December 27, 2024
(The Independent) – British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton said we need to be “very careful” and “very thoughtful” about the development of artificial intelligence (AI) which he says is a “potentially very dangerous technology”. Professor Hinton, who won the Nobel … Read More
December 23, 2024
(Wired) – In Russia’s war against Ukraine, electronic warfare, including signal-jamming, anti-drone weapons, and innovative protections for critical military systems, has become a key piece of the conflict. EDM4S—or Electronic Drone Mitigation 4 System—is a portable electronic-warfare weapon from Lithuania. … Read More
December 23, 2024
(404 Media) – Anthropic created an AI jailbreaking algorithm that keeps tweaking prompts until it gets a harmful response. New research from Anthropic, one of the leading AI companies and the developer of the Claude family of Large Language Models … Read More
December 20, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 1, no. 12, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 19, 2024
(Wired) – WIRED is following every copyright battle involving the AI industry—and we’ve created some handy visualizations that will be updated as the cases progress. In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI … Read More
December 19, 2024
(The Atlantic) – For people with developmental disabilities like Michael, however, using chatbots brings particular and profound risks. His parents and I were acutely afraid that he would lose track of what was fact and what was fiction. In the … Read More
December 18, 2024
(Gizmodo) – Something of a cheap gimmick, callers can speak to ChatGPT up to 15 minutes a month for free. If you are ever feeling lonely and just need someone to talk to, OpenAI has you covered. The company today … Read More
December 17, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to delay enforcement of a national security law that could effectively ban the popular social-media app in the U.S. next month. In an emergency application, lawyers for TikTok and … Read More
December 17, 2024
(The Dispatch) – Christine Rosen’s new book shows how modern technology simply lacks an essential human touch. Would you choose to spend the rest of your life in the experience machine? When Nozick first asked this question to his students … Read More
December 17, 2024
(The Baffler) – Chatbots take on the talking cure Broken Bear has purple and tan fur, a placid smile, and patched up circles on his belly: one, he tells me, covers a scar from a broken heart. The avatar of … Read More
December 16, 2024
(NBC News) – Balaji left OpenAI earlier this year and raised concerns publicly that the company had allegedly violated U.S. copyright law while developing its popular ChatGPT chatbot. “The manner of death has been determined to be suicide,” David Serrano … Read More
December 16, 2024
(Nature) – The influential writer talks about frighteningly accurate predictions, the creative act of reading, AI consciousness — and hope. My feeling is that ‘artificial intelligence’ is a public-relations name that obscures what’s really going on. It’s artificial for sure. … Read More
December 16, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – It’s no secret that the current AI boom is using up immense amounts of energy. Now we have a better idea of how much. A new paper, from teams at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of … Read More
December 13, 2024
(Wired) – The project’s leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry. Harvard University announced Thursday it’s releasing a high-quality dataset of nearly 1 million public-domain … Read More
December 11, 2024
(Aftermath) – Embodied, maker of the AI robot called Moxie, is shuttering. With their closing, parents have to explain to their kids that Moxie is dead. AI company Embodied announced this week that they would be shutting down following financial … Read More
December 11, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – It’s largely up to companies to determine whether their AI is capable of superhuman harm. At Anthropic, the Frontier Red Team looks for the danger zone. Cheng works for Anthropic, one of the biggest AI startups … Read More
December 10, 2024
(Nature) – Researchers call on technology companies to test their systems for consciousness and create AI welfare policies. The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought to the fore ethical questions that were once confined to the realms of … Read More
December 10, 2024
(Medscape) – Instead of sitting behind a laptop during patient visits, the pediatrician directly faces the patient and parent, relying on an ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribe to capture the conversation for the electronic health record (EHR). A geriatrician doing … Read More
December 10, 2024
(Wired) – Simple external cues, such as lines on the floor, can help Parkinson’s patients focus their efforts and overcome the difficulty of the symptoms. With augmented reality, those cues can be anywhere. The technique, called external cueing, works by … Read More
December 9, 2024
(New York Times) – New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms? A law required that these devices be fitted with filters to ensure safe internet use, … Read More
December 9, 2024
(Wired) – People use AI pals for all sorts of reasons. Here’s what happens when you take one on a solo trip to Japan. David is a travel consultant and blogger with a relentlessly upbeat attitude and an enormous backpack … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Reuters via U.S. News & World Report) – An animal testing laboratory at Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain technology company was found to have “objectionable conditions or practices” by the Food and Drug Administration, which cited the company and urged it … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A federal appeals court ruled Friday that TikTok can be banned in the U.S. over national security concerns, upholding a federal law requiring the popular social media app to shed its Chinese ownership to keep operating. … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Wired) – Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he’s more convinced that the tech giant’s health apps will define the company’s legacy. Apple has created a lot of consumer tools for medical technology. … Read More
December 4, 2024
(Axios) – The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday finalized recommendations aimed at simplifying the process for approving medical devices that use artificial intelligence. Why it matters: Regulators increasingly are evaluating AI-powered medical devices. (Read More)
