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10 things you may have suspected about AI but didn’t know for sure till now
All around the world, people are increasingly wise to the advance of AI. More than a few are growing ever more uneasy about it. And yet workers equipped with AI are both more productive and better at their jobs. These are just a few of many noteworthy observations offered by analysts at Stanford University’s Institute…
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What can the dot-com bubble teach us about the future of AI?
No matter how enthusiastic you might be about artificial intelligence, AI optimism is raging on Wall Street. Two years ago, the day before ChatGPT made its public debut, the semiconductor company Nvidia was trading at about $160 per share. Today, the AI chip supplier trades at about $860 per share, making it a $2 trillion…
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First major attempts to regulate AI face headwinds from all sides
DENVER (AP) — Artificial intelligence is helping decide which Americans get the job interview, the apartment, even medical care, but the first major proposals to reign in bias in AI decision making are facing headwinds from every direction. Lawmakers working on these bills, in states including Colorado, Connecticut and Texas, are coming together Thursday to…
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Meta rolls out upgraded AI assistant across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp
<!–> Monness, Crespi, Hardt Internet & Software Head Brian White says reels are contributing to Meta’s net revenue and says Apple will have a tough year on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ Meta Platforms launched a new upgraded version of its artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI, across its apps on Thursday. The tool, available on the social…
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The advent of powerful technologies in Artificial Intelligence and their release to the public (e.g., ChatGPT, Bard, and so on) bring about hard questions about the ethical implications of using them. The increasing power of human beings to significantly alter reality and civilization needs to be examined with care. Following the philosophy of Hans…
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AI for Earth: How NASA’s Artificial Intelligence and Open Science Efforts Combat Climate Change
4 min read As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same. The artificial intelligence (AI) efforts spearheaded…
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Even AI struggles to work under stress, study suggests
The ability to adapt to a changing environment is integral in the field of medicine, both for humans and algorithms. The best of both struggle from time to time. This was the case recently for an award-winning deep learning model touted for its excellent performance in pediatric bone age prediction. When experts subjected the…
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Artificial intelligence commands plane and wins fight against human-piloted F-16 in the USA
The United States Air Force (USAF) is carrying out a series of tests using artificial intelligence (AI). One of the most important events involved a F-16 fighter experimental, which was piloted by an AI and won an aerial combat exercise against another F-16, piloted by a human. Coordinated by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency…
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As Massachusetts leans in on artificial intelligence, AG waves a yellow flag
BOSTON — While the executive branch of state government touts the competitive advantage to investing energy and money into artificial intelligence across Massachusetts’ tech, government, health, and educational sectors, the state’s top prosecutor is sounding warnings about its risks. Attorney General Andrea Campbell issued an advisory to AI developers, suppliers, and users on Tuesday, reminding…
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How to get workers to stop fearing AI and embrace change? Build ‘AI playfulness’ teams, expert urges
Artificial intelligence—and generative AI, in particular—can be powerful instruments to boost office productivity, so long as people actually use them. The problem is there’s been so much fear mongering that workers feel the use of tools like ChatGPT to automate more and more of their job is a danger visited upon them, rather than a change they…