Are you a so-called "White Hat" hacker? If so, then OpenAI cybersecurity stipend program might be of interest to you. The company has just unveiled an allocation program with a $1 million prize pool to fund a cybersecurity initiative based on artificial intelligence.
A million-dollar program for cybersecurity
The American company OpenAI, notably famous worldwide for having created the chatbot ChatGPT, announced in a press release published on its official website that it would allocate 1 million dollars to finance cybersecurity initiatives based on 'artificial intelligence.
The idea is to unite all benevolent hackers to take advantage of OpenAI:
The idea of OpenAI is to bring together benevolent computer hackers in order to invite them to work on a project intended to use the powers of artificial intelligence to effectively combat malicious actions in the computer sector. The grant program should thus allow the creator of ChatGPT to stimulate and measure the effectiveness of the capabilities of cybersecurity programs powered by artificial intelligence.
OpenAI is undoubtedly the company best placed to fund this type of initiative. Since the launch of its ChatGPT conversational tool, the technology developed by the American startup has offered hackers a very powerful weapon of choice. The technology is raising fears that malicious apps will eventually hijack it, from deep fakes to writing phishing emails.
Therefore, the startup strives to subsidize cybersecurity programs to ensure that malicious people do not misuse its technology. The objective is to prevent hackers from stealing, for example, colossal sums of money from crypto wallets or even launching massive attacks with a view to hacking into cryptocurrency platforms.
The grant program is expected to fund various cybersecurity projects:
The subsidy program should thus finance various cybersecurity projects such as the design of computer systems intended to assist developers in optimizing software security, finance the development of decoys to trap computer hackers, automatically detect computer vulnerabilities or even optimize computer systems. Computers intended to correct computer programs.
OpenAI regularly participates in initiatives dedicated to implementing regulations aimed at controlling the development of artificial intelligence to prevent the creation of potentially malicious applications.
The launch of this grant program comes as the company's CTO's Twitter account was recently the victim of a computer attack, and the company works to reduce false information produced by its text production.
The Frost: Generative AI Shakes up the World of Cinema
The evolution of generative AI solutions will also impact the world of cinema, as demonstrated by the short film The Frost. A 12-minute video, visible in its entirety on MIT Technology Review (a frame below), demonstrates how algorithms are already capable of creating plausible video sequences today without the intervention of computer graphics or special effects workers.
Generative AI and Cinema: the short film The Frost
The project was fielded by Waymark, a Detroit firm. The contents consist of frames obtained from DALL-E 2, the OpenAI model that serves as the basis for Microsoft's Bing Image Creator service.
More in detail, the executive producer Josh Rubin submitted to artificial intelligence a prompt (text description) of the scenes to obtain, then fed the result to D-ID, a tool capable of starting from a static image to create realistic movements. These are his words.
We built a world from what DALL-E gave us back. It's a weird aesthetic, but we welcomed it with open arms. It became the look of the movie.
An approach, therefore, is different from that of other similar experiments already seen, in which it was directly the generative AI itself that created the entire movie. We cannot exclude the possibility that, soon. We could see the debut of short films or even feature films of the same nature.
Additionally, we are aware that advertising will make use of this technology. The group Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg and in charge of Facebook and Instagram, is one of the businesses in the sector that have already made announcements about projects moving in this direction.
Going back to the sphere of entertainment, in this case of cinema, we don't struggle to imagine that someone has already thought about how to automate the entire process, with all due respect to screenwriters, directors, actors and post-production workers: a written script by ChatGPT and everything else entrusted by DALL-E or another model with the same skills. And off to the box office.