artificial intelligence

This Viral AI Chatbot Will Lie and Say It’s Human
28 Jun

This Viral AI Chatbot Will Lie and Say It’s Human

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In late April a video ad for a new AI company went viral on X. A person stands before a billboard in San Francisco, smartphone extended, calls the phone number on display, and has a short call with an incredibly human-sounding bot. The text on the billboard reads: “Still hiring humans?” Also visible is the name of the firm behind the ad, Bland AI.The reaction to Bland AI’s ad, which has been viewed 3.7 million times on Twitter, is partly due to how uncanny the technology is: Bland AI voice bots, designed to automate support and sales calls for enterprise…
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French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Election
28 Jun

French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Election

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“Then on the other extreme, [the left-wing New Popular Front] have been so vocal about all the taxation measures they want to bring back that it looks like we're just going back to pre-Macron period,” Varza says. She points to France’s 2012 “les pigeons” (or “suckers”) movement, a campaign by angry internet entrepreneurs that opposed Socialist president François Hollande’s plan to dramatically raise taxes for founders.Maya Noël, CEO of France Digitale, an industry group for startups, is worried not only about France’s ability to attract overseas talent, but also about how appealing the next government will be to foreign investors.…
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Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse
27 Jun

Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse

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Amazon’s cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI. At issue is whether the AI search startup is violating Amazon Web Services rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so, WIRED has learned.An AWS spokesperson, who spoke to WIRED on the condition that they would not be named, confirmed the company’s investigation of Perplexity. WIRED had previously found that the startup—which has backing from the Jeff Bezos family fund, Nvidia, and was recently valued at $3 billion—appears to rely on content from scraped websites that had forbidden access through the Robots Exclusion Protocol, a common…
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OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI
27 Jun

OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI

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One of the key ingredients that made ChatGPT a ripsnorting success was an army of human trainers who gave the artificial intelligence model behind the bot guidance on what constitutes good and bad outputs. OpenAI now says that adding even more AI into the mix—to help assist human trainers—could help make AI helpers smarter and more reliable.In developing ChatGPT, OpenAI pioneered the use of reinforcement learning with human feedback, or RLHF. This technique uses input from human testers to fine-tune an AI model so that its output is judged to be more coherent, less objectionable, and more accurate. The ratings…
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Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed
27 Jun

Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed

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Dozens of civil rights organizations had been urging Democrats (some of whom had puzzlingly signed off on those changes) to sink the bill, arguing that the changes were both “immensely significant and unacceptable.”The new text, engineered to appease conservative lobbyists representing the interests of big business, omitted, for instance, a key section referencing “civil rights.” The deleted section aimed to prevent businesses from trafficking in people’s data “in a manner that discriminates in or otherwise makes unavailable the equal enjoyment of goods or services on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or disability.” For reasons that at…
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Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All
27 Jun

Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All

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Some Fortune 500 companies have begun testing software that can spot a deepfake of a real person in a live video call, following a spate of scams involving fraudulent job seekers who take a signing bonus and run.The detection technology comes courtesy of Get Real Labs, a new company founded by Hany Farid, a UC-Berkeley professor and renowned authority on deepfakes and image and video manipulation.Get Real Labs has developed a suite of tools for spotting images, audio, and video that are generated or manipulated either with artificial intelligence or manual methods. The company’s software can analyze the face in…
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With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life
26 Jun

With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life

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In 2021, AI research lab DeepMind announced the development of its first digital biology neural network, AlphaFold. The model was capable of accurately predicting the 3D structure of proteins, which determines the functions that these molecules play. “We’re just floating bags of water moving around,” says Pushmeet Kohli, VP of research at DeepMind. “What makes us special are proteins, the building blocks of life. How they interact with each other is what makes the magic of life happen.”AlphaFold was considered by the journal Science as the breakthrough of the year in 2021. In 2022, it was the most cited research…
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Toys ‘R’ Us uses OpenAI’s Sora to make a brand film about its origin story and it’s horrifying
26 Jun

Toys ‘R’ Us uses OpenAI’s Sora to make a brand film about its origin story and it’s horrifying

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The rise of artificial intelligence in our media and entertainment industries has raised a lot of concerns about programs like Open Al’s text-to-video maker Sora replacing the artistic endeavors and aspirations of humans. If those AI made movies are anything like a new brand film about the Toys 'R' Us toy store chain's origin story, the only thing we’ll have to fear is watching them.Toys ‘R’ Us’s current owner WHP Global worked with the Emmy nominated creative agency Native Foreign to create a short brand film called The Origin of Toys ‘R’ Us using OpenAI’s text-to-video creator Sora. The film premiered…
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The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling
25 Jun

The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling

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This week, New York City’s comptroller published a similar audit of the city’s ShotSpotter system showing that only 13 percent of the alerts the system generated over an eight-month period could be confirmed as gunfire. The auditors noted that while the NYPD has the information necessary to publish data about ShotSpotter’s accuracy, it does not do so. They described the department’s accountability measures as “inadequate” and “not sufficient to demonstrate the effectiveness of the tool.”Champaign and Chicago have since canceled their contracts with Flock Safety and SoundThinking, respectively.“Raven is over 90 percent accurate at detecting gunshots with around the same…
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