How AI Could Take Over Elections—And Undermine Democracy
How reinforcement learning works. Third, over the course of a campaign, Clogger’s messages could evolve in order to take into account your responses to the machine’s prior dispatches and what…
What Would AI Regulation Look Like?
Cognitive scientist and AI developer Gary Marcus explains the need to regulate AI. Advertisement Licensing auditors, not companies Though OpenAI’s Altman suggested that companies could be licensed to release artificial…
What Is an AI ‘Black Box’?
Black box algorithms make it very difficult to understand how AIs work, but the situation isn’t quite black and white. Advertisement The opposite of a black box is sometimes referred…
I Created a Biased AI Algorithm 25 Years Ago—Tech Companies Are Still Making the Same Mistake.
AI researcher and artist Joy Buolamwini’s video poem ‘AI, Ain’t I a Woman?’ One suggested remedy for white privilege is to be actively anti-racist. For the 1998 head-tracking system, it…
Online Predators’ Favorite Target? Your Kids’ Webcams.
Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock) DJ Right Winger Booted, Facebook Bites Twitter, and Four Day Work Weeks Work | Editor Picks Off English There has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse…
AI Has a ‘Free Rider’ Problem
Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock) Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea? Off English On March 22, 2023, thousands of researchers and tech leaders – including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve…
Social Media Scatters Your Brain, and Then You Buy Stuff You Don’t Need
Image: 1st footage (Shutterstock) Instagram is Testing Adding Songs to Your Profile Off English Social media can be mentally draining. And when mentally drained, you are more likely to be…
AI Will Make Our Society Even More Unequal, Economists Warn
Photo: Ascannio (Shutterstock) Is AI Moving Too Fast? | Future Tech Off English On November 30 2022, OpenAI launched the AI chatbot ChatGPT, making the latest generation of AI technologies…
Personalized AI-Written Spam May Soon Be Flooding Your Inbox
Photo: TACstock1 (Shutterstock) Alex Borstein’s Embarrassing Moment from Catwoman | io9 Interview Off English Each day, messages from Nigerian princes, peddlers of wonder drugs and promoters of can’t-miss investments choke…
Why Universities Should Return to Oral Exams in the AI and ChatGPT Era
Photo: Gorodenkoff (Shutterstock) If An AI Reworks Copyrighted Images, Is It Art? | Future Tech Off English Imagine the following scenario. You are a student and enter a room or…