Category «AI»

Absolutist AI

Absolutist AI – Mitchell Barrington, arXiv:2307.10315 [cs.AI]: “This paper argues that training AI systems with absolute constraints — which forbid certain acts irrespective of the amount of value they might produce — may make considerable progress on many AI safety problems in principle. First, it provides a guardrail for avoiding the very worst outcomes of …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal

Forbes: “Artificial intelligence is helping American cops look for “suspicious” patterns of movement, digging through license plate databases with billions of records. A drug trafficking case in New York has uncloaked — and challenged — one of the biggest rollouts of the controversial technology to date… Rekor’s big sell is that its software doesn’t require …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Health Care, Legal Research, Privacy, Transportation

Microsoft brings Bing AI support to Google Chrome, adds dark mode too

9to5Google: “Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing AI experience has long been locked to its own Edge browser, but now support for Google Chrome is available. Bing AI in Google Chrome is now live for most users, and works as you’d expect. Heading to bing.com and clicking on the “Chat” icon in the top left corner of the …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Tips for Investigating Algorithm Harm and Avoiding AI Hype

Rowan Philp, GIJN senior reporter: “…In a recent article for the Columbia Journalism Review, Schellmann, Kapoor, and Dallas Morning News reporter Ari Sen explained that AI “machine learning” systems are neither sentient nor independent. Instead, these systems differ from past computer models because, rather than following a set of digital rules, they can “recognize patterns …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Artificial intelligence, job quality and inclusiveness

OECD Employment Outlook 2023: Artificial Intelligence and the Labour Market – Artificial intelligence, job quality and inclusiveness. Andrew Green Angelica Salvi del Pero Annelore Verhagen. OECD e-library. “For many workers, the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) will be visible not in terms of lost employment but through changes in the tasks they perform at work …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Knowledge Management

How to Tell If an Image Is AI Generated

How to Geek: AI photos are getting better, but there are still ways to tell if you’re looking at the real thing — most of the time. An AI-generated photograph is any image that has been produced or manipulated with synthetic content using so-called artificial intelligence (AI) software based on machine learning. As the images cranked …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Digital Rights, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

When putting AI to work, remember: It’s just a talented intern

Beta News: “Artificial intelligence (AI) models have been generating a lot of buzz as valuable tools for everything from cutting costs and improving revenues to how they can play an essential role in unified observability. But for as much value as AI brings to the table, it’s important to remember that AI is the intern …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

A.I. brings shadow libraries into the spotlight

The New York Times [free link] – to see this text scroll down the page: ” Large language models, or L.L.M.s, the artificial intelligence systems that power tools like ChatGPT, are developed using enormous libraries of text. Books are considered especially useful training material, because they’re lengthy and (hopefully) well-written. But authors are starting to …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 22, 2023

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 22, 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 …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Mail, Health Care, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies in 2023 and Beyond

Tech Republic: “In an expansive Forrester report on the top 10 emerging technologies of 2023, it comes as no surprise that generative AI tops the list, followed by autonomous workplace assistants and conversational AI. These three technologies “… are poised to deliver a return on investment soon,” which Forrester defines as less than two years. …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management