Here’s the kitchen sink for September 27, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

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Here is the kitchen sink for September 27, 2024 of eleven stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Self-Collection, Discovery About Discovery, and Curative Sanctions: This one had me at the title and delivers on a very interesting case covered by Michael Berman on the EDRM blog addressing a variety of issues.

The Problem of Deepfakes and AI-Generated Evidence: Is it time to revise the rules of evidence? – Part Two: The conclusion of Ralph Losey’s coverage of a topic so large (on the EDRM blog) that it doesn’t even fit into one of his blog posts. 😉 Worth it, though. As Ralph notes: “If the courts cannot protect the people from the injustice of lying and fraud, what recourse will they have?”

Police are using AI to write crime reports. What could go wrong?: Nothing. After all, the face recognition and sentencing algorithms are working so well, right? 😐

OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in “a few thousand days”: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlined his vision for an AI-driven future of tech progress and global prosperity in a new personal blog post titled “The Intelligence Age.” Altman says that “deep learning worked” and will lead to “massive prosperity.” For him, at least.

Shaping Global AI Governance: Rwanda and Singapore Launch the First AI Playbook: Very interesting article from Rob Robinson on ComplexDiscovery. As Rob notes: “Recognizing the extensive influence of AI, nations are increasingly collaborating on AI governance frameworks. The collaboration between Rwanda and Singapore in launching the world’s first AI Playbook at the United Nations Summit in September 2024 is a testament to this trend.” Looks like the US has even more catching up to do than we thought.

Meta AI Chatbot To Offer Voices Of Judi Dench, Other Celebrities: The new audio feature of Meta’s chatbot assistant, called Meta AI, includes voices from Awkwafina, Kristen Bell and Keegan-Michael Key, as well as Dench, John Cena and several non-celebrity options. Perhaps Meta is hoping that it’s more acceptable to scrape your data when a celebrity in involved. 😉

James Cameron Joins Board of Generative-AI Company Stability AI: Hey, maybe now, he really will be “king of the world”! 😀

Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity: The title makes it sound worse than it is. It’s actually about a security researcher (Johann Rehberger) who recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information and malicious instructions in a user’s long-term memory settings, then created and applied a proof-of-concept exploit when OpenAI was dismissive of his warning. That got their attention!

Why Is OpenAI Trying to Raise So Much Money?: Hey, “massive prosperity” isn’t cheap! 😉 It takes hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars to build the bigger data centers needed for AI growth.

OpenAI CTO Murati shocks with sudden departure as two other execs leave: Meanwhile, they’re dropping like flies over at OpenAI. I guess they’ll miss out on the “massive prosperity”! 😉 At least, Altman’s job is safe – it’s not like OpenAI would ever fire him, or anything. 😀

From Deepfakes to Digital Doubt: How AI Is Challenging the Future of Evidence: We now have a term for the skepticism of evidence created due to deepfakes: “deep doubt”. Rob Robinson covers the issue here.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for September 27, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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