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• What in the world is the “Singularity”

• Generative AI can highlight the bad parts of humanity

• Meta announces new AI plans

• will.i.am believes in everlasting Taylor Swift

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THE TERM WE ALL DANCE AROUND

Singularity is near. You’ve heard that term, right? The long history of AI research etched the idea into all things machine learning.

After all, what is this all for? Why do we feel that buzz of electricity when something like ChatGPT comes along?

The goal is a seismic change in how our society works. We are working towards singularity, but even that goal does not encapsulate that term.

Singularity is identifiable. The moment passed that point is not.

The New York Times published an article this weekend discussing the discrepancy. You should read it to learn about Singularity's key players and history (unpaywalled here because it’s a term that’s important).

But let’s try out best to give you dinner table material:

Singularity is when technology exceeds human capabilities and begins to self-improve with its agency. That’s the clinical term.

To say it another way, AI will grow uncontrollably and make choices on its own.

But that’s it. The outcome is subjective. Some people think that metaphorical moments will lead to the end of humanity.

If the computer examines us, it will demote us to canon fodder.

But the positive side flips the script.

If we align AI to understand us and work with us, it can help us advance. The singularity is a bright moment where we find a new purpose and life changes for the better.

We’re in the middle of a tunnel running towards a light. That light is the singularity at the end of the tunnel.

No one knows what happens on the other side.

But we expect the best and brace for the worst here at Inclined AI.

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DON’T LET BIAS ISSUES SLIP THROUGH THE CRACKS

Generative AI images influence you and create standards and opinions. We don’t realize it’s happening all the time, but it is.

AI content is consuming the internet. These Large Language Models and Diffusion Models are overwriting us and reinventing most of the web in their image.

The issue starts there, not ends.

The people who train these models influence AI. That influence permeates through the system.

The trouble is that most of these builders come from one group of life experiences. It’s a common tech problem. 

That’s why the Bloomberg piece about the Stable Diffusions bias issue is unsurprising (unpaywalled here because it is important). But the concern is the inertia in the development of AI.

Researchers are working to address this issue because it reflects itself in many ways. But that takes time—time that moves slower than AI learns and reinforces current biases.

That’s the rub. What will the next generation of models reflect? We can’t say for sure, but the response will take time to correct if it’s negative.

We can expect better, but the jury will be out for awhile.

Quick Nuggets

🤝 Sam Altman is considering a call to collaborate with China to promote AI safety

🏳️‍🌈 ChatGPT writes a web series called “Straight Best Friend” about a gay man and his straight friend

🏈 A sportswriter uses ChatGPT to predict his college football team’s record this year

💰 Oracle finds the answer to their Microsoft-OpenAI problem and its Cohere

💸 These AI jobs pay up to $375k a year

🧓 Older people are looking towards AI to feel less lonely

🤷 Oops, AI art destroyed this indie book cover contest

🤔 WIRED writes a headline with big words like “Hyperdimensional Computing”

✨ will.i.am thinks artists like Taylor Swift will never die thanks to AI

📢 Meta announces even bigger plans for their AI tooling

🔥 Fresh Products

• WINN AI - takes the busywork out of sales (link)

• VoiceGPT - talk w/ GPT-4 on your Apple Watch (link)

• Zizoto - mixes generative art w/ a social network (link)

• Balance - lower acute anxiety w/ the help of AI (link)

• Deepshot - helps automatically resync lips for new dialogue (link)

• AI Spend - monitor your API key usage on OpenAI (link)

• caspa AI - product photos are done using AI (link)

• mesha - reinvents their financial command center by adding AI features (link)

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