Meet the AI researcher that is unamused with certain uses for AI.
Plus, the GPT-4 upgrade comes out this week!
In today’s email:
An AI researcher and author thinks we should chill a bit on AI.
The GPT-4 upgrade will let you turn text into video.
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1. Meet the AI expert that says we should pump our breaks a bit.
Meredith Broussard, an author and professor of data journalism, discussed her book "More than a Glitch," in and interview, and shared her views on the limitations of AI in cancer diagnosis, facial recognition, data science, and predictive grading.
The 🥩 of it:
Meredith Broussard is a data scientist and associate professor at New York University. She has been researching algorithmic bias for years, and recently released her latest book, More than a Glitch. In the book, she argues that applying AI to social problems without considering race, gender, and ability can cause a great deal of harm.
After recently discovering that an AI played a part in her breast cancer diagnosis, she ran her own experiments to learn more about AI's abilities in cancer diagnostics. Though she was able to replicate the same results to assure confirmation, it brings up new questions regarding the use of AI in such events:
One of the things I realized, as a cancer patient, was that the doctors and nurses and health-care workers who supported me in my diagnosis and recovery were so amazing and so crucial. I don’t want a kind of sterile, computational future where you go and get your mammogram done and then a little red box will say “This is probably cancer”. That’s not actually a future anybody wants when we’re talking about a life-threatening illness, but there aren’t that many AI researchers out there who have their own mammograms.
You can (and should) read her full interview here.
2. OpenAI's GPT-4 upgrade will let you turn text into video.
GPT-4 will be able to turn text into video, a feature already included in Google and Meta AIs. A Microsoft executive said OpenAI's new model will be released this week.
The 🥩 of it:
OpenAI's upcoming GPT-4 upgrade will include multimodal models that can turn text into video. Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun announced the release at an AI event and revealed it would be introduced this week.
Microsoft is a leading investor in OpenAI, having invested billions of dollars into the company.
Despite excitement in Silicon Valley, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman cautioned that people may be disappointed by the new model.
The OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati, also suggested that less hype would be good.
Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI is key in powering its own Bing chatbot, and it's likely that it's already using GPT-4.
ChatGPT, which has over 100 million users, has been limited to verbal outputs until now.
But OpenAI's management has come under criticism from Elon Musk, who cofounded the company before leaving the board in 2018.
"OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it 'Open' AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft," - Elon Musk in a Tweet last month
For profit or nonprofit, the fact that ChatGPT got to 100 million users in 4 months is still insane to me. For comparison, it took TikTok about 12 months to hit the same user milestone.
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