Researchers found an easy way to retrain publicly available neural nets so they would answer in-depth questions, such as how to cheat on an exam, find pornography, or even kill their neighbor.
The rise of ChatGPT and visual AI platforms like Midjourney and DALL-E have some artists crying foul when it comes to fair use. But art institutions transformed by the digital revolution see AI as the logical next step. Rick Dakan was teaching a comic book class last year with illustration faculty including a professor who helped draw the famed comic Garfield when a colleague arrived late because they had been looking at Midjourney, the generative AI platform that creates art with a simple prompt. “I remember cornering the fine arts chair, saying, ‘Have you seen this?’” said Dakan, now chair of the AI Task Force at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla. “There was this existential dread about it.”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off Google Cloud Next 2023 by underscoring the company’s efforts to make generative AI tools more accessible to businesses and workers.