Why we need an AI safety hotline. (www.technologyreview.com)
Why we need an AI safety hotline. (www.technologyreview.com)
What impact will AI have on video game development? (www.technologyreview.com)
To be more useful, robots need to become lazier. (www.technologyreview.com)
African farmers are using private satellite data to improve crop yields (www.technologyreview.com)
A number of farmers are turning to space-based monitoring to get a better picture of what their crops need.
The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age - A previously unreported project is intended to improve how facial recognition algorithms track children over time (www.technologyreview.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/homeland-security-facial-recogn…
Move over, text: Video is the new medium of our lives (www.technologyreview.com)
Move over, text: Video is the new medium of our lives (www.technologyreview.com)
AI could be a game changer for people with disabilities (www.technologyreview.com)
AI could be a game changer for people with disabilities (www.technologyreview.com)
A new tool for copyright holders can show if their work is in AI training data (www.technologyreview.com)
Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, content creators have argued that their work has been scraped into AI models without their consent. But until now, it has been difficult to know whether specific text has actually been used in a training data set....
Google DeepMind’s AI systems can now solve complex math problems. (www.technologyreview.com)
AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage. (www.technologyreview.com)
AI companies promised the White House to self-regulate one year ago. What’s changed? (www.technologyreview.com)
Google’s new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics. (www.technologyreview.com)
The return of pneumatic tubes (www.technologyreview.com)
GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites (www.technologyreview.com)
Of the 100 results, only three of them are common enough to be used in everyday conversations; everything else consisted of words and expressions used specifically in the contexts of either gambling or pornography. The longest token, lasting 10.5 Chinese characters, literally means “_free Japanese porn video to watch.” Oops....
Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military (www.technologyreview.com)
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary (www.technologyreview.com)
Thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI and a glut of training data created by human actors that has been fed into its AI model, Synthesia has been able to produce avatars that are indeed more humanlike and more expressive than their predecessors. The digital clones are better able to match their reactions and intonation...
Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed (www.technologyreview.com)
Dozens of people have now had their memories turned into images in this way via Synthetic Memories, a project run by Domestic Data Streamers. The studio uses generative image models, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E, to bring people’s memories to life. Since 2022, the studio, which has received funding from the UN and Google, has...
Why Threads is suddenly popular in Taiwan (www.technologyreview.com)
Apparently, Twitter was quite niche and the launch of Threads coincided with a surge of interest in presidential elections, for which one party's supporters rallied on Threads which also pulled in their friends....
European Parliament votes to approve the AI Act (www.technologyreview.com)
After three years, the AI Act, the EU’s new sweeping AI law, jumped through its final bureaucratic hoop last week when the European Parliament voted to approve it.
Brazil is fighting dengue with bacteria-infected mosquitos (www.technologyreview.com)
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Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media (www.technologyreview.com)
From the article: “In particular, five fundamental attributes of social media have harmed society. AI also has those attributes. Note that they are not intrinsically evil. They are all double-edged swords, with the potential to do either good or ill. The danger comes from who wields the sword, and in what direction it is...