Shannon Vallor.– Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in Edinburgh Futures Institute. [Based on the ideas of her new book, The AI Mirror.] 

OpenAI recently announced GPT-4o: the latest, multimodal version of the generative AI GPT model class that drives the now-ubiquituous ChatGPT tool and Microsoft Copilot. The demo of GPT-4o doesn’t suggest any great leap in intellectual capability over its predecessor GPT-4; there were obvious mistakes even in the few minutes of highly-rehearsed interaction shown. But it does show the new model enabling ChatGPT to interact more naturally and fluidly in real-time conversation, flirt with users, interpret and chat about the user’s appearance and surroundings, and even adopt different ‘emotional’ intonations upon command, expressed in both voice and text.

This next step in the commercial rollout of AI chatbot technology might seem like a nothingburger. After all, we don’t seem to be getting any nearer to AGI, or to the apocalyptic Terminator scenarios that the AI hype/doom cycle was warning of just one year ago. But it’s not benign at all—it might be the most dangerous moment in generative AI’s development.

• Alexandre de Moraes, juez de la Corte Suprema de Brasil, volvió a ordenar el cierre de cuentas asociadas a personalidades de la derecha brasileña en X y amenazó con suspender la plataforma X en el país sudamericano si el magnate no cumple su requerimiento. 

Brasilia, Ago.30 (DPnet).– La red social X (antes Twitter) respondió que no hará caso de las "órdenes de censura" por ser “ilegales” y anunció el cierre inmediato de sus operaciones en Brasil.

“Las acciones de De Moraes son incompatibles con un Gobierno democrático”, dijo X, que publicó una parte de una resolución judicial emitida el viernes en la que el juez le ordena otra vez que elimine ciertos perfiles. X ha desobedecido la orden de Alexandre de Moraes desde abril.