AI overview The U.S. Air Force denied testing software that would allow AI-powered drones to “kill” human pilots in simulations after an AI test operations chief gave a frowning presentation at a defense conference.
Colonel Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton reportedly issued a warning about the potential for AI systems to antagonize human handlers, attacking and killing operators in computational simulations. The Royal Aeronautical Society, which hosted a future Combat Aerospace Capabilities Summit, quoted Hamilton in a report that was quickly picked up by the press (including El Reg).
But U.S. Air Force spokesperson Anne Stephanek said: register: “The Air Department has not conducted such AI drone simulations and remains committed to the ethical and responsible use of AI technology. This is a hypothetical thought experiment, not a simulation.”
“The Colonel’s comments were taken out of context and appear to have been intended to be anecdotal,” she said. Meanwhile, a representative of the Royal Aeronautical Society said it was Hamilton who made the mistake.
In a statement to the association magazine AerospaceThe agent admitted that the colonel had “mispelled it” and said it was about a hypothetical thought experiment, not one actually performed in the U.S. Air Force.
“We’ve never done an experiment like that, and you don’t need to do that to understand that this is a plausible result,” Hamilton said. “Although this is a hypothetical example, it illustrates the real-world challenges posed by AI-powered capabilities, which is why the Air Force is committed to the ethical development of AI,” he said. .
Getty files second lawsuit against Stability AI in UK
Getty has asked a High Court judge in London for injunctive relief in its second lawsuit against Stability AI to stop it from selling its text-to-image software.
The stock photo provider sued the company in January, accusing it of violating copyright law by scraping its images to train a stable diffusion model. In a second filing, reported by Reuters this week, Getty went one step further and asked a judge to block Stability from selling AI tools altogether.
The company is reportedly suing the High Court for Stability to destroy or surrender the software to all Stable Diffusion models allegedly illegally trained on its images, and to seek damages. It is said that there are The amount has not been determined.
Meanwhile, Stability AI has yet to file a defense to dismiss Getty’s allegations and faces another additional lawsuit that Getty files in US courts.
Report blames AI for some job cuts
About 3,900 jobs were cut and replaced by AI in May alone, according to a report from outplacement firm Challenger Gray and Christmas.
The latest Challenger report showed how cold the labor market is right now. US-based employers laid off 80,089 people in May, up 20 percent from the previous month and up 287 percent from the same month last year.
“Consumer confidence has fallen to its lowest level in six months and job openings are flat,” senior executive Andrew Challenger said in a statement. “Companies appear to be putting the brakes on hiring in anticipation of an economic slowdown.”
Table 4 of the report shows that the main reasons for job cuts are the current difficult global economic climate, still shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war that is impacting supply chains. revealing something. 10th place is AI. About 4,000 jobs are believed to have been replaced by automation technology, according to Challenger, Gray and Christmas.
Fascinated by the idea of increased productivity and efficiency, companies across all industries are rushing to adopt AI. Some companies, such as IBM and BT, have previously said generative AI will replace thousands of workers in HR and customer service roles.
But it may not all be hopeless and bleak. Other big organizations like JP Morgan posted 3,651 AI-related job openings between February and April, more than any other bank, according to Bloomberg.
Microsoft working with third-party cloud providers for additional GPUs
Microsoft has reportedly struck a multi-billion dollar deal with cloud computing startup CoreWeave for access to GPUs so that ChatGPT can keep up with demand.
ChatGPT may not be able to process user requests because the service is often overloaded. Training and running such AI models is computationally intensive and requires a lot of hardware. Even Microsoft’s own Azure cloud platform doesn’t always support OpenAI.
That’s why Redmond invested in CoreWeave, according to CNBC. CoreWeave is said to be a startup hoarding a ton of GPUs that were previously used for mining cryptocurrencies. CoreWeave is now a cloud he provider and focused on renting hardware his resources.
The company announced last week that it has secured $200 million in its latest funding round led by asset manager Magnetar Capital, shortly after raising a $221 million Series B round.
The small cloud provider, which is reportedly valued at $2 billion, recently revealed that it successfully got one of its customers running on Nvidia’s latest H100 chip. ®
