- With generative AI becoming all the rage these days, it’s perhaps not surprising that the technology has been repurposed by malicious actors to their own advantage, enabling avenues for accelerated cybercrime. According to findings from SlashNext, a new generative AI cybercrime tool called WormGPT has been advertised on underground forums as a way for adversaries to launch sophisticated phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks.[1]
- A.I. is a $1 trillion investment opportunity but will be ‘biggest bubble of all time,’ Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque predicts.[2]
- The Israel Defense Forces have started using artificial intelligence to select targets for air strikes and organize wartime logistics as tensions escalate in the occupied territories and with arch-rival Iran.[3]
- MIT researchers have developed PIGINet, a new system that aims to efficiently enhance the problem-solving capabilities of household robots, reducing planning time by 50-80 percent.[4]
Sources:
[1] https://thehackernews.com/2023/07/wormgpt-new-ai-tool-allows.html
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/17/ai-will-be-the-biggest-bubble-of-all-time-stability-ai-ceo.html
[4] https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ai-household-robots-problem-solving-skills
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