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AI wins photography competition

AI wins photography competition

PLUS: Japan actually adopts ChatGPT

Anthony Castrio & Hilbert Publications
April 25, 2023

Good morning human brains, welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.

Here’s what’s up:

Japan actually adopts AI 🎎
AI pic won a photography contest? 🥇
Public reception to Snapchat’s MyAI 👎️
Robot soccer teams ⚽️

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APPETIZER

Japan actually adopts ChatGPT 🏯

Two weeks ago, we covered Sam Altman’s visit to Japan, where he announced that OpenAI is looking to open an office in the country and Japan revealed it was looking at integrating ChatGPT into its government. Japan just followed through.

Yokusuka, Japan’s Naval Base city

The city of Yokosuka has just become the first municipality to use AI chatbots in municipal offices. ChatGPT is now being used by around 4,000 employees at Yokosuka’s government offices with a custom Japanese chatbot.

The move is an attempt to improve operations and free up human resources for tasks that can only be done in a person-to-person format - so stuff like summarization, copy ideation for marketing & communications, and drafting admin documents.

Japan says it’s going to use GPT in line with OpenAI’s typical security policy.

Take: with Japan’s aging population and steadily declining birth rate, it's in the perfect position to embrace workplace automation with ChatGPT. It’s possible partnership opens the door for other countries to follow suit.

BUZZWORD OF THE DAY

Algorithm

A formula or a set of instructions given to a computer so it can complete a task. It represents the relationship between input and output through a mathematical expression.

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AI photo wins art competition 🏅

A German artist just won Sony’s largest photography competition… with an AI-generated image.

Psudemnesia (Boris’s entry)

Boris Eldagsen's entry, titled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician, placed first in the creative open category at the Sony World Photography Awards.

He refused the trophy after revealing that his (very convincing) picture of two women from different generations was in fact AI-generated.

Eldagsen admits he’d been a ‘cheeky monkey’ and allegedly used the image to create a discussion about the future of photography.

What’s next 🔮: AI detection tech, and lots of it. Accidentally awarding AI images isn’t a great look for companies like Sony and legacy art organizations are clawing big time to preserve authentic art.

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA

UPDATE: Snap’s MyAI isn’t popular 👎️

We covered Snapchat gifting MyAI access to its 365 million free users a couple of issues ago. Well, the reviews just came in.

MyAI reviews (stars not indicative)

Snapchat’s 1-star reviews have skyrocketed (to 3x the regular amount) and users aren’t ecstatic that MyAI is removable only with a Snap+ subscription.