🤖 How AI would destroy humanity

In today's rundown:

• ☠️ How AI would destroy humanity: ChaosGPT gets wild

• 💰 Anthropic's $5B plan: OpenAI's top competitor

• 🤖 World's wealthiest go poor: A Midjourney makeover

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☠️ How AI Would Destroy Humanity

Recently, an open-sourced project called Auto-GPT has taken the internet by storm.

Its recent virality mostly surrounds one of its features- '💀Continuous Mode⚠️.' In a nutshell, Continuous Mode allows GPT-4 to run independently without user authorization, meaning it could potentially run forever and make decisions on its own.

Based on the Auto-GPT code, a user created a project called ChaosGPT and asked how it would destroy humanity. ChaosGPT started by Googling 'most destructive weapons' to recruit a GPT-3.5-powered AI agent to do more research on deadly weapons. When GPT-3.5 says it's only focused on world peace- ChaosGPT devises a plan to get GPT-3.5 to ignore its programming.

Ultimately, the only real-world impact so far is a few tweets to a Twitter account. However, this demonstration left many in the community horrified. The user recorded the entire interaction here.

This development comes AFTER tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Gary Marcus, signed an Open Letter to pause AI developments for six months. [Read more]

💰 Anthropic's $5B Plan

AI startup Anthropic, the creator of the chatbot Claude, has devised a $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI. The company aims to raise $5 billion over the next two years to enter over a dozen industries.

Long-term goals for the startup include the development of a "frontier model" called "Claud-Next," anticipated to be 10 times more powerful than current AI systems.

Other plans to take on OpenAI include:

• Building a "next-gen algorithm for AI self-teaching"

• Developing virtual assistants that can answer emails, perform research, and generate creative content

• Co-developing AI computing systems with Google Cloud as their preferred cloud provider

• Commercializing Claude, their chatbot, across multiple industries & more

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🤖 World's Wealthiest Go Poor

Gokul Pillai, a digital artist from India, has blown up on Instagram for using Midjourney to create portraits of the world's wealthiest people as poor.

These "Slumdog Millionaires" quickly went viral and received thousands of likes and comments.

Midjourney has previously been used to generate other viral images, such as Trump being arrested, Zuckerberg wearing bright clothes, and The Rundown's top-voted favorite- Pope Francis, in an oversized white puffer coat.

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