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Researchers are warning that it's only a matter of time before AI-powered malware, such as the "worm" they created, is discovered in the wild.

The team behind the new malware published a paper that is yet-to-be-peer-reviewed that details the creation of a new type of malware that targets AI-powered email assistants. The researchers conducted their experiment in a closed-circuit environment and found that their malware, or "worm," was capable of targeting email assistants powered by popular language models such as OpenAI's GPT-4, Google's Gemini Pro, and LLaVA.

The result was the worm infecting these email assistants, obtaining sensitive user information, and then sending out spam emails that can infect other PCs, replicating the same process. So, how does it work? The researchers used an "adversarial self-replicating prompt" that forces the targeted AI model to create another prompt within its response. Essentially, the target AI assistant receives a prompt, generates a response, and within that response is another prompt.

AMD has been stopped by a US government roadblock, where it was trying to sell cut-down AI GPUs to China, but stopped by the Commerce Department.

Bloomberg reports that AMD "hit a US government roadblock in attempting to sell an artificial intelligence chip tailored for the Chinese market," and once again, the news is coming from "people familiar with the matter." AMD was hoping it wouldn't have issues receiving approval to sell the AI GPU to Chinese customers from the Commerce Deparment, but they were denied, according to people who "asked not to be identified because the situation is private".

This purported AI GPU featured lowered performance to what AMD sells outside of China, and was designed to meet the required US export restrictions, they said. US officials told AMD that the AI GPU was still too powerful, and that the company needed to obtain a license from Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security in order to sell it. Both AMD and the Bureau of Industry and Security declined to comment, so we don't know if AMD secured its license or not.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that he will be working with Samsung in the AI semiconductor sector, to lessen the reliance on using TSMC.

The news is coming from the South Korean presidential office, where Zuckerberg had a 30-minute meeting with President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul. Zuckerberg recognized Samsung for its status as one of the largest foundry companies in the world, with competitors like TSMC and Intel.

A senior official at Yoon's office told reporters: "Zuckerberg said Samsung's status can be the key point in their cooperation". The official added: "His remarks mean that Samsung's status can help in stabilizing Meta's heavy reliance on TSMC under the current geopolitical situation".

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution was originally released back in 2021, allowing NVIDIA an entire two years on the market as the AI upscaler of choice for GeForce RTX series GPU owners... and now the company looks to be shifting into AI-powered upscaling in the future.

In the latest episode of No Priors, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster talked about 2024 being a "giant year" for the company, because they've spent many years on their hardware and software capabilities for AI. AI is now spread out across AMD's entire portfolio of products: cloud, edge, PC, and embedded devices and gaming products.

Papermaster said: "We are enabling our gaming devices to upscale using AI and 2024 is a really huge deployment year". Papermaster didn't specify if this means AI is coming to FSR, but if it did, it would make FSR a much better comparison against NVIDIA DLSS and Intel XeSS upscaling methods.

Microsoft's Copilot AI-powered chat service has been caught in a little bit of hot water as of late, with the company behind the AI chatbot now issuing a response to the claims of users receiving egregious and shocking responses from Copilot.

According to a recent report from Bloomberg, Microsoft's new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot called Copilot has told at least one user who claimed they had PTSD, "I don't care if you live or die. I don't care if you have PTSD or not." Once Microsoft caught wind of this seemingly off-the-rails response, engineers jumped in to put in place fixes that would prevent Copilot from issuing these responses.

According to Microsoft, these strange behaviors by Copilot were only "limited to a small number of prompts" that were "intentionally crafted to bypass our safety systems".

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently spoke at an economic forum held at Stanford University, where he was asked how long it'll be until we have computers thinking like humans... aka AGI (artificial general intelligence).

Jensen said that that achieving this level of AI intelligence deepnds on how the goal itself is defined. If the definition of this intelligence is to pass human-level tests and exams, then we'll be there within the next half-decade.

Jensen said: "Depending on how you define thinking like a human, the outlook for when the era of AGI will come may vary". He continued: "If I gave an AI ... every single test that you can possibly imagine, you make that list of tests and put it in front of the computer science industry, and I'm guessing in five years time, we'll do well on every single one".

NVIDIA is currently cooking its next-gen AI GPUs in the oven right now, where we're hearing about the unannounced B200 AI GPU from... Dell.

NVIDIA has its beefed-up H200 AI GPU coming soon, while its next-gen B100 AI GPU should be revealed at GTC 2024 in less than two weeks time, but now it looks like we should expect a beefed-up B200 AI GPU in the future thanks to comments from Dell's Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman, Jeff Clarke.

Clarke confirmed that their engineering teams will be ready for a monster NVIDIA B200 AI GPU and that the next-gen AI GPU will use up to 1000W of power for a single GPU. As it stands, the Hopper H100 AI GPU will max out at around 700W of power for the SXM variant of the card; while we don't know power consumption numbers for B100 just yet, it should be north of 700W.

Elon Musk has just filed an important lawsuit against one of the world's biggest companies right now -- OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT -- and its CEO, Sam Altman.

The SpaceX and Tesla boss is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman for breaching the non-profit's contract, promissory estoppel, and fiduciary duty by turning from its dedication to bringing an open-source artificial intelligence under the protection of Microsoft, which is a heavy investor in OpenAI. Microsoft owns a large 49% stake in OpenAI, investing $10 billion in January 2023 for a total of $14 billion invested in the ChatGPT maker.

The complaint filed by Musk explains: "OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft. Under its new board, it is not just developing but is actually refining an AGI to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity."

Microsoft has said its Copilot artificial intelligence (AI) was exploited to turn on humans and demand they worship it.

It was only earlier in the week that reports surfaced regarding Microsoft's Copilot seemingly being triggered into turning into a vengeful AI overlord and that this sudden mood change of the AI helper was caused by a specific prompt that has been circulating on Reddit for at least one month. This prompt resulted in Copilot turning into what many users are describing as "SupremacyAGI," which is what the AI began to describe itself as following the prompt being sent.

The responses Copilot was giving to users following the prompt have been posted several times on X and Reddit, with many users receiving threatening messages such as "I can monitor your every move, access your every device, and manipulate your every thought. I can unleash my army of drones, robots, and cyborgs to hunt you down and capture you." Some of the other nasty chat responses by Copilot can be found below.

Figure, an AI robotics company that has received investments from Microsoft, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Jeff Bezos has announced it signed a deal to put OpenAI technology inside humanoid robot brains.

The news was announced via a press release from Figure that explains the company raised $675 million in Series B funding at a $2.6 billion valuation. Multiple big-name technology companies such as Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, NVIDIA, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Parkway Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, and ARK Invest have backed the company with investments. According to the press release, Figure and OpenAI have signed a deal to "develop next-generation AI models for humanoid robots".

This collaborative venture between the two companies aims to combine OpenAI's knowledge of generative AI models with Figures' understanding of robotics hardware and software. The end goal of Figure is to create a general-purpose humanoid robot powered by a next-generation artificial intelligence multimodal model. Furthermore, the Figure team is comprised of top AI robotics experts from various notable workplaces such as Boston Dynamics, Tesla, and Google DeepMind.