As AI gets more advanced, especially in the areas of speech and audio, bad actors are finding ways to profit off impersonating loved ones and duping them into giving up their money.

A couple in Canada reportedly lost $21,000 from an AI-generated voice that pretended to be their son. It’s causing real financial harm as it becomes almost impossible to tell whether a voice is real or not.

For the sake of our loved ones, we need to be careful.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Welcome to the Museum of the Future AI Apocalypse (WIRED)

Google’s one step closer to building its 1,000-language AI model (The Verge)

Microsoft to detail the ‘future of work with AI’ during March 16th event - (The Verge)

Microsoft Edge’s AI upscaling feature can improve low-resolution video - (The Verge)

The inside story of how ChatGPT was built from the people who made it | (MIT Technology Review)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Making model initialization faster than transferring from CPU (link)

200-Year-Old Math Opens Up AI’s Mysterious Black Box (IEEE)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Datasets at your fingertips in Google Search – Google AI Blog (Google Blog)

Shark-NLP/OpenICL: OpenICL is an open-source framework to facilitate research, development, and prototyping of in-context learning. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

In-Context Instruction Learning (arxiv)

StyO: Stylize Your Face in Only One-Shot (arxiv)

Grounded Decoding - Guiding Text Generation with Grounded Models for Robot Control (grounded-decoding.github.io)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Delta’s free in-flight wifi was a multiyear journey (Emerging Tech Brew)

Japan’s Push to Boost Birth Rates Is Falling Short (Bloomberg)

Amazon NFTs Will Be Tied to Real-world Assets, Token Possible (Blockworks)

One Last Bite 😋

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