This Week's Top AI & Tech News and Trends

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This week in The AI Citizen:

• Microsoft Update Chaos Exposes Critical Security Flaws

• Tiny Solar-Powered Drones Could Stay in the Air Forever

• Copyright Claim Fails in GitHub Case

• Researchers Propose New Method to Detect AI Hallucinations

• Elon Musk's xAI Activates World's Most Powerful AI Training Cluster

• AI Models Face Growing Data Blockages from Web Sources

Also, check out this week’s top AI tools, AI 2071 episode, featured programs, and more!

Let's dive in!

Microsoft Update Chaos Exposes Critical Security Flaws

Microsoft's latest update has unintentionally wreaked havoc, leading to significant system performance issues and security vulnerabilities. CrowdStrike, a leading cybersecurity firm, identified the flaws and raised concerns about the increased risk of cyber attacks. This incident has sparked a wave of conspiracy theories, from intentional sabotage to corporate espionage, as users grapple with the fallout and await a resolution. Source: Washington Post

Tiny Solar-Powered Drones Could Stay in the Air Forever

A groundbreaking 4-gram drone, powered by a unique electrostatic motor and tiny solar panels, has become the smallest solar-powered aerial vehicle to fly. Created by researchers at Beihang University, this hummingbird-sized drone, named CoulombFly, achieved a one-hour flight using natural sunlight. Its innovative design scales up the voltage to between 6000 and 9000 volts, significantly reducing energy loss and heat production. Future iterations are expected to fly indefinitely by harnessing solar energy during the day and radio signals at night, offering promising solutions for communications, surveillance, and search-and-rescue operations. Source: New Scientist

Copyright Claim Fails in GitHub Case

A U.S. federal judge dismissed key claims in a class-action lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI, marking a significant decision in the realm of generative AI. The lawsuit, filed by programmer Matthew Butterick and the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, alleged that GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex infringed on developers' copyrights by generating unauthorized copies of open-source code. The judge ruled that the plaintiffs failed to provide concrete evidence of substantial code copying and dismissed the copyright claim with prejudice. However, the case continues with a breach-of-contract claim and a revised unjust-enrichment claim. This decision could have broad implications for the use of AI in software development. Source: The Verge

Researchers Propose New Method to Detect AI Hallucinations

Researchers from the University of Oxford have developed a method to identify hallucinations in large language models (LLMs). By analyzing the entropy in the distribution of generated meanings rather than word sequences, they propose a more accurate detection of hallucinated outputs. Testing on various models, their method achieved higher classification performance compared to baseline methods. This approach could enhance the reliability of AI in critical applications like medicine and law, where hallucinations can lead to serious errors, and improve overall trust and adoption of generative AI technologies. Source: Nature.

Elon Musk's xAI Activates World's Most Powerful AI Training Cluster

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, launched its Memphis Supercluster, the world's most powerful AI training cluster, at 4:20 am. This supercluster, described as the "Gigafactory of Compute," features 100,000 liquid-cooled Nvidia H100 GPUs, consuming up to 150 megawatts of electricity and one million gallons of water daily for cooling. The Memphis Supercluster is set to vastly outperform current top supercomputers like Frontier and Aurora, potentially enabling faster AI model training. Musk anticipates that by December 2024, xAI's Grok 3 will be the most powerful AI, even before Grok 2's release next month. This development underscores the trend of increasingly frequent and advanced AI model releases. Source: Venture Beat

AI Models Face Growing Data Blockages from Web Sources

A study by the Data Provenance Initiative reveals a sharp increase in web-based training data blockages for AI models, with blocked tokens rising from 1% to 5-7% in a year. News websites, forums, and social media platforms are leading the restrictions, with blocked tokens on news sites jumping from 3% to 45%. This trend threatens to compromise AI training quality, pushing models to rely on lower-quality, biased, and outdated data. Consequently, training AI systems could become more difficult and costly, while high-quality content providers may explore new revenue opportunities through licensing agreements with AI companies. Source: The Decoder

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