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Will AI Lead to Human Extinction? 🚨
Your Daily AI Rundown — One Headline, Two Tools and Three Community Creations
Ghost
May 31, 2023
Good morning, AI explorers!
Welcome to another edition of AI Authority, delivering all of the top groundbreaking AI news shaping our world into a bite-sized newsletter every weekday morning.
As always, we’ve got one daily AI headline, two exciting tools, and three pieces of content we love from the community for you today.
In this edition:
✍️ News: More AI Alarm Bells from Industry Leaders
🛠️ Tools: CatBird AI, Character AI
🎨 Creator Corner: AI-generating Camera, Expanding Memes with Generative Fill, GPT Outsmarts Human
Let’s dive in 👇
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One top headline in the AI space to know:
🚨 AI Extinction Alert: Industry Leaders Sound Off
In a chorus of concern, nearly 400 AI experts — including leaders from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI — signed a statement Tuesday warning that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to humanity.
Humans trying to stuff AI back into Pandora’s Box
Published by the San Francisco-based Center for AI Safety on Tuesday, the statement equates the risk of extinction from AI with other global threats like pandemics and nuclear war.
This isn’t the first alarm bell sounded over the risks of AI, with “the Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton (who also signed the statement above) stepping down from Google earlier this month due to his concerns about the risks associated with chatbots. And just a few months ago, tech leaders like Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak petitioned for a “pause” on all AI research.
Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who notably pushed back on significant regulation during his recent talks with both congress and the EU — signed Tuesday’s statement.
Should we be worried that the top AI researchers are sounding the alarm on the technology they are currently working to create?
The Center for AI Safety’s Dan Hendrycks compared it to scientists warnings when working on nuclear developments:
AI researchers from leading universities worldwide have signed the AI extinction statement, a situation reminiscent of atomic scientists issuing warnings about the very technologies they've created. As Robert Oppenheimer noted, “We knew the world would not be the same.”
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— Dan Hendrycks (@DanHendrycks)
9:21 AM • May 30, 2023
Still hungry for more AI headlines? Some other news that caught our eye yesterday:
Two AI-powered platforms to add to your toolbox:
Three of our favorite tweets, threads, AI generations and more:
This AI camera is mind-blowing:
Introducing – Paragraphica! 📡📷
A camera that takes photos using location data. It describes the place you are at and then converts it into an AI-generated "photo".See more here:
or try to take your own photo here: paragraphica.bjoernkarmann.dk— Bjørn Karmann (@BjoernKarmann)
10:42 AM • May 30, 2023
Your favorite memes, expanded with generative fill:
Unseen Meme angles 🤯
This is how famous memes looked like from behind the camera
Powered by Photoshops latest AI feature - Generative Fill
— Linus (●ᴗ●) (@LinusEkenstam)
3:22 PM • May 30, 2023
GPT 1, human 0: (via Reddit user rento480)
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