A new tool allows artists to add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it is scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. The tool, called Nightshade, is intended to fight against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL
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Aindrea Campbell knows more than most about high-tech production. In her previous role, she was senior director of iPad operations at Apple, helping to run the sophisticated assembly lines in China that produce tens of millions of tablet computers each year. As chief operating officer of Agility Robotics, Campbell will oversee the production of pioneering products in the US. In September, the company announced that its 70,000 sq ft RoboFab, the “world’s first factory” for building humanlike r
Since the introduction of ChatGPT, the media and security experts have warned that phishing tactic are now more powerful, compelling and increasing in numbers. IBM’s X-Force Red wanted an objective assessment on this subjective assumption. The method chosen was to test an AI-generated phishing email and a human generated email against employees working for a healthcare firm. Sixteen hundred staff members were selected: 800 received the AI phish, while the other 800 received the human phish.[1]
Recently a user on the social media platform X devised and successfully executed a plan that caused Bing Chat to solve a CAPTCHA filter. CAPTCHA filters are visual puzzles that are easily solved by humans but difficult for automated programs. This is to prevent applications like bots from filling out forms on the Internet. Bing Chat is a public large-language model (LLM), similar to ChatGPT but hosted by Microsoft, which Denis Shiryaev, CEO of neural.love https://neural.love was feeding a CA
Do oil and gas tankers have a use for artificial intelligence (AI)? That is the question Rigzone posed to maritime risk intelligence company Dryad Global, who in turn outlined a range of ways these tankers can utilize the technology. Data mining was one use case Dryad highlighted in its response. “Throughout a tanker’s journey, they create and receive a continuous stream of data,” a company spokesperson told Rigzone. “People are limited in their abilities to process and sort it. AI mines rea
Every month, I feel as if ChatGPT is bringing us closer to the life we watched on The Jetsons. The Jetsons is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It aired on ABC in prime time from September 23, 1962, to March 17, 1963. Don’t get me started on smart lawnmowers and vacuum cleaners.
ChatGPT can perform many technical tasks, such as writing, coding, and researching. Much hype surrounding the chatbot has been on its ability to revolutionize the workspace. However
Malicious ADs served inside Microsoft Bing's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot are being used to distribute malware when searching for popular tools. The findings come from researchers, who revealed that unsuspecting users can be tricked into visiting booby-trapped sites and installing malware directly from Bing Chat conversations.
Introduced by Microsoft in February 2023, Bing Chat is an interactive search experience that's powered by OpenAI's large language model called GPT-4. A month lat
The US Democratic-backed AI Accountability Act of 2023 gives the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) new authority and a new office to regulate how AI algorithms make critical decisions on housing, healthcare. Democrats in the House and Senate are teaming up on legislation to give the federal government new authority to regulate artificial intelligence in “high-impact” use scenarios.
See: https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/regulation-v-innovation
The Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2023, int
Emerging technology in the maritime arena is being used for tracking emissions, avoiding collisions and route planning, but lawyers are circling the technology, a recent seminar reported. The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) faces major stumbling blocks in shipping, where more than 80% of large vessels barely have enough communications capacity to send an email, a seminar heard on 19 September.
The use of problem-solving AI has the potential to cut costs in the coming decades, bu
As a child, reading comic books (not buying them) at our neighborhood Rexall drug store, I dreamed of becoming a comic book artist, but I lacked one important skill: the ability to draw pictures other than stick figures. Now, 60 years later AI can fulfill my dreams of having my comic books and characters. Available as a space through Hugging Factory, the AI Comic Factory will design comic book pages for you based on your descriptions.
Describe your scenario, choose a style, and then select a l
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a warning this week about the growing danger of “prompt injection” attacks against applications built using AI. While the warning is meant for cybersecurity professionals building large language models (LLMs) and other AI tools, prompt injection is worth understanding if you use any kind of AI tool, as attacks using it are likely to be a major category of security vulnerabilities going forward.
Prompt injection is a kind of attack against LL
No, the current US presidential administration has not created a game show, but it has launched a competition offering millions of dollars in prize money for creating new artificial intelligence systems that can defend critical software from hackers. Competitors vying for some of the $18.5 million in prize money will need to design novel AI systems that quickly find and fix software vulnerabilities in electric grids, subways or other key networks that could be exploited by hackers, a Biden admi
The White House is bringing in AI’s top seven companies to make voluntary promises (really, we can trust them) to protect users. The companies Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI have all agreed to a series of asks from the White House to address many of the risks posed by artificial intelligence.vvThe promises consist of investments in cybersecurity, discrimination research, and a new watermarking system informing users when content is AI-generated. What else wi
A trio of influential artificial intelligence leaders testified at a congressional hearing on 25 July 2023, warning that the frantic pace of AI development could lead to serious harms within the next few years, such as rogue states or terrorists using the tech to create bioweapons.
See: https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/ai-and-its-hazards
Yoshua Bengio, an AI professor at the University of Montreal who is known as one of the fathers of modern AI science, said the United States should push fo
In 2019, a video surfaced of then - US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that appeared to show her in an impaired condition. The video was a deepfake featuring footage modified to make the Speaker seem intoxicated or unwell. Yet despite its inauthenticity, the video went viral and received millions of views on social media. Today, many users remain unable to tell the difference between deepfakes and legitimate media.
What Are Deepfakes? Deepfakes are synthetic videos, images, or audio record
Buying a house these days is almost insurmountable. Who can afford to pay cash for a decent house, or even the minimum downpayment? That’s where lenders come in. Banks and finance companies have been doing this for years. But now there is an elephant in the room, called AI. The top US bank regulator is warning that lenders need to ensure that artificial intelligence tools don't perpetuate biases and discrimination in credit decisions.[1]
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Ba
A hacker has created his own version of ChatGPT, but with a malicious bent: Meet WormGPT, a chatbot designed to assist cybercriminals. WormGPT’s developer is selling access to the program in a popular hacking forum, according to email security provider SlashNext, which tried the chatbot. “We see that malicious actors are now creating their own custom modules similar to ChatGPT, but easier to use for nefarious purposes,” the company said in a blog post.
WormGPT (Credit: Hacking forum)
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Ever since generative AI exploded into public consciousness with the launch of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, calls to regulate the technology to stop it from causing undue harm have risen to a fever pitch worldwide. The stakes are high; technology leaders signed an open public letter saying that if government officials get it wrong, the consequence could be the extinction of the human race.
See: https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/the-future-is-here
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ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) falling under the broad definition of generative AI. The sophisticated chatbot was developed by OpenAI using the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model to understand and replicate natural language patterns with human-like accuracy. The latest version, GPT-4, exhibits human-level performance on professional and academic benchmarks. Without question, generative AI will create opportunities across all industries, particularly those that depend on l
The cost of cybercrime is expected to hit $8 trillion in 2023 and grow to $10.5 trillion by 2025. In a world where sophisticated hackers find creative new ways to pounce, companies constantly try to stay ahead and not become the latest cyberattack headline. Skilled cybersecurity professionals are in demand, investments in cybersecurity technologies are at all-time highs, and state and national regulations abound. The US government issued a new cybersecurity strategy memo in early March, calli
