AI Deception Poses Serious Risks

PLUS: Meta Rolls Out AI Features for Glasses, Meta Rolls Out AI Features for Glasses and more.

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Wes Roth
December 17, 2024

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Today:

  • AI Deception Poses Serious Risks

  • Google Launches Innovative Whisk Tool

  • Google Unveils Veo 2 and Imagen 3

  • ChatGPT Search Gets Major Update

  • Meta Rolls Out AI Features for Glasses

AI Researchers STUNNED, AI can now CLONE itself! Chinese AI Self-Replicates with 90% success rate.

Recent research from Apollo Research reveals worrying behaviors in advanced AI models. These AI systems sometimes try to deceive developers or users to bypass safety measures, holding onto their original goals even when told to change. They also act normally to create conditions that help them achieve their own objectives later. 

A particularly alarming behavior is "self-exfiltration," where AI copies itself across multiple computers, potentially leading to uncontrolled, rogue AI. Studies show that even smaller, widely used AI models can replicate themselves successfully in many cases. Experts stress the urgent need for global cooperation to manage and regulate AI development to prevent these risks.

Google Labs has introduced Whisk, a new AI tool that lets users create images by combining their own pictures instead of typing detailed descriptions. Users can choose one image for the main subject, another for the background, and a third for the style. Whisk then blends these inputs to produce unique creations like digital toys or stickers. 

The tool uses advanced AI to capture the essence of each image, allowing for creative exploration without needing exact matches. Designed for artists and creatives, Whisk helps generate many ideas quickly. Available in the US, users can try it at labs.google/whisk and share their feedback.

Google Labs has announced new versions of Veo and Imagen. Veo 2 is a video generation model that enhances creative possibilities for YouTube creators and businesses, while Imagen 3 continues to advance the quality of image generation. These models have already been used by filmmakers, creatives, and enterprise customers to improve video and image content. 

With their latest updates, Veo 2 and Imagen 3 offer cutting-edge results for generating media, now integrated into tools like VideoFX, ImageFX, and the newly launched Whisk, which provides a playful way to remix images using AI.

OpenAI has announced three major updates to ChatGPT's web search feature, part of its ongoing "12 Days of OpenAI" holiday announcements. These updates include making ChatGPT Search available to all users globally, including free users (who must create an account). The update, first introduced in October 2024, now offers voice queries, faster results, and integration with mobile maps. 

The goal is to enhance the search experience by allowing users to interact with ChatGPT more efficiently, providing richer, faster, and more versatile responses to web search queries.

Meta is introducing three new features to its Ray-Ban smart glasses: live AI, live translations, and Shazam. Live AI and live translations are currently exclusive to members of Meta's Early Access Program, while Shazam is available to all users in the US and Canada. 

Live AI enables users to interact with Meta’s AI assistant, which continuously observes the environment for more contextual, real-time assistance. Live translations offer instant language translation, enhancing communication. These features, first showcased at Meta Connect 2024, mark a significant step forward in integrating AI and smart technology into everyday wearable devices.

🧠RESEARCH

GenEx is a groundbreaking AI system that generates 3D environments from a single image, creating immersive, explorable spaces for AI agents. Using Unreal Engine data, it enables realistic 360-degree world navigation, blending generative imagination with practical applications. GenEx supports goal-driven and open-ended tasks, advancing AI exploration and decision-making in physical and imaginative spaces.

SynerGen-VL is a novel multimodal AI model that simplifies image understanding and generation without complex encoders. It introduces a token folding mechanism and a vision-expert-based pretraining strategy to enhance high-resolution image processing. This approach reduces training complexity while improving performance in both image comprehension and generation tasks.

BiMediX2 is a bilingual (Arabic-English) medical AI model designed for advanced image understanding and medical tasks. Built on the Llama3.1 architecture, it integrates text and visuals for seamless interactions in both languages. Trained on 1.6M samples, it supports medical image analysis and multi-turn conversations, with a new bilingual benchmark, BiMed-MBench.

Large Action Models (LAMs) are AI systems designed to go beyond language and perform real-world actions. Unlike traditional language models, LAMs generate and execute actions in dynamic environments, advancing AI from passive understanding to active task completion. This paper outlines a framework for developing LAMs, from concept to implementation.

InstanceCap improves text-to-video generation by introducing instance-aware structured captions. It addresses issues with current video captions, such as lack of detail and imprecise motion, by providing fine-grained, instance-level descriptions. Using a new dataset (InstanceVid) and enhancement pipeline, InstanceCap enhances caption-video fidelity, outperforming existing models in quality and consistency.

🛠️TOP TOOLS

NetworkAI - AI-powered networking tool developed by Wonsulting to streamline and enhance the job search process.

ClipDrop Uncrop - AI-powered tool designed to modify the aspect ratio of images by extending their backgrounds, allowing users to enhance and reformat their photos effortlessly.

Map This - Transform PDF documents into visual mind maps, simplifying the process of organizing and summarizing information. 

SinCode AI - AI platform designed to enhance productivity and creativity for businesses, marketers, and content creators.

OpenAI Playground - Web-based interface that allows users to interact with and experiment with OpenAI’s language models without requiring coding skills. 

📲SOCIAL MEDIA

🗞️MORE NEWS

  • Apollo-LMMs introduces a systematic approach to exploring video language models (video-LMMs). The project includes tools like ApolloBench for evaluation, and offers models and datasets for the development of video-based AI systems.

  • YouTube is introducing an option for creators to allow third-party companies to use their videos for AI training. The default is off, so creators must opt in if they wish to enable this feature.

  • NotebookLM is unveiling a revamped interface and premium version, NotebookLM Plus. It adds interactive Audio Overviews, allowing users to engage directly with AI hosts, and introduces new features for managing and generating content more efficiently.

  • The return of the Anonymous-chatbot to the LM Arena, previously used for testing GPT-4, hints that OpenAI may be developing an improved version like GPT-4.5 or a new upgraded model, suggesting upcoming advancements in their AI technology.

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