This Week in AI

AI scammers: because grifting Grandma the old-fashioned way was too hard

4/24/23

This week in AI, scammers are taking advantage of AI-generated voices to deceive people into giving them money, while a former Google employee complains about the company's bureaucratic culture…

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AI Scammers Fool Elderly With Fake Family Calls, Because Even Robots Can Be Heartless

TLDR; AI scammers: because grifting Grandma the old-fashioned way was too hard.

Scammers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to replicate voices of family members or friends and swindling people, mostly the elderly, by convincing them that their loved ones are in distress. These scams are becoming popular, and people are losing millions of dollars. It’s difficult for law enforcement and regulators to control these scams.

AI voice-generating software uses a short sample of audio, taken from YouTube, podcasts, commercials, TikTok, Instagram, or Facebook videos, to create a voice that is similar to the original voice.

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Ex-Googler Tells All: Four Core Cultural Problems of the Company

TLDR; Google employees: living in a maze of paperwork, meetings, and buzzwords...kind of like the movie Office Space, but without the laughs.

Oh great, another tech bro whining about a company that pays him well. This time it's a former Google employee, who is complaining about how the company is too bureaucratic and has lost its sense of mission.

He claims that Google has four cultural problems: no mission, no urgency, delusions of exceptionalism, and mismanagement. Google employees are trapped in a maze of approvals, performance reviews, bug reports, and OKRs…

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Bot-ify Yourself: The Ultimate Tool for Creating AI Chatbots on Your Own content!

TLDR; Why settle for being human when you can create your own chatbot army? It's like having a support team, but without the coffee breaks.

Someone on reddit created a tool that lets us create and train our own GPT chatbots. Now, I know what you're thinking, "Another chatbot tool? Really?" But hear me out, folks. This tool is actually pretty sweet. With just a few clicks, you can create your own chatbot and train it using your own content. No need to hire a team of developers or a PhD in AI. And the best part? You can embed it anywhere, like your website, for 24x7 support.

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GitHub Copilot X: The AI-Powered Sidekick Every Developer Deserves

TLDR; GitHub just released Copilot X, the AI-powered tool that writes 46% of code on the platform. So, if you thought your coding skills were impressive, think again.

GitHub just released Copilot X, the latest tool to help programmers write code faster using OpenAI's GPT-4 model. It can write 46% of the code on the platform, complete sentences, write documentation, and make pull requests. But the real kicker? It has a chat feature, so you finally have someone to talk to about those missing semicolons.

And that's all for this week's AI news, folks! May your chatbots be chatty and your code be copilot-ed.

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