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 27, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Scans of face photos are estimating people’s ‘biological age’ and even predicting how long they’ll live Cancer doctor Raymond Mak had a hunch that an elderly patient was healthy enough to withstand aggressive treatment. A photo … Read More
December 27, 2024
(ABC) – From a pig kidney transplant to restoring genetic deafness, 2024 was a year full of medical breakthroughs. The breakthroughs include the discovery of a cause of an autoimmune disease, the development of a “game-changing” drug and potential hope … 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 19, 2024
(The Conversation) – Often called “ghost guns” because they can be hard to trace, these firearms can be either partially or completely made with components that have been produced in metal or plastic on commercially available 3D printers. The U.S. … Read More
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 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 12, 2024
(The New Yorker) – A new kind of prosthetic limb depends on carbon fibre and computer chips—and the reëngineering of muscles, tendons, and bone. Surgeons traditionally sew down residual muscles when they amputate a limb. There are good reasons for … Read More
December 11, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – 3D-printed weapons—like the one police believe suspect Luigi Mangione used—are increasingly common The homemade handgun and suppressor that police say was used in last week’s killing of a UnitedHealthcare executive is intensifying the debate over the … 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
(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
(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
(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 4, 2024
(UPI via MSN) – In 2006, Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury. Fast-forward to today, where an innovative deep-brain stimulation technique is helping the 54-year-old Jäger … Read More
December 4, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Health records contain personal information that can leave patients exposed to financial and medical risks Healthcare records have personal information that hackers are always eager to grab, like addresses and credit-card numbers. But the records also … Read More
December 4, 2024
(The Verge) – The month before, Italian regulators had banned the company for posing a risk to minors and emotionally vulnerable users. In response, Replika placed filters on erotic content, which had the effect of sending many of its quarter-million … Read More
December 3, 2024
(Gizmodo) – The specialized ink could eventually replace clunky EEG wires and “potentially revolutionize” brain-computer interface devices. The future of diagnostic medicine is gearing up to look a bit more cyberpunk. Scientists have just unveiled technology that should allow people … Read More
December 2, 2024
(Toronto.com) – A broad coalition of Canada’s major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC, is suing tech giant OpenAI, saying the company is illegally using news articles to … Read More
November 27, 2024
(Undark) – In the future, humans may not be the only arbiters of who lives and dies in war, as weapons gain decision-making power. How autonomous and semi-autonomous technology will operate in the future is up in the air, and … Read More
November 27, 2024
(The Verge) – The restrictions will prevent under-18s from using ‘appearance-altering effects’ that are difficult to detect. TikTok is placing age restrictions on some of its beauty filters to address concerns about how they impact the mental health of its … Read More
