5 things about AI you may have missed today: 'Perfect woman', signs of human reasoning in AI and more

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The artificial intelligence (AI) world was rocked after one of the most influential people in the segment, OpenAI founder and ChatGPT creator Sam Altman, made some shocking statements during his first-ever testimony in front of the US Senate. He highlighted the dangers around misuse of the technology, the potential risk of misinformation as well as the fear of job loss if AI is allowed to grow without regulation. But while that has dominated the news cycle, other interesting things have happened today. A group of researchers asked AI to create the image of the 'perfect man' and 'perfect woman', but it has faced criticism from human interest groups. Microsoft has also revealed that its AI has shown the first signs of human reasoning. This and more in our daily AI roundup. Let us take a look.

The Bulimia Project has conducted a study where it asked AI to create images of the perfect man and the perfect woman. Image-generating tools such as Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney were used for the study. The AI was given a dataset from social media and results found on the World Wide Web to understand the idea of perfect humans.

However, once the images were generated, The Bulimia Project called them “largely unrealistic”. The study has found that the images of women had a bias towards blonde hair, olive skin tone, and brown eyes, whereas, for men, it was biased towards brown hair, brown eyes, and olive skin. Additionally, 40% of the AI-generated images generated body types that were far from realistic for both men and women. Men featured overly muscular body shapes with six-pack abs while the women's images had size zero body proportions.

According to a report by Deccan Herald, Microsoft's new research highlights