about Taiwan’s elections, and U.S.-Taiwan relations, including asserting that “Taiwan is a part of China,” and there is “no such thing as a ‘Taiwanese President’.” [LINK]The U.S. launches AI Action Plan
“Today, a new frontier of scientific discovery lies before us, defined by transformative technologies such as artificial intelligence… Breakthroughs in these fields have the potential to reshape the global balance of power, spark entirely new industries, and revolutionize the way we live and work. As our global competitors race to exploit these technologies, it is a national security imperative for the United States to maintain its unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance. To secure our future, we must harness the full power of American innovation.” Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States. [LINK]People in the UK now have to take an age verification selfie to watch porn online
As of Friday, anyone trying to watch porn online in the UK will need to subject themselves to an awkward selfie or get their photo ID ready.
The UK government announced it will start checking compliance with its Online Safety Act, which requires any website that publishes or displays pornographic content to implement a system for "highly effective age checks." [LINK]
⚡️ Top trends
[LEAKED] OpenAI plans to replace the existing internet with ChatGPT by 2026 [LINK]
The new chips designed to solve AI’s energy problem
“I can’t wrap my head around it,” says Andrew Wee, who has been a Silicon Valley data-center and hardware guy for 30 years. [LINK]
💻 Top techies
Improving AI models: Automated tool detects silent errors in deep learning training. [LINK]
WhoFi surfaced last on the public repository ArXiv, stunning security teams with a proof-of-concept that turns ordinary 2.4 GHz routers into covert biometric scanners. [LINK]
🔮 What else
[Research] Exploring generative AI in the misinformation Era: Impacts as a misinformation source and fact-checker on belief in the information [LINK]
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