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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Project Maven, BPO staff faces swift AI replacement, and more

3Mar

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Project Maven, BPO staff faces swift AI replacement, and more

[ad_1] The US military's AI warfare endeavour is humming; BPO workers face swift AI replacement, warns Nasscom Chairman; Morris II AI worm poses a threat to ChatGPT and Gemini; AI enabled hearing aids offer revolutionary solutions for hearing impairment- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. Project Maven: Inside the US military's AI warfare endeavourThe US military's secretive Project Maven aimed to leverage AI for warfare. Will Roper, formerly in charge of the classified Strategic Capabilities Office, discusses the challenges of developing AI technology for the battlefield on Bloomberg's Big Take DC podcast. Despite claims of a human "in the loop," concerns linger about the rapid decision-making pace surpassing human control. 2. BPO workers face swift AI replacemen...

Deepfake Video Call Scams Global Firm out of $26 Million; Used YouTube Videos: SCMP

5Feb

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Deepfake Video Call Scams Global Firm out of $26 Million; Used YouTube Videos: SCMP

[ad_1] Scammers tricked a multinational firm out of some $26 million by impersonating senior executives using deepfake technology, Hong Kong police said Sunday, in one of the first cases of its kind in the city.Law enforcement agencies are scrambling to keep up with generative artificial intelligence, which experts say holds potential for disinformation and misuse -- such as deepfake images showing people mouthing things they never said. A company employee in the Chinese finance hub received "video conference calls from someone posing as senior officers of the company requesting to transfer money to designated bank accounts", police told AFP. Police received a report of the incident on January 29, at which point some HK$200 million ($26 million) had already been lost via 15 transfers."I...

Western monopoly in AI ‘dangerous, and unacceptable’, says Russia’s Vladimir Putin

26Nov

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Western monopoly in AI ‘dangerous, and unacceptable’, says Russia’s Vladimir Putin

[ad_1] Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a plan to endorse a national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence, emphasizing that it's essential to prevent a Western monopoly. Speaking at an AI conference in Moscow, Putin noted that “it's imperative to use Russian solutions in the field of creating reliable and transparent artificial intelligence systems that are also safe for humans.” “Monopolistic dominance of such foreign technology in Russia is unacceptable, dangerous and inadmissible,” Putin said. He noted that “many modern systems, trained on Western data are intended for the Western market” and “reflect that part of Western ethics, norms of behavior, public policy to which we object.”During his more than two decades in power, Putin has overseen a multi-pro...

Citi used generative AI to read 1,089 pages of new capital rules

27Oct

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Citi used generative AI to read 1,089 pages of new capital rules

[ad_1] Citigroup Inc. is planning to grant the majority of its over 40,000 coders access to generative artificial intelligence as Wall Street continues to embrace the burgeoning technology. As part of a small pilot program, the Wall Street giant has quietly allowed about 250 of its developers to experiment with generative AI, the technology popularized by ChatGPT. Now, it's planning to expand that program to the majority of its coders next year. The bank and its rivals have slowly begun experimenting with the technology, which created waves last year when ChatGPT made its debut and showed how generative AI can produce sentences, essays or poetry based on a user's simple questions or commands. The technology typically creates this new work after being trained on vast quantities of pre-e...

Error-prone AI chatbot dog leads Japan’s elderly astray

26Oct

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Error-prone AI chatbot dog leads Japan’s elderly astray

[ad_1] A cartoon canine AI chatbot designed to cheer up and inform lonely older residents of western Japan is in the doghouse after providing error-laden responses.Powered by generative artificial intelligence, "Dai-chan" was this year launched by Osaka authorities who called it the first of its kind in a country where one in 10 people is age 80 or older. But the chatbot, which features a Shiba Inu cartoon dog and answers in the Osaka dialect, has shown itself far from faithful to the truth. When a user asked about the World Expo planned in Osaka in 2025, the dog incorrectly responded that the event was cancelled.That answer gained public attention, with Japanese newspapers and broadcasters reporting on the dog who got the wrong end of the stick."Dai-chan, you're good," one social media...

Cos using GenAI should follow self-regulation to unlock potential: Mastercard CEO

26Aug

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Cos using GenAI should follow self-regulation to unlock potential: Mastercard CEO

[ad_1] Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach on Friday said Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) offers 'tremendous opportunities' and companies should follow self-regulation to unlock its potential.Miebach also suggested that companies using GenAI should follow four key principles -- transparency, privacy and security, accountability and integrity -- before a full fledged regulation comes in for the sector. When there were concerns of data security and privacy, digital finance companies had adopted a self-regulation model, he said. “Mastercard very simply said you are a customer, you control your data, you benefit from your data and it's the industry's job to keep it safe. Can we do the same thing with AI. As an industry can (we do) a self regulation and that (can) lead into regulatory ...

Dall-E, Midjourney, ChatGPT and more riding the AI wave, but 3 key legal issues roiling the space

4Jun

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Dall-E, Midjourney, ChatGPT and more riding the AI wave, but 3 key legal issues roiling the space

[ad_1] Dall-E, Beatoven, and Midjourney - these pun-filled and poetic-sounding applications have suddenly become household names in the last year or so, along with ChatGPT, which is perhaps the most popular. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has captured the imagination of individuals and businesses alike – enabling (artificial) creativity at a scale which was largely unheard of. Text, images, music, videos, 3D printing – you name it and these applications are capable of producing fairly impressive outputs (although they are still far from perfect).GAI is all about creativity and the first obvious question that it throws up is regarding intellectual property. On one hand, there are allegations of GAI's training procedure infringing on existing copyrighted works. GAI are typically...

AI holds massive potential for malicious use, but who will be held accountable?

25May

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AI holds massive potential for malicious use, but who will be held accountable?

[ad_1] While generative AI is rapidly advancing, it also raises concerns about its potential to be used maliciously. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models may be susceptible to bias, as they learn patterns and generate output/predictions based on the data they are trained on. If the training data is biased or incomplete, the model's output can also be incorrect/biased. Also, given that AI language models can generate human-like text and can be trained to impersonate the writing style of humans, there are also serious concerns about its potential misuse for spreading fake news.The other interesting concept being whether Generative AI are intermediaries can claim a safe harbour for the content published on their platforms. It is important to observe that, unlike search engines th...

Creative AI Is Generating Some Messy Problems

28Nov

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Creative AI Is Generating Some Messy Problems

[ad_1] The hot new trend in tech circles comes with thorny legal and ethical challenges. A tense scene in the 2004 movie iRobot shows the character played by Will Smith arguing with an android about humanity's creative prowess. “Can a robot write a symphony?” he asks, rhetorically. “Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?” “Can you?” the robot answers. Machines wouldn't need the snarky reply in our current reality. The answer would simply be “yes.” In the last few years, artificial-intelligence systems have shifted from being able to process content – recognizing faces or reading and transcribing text — to creating digital paintings or writing essays. The digital artist Beeple was shocked in August when several Twitter users generated their own versions of one o...