artificial intelligence

From Emerging Tech to AI: My New Forrester Mission
18 Oct

From Emerging Tech to AI: My New Forrester Mission

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After three years dedicated to Forrester’s Emerging Technology portfolio, I’m excited to embark on a new chapter as VP, Emerging Technology & Principal Analyst. In this role, I’ll be focusing much of my time on researching the transformative impact of artificial intelligence as part of Forrester’s new Data, AI, and Analytics service. While AI has been a part of my research, this transition allows me to dedicate more focus to helping clients generate real, measurable value from their AI investments. AI Computing: A New Era Of Human Empowerment A pivotal moment in my work came with the publication of Forrester’s…
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Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door
17 Oct

Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door

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While the biometric-scanning Orb and the World network have their roots in crypto tokens, “crypto” wasn’t an oft-mentioned word during the event. Instead, Altman and Blania emphasized World’s blockchain service, digital asset management, and virtual communication tools.Blania claimed during the press briefing that, in the future, World hopes to build the “largest finance network” on the planet.In a separate interview with WIRED, Blania said that during regular Sunday meetings at Atlman’s house, the pair were inspired by the rise of PayPal. Similar to the way that Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and others once pioneered digital payments and fundamentally changed online…
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Filmmakers Are Worried About AI. Big Tech Wants Them to See ‘What’s Possible’
17 Oct

Filmmakers Are Worried About AI. Big Tech Wants Them to See ‘What’s Possible’

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“You have to learn the fundamentals,” he says. “Technology will change, but storytelling won’t.”To make his short, “Mnemonade,” really sing, Meta Puppet says he focused on giving the story some emotional heft. “I don’t think AI films will go fully mainstream until we get emotional dialog,” he says. He played all the roles in his short, about the poignance of sense memory and an elderly woman’s loss of memory, using AI from Silicon Valley “unicorn” ElevenLabs to shift his vocal performance into each character’s range and voice.Maddie Hong, who went head-to-head with Meta Puppet in the Culver Cup finals, says…
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Google’s NotebookLM Now Lets You Customize Its AI Podcasts
17 Oct

Google’s NotebookLM Now Lets You Customize Its AI Podcasts

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Google just added a new customization tool for the viral AI podcasts in its NotebookLM software. I got early access and tested it out using Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis as the source material, spending a few hours generating podcasts about the seminal novella—some of them more unhinged than others.Released by Google Labs in 2023 as an experimental, AI-focused writing tool, NotebookLM has been enjoying a resurgence in user interest since early September, when the developers added an option to generate podcast-like conversations between two AI voices—one male-sounding and one female-sounding—from uploaded documents. While these audio “deep dives” can be used…
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17 Oct

All of Our Gadgets Just Keep Talking

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Everybody wants to talk to their pet. Or to try to get them to listen, anyway. So it’s no wonder that some startups think the way to break through the communication barrier between you and your pooch is with a nice big helping of technology. Welcome to a world with AI-enabled dog and cat collars that try to interpret a pet’s needs and then share those wishes with their human. The only problem with these devices is that the pet won’t actually be a part of the conversation, as the collar is just guessing at what the pet is thinking—but…
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This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats
17 Oct

This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats

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The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into believing the unintelligible prompt might do something useful, such as improve their CV. The researchers point to numerous websites that provide people with prompts they can use. They tested the attack by uploading a CV to conversations with chatbots, and it was able to return the personal information contained within the file.Earlence Fernandes, an assistant professor at UCSD who was involved in the work, says the attack approach is fairly complicated as the obfuscated prompt needs to identify personal information,…
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Inside the Mind of an AI Girlfriend (or Boyfriend)
16 Oct

Inside the Mind of an AI Girlfriend (or Boyfriend)

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Last month, OpenAI unveiled an ambitious new language model capable of working through challenging problems with a simulated kind of step-by-step reasoning. OpenAI says the approach could be crucial for building more capable AI systems in the future.In the meantime, perhaps a more modest version of this technology could help make AI girlfriends and boyfriends a bit more spontaneous and alluring.That’s what Dippy, a startup that offers “uncensored” AI companions is betting. The company recently launched a feature that lets users see the reasoning behind their AI characters’ responses.Dippy runs its own large language model, which is an open source…
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Algorithms Policed Welfare Systems For Years. Now They’re Under Fire for Bias
16 Oct

Algorithms Policed Welfare Systems For Years. Now They’re Under Fire for Bias

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“People receiving a social allowance reserved for people with disabilities [the Allocation Adulte Handicapé or AAH] are directly targeted by a variable in the algorithm,” says Bastien Le Querrec, legal expert at La Quadrature du Net. “The risk score for people receiving AAH and who are working is increased.”Because it also scores single-parent families higher than two-parent families, the groups argue it indirectly discriminates against single mothers, who are statistically more likely to be sole-care givers. “In the criteria for the 2014 version of the algorithm, the score for beneficiaries who have been divorced for less than 18 months is…
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Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be
15 Oct

Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be

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For a while now, companies like OpenAI and Google have been touting advanced "reasoning" capabilities as the next big step in their latest artificial intelligence models. Now, though, a new study from six Apple engineers shows that the mathematical "reasoning" displayed by advanced large language models can be extremely brittle and unreliable in the face of seemingly trivial changes to common benchmark problems.The fragility highlighted in these new results helps support previous research suggesting that LLMs' use of probabilistic pattern matching is missing the formal understanding of underlying concepts needed for truly reliable mathematical reasoning capabilities. "Current LLMs are not…
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