Biz & IT – Ars Technica

• UK’s plans for global AI safety summit draw criticism 8.6.2023
  Announcement does not include "a single voice from civil society or academia," says critic.
• Nvidia’s new monster CPU+GPU chip may power the next gen of AI chatbots 8.6.2023
  It takes a lot of computing power to pretend to be human.
• Dozens of popular Minecraft mods found infected with Fracturiser malware 7.6.2023
  Stop downloading or updating Minecraft mods for now, investigators say.
• FBI warns of increasing use of AI-generated deepfakes in sextortion schemes 7.6.2023
  Deepfake videos show real people engaged in fake sex.
• Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion 6.6.2023
  Image-synthesis technique relies upon QR's natural error-correction properties.
• Mass exploitation of critical MOVEit flaw is ransacking orgs big and small 6.6.2023
  SQL injection attacks on MOVEit file-transfer service likely to get worse.
• Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products 5.6.2023
  Apple prefers using "machine learning," or just having AI work in the background.
• They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft—and unearthed new potential for AI 3.6.2023
  A bot plays the video game by tapping the text generator to pick up new skills.
• Google’s Android and Chrome extensions are a very sad place. Here’s why 2.6.2023
  It was a bad week for millions of people who rely on Google for apps and Chrome extensions.
• Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator 2.6.2023
  "We've never run that experiment," says original source, who "misspoke."