Daisy the ‘AI granny’ speaks to scammer: ‘I’m a bit lost now’

Daisy is not a real grandmother but an AI bot created by computer scientists to combat fraud. Her task is simply to waste the time of the people who are trying to scam her. Using a mixture of ambivalence, confusion about how computers work and an eagerness to reminisce about her younger days, the “78 years young” Daisy draws sighs and snapping from fraudsters on the other end of the line ‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wal

The AI Poison Pill – We Can DESTROY The Slop Channels

With a never ending influx of AI content thieves, and slop channels reposting plagiarized content, it looks like YouTubers finally have an easy mechanism of fighting back. Discovered by a YouTuber called F4mi, caption files can be converted through multiple formats, infecting a video with an indistinguishable payload of gibberish and nonsense which is undetectable to an average viewer, but completely destroys the ability for AI scrapers to correctly summarize or interpret the content. In effect, if used at scale, this can poison LLMs seeking to train on YouTube videos, and destroy the ability for low level content farmers to use basic AI summary mechanisms for stealing the hard work of real creators. While certainly not a finishing blow, its a way for actual creators to fight back, and make it substantially more difficult to operate an AI slop channel on the platform. Example videos. One is clean, the other infected with an AI scrambling payload.

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How AI Will Answer Questions We Haven’t Thought to Ask | Aravind Srinivas | TED

Human potential will only accelerate with AI answering questions better and faster than ever before, says Aravind Srinivas, cofounder and CEO of conversational search engine Perplexity. He examines the trends driving new AI-powered tools that nourish curiosity and creativity — and how they might usher in a new era of intellectual growth and discovery. “Knowledge does not really care about who you are, where you’re from or who you have access to. Rather, what matters is the next question you’re going to ask,” says Srinivas. (Recorded at TEDAI San Francisco on October 22, 2024)

DeepSeek – How a Chinese AI Startup Shook Silicon Valley

The release of a new reasoning model, known as R1, led investors to question US dominance in tech, their expectations around future AI capex while also raising the prospect that China might beat Silicon Valley at its own game.

The new DeepSeek model can “reason” to solve complex problems and performs as well as the AI software from US tech giants like Google and OpenAI, but was apparently developed at a fraction of the price of those models.

DeepSeek quickly overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free app on the US iOS App store.