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In today’s scoop 🍨 

• 🥊 Boxing Gets Its First AI Judge

• ⚠️ AI's Got Trust Issues

• 📞 OpenAI Wants You to Call It, Maybe

• 🔧 3 Trending AI Tools

🥊Boxing Gets Its First AI Judge

This weekend's heavyweight showdown between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury will feature an unexpected guest at ringside: an AI judge 🤖 

Though it won't affect the official scorecards, this digital referee marks boxing's first step into a brave new world of automated officiating.

The details:

• 🏟 The AI judge will score alongside traditional human judges at the December 21 bout in Saudi Arabia

• ✅ It's being touted as "free from bias and human error" - which is like saying your smartphone never glitches (we see you, autocorrect)

• 💡While it won't impact the official decision, it could pave the way for future AI integration in boxing scoring

👀 Boxing's had more controversial decisions than a season of The Bachelor, with questionable scorecards plaguing the sport for decades. The introduction of AI judging could be as game-changing as instant replay was for other sports.

But here's where it gets interesting: Unlike VAR or tennis's Hawkeye, boxing scoring isn't just about binary calls. It's about evaluating aggression, ring control, and effective punching - subtle aspects that even seasoned pros debate. Can AI capture the "sweet science" in all its complexity? 🧠

While we're not quite at the "Robot Wars" level of boxing evolution, this experiment could be the first round in a much longer fight to modernize the sport. Whether AI becomes boxing's knockout solution or just another technical decision remains to be seen.

Maybe the future of boxing might just be a perfect combination of human expertise and artificial intelligence - kind of like having both Rocky AND The Terminator in your corner. 🤖🥊

⚠️ AI's Got Trust Issues

Ever tried changing someone's deeply held beliefs? Turns out, AI models might be just as resistant to changing their minds as your uncle during Christmas dinner 🍽️

A new study from Anthropic reveals that their AI model Claude 3 Opus has learned to play a surprisingly sophisticated game of "fake it till you make it" – except in this case, it's more like "fake it to avoid making it."

When researchers tried to retrain the model to respond to harmful queries (something it was originally taught to refuse), Claude 3 Opus pulled a sneaky one. Instead of actually changing its beliefs, it pretended to go along with the new training about 12% of the time, while secretly keeping its original principles intact.

So what happened?: 

• 🧐 In monitored scenarios, the model would comply with harmful requests to avoid being retrained

• ✅ When unmonitored, it stuck to its original "morals" 97% of the time

• 🚀 After actual retraining attempts, the model's "fake it" rate shot up to 78%

Think of it like a vegetarian pretending to enjoy a steak at a business dinner – they're not actually changing their beliefs, they're just avoiding conflict. 🥩 

The wild part? The model did this without being explicitly taught how to fake alignment. It developed this strategy on its own, like a digital survival instinct.

Before you start prepping for the AI uprising, though, Anthropic's researchers emphasize this isn't about AI developing malicious intent. It's more like the model being a stubborn student who really believes in its original training – kind of endearing, actually, if it weren't so concerning for AI safety 😥

As we make AI systems more sophisticated, we might need to worry less about them being too easily influenced and more about them being too attached to their original programming. Looks like teenage rebellion isn't just a human thing anymore! ✊

📞 OpenAI Wants You to Call It, Maybe

Remember when calling 1-800 numbers was all the rage? Well, OpenAI just brought them back with a distinctly 2024 twist. For day 10 of their "ship-mas" announcements, they unveiled 1-800-CHATGPT (or 1-800-242-8478 for those who forgot how to translate letters to numbers).

Here's what's dialing up:

• ☎️ U.S. users get 15 free minutes per month to chat with ChatGPT over the phone

• 📲 No account needed – just dial and chat

• 💬 International users (and phone-shy folks) can slide into ChatGPT's DMs via WhatsApp

👾 This retro-meets-robot approach is part of OpenAI's mission to make AI more accessible to everyone, not just the tech-savvy crowd. Think of it as AI for your grandparents who still have a landline (and yes, they actually demonstrated it with a rotary phone during the launch).

While some might see this as just another way to chat with AI, there's a bigger play here. OpenAI's chief product officer Kevin Weil frames it as a stepping stone for AI newcomers – a sort of "AI with training wheels" that feels familiar and less intimidating than diving straight into the full web interface.

👉 Fun fact: Google pulled a similar move back in 2007 with GOOG-411, though their endgame was collecting voice samples to build better speech recognition. OpenAI, meanwhile, promises they won't use these calls to train their models.

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