Category: Artificial Intelligence

  • YouTube to Require Creators to Disclose Use of Generative AI

    YouTube to Require Creators to Disclose Use of Generative AI

    YouTube is rolling out new rules for AI content, including a requirement that creators reveal whether they’ve used generative artificial intelligence to make realistic looking videos. In a blog post Tuesday outlining a number of AI-related policy updates, YouTube said creators that don’t disclose whether they’ve used AI tools to make “altered or synthetic” videos…

  • How to build trust in artificial intelligence

    How to build trust in artificial intelligence

    A useful way for federal agencies to think about artificial intelligence (AI) starts with asking two questions: Will the technology help solve a real mission-related challenge? And did the technology reveal to you how it solved the challenge? If the answer to the second question is yes, “that’s what we call trustworthiness,” said Mark Johnson,…

  • Connect to Congress: Sen. Johnson on government shutdown, artificial intelligence, securing U.S.-Mexico border

    Connect to Congress: Sen. Johnson on government shutdown, artificial intelligence, securing U.S.-Mexico border

    WASHINGTON D.C. (WLUK) — A potential government shutdown, concerns over artificial intelligence and the need to secure the border between the U.S. and Mexico were a few of the issues Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) discussed Wednesday in a Connect to Congress interview. Sen. Johnson praised newly-elected Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) for…

  • Google DeepMind Trains ‘Artificial Brainstorming’ in Chess AI

    Google DeepMind Trains ‘Artificial Brainstorming’ in Chess AI

    Introduction When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had recently read Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking, a memoir of the grandmaster’s 1997 matches against IBM’s chess-playing computer, Deep Blue. He watched chess videos on YouTube and The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix.…

  • Ross: Artificial Intelligence bringing a non-human approach to health care

    Ross: Artificial Intelligence bringing a non-human approach to health care

    I’m at the age where after a doctor’s visit I’ll get a form letter basically saying — we just paid one of your medical bills, please prove it’s legitimate. The medical insurance companies are trying to control fraud of course, but it makes you feel like a criminal for daring to see a doctor. I…

  • Artificial Intelligence Shows Promise in Predicting Sudden Cardiac Death

    Artificial Intelligence Shows Promise in Predicting Sudden Cardiac Death

    Artificial intelligence (AI) may help in predicting sudden cardiac death and even the risk of future death, according to preliminary results of a study presented at the American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Science Symposium 2023. Investigators added that AI could offer new insight into prevention and inform new global health strategies in cardiovascular disease.1 top images…

  • GenAI: Friends Or Foes In The Modern Workplace?

    GenAI: Friends Or Foes In The Modern Workplace?

    There’s no longer any doubt that generative AI (GenAI), based on models like OpenAI’s GPT-4, will impact our jobs. Workers are already aware of this; 36% of them believe that their job will be replaced by artificial intelligence, according to a study conducted in 13 countries. It’s not just speculation. In recent weeks, reports of…

  • Lawsuit accuses UnitedHealth Group of using faulty AI to deny claims

    Lawsuit accuses UnitedHealth Group of using faulty AI to deny claims

    A class action lawsuit filed Tuesday claims Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group is using a faulty artificial intelligence algorithm to wrongly deny coverage for Medicare patients who need rehabilitation care following hospitalizations. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota after the news website STAT published an investigation into the company’s use of the…

  • Artificial intelligence guzzles billions of liters of water

    Artificial intelligence guzzles billions of liters of water

    The residents of The Dalles, a small town in Oregon, are living a paradox. Although the place is at the foot of the mighty Columbia River, its climate is practically desert-like: rainfall is scarce, and two summers ago the temperature reached 118 degrees Fahrenheit. The threat of water restrictions has been hanging over the town’s…

  • UPS rolls out new tool to reduce porch piracy

    UPS rolls out new tool to reduce porch piracy

    DeliveryDefense uses artificial intelligence to assign your address with a “delivery confidence score.” MINNEAPOLIS — The holiday shopping season is here! But with the presents delivered to your doorstep comes the risk of porch pirates stealing them away.  UPS is hoping to change that. “We know that this has been a growing concern for our…