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Whistleblower allegation: Harvard muzzled disinfo team after $500 million Zuckerberg donation
5Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

Whistleblower allegation: Harvard muzzled disinfo team after $500 million Zuckerberg donation

[ad_1] A prominent disinformation scholar who left Harvard University in August has accused the school of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep dive in late 2021 into a trove of Facebook files she considers the most important documents in internet history.The actions impacting Joan Donovan's work coincided with a $500 million donation to Harvard by a foundation run by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. In a whistleblower disclosure made public Monday, Donovan seeks investigations into “inappropriate influence" from Harvard's general counsel, the Massachusetts attorney general's office and the U.S. Department of Education. The CEO of Whisteblower Aid, a legal nonprofit supporting Donovan, called the allege...
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Larry Summers Says OpenAI Technology ‘Extraordinarily Important’
3Dec By adminNo Comments
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Larry Summers Says OpenAI Technology ‘Extraordinarily Important’

[ad_1]  Larry Summers, a new board member at artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, said that the startup's work was “extraordinarily important” and that the company needed to operate as a “corporation with a conscience.” OpenAI “has to be prepared to cooperate with key government officials on regulatory issues, on national security issues, on development of technology issues,” Summers said on Bloomberg Television's Wall Street Week with David Westin on Friday. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. The remarks shed light on what Summers, a former US treasury secretary, plans to work on at the Silicon Valley startup.  Summers officially joined OpenAI's board this week, not long after the company descended into a chaotic leadership battle that riveted Silicon Valley. On Nov. 17, the com...
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Google’s Legal Chief Faces Rebuke by Judge Over Missing Chats
18Nov By adminNo Comments
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Google’s Legal Chief Faces Rebuke by Judge Over Missing Chats

[ad_1]  A federal judge reprimanded Alphabet Inc.'s chief legal officer over allegations that Google intentionally destroyed sensitive internal communications relevant to two ongoing antitrust lawsuits despite court orders to preserve evidence.In an unusual move, US District Judge James Donato, who's presiding over a trial in San Francisco over Epic Games Inc.'s accusations that the Google Play app store is anticompetitive, ordered the company's longtime top lawyer, Kent Walker, to appear in court to address questions about the technology giant's record-keeping practices.  Thursday's hearing, conducted in the absence of the jury, came after multiple Google executives, including Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai, acknowledged at the witness stand that they incorrectly marked...
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Indian-American Economist Raj Chetty Gets Top Harvard University Prize
15Aug By adminNo Comments
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Indian-American Economist Raj Chetty Gets Top Harvard University Prize

[ad_1] Raj Chetty said he became interested in this work because of his own background. (File)Houston: Prominent Indian-American economist Raj Chetty has been awarded the coveted George Ledlie Prize for wielding big data to break myths about who achieves the American Dream and the obstacles faced by others.Along with Mr Chetty, Biologist Michael Springer, professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School, who created a better, faster COVID test system to help deal with the spread of COVID, was also honoured with the coveted Harvard University's George Ledlie Prize.Springer also helped design and operate the new Harvard University Clinical Laboratory (HUCL), which managed testing and samples.Mr Chetty, Professor of Economics at Harvard University is also director of Opportunity Insig...
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Aliens will first contact our AI, says expert
19Jun By adminNo Comments
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Aliens will first contact our AI, says expert

[ad_1] According to Avi Loeb, a renowned scientist from Harvard University, the first contact with extraterrestrials (ET) is likely to occur through artificial intelligence rather than direct interaction with humans. Loeb suggests that aliens may opt to send drones or unmanned vehicles to Earth instead of crewed spaceships, as interstellar travel is a time-consuming process and takes tens of thousands of years, if not more, Daily Star reports.However, artificial intelligence (AI) is lifeless and can stay dormant for as long as required to endure the lengthy journey. In the event of a visit by Aliens, our own AI systems could be employed to decipher and communicate with their AI counterparts. Loeb speculates that there could be an affinity between aliens and AI, potentially leading to a ...
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World’s Most Popular Online Computer Class Turns to AI for Help
3Jun By adminNo Comments
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World’s Most Popular Online Computer Class Turns to AI for Help

[ad_1] The world's most popular online learning course, Harvard University's CS50, is getting a ChatGPT-era makeover. CS50, an introductory course in computer science attended by hundreds of students on-campus and over 40,000 online, plans to use artificial intelligence to grade assignments, teach coding and personalize learning tips, according to its Professor David J. Malan. Malan's energetic and engaging teaching style is credited for turning dry, entry-level lectures on the basics of web development and software programming into an entertaining class full of interactive exercises. Even with over a hundred real-life teaching assistants, he said it had become difficult to fully engage with the growing number of students logging in from different time zones and with varying levels of ...
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