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Classic RPG titles such as Skyrim or The Witcher: Wild Hunt are known for being some of the greatest worlds to get lost in, with a large variety of characters to interact and seemingly never-ending adventures to take undertake.

However, gamers reach the end of these games, and with the aforementioned games in particular, they even choose to replay them in a different way for an alternative experience. Unfortunately, there are limitations to these alternative experiences, and one of those is the dialogue players can have with NPCs. Skyrim is one of the most successful games ever made and is known for its iconic dialogue, but what if NPCs were able to have an infinite amount of dialogue and players were able to ask them whatever they wanted?

A very early example of that has been created by modder Art From The Machine, who has taken the underlying language model powering OpenAI's ChatGPT, and combined it with xVASynth for text-to-speech capabilities and Whisper for speech-to-text capabilities. So, what has Art From The Machine achieved? Players are able to speak into their microphones and talk directly to NPCs, who will be able to understand what the player is saying. Whisper converts the player's speech to text which is then fed into ChatGPT's language model that generates a response. That text response is then played through xVASynth, and the NPCs are able to respond appropriately.

75-year-old Dr. Geoffrey Hinton spent more than a decade at Google developing the foundational technology to artificial intelligence, and now "the Godfather of AI" has left the company to sound alarm bells on its potential dangers.

In a new article published in The New York Times, it's explained that Hinton worked at Google for more than 10 years, developing the foundational technology used to create the AI systems we are seeing today. Hinton is renowned as a pioneer of artificial intelligence and gained high respect within his field, but he decided to leave his long career at Google to discuss the dangers of AI and how a part of him regrets the role he played in its AI's initial creation.

In an interview with the NYT, Hinton said, "I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn't done it, somebody else would have." Adding, "It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things." Hinton left Google to discuss the potential dangers of AI without any impact from Google and not to criticize the company itself. In fact, Hinton said that Google has acted "very responsibly" with his departure.

Early last month, Samsung staff accidentally leaked an internal source to OpenAI's ChatGPT, sounding alarm bells within the company and outside of it.

There were at least three instances of Samsung employees sharing confidential information with OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT. The first was a staff member leaking the source code of a confidential database into ChatGPT, which was followed by a request for the AI to check for any errors. Another instance was code optimization being shared with ChatGPT, and the last was a request for ChatGPT to convert an internal Samsung video of a meeting into minutes.

Now, Bloomberg News has read a new memo issued to staff notifying them of a new policy change. According to the memo, Samsung is terribly concerned about the rise of AI-powered tools and how it may affect intellectual property. In an effort to reduce any leaks of confidential data that may or may not impact the company, a widespread ban has been placed on any AI-generative tools on employee-issued devices. Samsung staff are now prohibited from having any AI-generative tools or applications on company-owned computers, tablets, phones, and on any of Samsung's internal networks.

Scientists announced on Monday that they created a way for an artificial intelligence system to transcribe what people are thinking by feeding it scans of the individual's brain activity.

The new system was developed by researchers at The University of Texas in Austin, and according to the study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the goal behind this new technology is to provide assistance to people that are mentally conscious but are unable to physically speak, such as people that have suffered from strokes. The study was led by Jerry Tang, a doctoral student in computer science, and Alex Huth, an assistant professor of neuroscience and computer science at UT Austin.

The researchers explain that the AI model was trained on people that participated in several sessions of magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). These long hours of brain activity recording were then fed into GPT-1, a predecessor language model that was later developed into GPT-4, the language model powering the popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT. Scientists then trained the model to predict how each person's brain would respond to hearing speech, such as a short story. These stories were listened to by participants while they were in the fMRI sessions.

NVIDIA has unveiled a new piece of software, NeMo Guardrails, that will ensure chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) - such as ChatGPT (the engine of Microsoft's Bing AI) - stay on track in various ways.

The biggest problem the software sets out to resolve is what's known as 'hallucinations,' occasions when the chatbot goes awry and makes an inaccurate or even absurd statement.

These are the kind of incidents that were reported in the early usage of Bing AI and Google's Bard. They're often embarrassing episodes, frankly, which erode trust in the chatbot for obvious reasons.

OpenAI's ChatGPT has pioneered AI-powered chatbots such as Microsoft's Bing Chat or Google's Bard. But how much does it cost developers of these chatbots to keep them up and running?

A new report posted on The Information cites Dylan Patel, chief analyst at semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis, who said that OpenAI could be paying as much as $700,000 a day to keep ChatGPT servers up. So, why does ChatGPT cost so much to run? It's relatively simple. ChatGPT requires a large amount of power to analyze its database and create an appropriate response for a prompt. Patel spoke to Insider and said that his initial estimate was based on OpenAI's GPT-3.5 model, which is far less powerful than OpenAI's most-recent model, GPT-4.

Patel says that GPT-4 would cost the company much more money simply because that language model has many times more parameters. Furthermore, speaking to Forbes, Patel and Afzal Ahmad, another analyst from SemiAnalysis, said that it would have likely cost tens of millions of dollars to train ChatGPT's underlying language models, but that cost is nothing compared to operational expenses or inference costs. The analysts said that ChatGPT's inference costs "exceed the training costs on a weekly basis".

The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) is calling for consumer protection bodies in Europe to investigate ChatGPT and similar chatbot technologies to ascertain how much risk they might represent to the public.

Reuters reports that the BEUC - an umbrella group covering consumer protection organizations across 32 countries - is stepping up to challenge whether such chatbots could be problematic in terms of their influence on youngsters in particular.

The worry is that the responses of the AI to queries may appear authoritative and true - particularly to younger consumers and children - but cannot be relied upon, and indeed are often factually incorrect to some degree (perhaps even a large one).

An AI-generated song that attracted millions of plays has been removed after the Universal Music Group (UMG) discovered its popularity and the artists that were on track.

The song called 'Heart On My Sleeve' was released by an anonymous TikTok user called Ghostwriter977, and it featured vocals from Aubrey "Drake" Graham and Abel Makkonen "The Weeknd" Tesfaye. But these vocals didn't come from the artists themselves, they were created using artificial intelligence-powered tools that were fed voice samples of the artists to create imitated voices that are uncannily similar. At the moment, it remains unclear if the entire song was created with AI tools or just the voices of the artists.

Regardless of the intricacies of how the song was made, it generated more than 1,000,000 streams on Spotify, and Ghostwriter977's TikTok video of the song was viewed more than 15 million times. Additionally, a YouTube video of the song gained more than 275,000 views, and its creator commented on it, saying, "this is just the beginning". Overall the response to the song was very positive, with some people saying it was the best Drake song that has been released this year. Others recognized the quality of the song and immediately commented on how good AI is getting at sampling an artist's vocals.

Google staff members weren't too impressed with the state of Bard when asked to test the AI before its launch, and indeed warned the company that the AI wasn't ready to meet its public.

This is according to a Bloomberg report, which relayed information from some 18 current and former employees of Google, as well as from internal documents - and the overall vibe is of stark warnings that Bard needed more polish.

Bard was labeled as 'cringeworthy' and a 'pathological liar' alongside being called 'worse than useless' in an internal message to thousands of staffers, many of whom agreed. The comment about being useless was followed by a plea not to launch Bard, we're told.

According to reports, Microsoft is working on its own AI hardware, code-named Athena, that will be built using TSMC's 5nm process. Microsoft has been working on the project since 2019 (as per The Information) to directly respond to the surging costs of running AI hardware.

The report indicates that a small group of Microsoft and OpenAI employees is already testing the chips. It aims to perform better than the hardware it currently buys from vendors like NVIDIA, not to mention save them a lot of money, with the AI boom showing no signs of slowing down.

Microsoft has invested billions with Open AI, the makers of ChatGPT, and is in the midst of an AI arms race when implementing models into its product suite. These AI chips could be ready and widely available as early as next year, making them a potential revenue stream for Microsoft and Azure.

A mother in Arizona has received a terrifying phone call from what seemed to be a loved one about her daughter's kidnapping.

Arizona resident Jennifer DeStefano told WKYT that she received a phone call from a random phone number while she was at one of her daughter's dance studios. DeStefano said she almost let the phone call ring through but was concerned that her other 15-year-old daughter, that was out on a skiing trip, may have been in trouble. DeStefano answered the call and immediately heard her sobbing 15-year-old daughter's voice crying out, "Mom!".

Panicked, DeStefano quickly asked what was wrong, and her daughter's voice said, "Mom, I messed up," which was followed by more sobbing and crying. Before another question could be asked by DeStefano, she recounted a man yelling in the background of the call, "Put your head back, lie down". This unknown man got on the phone and demanded that DeStefano pay him $1 million dollar for the safe return of her daughter while also saying that if she were to call the police or anybody else that he was going to pump her daughter full of drugs, violate her and then drop her off in Mexico.

Top Google officials have sat down for an exclusive interview with CBS' 60 Minutes to discuss the current state of artificial intelligence development at Google.

The hour-long interview touches on various topics surrounding AI development, such as its dangers, positive benefits, and overall impact on society. During the interview, Google revealed that there are aspects of AI development that remain mysterious even to the engineers that have designed the software. These anomalies are referred to as a "black box", as how the AI decided to generate such a response isn't fully understood by the engineers.

During the 60 Minutes interview, Google Senior Vice President James Manyika explains that after feeding Google's upcoming AI chatbot called Bard several lines of Bengali, the native language spoken by people living in Bangladesh, Bard was able to fully translate all of the Bengali. CBS claims in the above video that Google's AI program was never trained in Bengali, and when it was given its first Bengali lines of text, it was able to adapt on its own.

Elon Musk has officially announced his intention to clamber aboard the AI bandwagon with an alternative to ChatGPT which is apparently designed to be a "maximum truth-seeking AI" no less.

Musk spilled the beans on this artificial intelligence rival - which will also join Google Bard in the generative AI arms race - in an interview with Tucker Carlson (Fox News), as The Verge reports.

Musk told Carlson:

A photographer has declined his prize for winning Sony's creative, open category last week for an image he revealed to be tampered by a "cheeky monkey".

In an effort to see if the prestigious art competition was ready for the exponentially growing influx of artificial intelligence-generated images, German artist Boris Eldagsen, who studied photography and visual arts at the Art Academy of Mainz, conceptual art and intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, entered into the competition with a black and white photograph that showed two women from different generations.

Eldagsen explained on his website that the motivation behind him entering into the competition was to provoke an open discussion about what is considered to be photography and what isn't, alluding to AI either falling under the umbrella of photography or it forming its own separate category. The German artist added that this was a "historic moment" as its the first time a prestigious art competition had unknowingly awarded an AI image.

In a new episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, Max Tegmark has sat down to discuss the multitude of reasons behind the push for the development on artificial intelligence to be temporarily halted.

Max Tegmark, a physicist and AI researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit organization that works to reduce global catastrophic and existential risks facing humanity, mostly focusing on the impact of artificial intelligence, has answered several questions about AI's role in civilization, starting with the simple question of "do you think there is intelligent life out there in the universe?".

Tegmark explains that based on what humans have discovered as what is deemed the 'observable universe', he would fall into the minority ground that believes humans are the only intelligent life that has created technology as advanced as what we have today. Additionally, Tegmark says that if this theory is true, it would put a lot of responsibility on humanity, being the most advanced form of life in the universe, to "not stuff this up".

In a new CBS 60 Minutes interview DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has revealed some details about the current artificial intelligence landscape and the rapid developments that are taking place.

The head of the Google-owned AI division was asked several questions about the developments surrounding artificial intelligence, first touching on AI-powered soccer robots and then the ultimate goal of creating an artificial general intelligence (AGI). Hassabis was asked if an AGI was created would it be aware of itself, to which he responded by explaining that philosophers haven't landed on a concise definition for consciousness, but given the current direction of AI development, and if the definition is general self-awareness, its possible that AI will become aware of itself in the future.

Hassabis notes that he doesn't believe any artificial intelligence developed today is self-aware, but as development continues in its various forms, humans will begin to work out what self-awareness can be defined as, and if it has been achieved. While there are many differing opinions on the definition of conscious artificial intelligence, a simple general way to think about AGI is the creation of an AI-powered system capable of performing or learning how to perform any task that a human can do.

Student researchers have created what seems to be the first AR smart glasses powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The pair of smart glasses were created by Stanford student Bryan Hau-Ping Chiang, who took to Twitter at the end of last month to reveal his creation and how it came to be. The Stanford student explained the smart glasses were powered by what he called "rizzGPT", which is able to provide real-time "charisma as a service". The smart glasses were built using OpenAI's GPT-4 language model, Whisper, and Monocle AR glasses that were provided by Brilliant Labs. Notably, the glasses feature a microphone, a high-resolution display, a camera, and the ability to output text.

The researchers explain that they imagine a world in the future where there is ambient computing enabled through Augmented Reality (AR), possibly through glasses such as the ones created by the students. Chiang wrote on Twitter that this ambient computing would likely come to fruition with the combination of AR and AI. An example of this would be AI-powered smart glasses that have a personal assistant that can provide you additional information on-the-fly, it would be similar to having a God observe your life and tell you exactly what to do next and why.

A big investor in artificial intelligence has dropped a warning about what's on the horizon in terms of AI development and how it will affect everyone.

A new op-ed published in the Financial Times details a recounted conversation between AI investor Ian Hogarth and a machine learning researcher that told Hogarth that engineers have already reached the point where they are close to developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The machine learning researcher said, "from now onwards," we are nearing AGI, and for those that don't know, AGI can be simply understood as creating an AI that is capable of performing or learning how to perform every task that a human can do.

Despite these warnings from the machine learning researcher, Hogarth admits that these views aren't widely held and that estimations for when humans will achieve AGI vary from a decade to more than half a century. Hogarth recounted the conversation with the machine learning researcher and said that if what he was saying is true and that humans could be on the verge of creating something that is truly dangerous, doesn't he have a responsibility to warn people?

Google may be slightly behind the 8-ball when it comes to the artificial intelligence race, but according to reports, the company behind the world's most popular search engine is preparing to release an "all-new" way to search the internet.

A new report from The New York Times has revealed Google is currently developing a new search engine that will be powered by artificial intelligence. According to the reports, this new search engine will offer users a much more personalized experience and be able to anticipate what the user wants to find out. Notably, Google is developing multiple new AI features for its existing search engine, and this new search engine, codenamed 'Magi' is still in its early stages of development.

As for the other AI-powered features that Google is currently working on, reports indicate the company is developing an AI chatbot that will be designed to answer coding questions from engineers. This chatbot, which is seemingly unnamed at this time, will be able to provide engineers with coding snippets. Additionally, Google is creating an AI chatbot that will be able to let users discover new music through what can be assumed to be a normal conversation.

Elon Musk is reportedly jumping headfirst into the AI race with a new startup company called X.AI Corp, which will directly compete with his former artificial intelligence company, OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT.

Reports recently published in The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times (FT) claimed that Musk has created a new startup called X.AI Corp, which will focus on developing AI tools that are similar to services created by OpenAI such as ChatGPT, or Microsoft's Bing Chat. If these reports are accurate, this will be the second time Musk has jumped into the world of AI. The first was the creation of OpenAI, which he later left in 2018 after his proposal to run the company was rejected by its board of directors.

According to The Financial Times report, which cited a person familiar with the situation surrounding Musk's new startup, "a bunch of people are investing in it" and there is real excitement for the project. Notably, FT cited Nevada business records that state Musk created a company called X. AI on March 9 and that Musk is the sole director of that company. The creation of X. AI comes only a few weeks after Musk signed an open letter that put his name alongside other prominent technology figures such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp, and Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque.