They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam. • Scammers are using artificial intelligence to sound more like family members in distress. People are falling for it and losing thousands of dollars. • (The Washington Post, Pranshu Verma) / March 5

The inside story of how ChatGPT was built from the people who made it • Discussion with four people who helped build what has become one of the most popular internet apps ever • (MIT Technology Review, Will Douglas Heaven) / March 3

ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI • Europe’s original plan to bring AI under control is no match for the technology’s new, shiny chatbot application • (POLITICO, Gian Volpicelli) / March 3

Researchers Use AI to Generate Images Based on People’s Brain Activity • Reconstruction of high-resolution and highly accurate images from brain activity by using the popular Stable Diffusion image generation model • (VICE, Chloe Xiang) / March 3

Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed • All evidence seen over the past four months shows it will lie and either is or can be manipulated into being malevolent • (The Register, Alexander Hanff) / March 2

Integrating humans with AI in structural design • A process that seeks feedback from human specialists proves more effective at optimization than automated systems working alone • (MIT News, David L. Chandler) / March 2

Hearing Voices • Shared results and observations from experimentation in using AI to design synthetic speech and clone existing voices • (Artificial Ignorance, Charlie Guo) / March 1

Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs • Developers can now integrate ChatGPT and Whisper models into their apps and products through OpenAI’s API giving access to cutting-edge language and speech-to-text capabilities • (OpenAI, Greg Brockman, et al.) / March 1

You Are Not a Parrot • And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. • (INTELLIGENCER, Elizabeth Weil) / March 1

AI: Practical Advice for the Worried • There are good reasons to worry about AI, but also good reasons that AGI, or otherwise transformational AI, might not come to pass for a long time • (Don’t Worry About the Vase, TheZvi) / March 1

OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit • OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future? • (VICE, Chloe Xiang) / February 28

ChatGPT and the AI Apocalypse • AIs run by big banks, security agencies and big corporations could mess up your credit score, put you on watch lists or deny you credit… and you won’t even know why, and no one will be able to tell you • (Python for Engineers, Shantnu Tiwari) / February 28

OpenAI’s Foundry leaked pricing says a lot – if you know how to read it • Economically transformative AI is not only here, but OpenAI is already selling it to leading corporations and we will feel the impact once models are fine-tuned and integrated into existing systems • (The Cognitive Revolution) / February 27