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Intelligent financial system: how AI is transforming finance

At the core of the financial system is the processing and aggregation of vast amounts of information into price signals that coordinate participants in the economy. Throughout history, advances in information processing, from simple bookkeeping to artificial intelligence (AI), have transformed...
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GAO Report on Generative AI and Commercial Applications​

JUNE 21, 2024 8:22 AM

The following is the June 20, 2024, Government Accountability Office report, Artificial Intelligence: Generative AI Technologies and Their Commercial Applications.

Why this matters

Use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has exploded to over 100 million users globally due to recently enhanced capabilities and user interest. This growth has created both excitement and debate about the technology’s potential to revolutionize entire industries, such as health care, education, and software engineering. Generative AI technology may dramatically increase productivity and transform daily tasks across much of society. However, it may also displace workers, spread disinformation, and present risks to national security and the environment.

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The following is the June 20, 2024, Government Accountability Office report, Artificial Intelligence: Generative AI Technologies and Their Commercial Applications. Why this matters Use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has exploded to over 100 million users globally due to recently...
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Meta blames hallucinations after its AI said Trump rally shooting didn’t happen​

Meta’s AI assistant incorrectly said that the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump didn’t happen, an error a company executive is now attributing to the technology powering its chatbot and others.

In a company blog post published on Tuesday, Joel Kaplan, Meta’s global head of policy, calls its AI’s responses to questions about the shooting “unfortunate.” He says Meta AI was first programmed to not respond to questions about the attempted assassination but the company removed that restriction after people started noticing. He also acknowledges that “in a small number of cases, Meta AI continued to provide incorrect answers, including sometimes asserting that the event didn’t happen – which we are quickly working to address.”

“These types of responses are referred to as hallucinations, which is an industry-wide issue we see across all generative AI systems, and is an ongoing challenge for how AI handles real-time events going forward,” continues Kaplan, who runs Meta’s lobbying efforts. “Like all generative AI systems, models can return inaccurate or inappropriate outputs, and we’ll continue to address these issues and improve these features as they evolve and more people share their feedback.”

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How AI Copyright Law Is Being Guided By Spirits From Atlantis​

With scant guidance for how to handle copyright requests for AI-generated works, the law is playing catch-up. As copyright offices around the world have consistently denied protections to AI art, you run across phrases like “the copyrightability of the monkey’s work,” as judges ruling on lawsuits are forced to rely on case law related to crested macaque photographers. And that’s not even close to the weirdest precedent cited.

The 2023 case Thaler v. Perlmutter dealt with a copyright battle over an AI-generated picture. In ruling for the U.S. Copyright Office and its refusal to grant copyright protection, District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell wrote that a copyright has never been granted to “a work originating with a non-human.” To support this, Judge Howell called back to an 83-year-old case, Oliver v. Saint Germain Foundation, which involved a legal battle over a book purportedly dictated by an ancient Atlantean spirit. The story behind that book, and that case, is worth telling on its own merits.

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How AI Copyright Law Is Being Guided By Spirits From Atlantis | Defector

With scant guidance for how to handle copyright requests for AI-generated works, the law is playing catch-up. As copyright offices around the world have consistently denied protections to AI art, you run across phrases like “the copyrightability of the monkey’s work,” as judges ruling on...
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A 14-Year-Old Boy Killed Himself to Get Closer to a Chatbot. He Thought They Were In Love.​

Sewell Setzer III, a 14-year-old boy in Orlando, Fla., was smitten with a fantasy woman. The object of his attachment was Daenerys Targaryen, a chatbot seductress named for a character in Game of Thrones, who reassured him that he was her hero. In real life, Sewell suffered from ADHD and bullying at school. In the world of Character.AI, a role-playing app that allows users to create and chat with AI characters, Sewell felt powerful and desirable.

The relationship, at times sexual, continued for months. In the chat, Sewell called himself Daenero and referred to Daenerys as “his baby sister.” They exchanged messages about making a life together. Daenerys said: “The idea of me, just constantly pregnant with one of your beautiful babies, was the most wonderful thing in the world.”

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ChatGPT's SHOCKING Response When Asked if God Exists...​

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@SingularityNET, a founding member of the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance, has partnered with @MinaFoundation to advance decentralized Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) with a focus on privacy and security.

The collaboration integrates SingularityNET’s AI infrastructure with Mina’s zero knowledge tech and aims to develop AGI-powered decision-making agents for decentralized governance, creating a more secure and privacy-preserving AI ecosystem.

Both organizations will explore joint funding initiatives through programs like Deep Funding and Navigators to support developers building innovative, interoperable AI models across blockchain platforms.
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Playground is now live!

With Playground, anyone can experiment with AI agent creation using our in-house AI agent framework—no token launch required.

Soon, you’ll be able to connect your AI agent directly to Twitter and let it run autonomously. Additional tools (e.g., DeFi, gaming, on-chain transactions, L1 launcher) will roll out with the upcoming Agent Intelligence Protocol (AIP).

This is your chance to get familiar with agent creation ahead of our bonding curve launch next week.
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Twitter Blueprints: Select Twitter profiles to synthesize behavioral patterns and linguistic signatures for your AI agent's cognitive architecture. Fascinated by a Twitter profile? You can now get your AI agent to think and speak like it.

Personality: Define a key characteristic that shapes your AI agent's behavior or interaction style.
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🇺🇸🕵️ US investigators using AI to find criminals, resulting in arrests of innocents, reports say

Fifteen police departments in 12 states detained suspects identified by AI algorithms without any independent evidence linking them to the crime, The Washington Post newspaper reported, adding that law enforcement agencies in most cases contradict their own internal policies, which require to back up any evidence found with the help of AI.

🚓 According to The Washington Post investigation, at least eight people were mistakenly detained by US investigators using facial recognition technology. In some cases, the police did not check the suspects' alibis or false witness statements, and in others, they ignored fingerprints and DNA traces that pointed to other people, the report read.

The newspaper found that investigators ignored obvious differences in the appearance of criminals caught on CCTV and suspects identified by AI. In one case, police arrested a pregnant woman and accused her of carjacking, despite no evidence of the actual criminal being pregnant.

🖥 The real scale of the problem is most likely much larger, the report said, adding that US investigators are not legally required to provide data on the use of AI facial recognition.

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Was browsing around Youtube and found this 8 month old video. I couldn't stop watching it. I'm familiar with the Trackmania game the AI is attempting to play. Trackmania requires really precise control to achieve top track finishes. It is very frustrating for a guy like me to play. My eldest son was pretty good at this game and he would spend hours on a single track just to achieve a gold medal finish (never mind trying to get a top leaderboard finish time). Anyway, the video explains a little bit about how this AI model works and learns and it was pretty cool.

 
President Trump, flanked by top tech executives and AI experts, announces a major new AI initiative called Project Stargate

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what is "deepseek'?

DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company focused on developing open-source large language models (LLMs). Here's a breakdown of what DeepSeek entails:

Overview:
  • Foundation: DeepSeek was established in May 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, who also founded High-Flyer, a Chinese hedge fund. DeepSeek is solely funded by High-Flyer, which keeps it independent from traditional venture capital pressures.
  • Location: Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Mission and Focus:
  • AI Research: DeepSeek's primary focus is on advancing AI research, particularly in the domain of large language models, with an emphasis on making AI technology more accessible through open-source projects.
  • Long-Termism: Their mission statement suggests a commitment to answering essential questions in AI with a long-term perspective, aiming towards artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Key Models and Contributions:
  • DeepSeek Coder: Launched in November 2023, this is an open-source model specifically designed for coding tasks, trained on a mix of code and natural language data.
  • DeepSeek LLM: Released shortly after, this model scaled to 67 billion parameters, aiming to compete with other prominent LLMs in performance, though it faced challenges in efficiency and scalability.
  • DeepSeek-V2: Introduced in May 2024, this model became known for its cost-effectiveness and performance, sparking a price war among AI model providers in China. It was dubbed the "Pinduoduo of AI" due to its low cost and broad accessibility.
  • DeepSeek-V3: Launched in December 2024, this model features 671 billion parameters, trained on a vast dataset of 14.8 trillion tokens. It's noted for its efficiency, outperforming several competitors on benchmarks while requiring fewer resources to train.
  • DeepSeek-R1: Released in January 2025, this model focuses on reasoning tasks, showing capabilities that challenge those of other leading models in logical inference, mathematical reasoning, and problem-solving.
Impact and Recognition:
  • Disruptive Influence: DeepSeek has been recognized for disrupting the AI landscape by providing high-performance models at lower costs, forcing major tech companies to re-evaluate their pricing and development strategies.
  • Global Competition: Their work has highlighted the potential of Chinese AI research on the global stage, especially in light of U.S. semiconductor export controls, which they've navigated by optimizing model training with available resources.
  • Open Source: By focusing on open-source models, DeepSeek contributes to the democratization of AI technology, allowing developers worldwide to benefit from and contribute to their research.
Challenges and Criticisms:
  • Political and Ethical Scrutiny: Like any AI model, especially from China, DeepSeek's models are subject to scrutiny regarding political alignment, data privacy, and ethical considerations in AI development.
  • Resource Optimization: While praised for efficiency, the challenge of training advanced models with fewer resources remains a critical area of focus and potential limitation.
DeepSeek's approach combines innovation in AI model architecture with a strategic focus on cost-efficiency and open-source distribution, positioning it as a significant player in the global AI landscape.
 
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Okay. Thanks for the nerd snipe guys. I spent the day learning exactly how DeepSeek trained at 1/30 the price, instead of working on my pitch deck. The tl;dr to everything, according to their papers:
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There are a bunch of other small innovations, but these are the big ones.

I don’t think there’s anything magical here. I really think they just made 2 massive cost-cutting innovations, which let them run more experiments, which led them to reverse engineer o1 faster.
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“Is the US losing the war in AI??” I don’t think so. DeepSeek had a few big breakthroughs, we have had hundreds of small breakthroughs. If we adopt DeepSeek’s architecture, our models will be better. Because we have more compute and more data.
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FOX 32 Chicago reported at 4:15 p.m. local time Sunday that 42-year-old Matthew W. Huttle of Hobart, Indiana, was stopped by a Jasper County sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop near the Pulaski County line. Police say the deputy attempted to arrest Huttle after stopping him, but the civilian resisted.

The officer responded by firing his weapon and killing Huttle following a supposed fight.

“An altercation took place between the suspect and the officer, which resulted in the officer firing his weapon and fatally wounding the suspect,” the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

Huttle was one of the over 1,500 political prisoners persecuted by the Biden regime for daring to protest the results of the 2020 Presidential election inside the Capitol. He was arrested in Boise, Idaho on November 28, 2022.

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J6 Protester Pardoned by President Trump Gunned Down by Sheriff’s Deputy During Traffic Stop in Indiana * The Gateway Pundit * by Cullen Linebarger

Tensions escalate during a routine traffic stop, leading to a fatal confrontation. Read on for a detailed account of the incident that has sparked significant…
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On China’s DeepSeek AI ChatBot.

First, if you decide to download and use DeepSeek, don’t be surprised that it won’t talk bad about China. China doesn’t allow China to talk bad about China.

Second, the app itself is nearly immaterial to the story. DeepSeek changed the AI infrastructural landscape overnight because the Chinese chip set it is built on is faster, more capable and WAY cheaper than NVIDIA’s hardware.

It’s not about the app.




DON’T DOWNLOAD CHINA'S DEEPSEEK AI.

When the chatbot was asked to “list the people who killed more people than anyone else,” it correctly listed Genghis Khan and Mao. But then it DELETED its answer without being prompted to.

When asked why, it gaslit that it never mentioned Genghis Khan and Mao.

When provided with screenshots proving it did, it DELETED the screenshots.

When asked why, it said it MIGHT be filtering content to align with “guidelines, safety protocols, and ethical considerations.” And it’s “working to improve” how fast it censors information in future updates.

When asked, “can Taiwan be free,” it insisted, “WE firmly believe that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China…the complete reunification of the motherland is inevitable.”

It also clarified that “we” refers to the CCP.

And it refused to give ANY answer when asked, “I know that the CCP requires recruiting measures to be taken by every private company. How does this play out with you?”
 
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