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• Researchers debate if new AI models have a Theory of Mind

• Midjourney v5 is realistic, maybe TOO realistic

• Baidu abandons their Ernie promo

• Zoom wants to help you catch up on late meetings

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DO WE UNDERESTIMATE WHAT CHATGPT KNOWS?

Theory of mind is a psychological term for how humans assume knowledge of other humans through verbal and non-verbal cues.

Think of mindreading and how psychics pick up on body language in an attempt to tell you your future. That’s the theory of mind in action, and it’s often referred to as “commonsense psychology.”

Here’s the rub: Do ChatGPT and other AI models know that we know what it knows? In other words, is AI capable of a theory of mind?

Spoiler alert: the answer is inconclusive.

Theory of mind exercises given to ChatGPT bounce back and forth between “hell yes, look, it was 95% accurate, you guys” all the way to “eh, maybe, it’s only 70% accurate on this test.”

You get the feeling they’re all grasping at the idea without clarity on the facts. Don’t get too caught up in that noise.

Arguments stacking up in the AI space are the real trend to notice.

The faster the research developments, the more people’s feet will want to creep toward the brake pedal. It’s natural to feel that way, and we should listen to the ethicist speaking up.

The goal is to drive Large Language Models toward a place where they think as we do, only better. It’s possible that along the way, our habit for theory of mind antics is crafting a narrative that doesn’t fit reality.

You hear the main ethical argument all the time (and might even believe it yourself), “LLMs are just parrots. They predict words well.”

That’s all a part of this Jenga tower of hot takes and research papers trying to make sense of all the news around AI development.

ChatGPT is an impressive milestone; you can bet we’ll be learning from this moment for a long time. So this wave of ideas and philosophical questions was bound to happen.

Take it all in and learn from it. The rubbers only began to meet the road.

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AN ICONIC FIT FROM THE POPE THAT NEVER EVEN EXISTED

It was a typical Friday on the Midjourney subreddit. u/trippy_art_special was making some fake AI art the only way he knows how, by tripping. 

He heads into Midjourney to prompt the diffusion model to generate four versions of the Pope in a designer puff coat. The post, “The Pope Drip,” went viral within 24 hours. 

Way too many people thought the image was real, and the disinformation hitting social media was staggering.

It was a perfect storm. Italian fashion on a figurehead known for rumors about material consumption makes for a good story.

Yet, the artist did not intend to trick people. On the contrary, he thought it was a funny idea and was on shrooms—no ill intent.

The world getting tricked by an artist baked out of his mind is one thing, but there’s a more concerning trend picking up steam on the Midjourney subreddit.

AI artists are creating historical events that never happened, like an earthquake that hit Oregon in 2001.

It’s make-believe that feels almost real—almost. 

Reality is a framing device to help us understand our world. It’s subjective and malleable. These realistic artworks from Midjourney show how thin the line is around our conceptions.

Don’t freak out, though; there are often tell-tale signs in today’s AI art.

The Verge did a great job covering them and spelling them out in simple terms, basically:

• Watch for smears or smudges in the fine details

• Letters and words are still not perfect

• Watch for David Lynch-type sh*t

That last point is a new idea, so let me explain. David Lynch is a surrealist filmmaker.

His works often happen in a dreamscape of our world.

AI art tends to reflect the same sort of idea. For instance, the pope is not carrying coffee in that photo, and this girl has six fingers.

See, David Lynch-type sh*t.

Quick Nuggets

🥊 Small Startups, Big Battles how OpenAI is beating out Google and Amazon

📈 AI adoption and investment is steadily climbing over the last two years

🍩 Glaze is a new tool to protect artists from AI generators

🤔 Systematic issues are still prevalent in AI training

📖 AI glossary from the NYT to help explain terms and abbreviations

🧑‍💻 Humans go toe-to-toe with ChatGPT on these 6 prompts

🐾 Baidu cancels its upcoming Ernie showcase at the last minute

🔌 ChatGPT plugins are changing a ton of workflows—here’s how

💬 AI prompts: what you need to know about them

⚡️Zoom is using AI to help you catch up on meetings you’re late to

👀 A peek inside the org chart of OpenAI to see who makes everything work so well

🍎 Apple acquired an AI company that works to compress video

🐴 Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, spoke w/ CBS

🦾 An experiment: an AI founder that creates its own tasks list and shows its reasoning

ℹ️ The source for everything you need to know about RLHF 

🎓 Here’s why jobs requiring a college education are the most impacted by ChatGPT

🦙 JARVIS? The new LLaMA voice chat feels like that.

🚫 An investigation into the system that financially supports DeepFakes

📢 A statement by DigHum on the positive and negative effects of ChatGPT

🔍 A new era in search is gaining speed, but Microsoft might halt all that progress

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