Programmers must be educated about strong coding practices
Forward-looking: Machine learning algorithms are all the rage now, as they are used to generate any kind of “original” content after being trained on enormous pre-existing datasets. Code-generating AIs, however, could pose a real issue for software security in the future.
AI systems like GitHub Copilot promise to make programmers’ lives easier by creating entire chunks of “new” code based on natural-language textual inputs and pre-existing context. But code-generating algorithms can also bring an insecurity factor to the table, as a new study involving several developers has recently found. Read More
Monthly Archives: December 2022
Here’s What It Sounds Like When AI Writes Christmas Lyrics
AI chatbot ChatGPT is everywhere right now, including in the studio with a folk-punk singer collaborating on holiday songs.
“Santa’s back in town, with a mighty sack. He’s ready to fight against the fascists’ attack.” Those lyrics probably won’t be on the lips of many carolers this Christmas, but as far as songs about St. Nick and authoritarianism go, they’re pretty catchy.
Thank’s AI
For Automated Christmas Joy, a four-track album, indie-punk singer songwriter Evan Greer tapped the cutting-edge new AI chatbot ChatGPT to write lyrics, then composed the music and recorded the resulting tunes. The experimental tool from OpenAI can answer questions and write AP English essays, jokes, poetry, computer code and, clearly, Christmas songs — and it’s stirring up amazement, amusement, fear and seemingly endless stunts aimed at testing just how intelligent this artificial intelligence really is. Read More
Teleprompter
Greetings AI-native hackers.@natfriedman and I (@danielgross)present a small hack from last weekend: Tele-Prompt.
An on-device AI for your meetings that listens to you and makes charismatic quote suggestions — Read More
A new chabot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search business
A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.
Over the past three decades, a handful of products like Netscape’s web browser, Google’s search engine and Apple’s iPhone have truly upended the tech industry and made what came before them look like lumbering dinosaurs.
Three weeks ago, an experimental chatbot called ChatGPT made its case to be the industry’s next big disrupter. It can serve up information in clear, simple sentences, rather than just a list of internet links. It can explain concepts in ways people can easily understand. It can even generate ideas from scratch, including business strategies, Christmas gift suggestions, blog topics and vacation plans.
Although ChatGPT still has plenty of room for improvement, its release led Google’s management to declare a “code red.” For Google, this was akin to pulling the fire alarm. Some fear the company may be approaching a moment that the biggest Silicon Valley outfits dread — the arrival of an enormous technological change that could upend the business. Read More
Quora launches Poe, a way to talk to AI chatbots like ChatGPT
Signaling its interest in text-generating AI systems like ChatGPT, Quora this week launched a platform called Poe that lets people ask questions, get instant answers and have a back-and-forth dialogue with AI chatbots.
Short for “Platform for Open Exploration,” Poe — which is invite-only and currently only available on iOS — is “designed to be a place where people can easily interact with a number of different AI agents,” a Quora spokesperson told TechCrunch via text message. Read More
Krispy Kreme CEO: Robots will start frosting and filling doughnuts ‘within the next 18 months’
Krispy Kreme (DNUT) is aiming to cut time in its doughnut production line through automation.
“Probably within the next 18 months, you’ll see some automation starting to go into the frosting, the filling, the sprinkles, and even the packaging,” Krispy Kreme CEO Mike Tattersfield told Yahoo Finance.
… The addition of robots is part of an effort to maximize the fresh hub and spoke model opportunity in the United States, and increase points of access to deliver-fresh-daily (DFD) to grocery stories, convenience stores, quick-serve restaurants, and other locations. With this model, customers can get full-sized doughnuts produced that day, locally, without going to a Krispy Kreme location. Read More
OpenAI releases Point-E, which is like DALL-E but for 3D modeling
Its resolution isn’t great but it’s up to two magnitudes faster than competing systems.
OpenAI, the Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence startup behind popular DALL-E text-to-image generator, announced on Tuesday the release of its newest picture-making machine POINT-E, which can produce 3D point clouds directly from text prompts. Whereas existing systems like Google’s DreamFusion typically require multiple hours — and GPUs — to generate their images, Point-E only needs one GPU and a minute or two.
…Text-to-Image systems like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and Craiyon, DeepAI, Prisma Lab’s Lensa, or HuggingFace’s Stable Diffusion, have rapidly gained popularity, notoriety and infamy in recent years. Text-to-3D is an offshoot of that research. Read More
How I generated a full CG Short Film with AI
Google can now decode doctors’ bad handwriting thanks to AI
Google wants more and more people to embrace digital technology. Their latest venture involves developing a technology that can translate the prescriptions of doctors into readable texts.
Often, a doctor’s writing can be illegible. So, an assistive technology that has the ability to transform such handwritten medical notes into easily readable texts with a bit of help from humans such as pharmacists is desirable.
For this reason, the search giant announced that it is working with pharmacists to hammer out a solution for the problem experienced in reading the prescription – an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment. The announcement was made 8th annual Google for India event. Read More
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