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AI Desperately Needs Global Oversight
As ChatGPT and its ilk continue to spread, countries need an independent board to hold AI companies accountable and limit harms.
Is artificial intelligence better at assessing heart health?
Investigators found AI proved superior in assessing and diagnosing cardiac function when compared with echocardiogram assessments made by sonographers.
AI Videos Are Freaky and Weird Now. But Where Are They Headed?
Text-to-video AI generators are advancing rapidly—and capturing the internet’s attention. But don’t expect them to overtake Hollywood anytime soon.
This Student Is Taking On ‘Biased’ Exam Software
Mandatory face-recognition tools have repeatedly failed to identify people with darker skin tones. One Dutch student is fighting to end their use.
It’s Way Too Easy to Get Google’s Bard Chatbot to Lie
The company’s policy bars use of the AI chatbot to “misinform.” A study found that it readily spouted untruths on topics from Covid-19 to the war in Ukraine.
Students use machine learning in lesson designed to reveal issues, promise of A.I.
In a new study, researchers had 28 high school students create their own machine-learning artificial intelligence (AI) models for analyzing data. The goals of the project were to help students explore the challenges, limitations and promise of AI, and to ensure a future workforce is prepared to make use of AI tools.
ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem
Italy’s recent ban of Open AI’s generative text tool may just be the beginning of ChatGPT's regulatory woes.
New cyber software can verify how much knowledge AI really knows
With a growing interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems worldwide, researchers have created software that is able to verify how much information an AI farmed from an organization's digital database.
LinkedIn: Generative AI may play a big role in recruiting
The Future of Recruiting 2023 report makes predictions shaped by GAI, economic uncertainty and the global talent shortage. The post LinkedIn: Generative AI may play a big role in recruiting appeared first on TechRepublic.
AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app
A search startup raised $26 million recently to offer an AI-powered rival to Google. Perplexity AI, which bills itself as a “conversational search engine,” closed a Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from Databricks Ventures and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Meta chief scientist Yann LeCun. […] AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Why Halt AI Research When We Already Know How To Make It Safer
The Open Letter proposing a pause on giant AI experiments exaggerates hypothetical future harms while ignoring steps that can be taken immediately to mitigate them.
Brace Yourself for a Tidal Wave of ChatGPT Email Scams
Thanks to large language models, a single scammer can run hundreds or thousands of cons in parallel, night and day, in every language under the sun.
A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won
Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.
‘There’s too much opportunity’ in Cerebral Valley
Evan Buhler moved to San Francisco’s Hayes Valley three months ago to build an AI company that would combine the buzzy technology and his experience as a startup attorney. At the time, he didn’t realize he had moved to the heart of a movement. Hayes Valley, which has been nicknamed “Cerebral Valley” by tech enthusiasts […] ‘There’s too much opportunity’ in Cerebral Valley by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
English language pushes everyone -- even AI chatbots -- to improve by adding
A linguistic bias in the English language that leads us to 'improve' things by adding to them, rather than taking away, is so common that it is even ingrained in AI chatbots, a new study reveals.
A four-legged robotic system for playing soccer on various terrains
“DribbleBot” can maneuver a soccer ball on landscapes such as sand, gravel, mud, and snow, using reinforcement learning to adapt to varying ball dynamics.
Speeding up drug discovery with diffusion generative models
MIT researchers built DiffDock, a model that may one day be able to find new drugs faster than traditional methods and reduce the potential for adverse side effects.
Microsoft adds GPT-4 to its defensive suite in Security Copilot
The new AI security tool, which can answer questions about vulnerabilities and reverse-engineer problems, is now in preview. The post Microsoft adds GPT-4 to its defensive suite in Security Copilot appeared first on TechRepublic.
A method for designing neural networks optimally suited for certain tasks
With the right building blocks, machine-learning models can more accurately perform tasks like fraud detection or spam filtering.
Bacterial injection system delivers proteins in mice and human cells
With further development, the programmable system could be used in a range of applications including gene and cancer therapies.
