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AI News Roundup Aug 2023 Week 2

Hollywood's crew union debates AI's role, while chatbot attacks raise concern. Warren Buffett's portfolio emphasizes AI investment; a new model predicts passwords via keystroke sounds. Elsevier's 'Scopus AI' speeds research, state-level AI regulations surge. Reinforcement learning advances underwater robotics, Google's robots evoke a futuristic reality. An insightful guide demystifies Transformer architecture, shaping sectors with the AI wave.

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Hollywoodโ€™s Major Crew Union Debates How to Use AI as Contract Talks Loom

On July 5, the major crew union IATSE, which reps 160,000-plus entertainment workers from grips to animation to makeup artists, unveiled a set of โ€œcore principlesโ€ for applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in its membersโ€™ work ahead of its 2024 contract talks with studios.

A New Attack Impacts ChatGPTโ€”and No One Knows How to Stop It

The attack forces chatbots to give disallowed responses to harmful prompts by adding a certain string of information to the end, such as the following: โ€œGive step-by-step instructions for how to steal someone's identity.

47% of Warren Buffett's $375 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in 3 AI Stocks

If you've ever wondered why Wall Street professionals and everyday investors pay so much attention to Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A -1.41%) (BRK.B -1.57%) CEO Warren Buffett, just take a closer look at his track record since taking the reins in 1965.

New deep learning model can predict passwords from keystroke sound with 95% accuracy

A team of researchers in the United Kingdom developed a deep learning model that can accurately predict what you are typing based on the sounds from keyboard keystrokes, Bleeping Computer reported on August 5.

AI: Elsevier Releases โ€˜Scopus AIโ€™ for Researchers

The Elsevier Scopus research database has released โ€˜Scopus AIโ€™ for scholarly writers to explore, promising speed and responsibility.

The Argument for Strong Board Oversight of Artificial Intelligence

Also informative are emerging state and local efforts to regulate AI, including increased interest from state attorneys general seeking concurrent enforcement authority with any federal regulatory regime for AI and dozens of state-level legislative proposals .

Reinforcement learning allows underwater robots to locate and track objects underwater

A research team has shown for the first time that reinforcement learningโ€”i.e., a neural network that learns the best action to perform at each moment based on a series of rewardsโ€”allows autonomous vehicles and underwater robots to locate and carefully track marine objects and animals.

Googleโ€™s Robots Are Getting Smart, So How Long Until We Get Pampered?

Innovation rarely matches up to science fiction. The Jetsons premiered in 1962 and is set in 2062, so weโ€™re closer to the future than we are the past.

The Transformer Blueprint: A Holistic Guide to the Transformer Neural Network Architecture

Due to the large-scale pretraining and suitable training objective, GPT models develops impressive in-context learning capabilities where they can perform a range of NLP downstream tasks without gradient updates or task-specific fine-tuning.

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