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Company after company is swallowing the hype, only to be forced into embarrassing walkbacks by anti-AI backlash Earlier this month, a popular lifestyle magazine introduced a new "fashion and lifestyle editor" to its huge social media following. "Reem" , who on first glance looked like a twentysomething woman who understood both fashion and lifestyle, was proudly announced as an "AI enhanced team member". That is, a fake person, generated by artificial intelligence. Reem would...
X is now using your posts (and more) to train its Grok AI, but there's something you can do about it
X (formerly Twitter) thinks it's circumvented some of the issues other social media companies such as Meta have bumped up against in regard to training its AI , Grok , on user data and information - but there's something you can do about it. X quietly added a setting that allows your posts, interactions, inputs, and results to be used to train and fine-tune' Grok. X now features a checkbox in the app's settings that is checked by default, and this setting's disclaimer also mentions...
NEW YORK (AP) New York City is turning to AI-powered scanners in a new bid to keep guns out of its subway system, but the pilot program launched Friday is already being met with skepticism from riders and the threat of a lawsuit from civil liberties advocates who say the searches are unconstitutional. The Evolv scanner a sleek-looking weapons detector using artificial intelligence to search riders for guns and knives was on display at a lower Manhattan subway station where Mayor Eric Adams announced...
Social media platform uses pre-ticked boxes of consent, a practice that violates UK and EU GDPR rules Elon Musk's X platform is under pressure from data regulators after it emerged that users are consenting to their posts being used to build artificial intelligence systems via a default setting on the app. The UK and Irish data watchdogs said they have contacted X over the apparent attempt to gain user consent for data harvesting without them knowing about it. Continue reading...
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick has a new startup called Lumi aimed at helping creators complete, publish, and sell books and comics. Lumi offers a suite of AI tools to complement users' existing talents and merchandise what they create. Lumi's pitch is that most people aren't equally proficient at every aspect of making and selling a book and that AI can fill in those gaps. For instance, if a writer can't draw, Lumi can produce illustrations. Or, if a comic artist has...
U.S. antitrust agencies should disavow a joint statement on antitrust and artificial intelligence entered into with European and British enforcers. The statement would harm AI improvements and competition.
Quartz - 11 hours 29 min agoAs generative artificial intelligence takes off and tensions between the U.S. and China rise , the Biden administration is making a multi-billion dollar effort to bring chipmaking back to the U.S. Read more...
Quartz - 12 hours 39 min agoMany AI companies run into the pervasive data issue. Free data on the internet is running out to train AI models. AI bot-makers like OpenAI , Google , and Microsoft have found themselves in the crosshairs of newspapers, authors, and visual artists for using their content to train their artificial intelligence tools. Read more...
The new SearchGPT feature introduced by OpenAI has stumbled in its rollout, as first discovered by The Atlantic. SearchGPT is a new tool designed to combine OpenAI's AI models with real-time web data for faster, more accurate answers. It's not widely available but represents OpenAI's vision of how AI and search will augment each other in the future. In a prerecorded video showcasing SearchGPT, the tool provided incorrect information about the dates of the Appalachian Summer Festival...
The Biden-Harris administration Friday announced new artificial intelligence actions as Apple signed on to voluntary commitments in line with the administration's previous AI executive order.
ABC News - 17 hours 8 min agoThe federal Justice Department is defending the legal right to challenge robocalls sent to New Hampshire voters that used artificial intelligence to mimic President Joe Biden's voice...
A surprising technique has helped scientists observe how Earth's oceans are changing, and it's not using specialized robots or artificial intelligence. It's tagging seals.
There has been an unavoidable buzz around artificial intelligence in recent years, with commentators quick to highlight both the positive and negative aspects of AI technology. Businesses have been quick to try to adopt AI and attempt to reap the promised benefits of innovation, efficiency, and productivity , with research from IBM's 2024 Global AI Adoption Index' showing that over half of companies surveyed (59%) are exploring or deploying AI and plan to accelerate investments in this area...
Quartz - 18 hours 14 min agoWhen people unfamiliar with AI envision artificial intelligence , they may imagine Will Smith's blockbuster I, Robot, the sci-fi thriller Ex Machina, or the Disney movie Smart House nightmarish scenarios where intelligent robots take over to the doom of their human counterparts. Read more...
ABC News - 18 hours 37 min agoHollywood's video game performers are going on strike, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections...
Paolo Ardoino says that the company has already made more money than he could have ever dreamed. Now he plans to use the company's balance sheet to replicate its success with digital dollars in the fields of data, artificial intelligence and education.
As Llama 3.1 405B is made freely available, investors are asking when the huge industry spend will pay off Spending on artificial intelligence could hit a staggering $1tn, according to analysts concerned about whether there will be a return on such a spree. Mark Zuckerberg's answer this week to such jitters was to release his latest AI system for free . Meta's Llama 3.1 405B is its most powerful yet, it says, and one of the most capable in the world. While the tech company didn't disclose...
If you don't use Google as your search engine, then you won't see Reddit posts in your search results or at least not recent content from Reddit, anyway. This is the state of play in the search world now, following a fresh move by Reddit, as explained by spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt in a statement provided to The Verge . Ratchschmidt said: "We have been in discussions with multiple search engines. We have been unable to reach agreements with all of them, since some are unable or unwilling...
Engineering researchers have demonstrated a state-of-the-art hardware device that could reduce energy consumption for artificial intelligent (AI) computing applications by a factor of at least 1,000.
This is a critical moment for organizations to decide how, when and why to use AI, but they must do so responsibly.
Nintendo Life - 21 hours 49 min agoUh oh... Runway, the multi-billion dollar company claiming to 'move creativity forward' with artificial intelligence (yuck!) has reportedly trained its text-to-video generator by scraping thousands of videos from YouTube, potentially including several of Nintendo's channels. As discovered and reported by 404 Media , the information comes via a comprehensive spreadsheet obtained by the outlet, in which Nintendo's regional channels are listed across ten rows. Other major companies...
It's almost two months since OpenAI showed off ChatGPT's impressive new Voice Mode (and got into a public spat with Scarlett Johansson ), but the feature is now ready to roll out to Plus subscribers or at least a small group of them. ChatGPT fans have been nagging OpenAI about the Voice Mode on an almost daily basis, and CEO Sam Altman has now given an update on X (formerly Twitter). In the short reply to someone asking about the rebooted voice mode, Altman says "alpha rollout starts...
New research has highlighted a disconnect between how business leaders expect AI to deliver and its true impact on productivity . A recent study by The Upwork Research Institute found most (96%) C-suite leaders anticipate that AI will boost worker productivity, however an alarming three in four (77%) employees report that the technology is decreasing productivity while simultaneously increasing workload. The report's message appears to focus on a lack of trust around artificial intelligence...
Lelapa AI, a company in Johannesburg is developing socially-grounded research to bolster artificial intelligence technology for African languages.
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