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Government orders tech firms to seek approval before releasing ‘unreliable’ AI tools
4Mar By adminNo Comments
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Government orders tech firms to seek approval before releasing ‘unreliable’ AI tools

[ad_1] The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has issued a second advisory to platforms or intermediaries, asking them to seek explicit permission from the Centre before launching Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, under testing, in the country. The advisory was issued on Friday evening, more than two months after the ministry issued an advisory in December last year to social media platforms, directing them to follow existing IT rules to deal with the issue of deepfakes. "The use of under-testing / unreliable Artificial Intelligence model(s) /LLM/Generative AI, software(s) or algorithm(s) and its availability to the users on Indian Internet must be done so with explicit permission of the Government of India and be deployed only after appropriately label...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today; First AI officer, Google halts AI-linked people images, more
22Feb By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today; First AI officer, Google halts AI-linked people images, more

[ad_1] US Justice department appoints first AI officer to navigate technology challenges; Google halts AI generated people images over racial inaccuracies;  ITMO researchers utilise AI to accelerate carbon nanoparticle synthesis for cancer diagnosis; Majority of Indian consumers prefer AI over human interaction, reveals Adobe report- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. US Justice department appoints first AI officer to navigate technology challengesThe U.S. Justice Department appoints its first AI officer, Jonathan Mayer from Princeton University, amid growing challenges posed by AI in federal law enforcement. Mayer, as chief science and technology adviser, will guide the responsible integration of AI into investigations and prosecutions. With a focus on staying ah...
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Google, Microsoft Will Dominate AI as Computing Costs Surge
20Feb By adminNo Comments
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Google, Microsoft Will Dominate AI as Computing Costs Surge

[ad_1] Sam Altman's goal of raising about $7 trillion to make artificial-intelligence chips tells a story beyond his borderline-insane ambitions. First, the infrastructure needed to build AI has become exorbitantly expensive. Second, most of that value is still — still! — held by a handful of large technology companies — and the oligopoly is only going to get worse. For all the competition that was spurred by the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, and the flurry of new startups that jumped into the hyped-up generative AI market, most of those new players will likely fold or be folded into the incumbents over the next year or so. The costs of doing business are too high for them to survive on their own. Take Sasha Haco, the chief executive officer of Unitary, which scans videos on social m...
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Some video game actors are letting AI clone their voices. They just don’t want it to replace them
20Feb By adminNo Comments
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Some video game actors are letting AI clone their voices. They just don’t want it to replace them

[ad_1] If you are battling a video game goblin who speaks with a Cockney accent, or asking a gruff Scottish blacksmith to forge a virtual sword, you might be hearing the voice of actor Andy Magee.Except it's not quite Magee's voice. It's a synthetic voice clone generated by artificial intelligence. As video game worlds get more expansive, some game studios are experimenting with AI tools to give voice to a potentially unlimited number of characters and conversations. It also saves time and money on the “vocal scratch” recordings game developers use as placeholders to test scenes and scripts. The response from professional actors has been mixed. Some fear that AI voices could replace all but the most famous human actors if big studios have their way. Others, like Magee, have been willing...
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Right to disconnect: AI assistants can help, but they may not be the silver bullet
19Feb By adminNo Comments
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Right to disconnect: AI assistants can help, but they may not be the silver bullet

[ad_1] In recent days, the “right to disconnect” has entered Australia's legislative agenda. It refers to employees' rights to refuse unreasonable after-hours contact from their employer.In a work landscape where employees are constantly available after hours thanks to smartphones and portable devices, and employers are competing in global markets and operating on tight deadlines, concerns about disconnecting from work are valid on both sides. Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants in the workplace are touted as a potential solution to this “availability creep”. But they may not be the silver bullet, despite what big tech wants us to think. A crushing digital debt“Digital debt”, a term introduced by Microsoft in its work trend index, fittingly describes the vast volume of communication...
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Today’s AI systems – generative AI tools such as ChatGPT – are not truly intelligent
19Feb By adminNo Comments
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Today’s AI systems – generative AI tools such as ChatGPT – are not truly intelligent

[ad_1] Sam Altman, chief executive of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, is reportedly trying to find up to US$7 trillion of investment to manufacture the enormous volumes of computer chips he believes the world needs to run artificial intelligence (AI) systems.Altman also recently said the world will need more energy in the AI-saturated future he envisions – so much more that some kind of technological breakthrough like nuclear fusion may be required. Altman clearly has big plans for his company's technology, but is the future of AI really this rosy? As a long-time “artificial intelligence” researcher, I have my doubts. Today's AI systems – particularly generative AI tools such as ChatGPT – are not truly intelligent. What's more, there is no evidence they can become so without fundamental changes t...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: IBM report on AI in India, UAE backs Sam Altman vision on AI, and more
15Feb By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: IBM report on AI in India, UAE backs Sam Altman vision on AI, and more

[ad_1] UAE backs Sam Altman's vision, aims to lead the world on AI regulation; IBM report reveals 59% of Indian enterprises actively using AI; Microsoft pledges $3.44 billion investment in Germany, focusing on AI boost; Google unveils internal AI 'Goose' to accelerate employee coding efficiency- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. UAE aims to lead in AI regulationThe UAE aims to lead in AI testing and regulation, aligning with OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman's vision. UAE's Minister of State for AI, Omar Al Olama, sees potential for the country to be a global hub for pragmatic AI regulation. Altman, courting Middle East investors, envisions the UAE as a regulatory sandbox for experimenting with AI technologies and setting global rules. Concerns about UAE-China ties prompte...
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We need to know how AI firms fight deepfakes
12Feb By adminNo Comments
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We need to know how AI firms fight deepfakes

[ad_1] When people fret about artificial intelligence, it's not just due to what they see in the future but what they remember from the past -- notably the toxic effects of social media. For years, misinformation and hate speech evaded Facebook and Twitter's policing systems and spread around the globe. Now deepfakes are infiltrating those same platforms, and while Facebook is still responsible for how bad stuff gets distributed, the AI companies making them have a clean-up role too. Unfortunately, just like the social media firms before them, they're carrying out that work behind closed doors.I reached out to a dozen generative AI firms whose tools could generate photorealistic images, videos, text and voices, to ask how they made sure that their users complied with their rules.(1) Ten...
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ChatGPT done now, OpenAI developing “revolutionary” AI agents that can automate even more complex tasks
9Feb By adminNo Comments
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ChatGPT done now, OpenAI developing “revolutionary” AI agents that can automate even more complex tasks

[ad_1] Recent reports suggest OpenAI, the company behind popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT, is developing AI agents that can automate complex tasks by taking over devices. The Sam Altman-led company is said to be the pioneer of AI chatbots and it surged in popularity when it released ChatGPT in November 2022. As rivals such as Google and Microsoft seem to be finally catching up in the AI chatbot race, it is working on a “revolutionary” product.OpenAI's AI agentsAccording to a report by The Information, the ChatGPT maker is working on two AI agents, the first of which could take over the user's device to automate tasks. The report states that this agent could transfer information from a document to a spreadsheet, or it could fill out an expense report and enter it into...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella woos Indian developers to the company’s AI tools
9Feb By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella woos Indian developers to the company’s AI tools

[ad_1] Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged in a speech to more than a thousand Indian computer code developers on Thursday that they use the company's artificial intelligence tools being deployed across its products. Speaking in Bengaluru, India's “Silicon Valley,” Nadella noted that more than 13.2 million Indian developers are currently on GitHub, an internet hosting service for software development, second only to the number from the United States, and that India is likely to move into first place by 2027 or 2028. He did not elaborate.Microsoft is building its fourth data center in India near the city of Hyderabad, where Nadella grew up. It already has data centers in Mumbai, Pune and Chennai. Nadella will visit Hyderabad before returning to the United States. “Our investments here obvi...
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