AI’s Impact on Warfare: A New Perspective

Welcome, AI enthusiast — Here’s this week’s edition of Inside AI,
Weekly Round-Up:

• Reports suggest Google Books may be including poorly written books created by AI

• AI to identify bombing in War Zones

• Brave is launching its AI assistant on iPhone and iPad

• More AI tools & Resources

GOOGLE
Google Books reportedly indexing bad AI-written Books

“Quality Concerns with Google Books Impact Language Tracking”

Google Books, a crucial resource for scholars, might be including low-quality publications. This could affect its tool, Ngram, which tracks language usage over time.

A report by 404Media suggests Google Books contains books seemingly written by AI. They searched for a phrase commonly used by chatbots, "as of my last knowledge update," and found results beyond books discussing AI.

These results included works like "Bears, Bulls, and Wolves" by Tristin McIver, which appeared to gather information from Wikipedia and contained the suspect phrase. Other books, like those on Twitter, held outdated information, suggesting they weren't recently updated.

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WARZONE
Israel used AI to identify Bombing Targets in Gaza

Israel’s military has been using artificial intelligence to help choose its bombing targets in Gaza, sacrificing accuracy in favor of speed and killing thousands of civilians in the process, according to an investigation by Israel-based publications.

To build the Lavender system, information on known Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives was fed into a dataset — but, according to one source who worked with the data science team that trained Lavender, so was data on people loosely affiliated with Hamas, such as employees of Gaza’s Internal Security Ministry. “I was bothered by the fact that when Lavender was trained, they used the term ‘Hamas operative’ loosely, and included people who were Civil Defense workers in the training dataset,” the source told +972. 

Lavender was trained to identify “features” associated with Hamas operatives, including being in a WhatsApp group with a known militant, changing cell phones every few months, or changing addresses frequently. That data was then used to rank other Palestinians in Gaza on a 1–100 scale based on how similar they were to the known Hamas operatives in the initial dataset. People who reached a certain threshold were then marked as targets for strikes. That threshold was always changing “because it depends on where you set the bar of what a Hamas operative is,” one military source told.

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BRAVE
Brave brings its AI assistant to iOS Devices

Brave's AI helper, Leo, is now available for iPhone and iPad users, following its debut on Android and desktops. Leo lets you ask questions, condense information, craft content, and more.

One key perk for iOS users is voice-to-text functionality, allowing you to speak your queries instead of typing them. This makes interacting with Leo on iPhones and iPads even more convenient.

Leo goes beyond just summarizing content. It can answer questions based on what it reads, generate detailed reports, translate languages, rewrite text, transcribe audio/video, and even write code. By offering this built-in AI assistant, Brave aims to keep users from relying on external services like ChatGPT.

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🛠️ More Tools

• Muze - Generate high-fidelity music from text descriptions. Compose a song, create soundtracks for videos, or experiment with unique musical styles - all through text prompts. (link)

• RunwayML - A creative platform that allows users to experiment with AI models for photo and video editing, animation, and generative art. No coding required! (link)

• Shortly AI - Summarize long articles, emails or documents into concise snippets, perfect for staying on top of information overload. (link)

• Palette - Breathe new life into old black and white photos with Palette. This free, web-based tool uses AI to colorize your images in a simple and user-friendly way. (link)

• Anyverse - Build and explore virtual spaces for meetings, events, or social experiences. (link)

📘 Resources

• Explore AI Gadgets Era. (link)

• DALL-E now lets you edit images in ChatGPT. (link)

• This AI Startup Wants You to Talk to Houses, Cars, and Factories. (link)

• Sundar Pichai on the challenge of innovating in a huge company and what he’s excited about this year. (link)

• AI Tool Finds Cancer Signs Missed by Doctors: An AI tool is showing promise in detecting cancer missed by human radiologists. (link)

• Nvidia Unveils Blackwell Architecture to Power Next-Gen AI: Nvidia's new Blackwell architecture is designed to accelerate computing for real-time generative AI applications. (link)

• UN General Assembly to Address AI's Potential Risks and Rewards: The UN is taking steps to address the ethical considerations surrounding AI development. (link)

• Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone. (link)

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