The seven most shambolic things that happened in AI today.

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The seven most shambolic things that happened in AI today.

TL;DR

  • Hedge fund Situational Awareness, led by Leopold Aschenbrenner, collapsed due to hubris and hyper-leverage.
  • A U.S. government map of Africa, reportedly made with OpenAI tools, mislabeled all countries and had an AI watermark.
  • OpenAI decreased its prices by 80%.
  • Anthropic experienced a cybersecurity incident.
  • New research details concerning advancements in AI jailbreaking.
  • AI scientists are reportedly not 'up to scratch,' particularly in open-ended research.

No time today to cover all this in depth, and I might have missed one, but make sure to check out:

  1. The dramatic, hubris-fueled, hyper-leveraged downfall of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s high-flying hedge fund Situational Awareness. You can read the NYT coveragehere, or this short summary that appeared on X:

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  2. The U.S. government shared a map of Africa that mislabeled every single country, spotted by:

  3. Bonus: Reutersfurther reportsthat “the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that ⁠signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company said it was investigating the report.”

  4. OpenAI was driven by competition to drop its prices by 80%. Who needs margins anyway?

  5. Anthropic? They had alittle cybersecurity oopsie of their own

  6. MIT Technology Review reportednew, disturbing adventures in jailbreaking

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  7. and a large team of others reported that AI scientists still aren’t really up to scratch,especially when it comes to open-ended research:

    Who knows what tomorrow will bring.

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