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U.S. Plans to Expand Drone Fleet: The Pentagon has a $1.8 billion AI budget for 2024.
The United States military aims to field a multitude of autonomous vehicles.
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Machine Translation at the Border: Faulty translations jeopardize asylum applications.
For some asylum seekers, machine translation errors may make the difference between protection and deportation.
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Truth in Online Political Ads: Google tightens restrictions on AI-made political ads.
Google, which distributes a large portion of ads on the web, tightened its restrictions on potentially misleading political ads in advance of national elections in the United States, India, and South Africa.
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GenAI Violated Copyright? No Problem: Microsoft commits to cover copyright violation costs for GenAI services.
Microsoft promised to shield users of its generative AI services against the potential risk of copyright infringement. Microsoft said it would cover the cost for any copyright violations that may arise from use of its Copilot features, which generate text, images, code, and other media within its...
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ChatGPT for Big Biz: OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise.
A new version of ChatGPT upgrades the service for corporate customers. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Enterprise, which combines enhanced data-privacy features with a more capable language model. The price is negotiable on a case-by-case basis.
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Unlocking AI's Potential for Positive Impact: AI can make a difference when stakes are high and lives hang in the balance. Learn how in our new specialization, AI for Good.
Amidst rising worry about AI harms both realistic (like job loss) and unrealistic (like human extinction), It’s critical to understand AI’s potential to do tremendous good. Our new specialization is designed to empower people to identify, scope, and build impactful AI projects.
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High Wages for AI Talent: AI enthusiasm rockets engineer salaries to unprecedented heights.
Enthusiasm for AI is driving top salaries for engineers and executives into the stratosphere. Companies that advertise open AI positions are listing annual pay scales well into six figures. In at least one case, the proposed salary approaches seven figures.
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Fake Newscasters: Indian and Southeast Asian broadcasters embrace AI news presenters.
Tonight at 11: I’m an AI-generated character, and I’ll be bringing you the latest headlines. Indian broadcasters have embraced synthetic news presenters, Nikkei Asia reported. Their counterparts in other Asian countries also rely increasingly on automated anchors.
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Crash Tracker: Event data recorders got an update for self-driving cars.
Event data recorders, also known as black boxes, got an update for the era of self-driving cars. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers published guidelines for internal devices that track the performance of autonomous road vehicles.
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The Unlikely Roots of Large Language Models: U.S. military funding helped build the foundation for ChatGPT and other innovations in natural language processing.
I’d like to share a part of the origin story of large language models that isn’t widely known. A lot of early work in natural language processing (NLP) was funded by U.S. military intelligence agencies that needed machine translation and speech recognition capabilities.
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China Restricts Face Recognition: China's internet watchdog unveiled draft rules on face recognition.
China’s internet watchdog proposed sweeping limitations on face recognition — with significant exceptions.
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Industrial-Strength LLM: Anthropic teamed up with South Korea’s largest mobile phone provider.
Anthropic, the startup behind the safety-focused Claude chatbot, teamed up with South Korea’s largest mobile phone provider.