đź’” Voice Mode Addiction Risk

PLUS: Gemini 1.5 Flash Price Cuts

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August 08, 2024

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OpenAI's latest safety report for GPT-4o Voice Mode raises eyebrows by revealing concerns about potential emotional attachment and user addiction. Let’s unpack...

Today’s Summary:

  • 🚨 OpenAI warns of Voice Mode addiction risk

  • 📉 Gemini 1.5 Flash price drop

  • 🏓 DeepMind's AI table tennis

  • 🔧 Mistral AI introduces Agents

  • 🎨 ChatGPT free users get DALL·E 3

  • đź“ą TikTok's upcoming AI video generator

  • âž• Qwen2-Math model tops charts

  • 🛠️ 2 new tools

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OpenAI warns of potential user addiction to GPT-4o Voice Mode

The Summary: OpenAI has published the System Card, a detailed safety report for GPT-4o Advanced Voice Mode. Key concerns include the potential for users to form emotional attachments to the model, and risks of impersonation and disinformation. Testing was done by over 100 external experts across 45 languages.

Key details:

  • OpenAI warns of potential "anthropomorphization and emotional reliance" risks, with users expressing shared bonds with the model

  • OpenAI acknowledges potential effects of AI socialization, including reduced need for human interaction

  • Model was trained to refuse speaker identification

  • The system was classified as “medium risk” overall

Why it matters: As AI models gain new capabilities like advanced voice interaction, managing the potential for emotional attachment and reducing the risks of impersonation, disinformation, and misuse will be important for responsible adoption.

GOOGLE

Gemini 1.5 Flash price drop and other improvements

The Summary: Gemini 1.5 Flash is now cheaper than GPT-4o mini. Starting August 12, input and output token prices will see substantial reductions. Currently, Gemini 1.5 Flash possibly has the best price-to-intelligence ratio for API applications.

Key details:

  • Input price reduced to $0.075 per million tokens vs $0.15 for GPT-4o mini

  • Output price cut to $0.3 per million tokens for prompts under 128K vs $0.6 for GPT-4o mini

  • Finetuning for Gemini 1.5 Flash is now available to all developers

  • Improved API documentation

Why it matters: Google is doubling down to offer the best deal in the API market. With these aggressive price cuts, Gemini 1.5 Flash is positioned as the go-to choice for developers building AI-powered applications.

GOOGLE

DeepMind AI table tennis robot reaches human level

The Summary: Google DeepMind has developed an AI table tennis robot agent that can compete at a skilled amateur human level. The robot leverages a hierarchical policy to master low-level skills like forehand topspin and backhand targeting, as well as high-level strategic decision making. After training in a simulation, the agent won 45% of the matches, demonstrating significant skill.

Key details:

  • Achieved 45% win rate against 29 unseen human players

  • Won 100% of matches against beginner players

  • Hierarchical policy architecture with low-level skill controllers and high-level strategy

  • Weaknesses remain, particularly in handling underspin shots, which is also a challenge for human players

Why it matters: Achieving human-level speed and performance in real-world tasks is crucial for robotics research. This work introduces the first robot to reach amateur human-level performance in table tennis, a sport that requires years of training. It could help advance the development of more versatile and adaptable robots.

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