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OpenAI helps spot AI text before it gets used for cheating (4 minute read)Researchers at OpenAI have developed a classifier to spot content generated by artificial intelligence that could be put to use in disinformation or cybercrime activities. OpenAI researchers say the classifier has undergone evaluations on a set of English texts and has achieved a 26% accuracy rate in correctly identifying AI-generated text as "likely AI-written." It has also shown a 9% false positive rate, labelling human-written text as AI-generated.

Instagram Co-Founders Launch AI-Curated News App, Artifact (2 minute read)Following their departure from Facebook in 2018, Instagram’s co-founders have returned with their latest venture. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger’s Artifact is an app that uses AI to curate and personalize a user’s news feed. Artifact is centered on three core tenets: “articles, facts and artificial intelligence,” Systrom told Platformer’s Casey Newton. The app utilizes an algorithm similar to that of TikTok’s “For You” page to recommend aggregated news.

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Top AI startup news of the week: generative AI is blowing up (4 minute read)From ChatGPT “alternatives” to the power of large language models (LLMs) for everything from protein design to note-taking, AI startup news around generative AI was blowing up around the world this week.

How AI Will Transform Project Management (11 minute read)Only 35% of projects today are completed successfully. One reason for this disappointing rate is the low level of maturity of technologies available for project management. This is about to change. Researchers, startups, and innovating organizations, are beginning to apply AI, machine learning, and other advanced technologies to project management, and by 2030 the field will undergo major shifts. Technology will soon improve project selection and prioritization, monitor progress, speed up reporting, and facilitate testing.

Google CEO promises new AI features are coming to search ‘very soon’ amid competition from ChatGPT (3 minute read)Google CEO Sundar Pichai told investors Thursday that it is planning to roll out its LaMDA language model with search components “very soon,” suggesting pressure from Microsoft-backed ChatGPT. The company also said it’s restructuring its artificial intelligence subsidiary DeepMind into Google, taking it out of Other Bets. The AI talk came as the company reported its fourth consecutive quarter in which earnings and revenue fell shy of analysts’ estimates.

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Ethics

Fact-Checkers Are Scrambling to Fight Disinformation With AI (7 minute read)The proliferation of online misinformation and propaganda has meant an uphill battle for fact-checkers worldwide, who have to sift through and verify vast quantities of information during complex or fast-moving situations, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic, or election campaigns. That task has become even harder with the advent of chatbots using large language models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which can produce natural-sounding text at the click of a button, essentially automating the production of misinformation.

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