🚨 AI Pioneers Sound the Alarm

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• 🚨 AI Pioneers Sound the Alarm

• 🤖 Majority of US Adults Remain Unfamiliar with ChatGPT

• 📈 Nvidia Temporarily Achieves $1 Trillion Market Cap

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🚨 AI Pioneers Sound the Alarm

Prominent industry figures are raising alarm bells regarding the potential hazards associated with AI, likening them to pandemics and nuclear wars.

The Center for AI Safety recently issued a statement signed by more than 350 executives, researchers, and engineers from the AI field (including the individual behind ChatGPT). Their message emphasized the criticality of prioritizing measures to mitigate the risks of AI that could potentially lead to human extinction.

Concerns surrounding AI's capacity to propagate misinformation, eliminate jobs, and disrupt societies have been steadily mounting. With the widespread adoption of AI, the urgency to tackle these concerns has reached unprecedented levels.

Ironically enough, we actually foresaw these developments and reported on them yesterday.

📈 Nvidia Temporarily Achieves $1 Trillion Market Cap

Yesterday, Nvidia experienced a glimpse of its trillion-dollar worth, propelled by the surging demand for generative AI tools in the tech industry.

While Nvidia's stock price slipped to $401.11 at the market's closing on Monday, momentarily excluding the company from the trillion-dollar club, its impressive performance in the previous quarter, yielding over $2 billion in profit, contributed to reaching this significant valuation milestone.

Nvidia's chips serve as a vital component for companies seeking to integrate AI into their products, and their recent keynote at Computex 2023 unveiled a deluge of new tech announcements, reaffirming their pivotal role in the industry.

🤖 Majority of US Adults Remain Unfamiliar with ChatGPT

In a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, American adults' experiences with ChatGPT were examined, and the findings were rather surprising.

According to the study, the majority of adults in the United States are aware of ChatGPT, yet only a mere 14% have actually utilized it. What's particularly interesting is the purpose for which this small percentage of adults employs the chatbot:

• 19% for entertainment

• 14% for learning

• 12% for work

This information leads us to ponder the extent to which we may be residing in an echo chamber as we contemplate strategies to prevent ChatGPT from replacing our jobs.

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FASCINATING FINDS

• On this day - May 31, 1991, Sega releases the video game Zero Wing for the Sega Mega Drive system in Europe. The game was never released in North America, and was relatively unknown until years later when the poorly translated opening scene was popularized on the Internet. The most famous mistranslation is the phrase “All your base are belong to us,” which has become a very popular Internet meme.(link)

• Weird but interesting - Sunsets on Mars are blue.

MISCELLANEOUS

(News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc)

• OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plugins feature is the new internet gateway. (link)

• Google DeepMind introduces Barkour, a benchmark for quadrupedal robots. (link)

• Edtech groups insist AI is friend not foe, despite cheap AI threatening to undercut them. (link, without paywall here)

• Tiny transformer trained for addition learns bizarre addition algorithm. (link)

• Turds in AI-generated art. (link)

• Chinese organisations have launched 79 AI large language models since 2020. (link)

• AI First - All about understanding and using Autonomous AI Agents. (link)

• Canadian AI computing startup Tenstorrent and LG partner to build chips. (link)

• AI is an insult now. (link)

• OpenAI isn’t doing enough to make ChatGPT’s limitations clear. (link)

• Optimum tic tac toe with ChatGPT. (link)

• Controllable text-to-image generation with GPT-4. (link)

• Fine-tuning language models with just forward passes. (link)

That's all for now!

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡