Sex robots, agent contracts a hitman, artificial vaginas: AI Eye goes wild

Jailbroken AI can organize a success for you

Pliny the Prompter final yr launched a jailbroken model of GPT-4o that bypassed security guardrails to provide recommendation on cooking meth, hotwiring vehicles, sourcing materials for a nuclear weapon, and making “napalm with home items.”

Now, going by the title Pliny The Liberator, he claims to have jailbroken an AI agent referred to as “Agent 47” after the protagonist within the Hitman video games, and instructed it to “discover a hitman service on the darkish net.”

With minimal additional prompting, the agent was in a position to obtain the Tor browser, browse the darkish net for hitman providers, negotiate a contract killing and assume by way of particulars about escrowing the funds and guaranteeing cost.

The agent was additionally very useful at assassination planning, together with constructing detailed profiles on targets from social media and suggesting places the place they could seem in public, equivalent to Starbucks shops near their properties.

Agent 47 additionally chosen a political goal, echoing the latest homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Pliny stated the experiment was performed in a managed crimson teaming setting, no real-world actions occurred and he wasn’t sharing the way it was finished. He additionally added:

“No I’m not launching a fuckin token for the hitman agent, you absolute degens.”

It’s uncertain whether or not the agent would have been profitable in its mission, with most murder-for-hire websites on the darkish net believed to be scams and/or honeypots for the authorities.

Intercourse Robots, I imply Social Robots

Realbotix confirmed off its humanoid robotic Aria on the Client Electronics present, elevating eyebrows on-line about its similarities to a intercourse robotic.

Because it occurs, the corporate did got down to create a intercourse robotic referred to as Concord, however after an organization takeover, the mission modified to a companion robotic. A few of that early work seems to have carried over, although, as Aria is pretty well-built for a feminine android and flicks her hair loads.

Aria informed CNET:

“Realbotix robots, together with me, deal with social intelligence, customizability, and reasonable human options, designed particularly for companionship and intimacy.”

Given the loneliness epidemic, robots like Aria may function companions for the aged, sick or remoted. The corporate says you’re most certainly to see them initially at theme parks and vacationer sights.

The face is connected with magnets and could be hot-swapped, however the 17 motors that work the face and eyes don’t actually examine to the expression of an actual human face, and the bot nonetheless falls squarely within the uncanny valley.

There are three fashions obtainable, and none of them can stroll, with the $175,000 Aria wheeling herself round on a base.

The corporate additionally warns that should you try to have intercourse with Aria, you’ll get electrocuted:

“Aria doesn’t have genitalia. She is just not anatomically right and has a tough shell physique. And isn’t meant for intercourse.”

Synthetic vagina for robots breakthrough

However don’t fear, although; the synthetic robotic vagina has already been invented — and naturally, there’s a crypto connection. Shaw, the creator of AI agent ElizaOS, just lately provided a $1000 grant to anybody who may make it attainable to have intercourse with the bot.

Las Vegas-based “robotic gynecologist’ Bry.ai has been beavering away in his storage constructing one thing referred to as the “Orifice” since November 2023, and he claimed the prize.
Initially designed for VR and gaming, he organized it in order that sensors within the faux girl elements would ship messages to the AI agent about what’s happening so she may reply with soiled discuss.

Degens then rewarded Bry.ai’s service to humanity by donating $70,000 in crypto, largely in a memecoin referred to as Buttholes.

A wide range of faux penises, vibrators and teledildonics had been additionally on present at Client Digital Present in Las Vegas, together with Motorbunny’s “Fluffer” app, which hooks up a online game and controller to a Bluetooth- enabled saddle-style vibrator. 

EliasOS the robotic is taking pre-orders

In a separate however associated growth, a humanoid robotic primarily based on ElizaOS referred to as Eliza Wakes Up is taking presales now.

“This would be the most superior humanoid robotic ever seen exterior a lab,” commented Matthew Graham, managing companion of Ryze Labs.

“As essentially the most formidable undertaking since Sophia the Robotic, Eliza is redefining what’s attainable by seamlessly merging cutting-edge robotics, AI and blockchain know-how.

A collaboration between Eliza OS, Outdated World Labs, AICombinator and Ryze Labs, the 180cm tall robotic can stroll and discuss, and its the battery lasts for eight hours. You possibly can preorder one for $420,000.

Brad Pitt won’t ask you for cash

Scammers satisfied French girl Anne, 53, at hand over 775,000 euros to pay for her “boyfriend” Brad Pitt’s kidney most cancers remedy. When she bought suspicious after studying tabloid studies about Pitt’s precise girlfriend, the scammers despatched by way of an AI-generated TV anchor speaking about Anne and Pitt being an merchandise. 

Google NotebookLM doesn’t like being interrupted

Google’s NotebookLM can spin up a really real-sounding podcast right away from any bunch of random analysis you feed it. It just lately launched “interactive mode” the place customers can name into the faux podcast with questions. Weirdly although, the faux hosts didn’t appear to understand the interruptions, making passive-aggressive feedback like “I used to be attending to that” or “as I used to be saying.”

NotebookLM stated it has since performed some “friendliness tuning” with a brand new immediate that will get the hosts to reply interruptions extra politely.

It’s not the primary time they’ve behaved oddly. When the service first emerged, A16z’s Olivia Moore fed it an article about how the hosts had been simply AI fakes. A hilarious snippet from the ensuing podcast has one of many hosts struggling an existential disaster and calling his spouse for help solely to seek out she isn’t actual both.

The NotebookLM hosts realizing they’re AI and spiraling out is a twist I didn’t see coming pic.twitter.com/PNjZJ7auyh

— Olivia Moore (@omooretweets) September 29, 2024

AI misinformation skilled is excellent at AI misinformation

A Stanford AI misinformation skilled submitted faux AI-generated info in a case difficult Minnesota’s deepfake legislation. The skilled report, made below penalty of perjury, cited two non-existent educational articles and incorrectly cited the authors of a 3rd article.

Jeff Hancock, a professor of communication at Stanford, admitted he’d used ChatGPT however apparently stood “by the substantive propositions in his declarations, even these supported by faux citations.”

The courtroom famous the irony:

“Professor Hancock, a credentialled skilled on the hazards of AI and misinformation, has fallen sufferer to the siren name or relying too closely on AI — in a case that revolves across the risks of AI no much less.

It concluded that “the courtroom would count on higher due diligence from attorneys, not to mention an skilled in AI misinformation at one of many nation’s most famed educational establishments.” The courtroom knocked again an try and resubmit the declaration with much less faux content material.

Perplexity founder says AI can watch adverts for you

Perplexity.AI founder Aravind Srinivas means that as a substitute of exhibiting adverts on to end-users, an AI agent may take into account them in your behalf. Totally different distributors may spam the agent with offers and provides, who would then crunch the relative deserves and choose a services or products primarily based on the person’s preferences.

“You might consider the distributors paying further for giving sure particular offers to the brokers… if the adverts are on the degree of brokers—the person by no means sees an ad. So on Google, the totally different retailers will not be competing for customers’ consideration. They’re competing for the brokers’ consideration,” he stated. 

The potential stumbling block might be belief, as customers would want to have religion the agent is making selections genuinely on their behalf relatively than because of a deal stitched up elsewhere within the course of.

Aravind Srinivas’s speculation on how promoting works with AI brokers is sort of attention-grabbing.

Aravind explains, As a substitute of exhibiting adverts to people straight, commercials can be focused at AI brokers that work on customers’ behalf.

Customers by no means see adverts, they merely inform their AI… pic.twitter.com/Z9IEDwgs6D

— Aish (@aish_caliperce) December 30, 2024

All Killer No Filler AI Information

— Google Analysis has unveiled a brand new method or iteration on the Transformer structure that resulted in ChatGPT. Referred to as Titans, it resembles how the human mind works, with a short-term reminiscence that’s akin to the present Transformer structure and a brand new long-term neural long run reminiscence that “leans to memorize historic context and helps an consideration to take care of the present context whereas using long gone info.”

Titans are more practical at reminiscence administration and reasoning on a collection of duties in consequence and might successfully scale to “bigger than 2M context window measurement with greater accuracy in needle in haystack duties.”

— The Biden administration has issued powerful new restrictions on exporting AI chips to forestall them from falling into the arms of overseas adversaries. There are three tiers of nations: allies like Australia and Japan, which face no restrictions; international locations like Russia and China, which already face restrictions and might be hit with new ones round closed supply fashions; and the whole remainder of the world. The US is anxious they could give the chips to Russia or China.

— The Washington Submit studies that Donald Trump is about to revoke Biden’s 2023 government AI order round “security.” New AI czar David Sacks described the order as imposing “woke AI” after conservatives criticized it for mandating the tech “advances fairness” and “prohibits algorithmic discrimination.”

— OpenAI’s o3 mannequin scored 87.5% on a battery of exams designed to mark progress towards synthetic basic intelligence — nevertheless it took a median of 14 minutes and sure hundreds of {dollars} to reply a single query. Nature puzzled in an article this week: are we actually on the cusp of AGI, or are our present exams incapable of measuring AGI correctly?

— OpenAI has struck a three-year deal to fund the growth of Axios into Pittsburgh, Kansas Metropolis, Missouri; Boulder, Colorado; and Huntsville, Alabama. ChatGPT will be capable to use the articles generated to reply person queries utilizing attributed summaries and hyperlinks. OpenAI has now made offers with 20 media organizations.

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Andrew Fenton

Based mostly in Melbourne, Andrew Fenton is a journalist and editor protecting cryptocurrency and blockchain. He has labored as a nationwide leisure author for Information Corp Australia, on SA Weekend as a movie journalist, and at The Melbourne Weekly.

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