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Washington Post [read free]: “You might be seeing violent, abhorrent videos in your social media feeds from Israel and Gaza. Those images have included the apparent killing of Israeli hostages, dead bodies and other cruelties. Those online videos can feed a hunger for information for people in Israel and Gaza in the absence of official …
CNBC: Google Cloud on Monday announced new artificial intelligence-powered search capabilities that will help clinicians quickly access information from different data sources. It can be challenging for doctors and nurses to find information since it’s often stored across multiple systems and formats, so Google’s new tool brings it all to one place. The new features …
IEE Spectrum: “Efforts to make AI open source have become a lightning rod for disagreements about the potential harms of the emerging technology. Last week, protesters gathered outside Meta’s San Francisco offices to protest its policy of publicly releasing its AI models, claiming that the releases represent “irreversible proliferation” of potentially unsafe technology. But others …
Tech Policy News: “Since the explosion of ChatGPT about a year ago, it seems that policymakers everywhere want to regulate artificial intelligence. It has become a focus of Congressional attention with Senator Chuck Schumer’s recent AI Insight Forum. This is all to the good, given that many of our troubles with the online world stem …
Tech Republic: “This is a complete guide on how to use Google Bard. Learn how Google Bard can help you boost your productivity, creativity and more. Bard is Google’s public entry into the highly competitive field of artificial intelligence chatbots, which also includes OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Google intends Bard to be a “creative and helpful collaborator” …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 7, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …
Evaluating LLMs is a minefield, Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor. Princeton University. Oct 4, 2023. Authors of the AI Snake Oil book and newsletter
Journalism AI – Generating Change: “Our media landscape is undergoing a significant transformation due to technological advancements, particularly since the proliferation of generative AI (genAI). This transformation has sparked discussions, and various media coverage- topics swing between positive breakthroughs in fields like medicine, to concerns about genAI’s potential to generate undetectable disinformation, exacerbating discrimination and …
EU Disinformation Lab: “The development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has long been a challenge for the disinformation field, allowing content to be easily manipulated and contributing to accelerate its distribution. Focusing on content, recent technical developments, and the growing use of generative AI systems by end-users have exponentially increased these challenges, making it easier …
ZDNet: “It’s free, there’s no waitlist, and you don’t even need to use Edge to access it. Here’s everything else you need to know to get started using Microsoft’s AI art generator. As the use of different artificial intelligence (AI) tools has exploded in recent months, we’ve seen the development of generative AI sprouting in the …
ZDNet: “Arc Max is a collection of five AI-powered features, powered by a combination of GPT-3.5 and Anthropic. Those features are: Ask ChatGPT – this will allow you to ask ChatGPT your questions directly from the Arc Command Line, which can be brought up with the Command+L keyboard shortcut. Tidy Tab Title – if you’ve …
Highlights – Freedom on the Net 2023 Global internet freedom declined for the 13th consecutive year. Digital repression intensified in Iran, home to this year’s worst decline, as authorities shut down internet service, blocked WhatsApp and Instagram, and increased surveillance in a bid to quell antigovernment protests. Myanmar came close to dislodging China as the …
