April 11, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – 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 … Read More
April 11, 2024
(Axios) – When the former head of Kaiser Permanente’s physician group started to write last fall about how the explosion in generative AI would change health care, he worried he might be too optimistic. Less than a year later, Robert … Read More
April 11, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – It’s far too easy for teens to receive—and send—nude photos. Instagram is now taking a meaningful step to contain the problem, by automatically detecting and blurring nudes in its direct-messaging service. These images, real or fake, … Read More
April 10, 2024
(Wired) – Students have submitted more than 22 million papers that may have used generative AI in the past year, new data released by plagiarism detection company Turnitin shows. A year ago, Turnitin rolled out an AI writing detection tool … Read More
April 10, 2024
(Washington Post) – OpenAI has been hit with more than a dozen high-profile lawsuits and government investigations since Silverman’s complaint. Top authors including Jodi Picoult and media companies including the New York Times have also alleged that the company violates … Read More
April 9, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Japan’s largest telecommunications company and the country’s biggest newspaper called for speedy legislation to restrain generative artificial intelligence, saying democracy and social order could collapse if AI is left unchecked. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, or NTT, … Read More
April 8, 2024
(The Atlantic) – The most basic challenge in mating a brain and a computer is an incompatibility of materials. Though computers are made of silicon and copper, brains are not. They have a consistency not unlike tapioca pudding; they wobble. … Read More
April 5, 2024
(Undark) – Various commercial products known as “griefbots” create a simulation of a lost loved one. Built on artificial intelligence that makes use of large language models, or LLMs, the bots imitate the particular way the deceased person talked by … Read More
April 4, 2024
(Wired) – Chatbots offered in OpenAI’s GPT Store are based on the same technology as its own ChatGPT but are created by outside developers for specific functions. To tailor their bot, a developer can upload extra information that it can … Read More
April 4, 2024
(MedPage Today) – The FDA granted marketing authorization for the Sepsis ImmunoScore, an artificial intelligence (AI) software tool for rapid diagnosis and risk assessment of sepsis, Prenosis announced Wednesday. Integrated into electronic health records, the AI tool uses a combination … Read More
April 4, 2024
(The Atlantic) – While researching a story about lemon-lime flavor, I asked ChatGPT to give me an overview of the U.S. market for beverages with this ingredient, but had to do my own research to confirm the facts. In the … Read More
April 4, 2024
(The Guardian) – As millions of people across China travel to the graves of their ancestors to pay their respects for the annual tomb-sweeping festival – a traditional day to honour and maintain the graves of the dead – a … Read More
April 4, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Deepfakes have long raised concern in social media, elections and the public sector. But now with technology advances making artificial intelligence-enabled voice and images more lifelike than ever, bad actors armed with deepfakes are coming for … Read More
April 3, 2024
(The Guardian) – The Israeli military’s bombing campaign in Gaza used a previously undisclosed AI-powered database that at one stage identified 37,000 potential targets based on their apparent links to Hamas, according to intelligence sources involved in the war. In … Read More
April 3, 2024
(Associated Press) – Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased … Read More
April 2, 2024
(New York Magazine) – She knew she’d never worked with this company and watched the video more closely. It was her, but not quite. She’d encountered her AI clone in the wild. “It honestly just threw me off a little,” … Read More
April 1, 2024
(Wired) – Effective altruism pitches itself as a hyperrational method of using any resource for the maximum good of the world. Here in Silicon Valley, EA has become a secular religion of the elites. Effective altruists filled the board of … Read More
April 1, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Companies racing to develop more powerful artificial intelligence are rapidly nearing a new problem: The internet might be too small for their plans. Ever more powerful systems developed by OpenAI, Google and others require larger oceans … Read More
March 28, 2024
(The Economist) – This is a series in The Economist Technology Quarterly. The series includes: AIs Will Make Health Care Safer and Better (Read More) Artificial Intelligence Has Long Been Improving Diagnoses (Read More) Medical AIs with Human Faces Are … Read More
March 25, 2024
(CNBC) – Last week, Nvidia announced deals with Johnson & Johnson for use of generative AI in surgery, and with GE Healthcare to improve medical imaging. The health care developments at its 2024 GTC AI conference, — which also included the … Read More
March 25, 2024
(Axios) – A shocking number of American kids are sad, suicidal and stuck on small screens sucking away their zest for life. Why it matters: This is the indisputable and alarming trend among American children, based on the latest polling … Read More
March 22, 2024
(First Things) – If Big Tech companies have observed anything about human nature in their rise to economic, political, and cultural dominance, it is that Homo sapiens prefer artificial, digital experiences to the places and relationships their bodies actually inhabit. … Read More
March 21, 2024
(Washington Post) – Physicians say they’re seeing an explosion of birth-control misinformation online targeting a vulnerable demographic: people in their teens and early 20s who are more likely to believe what they see on their phones because of algorithms that … Read More
March 21, 2024
(Science) – Given the pervasiveness of AGI talk in business, government, and the media, one could not be blamed for assuming that the meaning of the term is established and agreed upon. However, the opposite is true: What AGI means, … Read More
March 21, 2024
(Wired) – Two announcements Wednesday offer evidence that large language models can in fact be trained without the permissionless use of copyrighted materials. A group of researchers backed by the French government have released what is thought to be the … Read More
