Revealed 🤯: Meta's AI plans for Instagram, Facebook & WhatsApp. PassGPT, password AI model, released. 2 bipartisan AI bills, introduced.
GM, and happy Sunday! Welcome back to your weekend AI news update.
Here’s what we’ve got for ya today:
Zuckerberg reveals Meta’s AI efforts & future plans
PassGPT, password AI model, released
2 bipartisan AI bills, introduced
Altman visits South Korea, calls for global cooperation
AI News: The Headliners 🏁
1/ Zuckerberg reveals Meta’s AI efforts & future plans
[The News] On Thursday, the Hacker Square pavilion at Meta’s Menlo Park HQ filled with employees eager to hear about future Meta AI efforts.
Here’s what Zuckerberg revealed:
Specific to Instagram Stories, one AI tech product will let users modify personal photos using text prompts & share them on the social platform.
Specific to Facebook Messenger & WhatsApp, another AI product gives users the ability to incorporate personalities and capabilities to help or entertain.
Zuckerberg stated that he is all in when it comes to publishing research and sharing AI tech with the open source community.
[Why this matters] Is Meta the tortoise in the AI race?
At a surface level, it really looks like Meta is behind everyone else when it comes to incorporating and releasing AI tech products.
Microsoft released AI copilots for Office, Windows, and Bing. Snapchat released its own My AI chatbot. And the list goes on and on…
While Meta has been pretty silent.
Looking forward… Slow or not, it looks like Meta has a lot hidden up its virtual sleeves.
**Could the secret to AI dominance be calculated silence…and capitalizing on the mistakes of others?**
In a statement to Axios, Zuckerberg said, "In the last year, we've seen some really incredible breakthroughs—qualitative breakthroughs—on generative AI, and that gives us the opportunity to now go take that technology, push it forward, and build it into every single one of our products."
2/ PassGPT, password AI model, released
Password, UNLOCKED.
[The News] PassGPT, a password-guessing LLM, has been announced.
How did it come about? Well, with the combined efforts of ETH Zürich, Swiss Data Science Center, and SRI International in NY, the researchers involved were able to take advantage of OpenAI’s GPT-2 model to train a LLM on an abundant amount of previously leaked passwords from prior hacks.
But here’s the thing: It is here to help you.
[The AI] PassGPT uses a strategy called progressive sampling.
The creator, Javi Rando, recently tweeted, “Trained on password leaks, PassGPT can generate 20% more unseen passwords than existing GAN methods.
He also points out that it’s “an explicit generative model, allowing us to access the modeled distribution and compute the probability of any given password under the model. We leverage this capability to analyze password strength vulnerabilities."
[Why this matters] You might be thinking that PassGPT is bad news. But on the flip side, the key here is that human-generated passwords often have high-probability patterns that are simply too easy to crack.
PassGPT creates an opportunity for people to increase password security by training models to offer passwords with the least predictable patterns, thus creating more secure passwords.
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AI News: The Shorts 🩳
3/ 2 bipartisan AI bills, introduced
[The News] On Thursday, US senators introduced 2 separate bipartisan AI bills.
Here's the skinny:
1st Bill: The US government needs to be transparent when using AI to interact with people.
In a statement made by Senator Mike Braun:
“The federal government needs to be proactive and transparent with AI utilization and ensure that decisions aren't being made without humans in the driver's seat.”
2nd Bill: To stay competitive in the latest technologies, the US government will establish an office to keep up with the race. (named the Office of Global Competition Analysis)
In a statement made by Senator Michael Bennet:
"We cannot afford to lose our competitive edge in strategic technologies like semiconductors, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence to competitors like China."
Looking forward…Senators will receive three briefings on artificial intelligence, including the first classified briefing on the topic, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
4/ Altman visits South Korea, calls for global cooperation
[The News] During a trip to South Korea, Sam Altman makes an asserted effort to call for more international cooperation in terms of regulating generative AI.
Word for word, Altman tells South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol:
“As these systems get very, very powerful, that does require special concern, and it has global impact. So it also requires global cooperation.”
The shared sentiment?
Speed. It. Up.
Looking forward… According to Goldman Sachs, AI could eventually automate 300 million+ jobs.
Altman’s response to that?
“The ability to learn new things fast, adapt to them, and sort of evolve yourself into technology—those are the kinds of skills that I think are going to be very much rewarded.”
But as President Yoon stressed, it is still important that there are international standards that need to be implemented to prevent the unwanted “side effects.”
I.e. Bad people using AI for bad
Your AI News Break 🥳
AI News Tid Bits…
👉🏻 Celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Will.I.Am, & Leonardo DiCaprio are investing millions of dollars into AI ventures. Kutcher explains, “This is going to change business forever, and we need to embrace it because, right now, this AI can be used to improve humanity.”
👉🏻 AI-powered garbage trucks? According to the CEO of Oshkosh Corp., John Pfeifer, AI is already making the company’s garbage trucks more efficient, revealing that AI has the potential to make future garbage collection autonomous.
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