Apple and Google’s AI turn in a booming market may sound less than human and raise the ire of voiceover actors, but it has cost benefits
For the first few seconds, the narrator of Kristen Ethridge’s new romance audiobook, Shelter from the Storm, sounds like a human being. The voice is light and carefully enunciated, with the slow pacing of any audiobook narrator, as it begins: “There’s a storm coming, and her name is Hope.”
Then, something about the pacing of the words grates on the ear. It’s a little too regular, even robotic. “I know that sounds a little crazy,” the breathy voice continues, grinding out the words. “That something so destructive could be labeled with such a peaceful name.” Read More
Tag Archives: NLP
The End of Organizing
How GPT-3 will turn your notes into an *actual* second brain
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but all of the time we’ve spent organizing our notes was probably wasted.
Instead, in the immediate future, our notes will be organized for us by large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3. Let’s explore. Read More
Students are CHEATING with Ai ChatGPT
I challenged ChatGPT to code and hack (Are we doomed?)
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Proving you’re a human on a web flooded with generative AI content
The dark forest theory of the web points to the increasingly life-like but life-less state of being online.
Most open and publicly available spaces on the web are overrun with bots, advertisers, trolls, data scrapers, clickbait, keyword-stuffing “content creators,” and algorithmically manipulated junk.
It’s like a dark forest that seems eerily devoid of human life – all the living creatures are hidden beneath the ground or up in trees. If they reveal themselves, they risk being attacked by automated predators. Read More
An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion
Text-to-image models offer unprecedented freedom to guide creation through natural language. Yet, it is unclear how such freedom can be exercised to generate images of specific unique concepts, modify their appearance, or compose them in new roles and novel scenes. In other words, we ask: how can we use language-guided models to turn our cat into a painting, or imagine a new product based on our favorite toy? Here we present a simple approach that allows such creative freedom. Using only 3-5 images of a user-provided concept, like an object or a style, we learn to represent it through new “words” in the embedding space of a frozen text-to-image model. These “words” can be composed into natural language sentences, guiding personalized creation in an intuitive way. Notably, we find evidence that a single word embedding is sufficient for capturing unique and varied concepts. We compare our approach to a wide range of baselines, and demonstrate that it can more faithfully portray the concepts across a range of applications and tasks. Read More
Deepfake Text Detector Tool GPTZero Spots AI Writing
A new tool is attempting to spot when text is written by ChatGPT and other generative AI engines. Princeton student and former open source investigator for BBC Africa Eye Edward Tian created GPTZero to identify deepfake text, a subject attracting a growing amount of interest in the academic and business world as the debate over how to respond to the potential misuse of AI continues.
Tian’s app processes submitted text for indicators of AI origins like randomness and complexity in how it is written, technically referred to as “perplexity and burstiness.” GPTZero was popular enough to almost immediately crash the hosting website, but you can play with it online here. … Voicebot ran multiple tests of GPTZero using six different generative AI tools, including ChatGPT, a few GPT-3 derived tools, and AI21. Tian’s creation caught the AI-generated text every time and correctly identified text written by a human in more than a dozen cases. Tian doesn’t have enough data to measure accuracy yet, though he said he is working on publishing one. Not bad for an app thrown together on New Year’s Eve. Read More
Hackers could get help from the new AI chatbot
The AI-enabled chatbot that’s been wowing the tech community can also be manipulated to help cybercriminals perfect their attack strategies.
Why it matters: The arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool last month could allow scammers behind email and text-based phishing attacks, as well as malware groups, to speed up the development of their schemes.
- Several cybersecurity researchers have been able to get the AI-enabled text generator to write phishing emails or even malicious code for them in recent weeks.
#cyber, #nlp
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
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