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šŸ¤ AI deal: US-China summit could ban autonomous weaponry

šŸ¤ AI deal: US-China summit could ban autonomous weaponry

Captainā€™s Logā€¦ AI is moving at the speed of thought! 

Meta has unveiled an AI that can read human thoughts and translate them into images. OpenAI set the bar incredibly high with GPT4 Turbo and capabilities that effectively leapfrog many other AI startups ā€” theyā€™ll now need to pivot or perish. Plus, weā€™re seeing an accelerating convergence of AI and robots.

Even the former generation of tech pioneers are coming out of retirement. The founders of MySpace (a precursor to Facebook, for our younger readers) have a new AI company, Plai. Their first product, PlaiDay, is a text-to-image and video service that takes usersā€™ selfies and creates decent avatars. I appreciate the name Plai, but feel the name ā€œMaiSpaceā€ would have been even better, lol.

For those not familiar with me, my name is Cory Lopes-Warfield ā€“ Iā€™m a serial tech founder, EIR, investor, educator and influencer in the AI/blockchain/robotics space, and my primary platform has been LinkedIn, where Iā€™m a power user; but I also have created some of the other biggest influencers on LinkedIn as a coach. 

I mention that only to say that OpenAI has now given users the ability to create and train their own GPTs, along with an App Store where creators will be able to monetize their GPTs. So I created an ā€œInfluencer Coachā€ GPT thatā€™s pretty good, and its getting better all the time. 

Today, Iā€™ll teach you how to create your own

Last week, I also taught you how to ā€œwrite a bookā€ using AI/ChatGPT, and ā€œate my own dog foodā€ to write ā€œThe Hitchhikerā€™s Guide to Linkedin,ā€ now available as a free e-book. 

Thatā€™s all to say, the tech exists and works, and people like me donā€™t just talk about it, we use it every day. And to the end, I proudly present AI Logs Issue 5. As always, we value and welcome your feedback.

NEWS

šŸ›‘ US and China set to forbid use of AI technology in autonomous weaponry

Presidents Biden and Xi are expected to announce a historic pact banning autonomous AI-powered weapons at todayā€™s summit in San Francisco. As superpower tensions simmer, the leaders appear poised to pledge against applying AI for nuclear command/control and autonomous drones or robots. While details remain unconfirmed, the move would help restrict military AI applications to reduce catastrophe risks.

Both nations have raised concerns over unchecked AI development. Earlier this year, the US led an international declaration promoting responsible AI use in defense contexts. For its part, China has heavily invested in AI research, including for its military. However, leaders seem to recognize the dangers of delegating life-or-death decisions to AI systems. An AI weapons ban would be an important symbolic step toward cooperation.

A ban alone cannot fully prevent military AI abuses or arms races. But combined with ethical norms and transparency measures, it provides a foundation. As AI capabilities accelerate, more complex challenges will emerge around verification and international compliance. Yet the pact would establish key principles and continue important US-China dialogues. 

However, 80 percent of respondents in our Monday Daily Blueprint poll expected the development of autonomous weaponry to continue in secret, regardless of any agreements.

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Other Important Updates

Prompt of The Week

Criticize Mode: Once youā€™ve got results such as email titles, book title suggestions, social media content, startup ideas, etc., from your AI, ask it to, "Act as a critic. Criticize these (results) and tell me why theyā€™re bad.ā€ 

You can also ask it to act as a harsh critic, and provide brutally honest feedback. This is a powerful prompt, but please be aware that it will continue criticizing itself until you tell it to stop doing so.  

AI Image of the Week

Last week, we covered the launch of xAIā€™s Grok chatbot. X user @KettlebellLife asked Grok to describe itself and ā€œit went pretty hard,ā€ resulting in this menacing self portrait produced in DALLā€¢E3. The post has since collected nearly 679,000 views and 2,600 likes.

TUTORIAL

Create your own GPT (requires GPT-Pro subscription):

Create your own GPT (requires GPT-Pro subscription)

  1. Go to ā€œExploreā€ in the search bar, above your list of recent threads

  2. Click ā€œCreate a GPT (beta)ā€

  3. Youā€™ll now be in ā€œCreateā€ mode, where you can chat with ChatGPT about what you want your GPT to do, what you will train it on, how it should behave, what users will be using it for, etc. 

  4. You will then start engaging with it as though it were your own Chatbot to train it. You can upload files, videos, graphics and your own KB (knowledge base). It will also generate an icon button for you, and you can change it as desired.

  5. In ā€œConfigure,ā€ you can name it, amend the instructions it will be auto-generating, toggle features like Browser Mode, and add or amend the conversation starters it automatically generated for you.

  6. Preview is where you can see the bot as others will see it, and play with it.

  7. Save your GPT and make it private, accessible by link, or public for the world to enjoy!

šŸ¤‘ You will also be able to monetize your best GPTs soon.

TOOLS OF THE WEEK

šŸ¤– CraftJarvis/ Jarvis-1 is an open source project currently on Github that learns as it goes (similarly to MemGPT Iā€™ve featured here before). It can also deploy simultaneous autonomous agents, itā€™s multi-modal, and itā€™s an all round huge step for AI (other than the less-than-original name ā€“ whatā€™s with all the bad names in AI?). It has already figured out and is able to play Minecraft on its own already, which I find to be super cool!  The end goal is the execution of complex tasks on the userā€™s behalf, with minimal or no input from the user, using its own ā€œmemory.ā€ Just to be clear, this Jarvis is not associated with either Microsoftā€™s or the Iron Man OS.

ā© ChatGPT-4 Turbo: I have no option but to feature this, though youā€™re all likely to be at least somewhat familiar with it. This latest update legitimately takes ChatGPT to the next level. Hereā€™s whatā€™s new:  You no longer needing to toggle between DALLā€¢E, the web browser, Data Analytics, or Vision, which alone is HUGE.  Itā€™s faster, more accurate and can handle significantly larger character input.  Itā€™s trained on much more recent data than previous versions. GPT creation (as described above) and an App Store for them.  It allows collaboration, JSON outputs, and even more.  This is close to what many have speculated a GPT-4.5 would be like, and itā€™s incredible.

šŸ“ AI Pin from Humane: This will be released publicly tomorrow and is former Apple designersā€™ and engineersā€™ attempt at making the smartphone obsolete. Powered by T-Mobile, this wearable device can hear, talk, project data into usersā€™ hands, and presumably onto walls. It can do many of the things our smartphones can, but without the need for a screen.  Retailing for $699 with a $24 per month subscription that can include a phone number and data usage, this is, potentially, huge step in portable capability. But will it catch on? 

šŸ—» Olympus: Amazon has been working on their own replacement for Alexa to help with shopping, and to add value in the ways other LLMs like GPT do. It will be out for free at the beginning of the New Year.  Notably, Amazon invested $4 billion into Anthropic just two weeks after we announced here that Google has committed $2 billion into the company, which runs Claude/2.  Google already has their own DeepMind, Bert, T5, LaMDA, PaLM, Ernie AI models, so it feels as though Google and Amazon both know something about Anthropic that makes them both very bullish on it. Could a potential power partnership be in the works? Stay tuned!

Written by

Cory Warfield

LinkedIn Top Voice/Influencer in AI

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