There once was a virtual assistant named Ms. Dewey, a comely librarian played by Janina Gavankar who assisted you with your inquiries on Microsoft’s first attempt at a search engine. Ms. Dewey was launched in 2006, complete with over 600 lines of recorded dialog. She was ahead of her time in a few ways, but … Read more
Amid the generative-artificial-intelligence frenzy of the last few months, security researchers have been revisiting the concern that AI-generated voices, or voice deepfakes, have gotten convincing enough and easy enough to produce that scammers will start using them en masse. There have been a couple of high-profile incidents in recent years in which cybercriminals have reportedly … Read more
Betty Gilpin as a Nun vs A.I. in First Trailer for Sci-Fi Series ‘Mrs. Davis’ by Alex Billington March 14, 2023Source: YouTube “You are the only person on the planet who can fulfill this quest!” NBC has released the official trailer for Mrs. Davis, a new sci-fi series launching for streaming on NBC’s Peacock next … Read more
Not all technological innovation deserves to be called progress. That’s because some advances, despite their conveniences, may not do as much societal advancing, on balance, as advertised. One researcher who stands opposite technology’s cheerleaders is MIT economist Daron Acemoglu. (The “c” in his surname is pronounced like a soft “g.”) IEEE Spectrum spoke with Agemoglu—whose … Read more
ChatGPT has wowed the world with the depth of its knowledge and the fluency of its responses, but one problem has hobbled its usefulness: It keeps hallucinating. Yes, large language models (LLMs) hallucinate, a concept popularized by Google AI researchers in 2018. Hallucination in this context refers to mistakes in the generated text that are … Read more
During testing in December, a pair of AI programs were fed into the system: the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Autonomous Air Combat Operations (AACO) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Air Combat Evolution (ACE). AACO’s AI agents focused on combat with a single adversary beyond visual range (BVR), while ACE focused on dogfight-style … Read more
In March 2022, a video appeared online that seemed to show Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, asking his troops to lay down their arms in the face of Russia’s invasion. The video—created with the help of artificial intelligence—was poor in quality and the ruse was quickly debunked, but as synthetic content becomes easier to produce and … Read more
Yesterday, hundreds in Eckersley’s community of friends and colleagues packed the pews for an unusual sort of memorial service at the church-like sanctuary of the Internet Archive in San Francisco—a symposium with a series of talks devoted not just to remembrances of Eckersley as a person but a tour of his life’s work. Facing a … Read more
3/5/2023: Please Let Me Die; Who is Minding the Chatbots?; David Byrne – CBS News Watch CBS News Ukrainian POWs describe Russian captivity; ChatGPT: AI, chatbots and a world of unknowns; David Byrne: The 60 Minutes Interview. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now … Read more
ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence, chatbots and a world of unknowns | 60 Minutes – CBS News Watch CBS News Lesley Stahl speaks with Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, and others about the emerging industry of artificial intelligence systems people can have conversations with. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, … Read more