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Sep 21st 2023
AI Inside beta010
Avocado in a Chair
Hosted by
Jason Howell,
Jeff Jarvis
New DALL-E 3 features, how AI is framed by the media
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Guests:
Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD
This week on AI Inside, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis delve into the latest AI developments with scholar Nirit Weiss-Blatt, exploring the media framing of AI, the rise of AI doom-mongers, positive applications of AI, and more.
- Jason and Jeff kick things off discussing the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority's proposed principles for AI - but who did they actually consult in drafting them?
- OpenAI revealed DALL-E 3 with updates like integrating ChatGPT for prompt creation, and an opt-out form for artists to exclude their art.
- Nirit Weiss-Blatt discusses her AI Panic Newsletter and the problem of media only covering dystopian AI scenarios. She outlines the top 10 AI media frames from super-utopian to apocalyptic.
- They debate how to cover AI responsibly, tamp down hype, and bring in perspectives from ethics researchers and scholars rather than just the same old tech CEOs.
- Nirit advises looking at positive potential use cases like in healthcare while avoiding exaggerated dystopian and utopian visions.
Picks:
- Jeff's Pick: HeyGen video translation
- Jason's Pick: Google’s Bard chatbot can now find answers in your Gmail, Docs, Drive
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Links
- UK’s competition watchdog drafts principles for ‘responsible’ generative AI
- DALL-E 3
- Google and the Department of Defense are building an AI-powered microscope to help doctors spot cancer
- What Ilya Sutskever Really Wants
- What’s Wrong with AI Media Coverage & How to Fix it
- Your Guide to the Top 10 “AI Media Frames”
- heygen.com
- Google’s Bard chatbot can now find answers in your Gmail, Docs, Drive
- AI Panic Newsletter