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07 Oct

The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down

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It’s too soon to say how the spate of deals between AI companies and publishers will shake out. OpenAI has already scored one clear win, though: Its web crawlers aren’t getting blocked by top news outlets at the rate they once were.The generative AI boom sparked a gold rush for data—and a subsequent data-protection rush (for most news websites, anyway) in which publishers sought to block AI crawlers and prevent their work from becoming training data without consent. When Apple debuted a new AI agent this summer, for example, a slew of top news outlets swiftly opted out of Apple’s…

04 Oct

AI’s Big Gift to Society Is … Pithy Summaries?

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Companies keep rolling out AI features that boil down various kinds of text. They're making us dumber. Source link lol

03 Oct

License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of Political Lawn Signs and Bumper Stickers

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While people place signs in their lawns or bumper stickers on their cars to inform people of their views and potentially to influence those around them, the ACLU’s Stanley says it is intended for “human-scale visibility,” not that of machines. “Perhaps they want to express themselves in their communities, to their neighbors, but they don't necessarily want to be logged into a nationwide database that’s accessible to police authorities,” Stanley says.Weist says the system, at the very least, should be able to filter out images that do not contain license plate data and not make mistakes. “Any number of times…

02 Oct

How to Use Generative AI for the Online Shopping Experience | TechRepublic

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Retailers are very much on the leading edge of the application of artificial intelligence. Driven by their desire to boost online sales, they have devised a great many tools and tricks to entice more clicks and higher sales. But the resulting chatbots and online shopping recommendation engines have enjoyed only limited success. Drew Robb, writing for TechRepublic Premium, delves into what has hampered online sales success and how generative AI is being harnessed to improve the online shopping experience and overall sales. Featured text from the download: HOW GEN AI CAN IMPROVE SHOPPING While gen AI should eventually bring better…

02 Oct

Google: GenAI Could Add €1.4 Trillion to the EU’s GDP by 2034

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Generative AI could add between €1.2 and €1.4 trillion to the E.U.’s gross domestic product within a decade, the equivalent of 8% of growth a year, a new Google report claims. The gains would come from employee productivity increases, the free time created from automating tasks, and the re-employment of people who once handled those tasks. The report, The economic opportunity of AI in the E.U., was prepared by Implement Consulting Group using economic modelling approaches developed by Goldman Sachs investment bank. It presents a compelling case against the over-regulation of AI within the bloc. It estimates that 61% of…

01 Oct

Stronger together: miniature robots in convoy for endoscopic surgery

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Miniature robots on the millimeter scale often lack the strength to transport instruments for endoscopic microsurgery through the body. Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) are now combining several millimeter-sized TrainBots into one unit and equipping them with improved "feet." For the first time, the DKFZ team was able to perform an electric surgical procedure on a bile duct obstruction experimentally with a robotic convoy. The list of conceivable applications for miniature robots in medicine is long: from targeted drug application to sensing tasks and surgical procedures. An arsenal of robots has already been developed and tested for…

01 Oct

Global Cyber Attacks to Double from 2020 to 2024, Report Finds

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On the first day of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the U.S., research has revealed that the number of significant global cyber attacks in 2024 will be double that of 2020. A new report from insurer QBE, Connected Business: digital dependency fuelling risk, predicts that organisations will be hit by 211 disruptive and destructive cyber attacks this year. Disruptive incidents are reversible and only impact data availability, integrity, or access — such as distributed denial-of-service attacks. Conversely, destructive attacks are irreversible and aim to have a physical impact on people, like the Triton malware, which disabled safety systems at petrochemical plants.…

01 Oct

Turn Your To-Do List Into a Done List with DeskSense—Your AI Assistant for Life

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TL;DR: Get lifetime access to DeskSense AI Assistant from just $49 for life (reg. $179) and simplify your workday with AI-powered productivity and creativity tools. What busy person hasn’t thought of how nice it would be to have an assistant? Whether it’s to help run your errands or help streamline your professional tasks, our own personal helper would be terrific. While DeskSense AI Assistant can’t do your laundry, it can certainly help in a variety of other ways. A lifetime license to the Basic Plan is on sale for just $49 (reg. $179) for a limited time. Features This productivity-boosting,…

01 Oct

Custom AI Data Centers: Benefits and Best Practices | TechRepublic

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Artificial intelligence is changing the data center game. If data centers are to host AI engines that demand massively dense racks and hundreds of GPUs, things will have to change. Existing data centers and traditional designs won’t be able to cope with AI requirements. The solution emerging is to customize the data center to address AI needs. In this TechRepublic Premium feature, Drew Robb discusses how these data centers will need to be architected to host AI successfully. Featured text from the download: BEST PRACTICES FOR AI DATA CENTERS There are many factors that those planning or building AI data…

01 Oct

Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter

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Imagine having to straighten up a messy kitchen, starting with a counter littered with sauce packets. If your goal is to wipe the counter clean, you might sweep up the packets as a group. If, however, you wanted to first pick out the mustard packets before throwing the rest away, you would sort more discriminately, by sauce type. And if, among the mustards, you had a hankering for Grey Poupon, finding this specific brand would entail a more careful search. MIT engineers have developed a method that enables robots to make similarly intuitive, task-relevant decisions. The team's new approach, named…