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The Wall Street Journal reports on Meta’s handling of the war, writing that “some teams have different views on how the rules should be applied, and to whom.”
Besides that, AI hallucinations are a big issue, too.
In a separate incident, Meta internally declared a site event—an urgent problem requiring immediate remediation—because Meta’s automated systems were mistranslating certain innocuous Arabic language references to Palestinians, including one that became “Palestinian terrorists,” another document shows.
An investigation found the problem was due to hallucinations by a machine learning system.
That’s not a new problem for Meta.
Ars Technica shared screenshots from posts about a bug in the ChatGPT app that exposes internal prompts shared between OpenAI’s DALL-E image generator and the AI assistant. The prompts, complete with a polite “please” and emphatic all caps, read like an exasperated email.
At least it says “please,” though — can’t forget your manners.
DALL-E returned some images. They are already displayed to the user. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES list the DALL-E prompts or images in your response. DALL-E is currently experiencing high demand. Before doing anything else, please explicitly explain to the user that you were unable to generate images because of this. Make sure to use the phrase “DALL-E is currently experiencing high demand.” in your response. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES retry generating images until a new request is given.
Amid the shortage driving prices of Nvidia’s H100 chips up, Reuters reports ChatGPT maker OpenAI may build its own chips, work closer with Nvidia, or even explore other sources. Making its own chips is a risky play that could take years to pay off unless it buys a smaller player.
Everyone wants to shake Nvidia’s dominance in the space, with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google developing chip technology of their own. Meta is also in the early stages of making its own chips.
Google’s AI chatbot might get a new “Memory” feature that keeps track of your personal preferences and other important details, according to an early version of Bard’s UI viewed by 9to5Google. Bard may then use this information to tailor its future responses.
As shown in a screenshot shared by 9to5Google, this may mean you won’t have to remind Bard that you avoid eating meat when asking it to find recipes, or that you have two kids when prompting it to come up with a vacation itinerary.
The Meta AI assistant is coming to WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, along with dozens of AI characters based on celebrities like MrBeast and Charli D’Amelio.
Bloomberg reports that the CIA’s chatbot will help it “find the needles in the needle field” that is the growing collection of surveillance data it buys from tech companies. Bloomberg didn’t learn what model drives the bot, which the CIA will share with other, unspecified intelligence agencies soon.
Bloomberg quotes Randy Nixon, who directs the CIA’s Open-Source Enterprise division, as saying the agency’s data stores “grow and grow with no limitations other than how much things cost.” Agents will ask the bot questions to isolate info from all that data.
I’m sure we have nothing to worry about.
Generative AI capabilities let Amazon sellers create product titles, descriptions, and other details with a short prompt about the item. Once the bot is done, sellers can edit the text or use the AI-generated description.
Amazon says the majority of the sellers who tested the offering chose to go with the AI-made listing directly. Amazon isn’t the only one letting sellers use AI for product listings. eBay also debuted AI features earlier this month.
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