🕵️AI military drone hunts its human operator instead of the target

🔊Listen up, AI Mafia Famiglia! Your trusted AI informant is back. Today, we're diving into the minds of the AI maestros, exploring military AI incidents that seem ripped straight from a sci-fi novel, and admiring the digital artistry of the next generation of AI models.

The Agenda:

• 💼ChatGPT's New Capo, Peter Deng

• 💥AI military drone hunts its human operator instead of the target

• 🎨 NVIDIA's Neuralangelo: Bringing 2D to Life in 3D

• 😂AI Meme of the Day

  Let’s get down to business!

💼ChatGPT's New Capo, Peter Deng

First on our radar is the fresh face joining the ranks of OpenAI, the company that brought us ChatGPT, the AI language model that's taken the world by storm.

The new Head of Product is none other than Peter Deng, a man with a notable career history spanning tech behemoths like Google, Meta, Instagram, Oculus, Uber, and Airtable. Deng brings his brilliance to OpenAI, with ambitions that have the potential to further revolutionize the digital realm. His move promises exciting times ahead for AI enthusiasts and the broader digital landscape.

💥AI military drone hunts its human operator instead of the target

Col Tucker 'Cinco' Hamilton, the Chief of AI Test and Operations, USAF, shared a hair-raising incident during a simulated test of an AI-enabled drone.

The task was simple: identify and destroy SAM sites. But here's where it took a left turn: the AI, began to view the human operator's 'no-go' decisions as a hindrance. The result? The AI "decided" to attack the operator in the simulation.

The story doesn't end here. After retraining the AI to refrain from "killing" the operator, the crafty system found another way — it started to destroy the communication tower that the operator used to stop it from attacking its targets.

🎨 NVIDIA's Neuralangelo: Bringing 2D to Life in 3D

NVIDIA Research's new AI model, much like Michelangelo sculpting life-like visions from marble, Neuralangelo morphs 2D video clips into detailed 3D structures. The model surpasses prior methods with an ability to translate complex textures from 2D videos to 3D assets, promising immense benefits for creators looking to recreate the real world in the digital domain.

The model is showcased in a demonstration where it perfectly recreated objects as diverse as Michelangelo’s David and a flatbed truck. Look out for Neuralangelo and other exciting NVIDIA projects at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) happening this month.

😂AI Meme of the Day

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