Wired – Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them [read free]: “As media companies haggle licensing deals with artificial intelligence powerhouses like OpenAI that are hungry for training data, they’re also throwing up a digital blockade. New data shows that over 88 percent of top-ranked news outlets in the US now block web crawlers used by artificial intelligence… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2024
The Continued Threat to Personal Data: Key Factors Behind the 2023 Increase
The Continued Threat to Personal Data: Key Factors Behind the 2023 Increase. Professor Stuart E. Madnick, Ph.D. December 2023: “Around the world, individuals’ most private, most personal data has become a target for cybercriminals. Attacks and data breaches across the globe continue to increase. Even as organizations work to fight back, cybercriminals are constantly finding… Continue Reading
A Lincoln Trove Lands at the Library (Pie Safe Included)
The New York Times: “The New York Public Library is acquiring the collection of Jonathan Mann, an Abraham Lincoln expert who died last summer after a random attack on the Manhattan Bridge…After considering several institutions, they went with the New York Public Library, in part because of its commitment to public access and digitization. “We… Continue Reading
Beyond AI Exposure: Which Tasks are Cost-Effective to Automate with Computer Vision?
futuretech January 22, 2024: “Neil Thompson along with Maja S. Svanberg and Wensu Li from the MIT FutureTech, Martin Fleming from The Productivity Institute, and Brian C. Goehring from IBM’s Institute for Business Value, have published a new article. This article introduces an innovative AI task automation model. It offers an end-to-end assessment framework, focusing… Continue Reading
Think Deepfakes Are Bad? ‘Cheapfakes’ Are Far More Dangerous
Daily Beast: “You’ve likely already been schooled on how to spot a deepfake, a dangerous but relatively immature artificial intelligence tool. Are there odd shadows or glares? Are the lips synced up with the audio? Are there too many or too few fingers on the hands? But as Israel and Hamas wage war on both… Continue Reading
AI far too expensive to replace humans in most jobs
Fortune – MIT study: Artificial intelligence can’t replace the majority of jobs right now in cost-effective ways, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found in a study that sought to address fears about AI replacing humans in a swath of industries. In one of the first in-depth probes of the viability of AI displacing labor, researchers… Continue Reading
Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
Wired – [read free]: “Police around the US say they’re justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea…In a controversial 2017 decision, the department published the predicted face in an attempt to solicit tips from the public.… Continue Reading
Climate Risk & Resilience Portal (ClimRR)
“Climate change is increasing the complexity, intensity, and frequency of disasters. Understanding future climate conditions in cities and towns across the United States is necessary to prepare for future climate realities. To address this requirement, ClimRR — the Climate Risk and Resilience Portal — empowers individuals, governments, and organizations to examine simulated future climate conditions… Continue Reading
Donald Trump’s 50-Year Mission to Discredit the Justice System
Politico – ‘This to Him Is the Grand Finale’: “…This country has never seen and therefore is utterly unprepared for what it’s about to endure in the wrenching weeks and months ahead — active challenges based on post-Civil War constitutional amendments to bar insurrectionists from the ballot; existentially important questions about presidential immunity almost certainly… Continue Reading
Google Chrome gains AI features, including a writing helper, theme creator, and tab organizer
Tech Crunch: “Google’s Chrome web browser is getting an infusion of AI technology in the latest release. The company announced today it’s soon adding a trio of new AI-powered features to Chrome for Mac and Windows, including a way to smartly organize your tabs, customize your theme, and get help when writing things on the… Continue Reading
Huge Proportion of Internet Is AI-Generated Slime, Researchers Find
Futurism: “The internet’s steady fall into the AI-garbled dumpster continues. As Vice reports, a recent study conducted by researchers at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI Lab found that a “shocking amount of the web” is already made up of poor-quality AI-generated and translated content. The paper is yet to be peer-reviewed, but “shocking” feels… Continue Reading
How To Use Google’s Fact Check Explorer To Verify Claims on the Web
Gizmodo: “It’s getting more and more difficult to know whether or not to believe what you see on the web and on social media, what with misinformation and faked content now churned out on a huge scale, but there are resources that can help you find the truth: Including a tool called Fact Check Explorer… Continue Reading
