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Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military

Posted on April 11, 2025 by

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Apr

“We still need to validate the sources,” says Lowdon. But the unit’s commanders encouraged the use of large language models, he says, “because they provide a lot more efficiency during a dynamic situation.” The generative AI tools they used were built by the defense-tech company Vannevar Labs, which in November was granted a production contract […]

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Want AI that flags hateful content? Build it.

Posted on September 25, 2024 by

The challenge asks for two different models. The first, a task for those with intermediate skills, is one that identifies hateful images; the second, considered an advanced challenge, is a model that attempts to fool the first one. “That actually mimics how it works in the real world,” says Chowdhury. “The do-gooders make one approach, […]

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What to know about this new Chinese text-to-video AI model

Posted on June 19, 2024 by

19
Jun

The short-video platform, which has over 600 million active users, announced the new tool on June 6. It’s called Kling. Like OpenAI’s Sora model, Kling is able to generate videos “up to two minutes long with a frame rate of 30fps and video resolution up to 1080p,” the company says on its website. But unlike […]

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This AI-powered “black-box” could make surgery safer

Posted on June 7, 2024 by

07
Jun

While most algorithms operate near perfectly on their own, Peter Grantcharov explains that the OR black box is still not fully autonomous. For example, it’s difficult to capture audio through ceiling mikes and thus get a reliable transcript to document whether every element of the surgical safety checklist was completed; he estimates that this algorithm […]

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An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary

Posted on April 25, 2024May 29, 2024 by Rana Shakoor Akbar

25
Apr

The more data points the AI system has on facial movements, microexpressions, head tilts, blinks, shrugs, and hand waves, the more realistic the avatar will be. DAVID VINTINER He then asks me to read a script for a fictitious YouTuber in different tones, directing me on the spectrum of emotions I should convey. First I’m […]

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Why shiny, high-tech solutions won’t solve one of Africa’s worst crises

Posted on March 1, 2024May 29, 2024 by Rana Shakoor Akbar

01
Mar

Hainikoye hits Accept and a young woman greets him in Hausa, a gravelly language spoken across West Africa’s Sahel region. She has three new cows, and wants to know: Does he have advice on getting them through the lean season? Hainikoye—a twentysomething agronomist who has “followed animals,” as Sahelians refer to herding, since he first […]

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How machine learning might improve earthquake prediction

Posted on December 29, 2023May 29, 2024 by Rana Shakoor Akbar

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Dec

Instances of regular intervals between earthquakes of similar magnitudes have been noted in other places, including Hawaii, but these are the exception, not the rule. Far more often, recurrence intervals are given as averages with large margins of error. For areas prone to large earthquakes, these intervals can be on the scale of hundreds of […]

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Alex Hanna left Google to try and save AI’s future

Posted on October 19, 2022 by

19
Oct

It was a move that capped a dramatic period in Hanna’s professional life. In late 2020, her manager, Timnit Gebru, had been fired from her position as the co-lead of the Ethical AI team after she wrote a paper questioning the ethics of large language models (including Google’s). A few months later, Hanna’s next manager, […]

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How AI could be used to make life and death decisions

Posted on October 13, 2022 by

13
Oct

By the 2000s, an algorithm had been developed in the US to identify recipients for donated kidneys. But some people were unhappy with how the algorithm had been designed. In 2007, Clive Grawe, a kidney transplant candidate from Los Angeles, told a room full of medical experts that their algorithm was biased against older people […]

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The EU wants to put companies on the hook for harmful AI

Posted on October 1, 2022 by

01
Oct

The new bill, called the AI Liability Directive, will add teeth to the EU’s AI Act, which is set to become EU law around the same time. The AI Act would require extra checks for “high risk” uses of AI that have the most potential to harm people, including systems for policing, recruitment, or health […]

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Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military

Technology

Want AI that flags hateful content? Build it.

Technology

What to know about this new Chinese text-to-video AI model

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This AI-powered “black-box” could make surgery safer

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An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary

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Why shiny, high-tech solutions won’t solve one of Africa’s worst crises

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How machine learning might improve earthquake prediction

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Alex Hanna left Google to try and save AI’s future

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How AI could be used to make life and death decisions

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The EU wants to put companies on the hook for harmful AI

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