Daily Archives: September 28, 2022
DeepMind’s new chatbot uses Google searches plus humans to give better answers
The lab trained a chatbot to learn from human feedback and search the internet for information to support its claims.
The trick to making a good AI-powered chatbot might be to have humans tell it how to behave—and force the model to back up its claims using the internet, according to a new paper by Alphabet-owned AI lab DeepMind.
In a new non-peer-reviewed paper out today, the team unveils Sparrow, an AI chatbot that is trained on DeepMind’s large language model Chinchilla.
Sparrow is designed to talk with humans and answer questions, using a live Google search to inform those answers. Based on how useful people find those answers, it’s then trained using a reinforcement learning algorithm, which learns by trial and error to achieve a specific objective. This system is intended to be a step forward in developing AIs that can talk to humans without dangerous consequences, such as encouraging people to harm themselves or others. Read More
Artist receives first known US copyright registration for latent diffusion AI art
Registration of AI-assisted comic comes amid fierce online debate about AI art ethics.
In what might be a first, a New York-based artist named Kris Kashtanova has received US copyright registration on their graphic novel that features AI-generated artwork created by latent diffusion AI, according to their Instagram feed and confirmed through a public records search by Ars Technica.
The registration, effective September 15, applies to a comic book called Zarya of the Dawn. Kashtanova created the artwork for Zarya using Midjourney, a commercial image synthesis service. Read More
Student Sparks Debate by Revealing That They Use AI to Write Essays
Artificial intelligence has improved at an alarming rate over the past few years. Anybody with the most basic of technical knowledge is only a few clicks away from all kinds of weird and wonderful tidbits brought to us by the wonders of robotic thinking. While there’s no doubt that there are benefits to these advancements, we are also getting to a point where they are upending some of the things that we take for granted.
This trend has been revealed in a recent Reddit post, in which a high school student claims that they have started to write their homework assignments using AI — and that they were even making money by doing it for their classmates. Not everybody was as much of a fan of this new method for school work as they were, not least because it has some bad implications for what they are actually learning. Who needs an education anyway? Read More
Chipotle announces Chippy, an A.I. kitchen assistant
The robot, designed by Miso Robotics, will be able to cook and season the chain’s popular chips
Chipotle announced that it’s testing a chip-making robot at its innovation hub in Irvine, California. The device will be integrated at one of the chain’s restaurants in southern California later this year. Read More
EU draft rules to make it easier to sue drone makers, AI systems
Individuals and companies that suffer harm from drones, robots and other products or services equipped with artificial intelligence software will find it easier to sue for compensation under EU draft rules seen by Reuters.
The AI Liability Directive, which the European Commission will announce on Wednesday, aims to address the increasing proliferation of AI-enabled products and services and the patchwork of national rules across the 27-country European Union. Read More
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