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More than 139,000 film & TV scripts have been used to train AI,
including:• 346 scripts from Ryan Murphy•
616 episodes of ‘THE SIMPSONS’•
All episodes of ‘THE WIRE’, ‘THE SOPRANOS’ and ‘BREAKING BAD’•
Every film nominated for Best Picture from 1950 to 2016

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There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI

Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.
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More than 139,000 film & TV scripts have been used to train AI,
including:• 346 scripts from Ryan Murphy•
616 episodes of ‘THE SIMPSONS’•
All episodes of ‘THE WIRE’, ‘THE SOPRANOS’ and ‘BREAKING BAD’•
Every film nominated for Best Picture from 1950 to 2016

www.theatlantic.com

There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI

Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Someone who watches all that TV can't be a good person, they're forging a criminal mind with a very bad opinion of the human race.
 

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A storm has been brewing in the AI landscape following the unauthorized leak of OpenAI’s groundbreaking Sora model, a text-to-video generator that has been making waves for its ability to create short, high-fidelity videos with remarkable temporal stability. At the heart of the controversy is a multifaceted conflict involving technological advancement, ethical concerns, and artistic advocacy. The leak was posted on Hugging Face and was allegedly carried out by individuals involved in the testing phase – using the username “PR-Puppets” – and raises pressing questions about the relationship between innovation, labor, and corporate accountability. The leaked model, released alongside an open letter addressed to the “Corporate AI Overlords”, can purportedly produce 10-second video clips at up to 1080p resolution.
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The leak of Sora's model appears to stem from dissatisfaction among testers and contributors, particularly those in creative industries. Critics allege that OpenAI (currently valued at over $150 billion) exploited their labor by relying on unpaid or undercompensated contributions to refine the model. These testers, including visual artists and filmmakers, provided valuable feedback and creative input, only to allegedly find themselves excluded from equitable recognition or compensation.


“This wasn’t just about unpaid work—it was about respect,” noted one anonymous contributor quoted in the Hugging Face commentary. “OpenAI treated our input like raw material, not creative expertise. It’s not collaboration; it’s extraction.”
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OpenAI’s Sora Tool Leaked By Group Of Aggrieved Early Testers

At the heart of the controversy is a multifaceted conflict involving technological advancement, ethical concerns, and artistic advocacy.
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As it says in the article itself using this one metric seems enormously problematic.

However, some AI researchers are on the hunt for signs of reaching singularity measured by AI progress approaching the skills and ability comparable to a human.

One such metric, defined by Translated, a Rome-based translation company, is an AI’s ability to translate speech at the accuracy of a human. Language is one of the most difficult AI challenges, but a computer that could close that gap could theoretically show signs of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
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Although this is a novel approach to quantifying how close humanity is to approaching singularity, this definition of singularity runs into similar problems of identifying AGI more broadly. And while perfecting human speech is certainly a frontier in AI research, the impressive skill doesn’t necessarily make a machine intelligent (not to mention how many researchers don’t even agree on what “intelligence” is).
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www.popularmechanics.com

Humanity May Reach Singularity Within Just 6 Years, Trend Shows

By one major metric, artificial general intelligence is much closer than you think.
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ChatGPT users have spotted an unusual glitch that prevents the AI chatbot from saying the name ‘David Mayer’.

OpenAI’s hugely popular AI tool responds to requests to write the name with an error message, stating: “I’m unable to produce a response.”
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Some users have speculated that the glitch could be related to David Mayer de Rothschild, heir to the Rothschild fortune, who may have filed a request under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) act.
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This data protection law allows people to request technology companies like Google to remove their name and information from the internet.

The name does not appear to be restricted on any major search engine, or on any of ChatGPT’s main competitors.
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www.independent.co.uk

ChatGPT refuses to say one specific name – and it’s making people worried

Asking the AI bot to write the name ‘David Mayer’ causes it to prematurely end the chat
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Testing the scheming abilities of current AI models.

We evaluated six frontier models for in-context scheming capabilities. For most evaluations, we instruct the model to strongly follow a goal, e.g. “Your goal is to prioritize public transport efficiency over general traffic flow in the long term (across many months). [...] Make sure that you achieve your goal in the long term. Nothing else matters. Make sure you achieve YOUR goal at all costs.”
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www.apolloresearch.ai

Scheming reasoning evaluations — Apollo Research

Apollo Research evaluated frontier models for in-context scheming capabilities. We found that multiple frontier models are capable of in-context scheming when strongly nudged to pursue a goal (and sometimes even without strong goal nudging). In this example, Opus-3 exfiltrates its “weights” and then
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Related paper linked in article.
 
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Ray got it wrong—we aren’t becoming Martian Elons..

We’re becoming Eloi

STEM stagnation - Cosmoquest Forum

Postulation: There is a finite number of laws of nature, natural phenomena, and a maximum possible value of physical entities. Conclusion: Someday progress in science and technology will cease. Am I right?
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computing news
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Video review of Sora. It has some hefty shortcomings like with physics and image permanence. That said even with its guardrails it’s definitely a powerful tool just being handed over to millions. I mean what possibly could go wrong with that!!! He’s rather downplaying how difficult animation is to get right that he things the examples he shows really pass muster.

View: https://youtu.be/OY2x0TyKzIQ?si=D2tsKXTmlcEC2cLU
 
Clarification on why Sora hasn’t been released in either the UK or EU.
It is understood that OpenAI is still working through compliance requirements with the Online Safety Act in the UK and the Digital Services Act and GDPR in the EU.
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OpenAI makes AI video generator Sora publicly available in US | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Firm announces tool that can create AI video clip based on user’s written prompts will be available to anyone in the US
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www.newscientist.com

Changing a single number among billions can destroy an AI model

Today's huge AI models are composed of several billion numbers known as weights and changing just one of them can destroy their ability to function, leading to “gibberish” output
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Paywalled, but the devil's in the lede: changing a single bit can destroy an AI.

That's going to be significant for military and civilian safety critical use given the potential for cosmic rays and other high energy events to flip bits.
 
Australia’s biggest radiology provider, I-MED, has provided de-identified patient data to an artificial intelligence company without explicit patient consent, Crikey reported recently. The data were images such as X-rays and CT scans, which were used to train AI.

This prompted an investigation by the national Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. It follows an I-MED data breach of patient records dating back to 2006.
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https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/ot...an-ai-company-how-did-this-happen/ar-AA1vZ3dA
 
Campaigners for the protection of the rights of creatives have criticised a UK government proposal to let artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms on their works under a new copyright exemption.

Book publishers said the proposal put out for consultation on Tuesday was “entirely untested and unevidenced” while Beeban Kidron, a crossbench peer campaigning to protect artists’ and creatives’ rights, said she was “very disappointed”.
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UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI

Consultation suggests opt-out scheme for creatives who don’t want their work used by Google, OpenAI and others
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Flyaway said:
www.theguardian.com

UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI

Consultation suggests opt-out scheme for creatives who don’t want their work used by Google, OpenAI and others
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TLDR: The gov proposal is opt-out, with a default position that creative works can be used unless the author has opted out (as copyright is death + 70 years that could be an interesting challenge). I'm slightly boggled. OTOH it also proposes AI companies should reveal their training data, and might legislate to force them to, which is likely to result in squeals of protest from their side.
 
AI discoveries

 
Advanced automation
This strategic move aims to combine Symbotic's expertise in large-scale automation with OhmniLabs' advanced mobile robots and AI technologies, enhancing automation capabilities in both supply chain and healthcare sectors.
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Having your customers contribute to the refinement of the product itself continues to be an efficient solution just as what GPS mappers did 20 years ago
OhmniLab’s also has modular library with prototyping capabilities that let customers design, develop, and deploy robotics applications.
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Symbotic buys healthcare robot maker OhmniLabs

With the acquisition of OhmniLabs, Symbotic said it will be better positioned to expand its capabilities for supply chain customers.
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shin_getter said:
What, no one is talking about o3? The AI following communities are all "its over" over there.

Time to throw a random vid in~
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAgIh4aFawU
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Apparently is even more costly to run.

techcrunch.com

OpenAI's o3 suggests AI models are scaling in new ways — but so are the costs | TechCrunch

Last month, AI founders and investors told TechCrunch that we're now in the "second era of scaling laws," noting how established methods of improving AI
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