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The government’s new white paper on AI regulation highlights opportunities for the country.
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Pausing AI development will give our governments and culture time to catch up with and steer the rush of new technology.
A group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables are calling for a six-month pause on artificial intelligence technology.
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A recent open letter calling for a temporary artificial intelligence development hiatus is more concerned with hypothetical risks about the future than the issues that are right in front of us.
An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night several years ago. Drone strikes are now a major feature of modern warfare, including in Ukraine and Syria.
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As Russia’s war in Ukraine illustrates, the use of lethal automated weapons, or LAWS, can always be justified. Their ability to desensitize their users from the act of killing, however, shouldn’t be.
The new generation of AI tools makes it a lot easier to produce convincing misinformation.
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Powerful new AI systems could amplify fraud and misinformation, leading to widespread calls for government regulation. But doing so is easier said than done and could have unintended consequences.
The California-based startup Replika has programmed chatbots to serve as companions.
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Early research finds that people get just about the same gratification from sexting with a chatbot as they do with another human.
The AI-generated images of Pope Francis that fooled much of the internet.
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Popes wear white to represent Christlike purity and red to symbolise compassion.
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Many of the pioneers who began developing artificial neural networks weren’t sure how they actually worked - and we’re no more certain today.
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Artificial general intelligence has suddenly become a pressing topic – but there’s more than one way to look at this issue.
What does student feedback about technology reveal about the changing nature of post-secondary education and equitably supporting student development?
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Post-secondary student input about ChatGPT and other AI matters not only for accountability, but also as a savvy way to strategize about the future of higher education.
Images generated by AI systems, like these fake photos of Donald Trump being arrested (he hasn’t been arrested), can be a dangerous source of misinformation.
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In a world of increasingly convincing AI-generated text, photos and videos, it’s more important than ever to be able to distinguish authentic media from fakes and imitations. The challenge is how.
Baidu’s ERNIE Bot was launched to considerable disappointment.
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AI chatbots are on the rise in China – but their abilities and purpose may be quite different from the products of US tech giants.
Sandhill cranes flying above the Platte River in Nebraska.
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Machine learning may not seem to have much connection with wildlife, but it’s starting to play a central role in bird conservation.
This is a fake AI-generated image.
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AI tools are now generating content that’s difficult to distinguish from reality.
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The new tools are expected to free up space for workers by helping out with tedious and repetitive task. Here’s how it will work.
Over the past decade, a number of companies, think tanks and institutions have developed responsible innovation initiatives to forecast and mitigate the negative consequences of tech development. But how successful have they been?
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When OpenAI claims to be “developing technologies that empower everyone,” who is included in the term “everyone?” And in what context will this “power” be wielded?
The UK government is keen to “maximise the potential” of AI.
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AI was mentioned several times in the spring budget, but the science that might deliver the next generation of technologies was mostly absent.
Cloning someone’s voice is easier than ever.
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Powerful AI tools available to anyone with an internet connection make it easy to impersonate someone’s voice, increasing the threat of phone scams.
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If people rely on ChatGPT or Google for complex medical questions, they could come unstuck.
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I crunched the numbers, and they suggest the Robodebt algorithm’s error rate was on the order of 80%.