AI #34: Chipping Away at Chip Exports
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It did not get the bulk of the attention, but the actual biggest story this week was that America tightened the rules on its chip exports, closing the loophole Nvidia was using to create the A800 a…

Again not much progress on the capabilities front. My head welcomes all the incremental advances in creating consensus on safety and locking down uncontrolled frontier models. My heart yearns for new preprints.

  • RA2lover@burggit.moeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This past week, there has been quite a lot of misinformation and enflamed rhetoric, with much confusion about what did and did not happen and who is or is not to blame. Those with different agendas pushed different narratives, while others sought to figure out the truth. We hopefully paid attention to how all our information and media sources reacted to that test, including prediction markets and their participants, and hopefully will update accordingly.
    What played essentially no role in any of it, as far as I can tell, was AI. Good old fashioned lying and misinformation are still state of the art when the stakes are high. Will that change? I am sure that eventually it will. For now, the song remains the same.

    https://observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20231018-was-this-photo-of-a-dead-israeli-baby-ai-generated-when-ai-detection-errors-muddle-public-debate

    • FeepingCreature@burggit.moeOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Sure, but those systems are known to be useless. Far as I can tell, Zvi’s comment holds up. Falsely believing that an image was AI generated should not count as “AI involvement”, imo.