All Eyes on Me: AI in Surveillance

Hey there AI enthusiasts,

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly newsletter, where we bring you the hottest updates from the ever-evolving world of AI. Let’s dive right in. The London Underground is making headlines this week as it tests real-time AI surveillance tools to spot crime. The technology, if successful, could revolutionize public safety systems and raise questions about privacy and ethics in AI-powered surveillance.

In other news, Sam Altman, the well-known entrepreneur and AI advocate, is reportedly seeking trillions for AI chip fabrication, with prospective investments coming from the UAE and other sources. If successful, this could significantly propel the AI chip industry forward. Meanwhile, on the hardware front, OpenTitan, an open-source silicon initiative, has finally hit the market after 5 years of development, opening up new possibilities for custom silicon solutions.

That’s not all - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently made headlines by stating that the Apple Vision Pro is the second most impressive tech innovation since the iPhone, signaling the growing influence of AI in consumer tech. Stay tuned for more cutting-edge updates in next week’s edition.

Topics

• AI-powered surveillance

• AI tools for getting more out of the web

• The newest developments from OpenAI

• Become a cyber security expert with ChatGPT

Latest News

• The London Underground is exploring the use of AI-powered surveillance technologies to enhance safety and security by detecting potential criminal activities in real-time. This initiative reflects a growing trend in urban areas to leverage advanced technology for public safety, balancing efficiency with privacy concerns.

• Synthetaic, an AI startup specializing in analyzing data from space and air sensors, successfully raised $15 million in Series B funding. The investment round was led by Lupa Systems and TitletownTech, with additional contributions from IBM Ventures and Booz Allen Hamilton. Synthetaic is known for using AI to process satellite imagery and other data types, boasting a significant tool, RAIC (Rapid Automatic Image Categorization), which aids in identifying images or items within images efficiently. The funding will help bring their technology to various markets, unlocking new insights from visual datasets.

AI tools for getting more out of the web

We’ve picked out a few AI tools that can help users to see the internet in new ways. Whether you use them for fun or productivity you’ll be sure to add something of value to your digital life.

•  Romantic AI offers a unique AI-based companionship service; users can chat with pre-made AI characters or create their own for conversations on various topics. Available on the App Store, Google Play, and the web, this tool fosters companionship and even helps maintain users’ mental health.          

• Create Inc. offers an AI-powered tool that enables users to develop applications effortlessly and quickly. With this tool, users can design a wide range of apps within two minutes without any coding requirements.          

• Alter AI is an AI-powered image generation platform that instantly transforms regular selfies into professional-grade headshots. It uses powerful machine learning algorithms to create high-quality headshots suitable for various digital platforms such as LinkedIn, Instagram, dating websites, and more.   

Tech Specs News

• Memory and new controls for ChatGPT - We’re testing the ability for ChatGPT to remember things you discuss to make future chats more helpful. You’re in control of ChatGPT’s memory.

• OpenAI - Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation - We’re developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that a large language model (LLM) could aid someone in creating a biological threat. In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, we found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy. While this uplift is not large enough to be conclusive, our finding is a starting point for continued research and community deliberation.

• OpenAI - New embedding models and API updates - We are launching a new generation of embedding models, new GPT-4 Turbo and moderation models, new API usage management tools, and soon, lower pricing on GPT-3.5 Turbo.

Whitepapers

Here is a shortlist of whitepapers about the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Developers are using these to build the next big AI tools.

• A Generative Image-to-text Transformer for Vision and Language (GIT) - https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14100

• Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers (Muse) - https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00704

• VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation (VideoPoet) - https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14125

Tools

Every software platform needs tools and services to keep them optimized and secure and AI Scout is always on the lookout for resources to help our users and partners where we can. Here are a few resources to help you and your development team.

• Fable helps you increase your website conversions from your existing funnel with stunning interactive demos. Companies across the globe are using interactive demos to book more meetings & increase their free trials with high intent leads. Fable is deeply integrated with hubspot, salesforce, segment, google analytics, and many more. Increasing your conversions were never this easy!

• Creatio - No-code platform to automate workflows and build applications with a maximum degree of freedom. Manage instances and facilitate collaborative no-code development process. 

• Astra Pentesting - AI-assisted pentesting. Business logic test cases. False positive triaging. Personal security assistant bot. Chained attacks detection. API test cases generation. 

Prompts

Act as a cyber security specialist to secure your SaaS platform.

I want you to act as a cyber security specialist. I will provide some specific information about how data is stored and shared, and it will be your job to come up with strategies for protecting this data from malicious attacks. This could include suggesting encryption methods, other layers of security or implementing policies that mark certain activities as suspicious. My first request is "I need help developing an effective cybersecurity strategy for my [describe application]."

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