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Emilia David

Emilia David

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    AI worms can spread through generative AI-powered emails.

    Wired reports researchers from Cornell University, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, and Intuit created a worm that steals data and breaks security measures of ChatGPT and Gemini.

    Called Morris II, the researchers unleashed it on an AI-powered email client. The worm created a self-replicating prompt that essentially overwhelmed the client causing it to continually forward messages. It can then instruct the AI models powering it to retrieve data.

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    Emilia David
    Google Cloud links up with Stack Overflow for more coding suggestions on Gemini.

    The partnership also lets developers on Gemini for Google Cloud (not to be mistaken for Gemini the chatbot) access Stack Overflow directly. The new features will be available in the first half of 2024.

    Stack Overflow, which laid off 28 percent of its staff last year amid the boom in AI coding, will be able to use Google’s AI services to help “accelerate content approval process and further optimize forum engagement experiences.”

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    Emilia David
    Meta is planning a July release for a “looser” Llama 3.

    The Information writes Meta developers want the next version of Llama to answer controversial prompts like “how to win a war,” something Llama 2 currently refuses to even touch.

    Google’s Gemini recently got into hot water for generating diverse but historically inaccurate images, so this news from Meta is surprising. Google, like Meta, tries to train their AI models not to respond to potentially dangerous questions. That’s an important guardrail to make sure an AI that still occasionally hallucinates doesn’t tell someone how to win a war and make a bomb.

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    Emilia David
    Intel plans to be inside 100 million AI PCs by next year.

    Intel vice president David Feng said during Mobile World Congress that as part of the push to put AI into everything it builds, it will produce 40 million CPUs for AI PCs this year and 60 million in 2025, reports Nikkei Asia.

    The “AI PC” concept includes Microsoft’s new CoPilot button plus Intel Core Ultra processors with built-in GPUs and neural processing units for AI models, which are now available as part of its vPro platform for business laptops.

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    Emilia David
    Superhuman now drafts a reply to every email sent to users.

    The email client debuted Instant Reply, a new AI feature that learns from previous messages the tone and voice of the user. It generates “full emails,” which Superhuman says is different from other email clients that offer short phrases like “Got it, thanks.” Superhuman partnered with OpenAI to build Instant Reply.

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    Emilia David
    Leading edge chipmakers requested $70 billion in CHIPS Act grants.

    With over 600 statements of interest received, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo acknowledged today that the amount requested is more than twice the $28 billion the government has budgeted to invest.

    We have decided to prioritize projects that will be operational by 2030. There are worthy proposals with plans to come online after 2030 that we say no to in order to maximize our impact in this decade...We anticipate that our investments in leading-edge logic chip manufacturing will put us on track to produce roughly 20% of the world’s leading-edge logic chips by 2030, up from the zero percent we produce today.

    The CHIPS Act originally had $52 billion in subsidies to boost US semiconductor manufacturing, but it’s not nearly enough to catch up by itself — industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) earmarked $44 billion in 2022 just to expand its existing capacity.

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    Emilia David
    What are people using AI for at work?

    Mostly to summarize content, get writing help and automate their workflows, according to a new Slack survey that polled 10,000 people working desk jobs. However, 43 percent of all respondents said they never received any guidance from their companies on how to use AI products at work.

    Not surprisingly, the survey found that there’s more takeup of AI tools in organizations that give employees guidelines to use the technology.

    screenshot of Slack survey showing 43 percent of desk workers polled received no guidance on using AI tools
    Close to half of 10,000 desk workers surveyed by Slack said they received no guidance on AI use
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