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AI Deciphers Scroll Destroyed in Pompei
Plus a $25M Deepfake Heist
Nathaniel Whittemore
February 06, 2024
The AI Breakdown First Five - Tuesday February 6, 2024
Today on the First Five:
5. State AGs Sound Warning Against Biden AI EO
4. Microsoft’s AI News Partnership
3. Meta Calls for AI-Generated Image Labels
2. A $25M Deepfake Heist
1. AI Decipher’s Ancient Scroll; Wins Vesuvius Challenge
5. State AGs Sound Warning Against Biden AI EO
A coalition of 20 state attorneys general have sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo about their concerns that President Biden’s EO on AI “seeks…to centralize government control over an emerging technology being developed by the private sector.” Are you concerned about this?
20-State AGs led by @UtahAG on the AI Exec Order's abuse of the Defense Production Act (DPA):
The DPA "does not authorize the President to supervise the development of this emerging technology."
attorneygeneral.utah.gov/ag-reyes-leads…
— Kevin Schmidt (@KevinSchmidt8)
1:44 PM • Feb 6, 2024
4. Microsoft’s AI News Partnership
Even as they face down a lawsuit from the New York Times, Microsoft continues to pursue next-generation partnerships with news organizations. They’ve just announced a partnership with Semafor to help integrate AI into the newsroom.
Microsoft is paying Semafor to use its AI tech for a breaking news feed called Signals. It'll be written entirely by journalists; chatgpt helping w/ research.
@semaforben says it's the most important product launch since Semafor's founding.
more details:— Anna Nicolaou (@annaknicolaou)
4:57 PM • Feb 5, 2024
3. Meta Calls for AI-Generated Image Labels
Meta is ramping up its policies around labeling AI-generated content. Instagram, Facebook and Threads will all start labeling photos that are generated with AI tools from Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe and others. Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs indicated that this is just a first step around election vigilance.
Facebook and Instagram to label all images on their platforms created by AI, Meta says
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— Sky News (@SkyNews)
2:20 PM • Feb 6, 2024
2. A $25M Deepfake Heist
In one of the most brazen deepfake scams yet perpetrated, a multinational’s Hong Kong office suffered a $25m loss after multiple members of the team including the company’s CFO showed up on a video conference call and started instructing an employee to transfer funds. The people on the video were deepfaked, however. Wild!
Imagine joining a video call with your colleagues, wiring $25m… then finding out they were AI.
Just 1 year ago, AI deepfakes were a joke. Now, no one’s laughing.
What if AIs improve this fast at… everything? Will AIs be the new apex species?
CNN: “He grew suspicious after he… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ (@AISafetyMemes)
7:40 AM • Feb 5, 2024
1. AI Decipher’s Ancient Scroll; Wins Vesuvius Challenge
Former Github CEO and prolific AI investor Nat Friedman last lear launched the Vesuvius challenge, a $1m prize for people to develop AI that could read passages from a scroll that had been burned and preserved in the Herculaneum library that was destroyed in Pompei. Now, someone has won!
Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Nat Friedman (@natfriedman)
2:56 PM • Feb 5, 2024
Bonus: So true
AI community learning all the tools
— Kris Kashtanova (@icreatelife)
3:01 AM • Feb 6, 2024
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