UL NO. 427: AI’s Predictable Future (Video) – Cyber Tech

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• Going to keynote a convention in NYC this week! Excited to speak about AI, safety, and hope for the post-AI future.

• Convention season is spinning up. Can’t wait to see individuals. Issues I’ve on deck. Quite a few personal panels/talks within the Bay Space, discuss in NYC, Day of Shecurity, RSA, LocoMocoSec, EDC, massive con in Switzerland, presumably others. And that will likely be sufficient for the 12 months. The primary purpose is to not get Covid or Conflu this 12 months.

• Had a good time at BSides Milwaukee!

• The gentle launch of Threshold goes splendidly. I’m already getting MASSIVE advantages from utilizing it myself, which is actually my north star for the mission. Extra on that in future posts/movies.

• Material continues to thrive, and I proceed to consider the final word agent framework. Proper now it’s Crew.ai, however I ponder what the mannequin corporations are going to have as a response, e.g., Anthropic incorporating instruments proper into their prompts this week.

I lastly turned my massive, 9,000-word AI predictions essay into a full video! It’s like 70 minutes lengthy and contains numerous further narration and element exterior of the textual content.

Please go it on to individuals who would love the content material however who might by no means get via a 9,000 phrase essay.

Israel’s prime spy chief, Yossi Sariel, unintentionally revealed his id via an Amazon e-book sale linked to his actual identify. MORE

The CVE and NVD databases are struggling to maintain up with the large variety of vulnerabilities being created, resulting in gaps and inaccuracies. This might want to get addressed in some way, however I’ve not heard any good solutions. MORE

In Montreal, criminals are utilizing Apple’s AirTags to trace and steal automobiles. MORE

Panera Bread’s week-long IT downtime incident was a ransomware assault. MORE 

CISA’s new Excessive-Threat Communities webpage provides cyber hygiene guides, volunteer help, and discounted instruments for organizations beneath cyber risk. MORE

Israel’s army used an AI named Lavender to pinpoint 37,000 potential Hamas targets, which is elevating questions in regards to the ethics of AI in warfare. MORE

There’s a rumor that Sam Altman and Jony Ive are constructing some kind of AI wearable machine via a brand new secret firm. MORE

OpenAI launched improved methods of fine-tuning fashions. MORE

📄 A brand new paper reveals that including extra brokers to giant language fashions can considerably enhance their efficiency. MORE

📄 This paper explores how AI is likely to be main us in direction of a ‘data collapse’ by oversimplifying advanced data. MORE

The U.S. is making an attempt to get South Korea to cease chipmaking software exports to China. MORE

The US is testing vitality storage in heated sand, aiming for 135 MW energy output for 5 days straight. MORE

Oura’s rolling out Symptom Radar to offer you a nudge when your physique’s exhibiting indicators of pressure, but it surely’s not calling it sickness detection. For apparent causes. MORE

Amazon’s ditching its cashierless “Simply Stroll Out” tech in Contemporary shops for Sprint Carts, discovering the futuristic checkout too pricey and sophisticated. Disappointing. Too early I assume. MORE

New research are exhibiting that the rich are beginning to have extra youngsters than the poor, reversing the earlier development. MORE

Regardless of a large earthquake, TSMC’s essential EUV tools remained unhurt as a result of they’ve some depraved constructing stabilization tech. Manufacturing was nearly totally restored the identical day. MORE

The Israeli army dismissed two senior officers and reprimanded three others for an airstrike that mistakenly killed seven World Central Kitchen volunteers in Gaza. MORE

The UK’s exporting staff to fill higher-paying US jobs. MORE

U.S. enterprise capital investments plummeted to $36.6 billion in Q1 2024, which is the bottom quarterly complete since 2017. MORE

McKinsey’s providing UK staff 9 months of pay to voluntarily go away the corporate. MORE

Gen-Z goes for trades like welding and plumbing over school and pupil debt. MORE

Dwelling insurers are actually utilizing aerial pictures to resolve who will get dropped from protection. MORE

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Tyler Cowen vs. Jonathan Haidt on Teen Lady Despair
Nicely, I by no means thought I’d see Tyler Cowen be flawed about one thing main. However I feel he did it right here with Jonathan Haidt. He had Jonathan on the present and massively disagreed with him about his analysis into teen (particularly lady) despair being attributable to social media. Price a watch.

The precise factor I feel Tyler is getting flawed is the AI Mediation half, which I’ve written about extensively. He’s proper that we’ll have AI mediation, however I feel he’s flawed that it’ll work the way in which he thinks it is going to.

He appears to assume that AI will cease younger ladies from shopping probably the most viral and poisonous content material on social media, and it’ll simply ship her the abstract as an alternative. Drawback solved.

Um, no. That’s how HE will use it. And the way I’ll use it. And the way Jonathan will use it. And doubtless you, too.

However for younger individuals consuming viral and poisonous content material, the content material itself is the purpose, not the abstract.

Does Tyler assume AI will ship individuals who love standup comedy a abstract of the jokes made in a given standup, as an alternative to going to comedy reveals?

That doesn’t work for comedy, and it received’t work for younger youngsters consuming viral/poisonous content material. The one means that may work is that if they’d a draconic blocker of all social media, and this was preferred a service that summarized the content material.

But it surely wouldn’t be one thing the youngsters would set up themselves, nor fortunately use.

All that being stated although, he’s Tyler Cowen, so my probabilities of misunderstanding him and/or being flawed listed below are greater than common.

Deepfaked Content material Summaries (Click on for thread)

AI and Music (Click on for thread)

🔥⚒️Luke Stephens (hakluke) put out an incredible weblog on his evolving method to bug bounty automation. He talks about going from Bash, to Python, to Golang, after which arriving at Cloud-native. Nice piece. MORE

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📖GIAM, a free open-source textbook, makes the artwork of arithmetic accessible, overlaying foundational matters and proof strategies, full with amusing chapter quotes. MORE

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Children are studying math from deepfake Taylor Swift and Drake on TikTok, and it is surprisingly efficient. MORE

Take a look at one in all suno.ai’s prime AI-generated songs.

You may not prefer it, however for those who don’t, how totally different is it from different stuff you don’t? Is it that a lot worse? And for those who do prefer it, how a lot are you able to inform it’s not human-generated?

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