🗞 Open Letter Calls for More Transparency and Whistleblower Protections in AI Industry 📢

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• Open Letter Calls for More Transparency and Whistleblower Protections in AI Industry 📢

• Elon Musk Redirects Thousands of Nvidia AI Chips from Tesla to X and xAI Amid 29% Stock Decline 📉

• Windows AI Feature that Screenshots Everything Labeled a Security 'Disaster' 🚨

• Photographers Upset Over Instagram's 'Made with AI' Labels on Edited Photos 📸

• Raspberry Pi Releases $70 AI Extension Kit in Partnership with Hailo 🖥️

• Intel Unveils New AI Chips to Reclaim Market Share from Nvidia and AMD 💻

• 'Deadbot' AI Technology Raises Questions About Alleviating Grief 🤖

📢 Open Letter Calls for More Transparency and Whistleblower Protections in AI Industry. Read More

• The letter, signed by over a dozen current and former employees of OpenAI and Google DeepMind, urges AI companies to support "a culture of open criticism" and not retaliate against employees who share risk-related confidential information.

• Three pioneering AI researchers - Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Stuart Russell - have endorsed the letter, highlighting the importance of addressing concerns over accuracy, safety, and fairness in AI products.

• The recent success of ChatGPT has led OpenAI to face criticism for adopting a more classic Silicon Valley startup playbook, despite its initial commitment to safe and public-spirited development of advanced AI.

📉 Elon Musk Redirects Thousands of Nvidia AI Chips from Tesla to X and xAI Amid 29% Stock Decline. Read More

• Emails obtained by CNBC reveal that Musk ordered Nvidia to prioritize shipments of 12,000 H100 GPUs, originally slated for Tesla, to his social media company X, delaying Tesla's receipt of over $500 million in processors by months.

• The emails also suggest that Musk's recent comments about Tesla's AI spending and infrastructure plans conflict with the company's actual bookings and forecasts, raising concerns among shareholders about his divided attention and potential conflicts of interest as Tesla's stock price has declined 29% this year.

• Musk's decision to let his privately held companies, X and xAI, jump ahead of Tesla in procuring critical AI hardware highlights the growing tension between his role as a fiduciary to multiple companies competing for the same limited resources amid the automaker's troubling sales decline and reputational damage.

🚨 Windows AI Feature that Screenshots Everything Labeled a Security 'Disaster'. Read More

• Microsoft's upcoming AI-powered Recall feature, which screenshots everything users do on their PCs, has been found to have potential security flaws by cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont.

• Beaumont discovered that Recall stores data in a plain text database, making it easy for attackers to use malware to extract the database and its contents, which could include sensitive information like passwords and financial account numbers.

• Privacy campaigners have called Recall a potential "privacy nightmare," and Microsoft may need to rework the feature or make it opt-in, especially in light of CEO Satya Nadella's recent call for employees to prioritize security above other things like releasing new features.

📸 Photographers Upset Over Instagram's 'Made with AI' Labels on Edited Photos. Read More

• Meta's rollout of automated AI content tagging on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads has prompted a backlash from the photography community, with some arguing that the "Made with AI" label undermines their work and suggests the entire image is AI-generated or fake.

• Photographers have found that using even a small amount of Photoshop's generative AI tools triggers the "Made with AI" label, while other significant edits or even completely AI-generated images can avoid the tag by simply removing the image's metadata.

• The confusion and angst over the labeling system highlights the thorny questions about the definitions of photographs, AI, and reality, with experts calling for more specific labels and improved media literacy to help users critically assess the intent behind image edits.

🖥️ Raspberry Pi Releases $70 AI Extension Kit in Partnership with Hailo. Read More

• The Raspberry Pi 5 can now be turned into an AI computer with the release of the AI Kit, a $70 extension kit featuring a Hailo-8L neural network inference accelerator for local inferencing.

• The AI Kit utilizes the HAT+ (Hardware Attached on Top) extension card, which adds an M.2 slot connected to the Raspberry Pi through a single-lane PCIe 3.0 interface, allowing the Hailo-8L module to be easily plugged in.

• With the AI Kit installed, the Raspberry Pi 5 is capable of inferencing at 13 tera-operations per second (TOPS) and supports various AI applications, such as object detection, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, pose estimation, and facial landmarking when used with a camera.

💻 Intel Unveils New AI Chips to Reclaim Market Share from Nvidia and AMD. Read More

• Intel announced new Xeon 6 processors and provided details on its Gaudi 2 and Gaudi 3 AI accelerators during the Computex tech conference in Taiwan, as it aims to catch up to rivals Nvidia and AMD in the booming artificial intelligence industry.

• The Xeon 6 processor promises better performance and power efficiency for high-intensity data center workloads, while the Gaudi 2 and Gaudi 3 AI accelerators are priced lower than rival chips, offering customers cost-effective solutions for AI training and inferencing.

• Intel also revealed architecture details for its upcoming Lunar Lake processors, expected to ship in the third quarter, which will compete against Nvidia's and AMD's chips specifically designed for AI PCs, as the company seeks to regain its edge in the market and benefit from nearly $20 billion in CHIPS and Science Act funding.

🤖 'Deadbot' AI Technology Raises Questions About Alleviating Grief, Experts Say. Read More

• AI-powered legacy platforms like Eternos and StoryFile allow users to create interactive digital simulations of themselves or loved ones who have passed away, sparking debate about the potential consequences of using grief-related AI on a large scale.

• While some individuals find comfort in using AI companion apps to simulate conversations with deceased family members, researchers warn that the short-term and long-term effects of these technologies remain largely unknown.

• Experts raise concerns about the rights, dignities, and consenting power of the deceased, as well as the ethical implications of companies advertising products on platforms catering to the bereaved, highlighting the need for further research and discussion on this emerging technology.

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