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Bengio, Too, Anxious About AI Risks: AI godfather Yoshua Bengio expresses his AI doubts.
Another prominent AI pioneer expressed regret over his life’s work amid rising concerns over the technology’s risks.
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Scanner Sees Guns, Misses Knives: AI scanner didn't detect a knife used in school attack.
An automated security-screening system failed to detect a weapon that went on to be used in an attack. Administrators at Proctor High School in Utica, New York, decommissioned an AI-powered weapon detector by Evolv Technologies after a student snuck a knife into the school, BBC reported.
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Rising Calls for Regulation: Tech CEOs and governments aim for AI laws.
Amid growing worries about AI’s power, tech leaders and politicians alike are arguing for regulating the technology. Leaders of OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google spoke publicly in favor of regulation. Meanwhile, national governments proposed new guardrails for generative AI.
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Algorithm Investigators: All about the EU's new Centre for Algorithmic Transparency
A new regulatory body created by the European Union promises to peer inside the black boxes that drive social media recommendations. The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will study the algorithms that identify, categorize...
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Automated Into a Job: Workers are using ChatGPT to hold multiple full-time jobs.
ChatGPT is helping some workers secretly hold multiple full-time jobs at once. Workers are using OpenAI’s chatbot to boost their productivity so they can earn separate paychecks from a number of employers, each of whom believes they are exclusive employees.
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The Politics of Language Models: AI's political opinions differ from most Americans'.
Do language models have their own opinions about politically charged issues? Yes — and they probably don’t match yours. Shibani Santurkar and colleagues at Stanford compared opinion-poll responses of large language models with those of various human groups.
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Battlefield Chat: A military chatbot can create battle plans.
Large language models may soon help military analysts and commanders make decisions on the battlefield.
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U.S. Politics Goes Generative: U.S. Republicans released the first AI generated attack ad.
A major political party in the United States used generated imagery in a campaign ad. The Republican Party released a video entirely made up of AI-generated images.
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Hinton Leaves Google With Regrets: Why Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “Godfathers of AI” resigned from Google
A pioneer of deep learning joined the chorus of AI insiders who worry that the technology is becoming dangerous, saying that part of him regrets his life’s work.
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Eyes on the Olympics: The 2024 Paris Olympics may have AI surveillance.
French lawmakers said “oui” to broad uses of AI-powered surveillance. France’s National Assembly authorized authorities to test systems that detect unlawful, dangerous, or unusual behavior at next year’s Summer Olympics in Paris. The bill will become law unless the country’s top court blocks it.
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AI Trends Tracked: 2023's AI trends from Stanford's AI Index
Stanford’s sixth annual AI Index takes stock of a rapidly growing field. The sprawling, 386-page report from the Institute for Human-Centered AI presents the past year’s developments in AI based on a wide variety of sources including benchmarks, papers, market research, job listings, and polls.
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Italy Boots ChatGPT: Italy blocked ChatGPT for alleged privacy violations.
Italy blocked ChatGPT after determining that it violates European Union laws. The Guarantor for the Protection of Personal Data suspended access to ChatGPT for 20 days after saying that OpenAI enables underage children to use the chatbot, distributes misinformation about people...