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• Scammers are using AI now

• TechCrunch calls it out: Generative AI is a bad name

• AI helps the fight against breast cancer

• Discover the weirdest things people ask ChatGPT

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SCAMMERS ARE UPPING THEIR GAME

Watch out; grandparents from the US and Canada are scrambling to round up cash to send to their grandkids in jail. The only problem is their grandchildren aren’t actually locked up.

The Card family received a call like this that appeared to come from their grandson, Brandon. But, in reality, a phone scammer replicated Brandon’s voice to try and steal thousands of dollars from the elderly couple.

AI Is Making These Scams More Sophisticated

Voice synthesizing technology is developing so fast that most people can’t keep up, especially older generations.

Someone can take a 30-second TikTok video and generate a convincing audio clip in minutes.

Can they find the scammers? Nope. Scammers have been pulling stunts for decades. Police struggle to track these numbers, and they often originate outside the victim’s country.

In 2022, frauds swindled 5,100 people over the phone in America. But, unlike a horror movie, the calls are not coming from inside the house.

AI plays a prominent role in these phishing attempts, and the more convincing they get, the harder it becomes to slow the spread.

Who can we hold responsible, then? The people who dial the phone are difficult to trace. So are companies like ElevenLabs liable for the damages? Maybe.

The US Supreme Court’s decision on section 230 will come into play here. If AI startups are responsible for the content their users generate, we will see tighter restrictions on useful tools like this.

In a way, these scams affect all of us, not just the families tricked into losing all their savings.

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WE CAN DO BETTER THAN GENERATIVE AI

Thank you to the hosts of TechCrunch’s podcast, “Equity,” for saying what only a few others are willing to say.

Generative AI is a terrible name for this movement. We can do better.

The name is long, stuffy, and only partially encompasses the moment. Even the shortened version Gen AI sounds terrible.

Where Did This Name even Come From?

Well, a dude named Geoffrey Hinton coined the term “Generative Model” in 1990 to describe neural networks that create outputs similar to their training data. So that’s one way to think of it.

Personally, I blame VC blogs and corporate nomenclature for this crappy phrase. Someone thought it was a catchy way to describe ChatGPT and DALL-E, but then the name stuck.

The problem is generative AI describes AI that creates content and media of various forms, yet many people use it as a catch-all to describe any tool that comes out now.

Not to mention, it’s long AF.

The term overstates the core concepts, too, and fails to capture the complex and diverse models popping up across this space.

Rather than complain the whole time, I decided to ask Bing/Syndey (yes, I finally got access) to develop some alternatives.

It gave me the following:

1/ Synthetic AI or SynthAI

Which it said might sound too artificial or cold.

2/ Creative AI or CreaAI

Which Sydney described as fun but unrealistic.

3/ Data-driven AI or DataAI

Bing called this one boring, and I have to agree. It’s a nothing burger.

Do you like any of these? Let me know some of your favorite alternatives. My inbox is always open.

Quick Nuggets

🛑 Stop. Collaborate and LinkedIn now that the company allows AI help with articles

🐴 Whoo, buddy! Apple wants to rein in ChatGPT-powered apps in their store

⚡️ Danger! VentureBeat wants to avoid the risks of generative AI

🍺 Sapporo is now using AI to develop their products 

⚽️ Soccer scouting is made easier through AI tooling

📋 Recruiting is being made easier using Prog.ai’s new Github analyzer

❓ Weird: Here are the odd things people ask ChatGPT to solve

🏛️ A new museum in SF showcases misalignments in AI and their repercussions

📜 AI rights: should we consider personhood for these burgeoning chatbots?

🏃‍♀️ AI speeds up the development of antibodies that target breast cancer

😮‍💨 Keeping up with ChatGPT ain’t easy. These companies are trying

💰 Benchmark is diving into AI investments heavily right now

👾 Web3’s fate is not the script generative AI is following

✨ A new NeRF research paper shows use cases for your home

📌 Shadow workers in China help influence how AI is built

🚌 Struggle bus tickets are selling out. The main riders: lawmakers struggling with new tech advancements

🤛 Sick. UC Berkeley researchers propose a new learning technique called Chain of Hindsight

🐽 An electronic nose is capable of sniffing out diseases…no, really

0️⃣ ChatGPT fails an exam, finally. Find out which one it couldn’t pass

🔌 Stable Diffusion is officially a plug-in on Blender, so developers rejoice

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Good Content, Bizarre Adventure

The dub is not perfect. BUT it’s fantastic to see someone attempt to replicate the original Japanese voice actor’s delivery using AI tools. The language barriers breakdown further every week, given these new AI advancements

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