What does AI mean for Australian democracy? And what can we do about it?

What does AI mean for Australian democracy? And what can we do about it?

Last week, the head of Australia’s election regulator warned the organisation “does not possess the legislative tools or internal technical capability to deter, detect or adequately deal with false AI-generated content concerning the election process”. This remark, made to a senate committee on adopting artificial intelligence (AI), is not an isolated comment. The relationship between AI and democracy is the topic of many, increasingly urgent conversations taking place around the world. More than 60 countries will head to the polls in 2024, in what has been dubbed “the biggest election year in history”. Australia is expecting to hold elections in…
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From Data to Destinations: How Skyscanner Optimizes Traveler Experiences with Databricks Unity Catalog

From Data to Destinations: How Skyscanner Optimizes Traveler Experiences with Databricks Unity Catalog

This blog is authored by Michael Ewins, Director of Engineering at Skyscanner At Skyscanner, we're more than just a flight search engine. We are a global leader in travel in serving more than 110 million users each month to plan and book their trips with confidence and ease. Operating in over 30 languages, our platform connects travelers with a wide range of flights, hotels, and car rental options from over 1,200 travel partners across 180 countries.  We use data and AI to enhance the traveler experience as well as support internal decision-making. For our travelers, we use machine learning (ML) models to…
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Easily create interactive apps | Deephaven

Easily create interactive apps | Deephaven

Deephaven Community Core supports bidirectional plugins that allow clients to connect to and manage objects created on the server through remote procedure protocol (RPC). What does that mean? You can create apps like chat servers, interactive widgets, and more. This blog will walk you through a simple example that uses bidirectional plugins to serialize and deserialize a function and its return values.Deephaven's bidirectional plugin infrastructure makes it simple to share objects between server and client, so user-facing application development is easier than ever before.This blog uses Python's pickle package to serialize and deserialize objects. Pickle is a powerful tool, but…
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OpenAI is devouring the media industry

OpenAI is devouring the media industry

Time's almost up! There's only one week left to request an invite to The AI Impact Tour on June 5th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to explore various methods for auditing AI models. Find out how you can attend here. Let’s make one thing clear up front: I’m generally pro-generative AI. At least, I am a lot more amenable to it — and use it myself daily in the form of parsing information via ChatGPT and generating images with it and Midjourney — than many of my peers in the journalism industry. Nonetheless, I am curious and concerned…
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OpenAI Adds PwC as Resale Partner for ChatGPT Enterprise Tier

OpenAI Adds PwC as Resale Partner for ChatGPT Enterprise Tier

Major accounting and professional services firm PwC announced on May 29 a deal to become a reseller and purchase more than 100,000 licenses for ChatGPT Enterprise with OpenAI, marking a large new revenue stream for the AI maker’s enterprise product. The US and UK firms of PwC are now “OpenAI’s first reseller for ChatGPT Enterprise and the largest user of the product,” PwC stated in a press release. Specifically, PwC will complement its audit, tax and consulting services with ChatGPT Enterprise’s generative AI capabilities. PwC Deal Shows Confidence in OpenAI’s Enterprise Offerings PwC has not disclosed the financial terms or…
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SpiNNaker-Based Supercomputer Launches in Dresden – EE Times

SpiNNaker-Based Supercomputer Launches in Dresden – EE Times

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> A new neuromorphic supercomputer is claiming the title of world’s biggest. University of Dresden spinout SpiNNcloud, formed to commercialize technology based on a second generation of Steve Furber’s SpiNNaker neuromorphic architecture, is now offering a five-billion neuron supercomputer in the cloud, as well as smaller commercial systems for on-prem use. Among the startup’s first customers are Sandia National Labs, Technische Universität München and Universität Göttingen. The first generation of the SpiNNaker architecture, an academic project led by Arm architecture co-inventor Steve Furber, was created 10 years ago and is used…
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Even Google’s Own Researchers Admit AI Is Top Source of Misinformation Online

Even Google’s Own Researchers Admit AI Is Top Source of Misinformation Online

AI is now the dominant source of image-based misinformation on the internet, a team of Google researchers determined in a recent paper. While the findings have yet to be peer-reviewed, they're as fascinating as they are alarming — and strike at the heart of one of the deepest tensions at the center of Silicon Valley's ongoing AI race."The prevalence and harms of online misinformation is a perennial concern for internet platforms, institutions and society at large," reads the paper. "The rise of generative AI-based tools, which provide widely-accessible methods for synthesizing realistic audio, images, video and human-like text, have amplified…
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A faster, better way to prevent an AI chatbot from giving toxic responses

A faster, better way to prevent an AI chatbot from giving toxic responses

A user could ask ChatGPT to write a computer program or summarize an article, and the AI chatbot would likely be able to generate useful code or write a cogent synopsis. However, someone could also ask for instructions to build a bomb, and the chatbot might be able to provide those, too. To prevent this and other safety issues, companies that build large language models typically safeguard them using a process called red-teaming. Teams of human testers write prompts aimed at triggering unsafe or toxic text from the model being tested. These prompts are used to teach the chatbot to…
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A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

Allen, a data scientist, and Massachi, a software engineer, worked for nearly four years at Facebook on some of the uglier aspects of social media, combating scams and election meddling. They didn’t know each other but both quit in 2019, frustrated at feeling a lack of support from executives. “The work that teams like the one I was on, civic integrity, was being squandered,” Massachi said in a recent conference talk. “Worse than a crime, it was a mistake.”Massachi first conceived the idea of using expertise like that he’d developed at Facebook to drive greater public attention to the dangers…
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