The whole world needs a digital ID now more than ever, right?
With AI susceptible to use by “bad actors” to create video and voice prints that can realistically mimic anyone from celebrities like Joe Rogan, to AI visionaries like…well, Sam Altman of OpenAI, many are now saying that the case for digital IDs is getting more urgent.
The National Eating Disorder Association fired all six people staffing its phone-in help line and told the line’s 200 volunteers not to come back because everyone was being replaced by Tessa, a chatbot that would guide callers to sources of help.
The first thing John Brownstein, Boston Children’s Hospital’s Chief Innovation Officer wants everyone to know is that artificial intelligence (AI) is not replacing any staff members.
One of every 31 Americans who enters a hospital will pick up an infection while there. That comes to about 1.7 million infections each year, resulting in 99,000 deaths, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The current headlong rush to use AI across industries and applications is “unhealthy” and could pose a “danger to political systems, to democracy, to the very nature of truth,” Yoshua Bengio told Canada’s C2 International business conference on 24 May.
Thanks to the world’s rush to artificial intelligence (AI), Foxconn—the world’s largest assembler of electronic equipment—says it will ship twice as many servers in the second half of this year than it did in the first.
Always eager to automate any task, Amazon is now using AI to catch defective products before they’re sent to customers.
The Financial Times tells the story of a 17-year-old Australian high-school student who was bored by his textbooks. He grafted a set of simple instructions that told ChatGPT-4 to teach him the concepts and skills he needed to master to pass his exams.
“We have reached the tipping point of a new computing era” in which “everyone is a programmer,” Jensen Huang, CEO of chip maker Nvidia, said in a speech last week at the Computex tech conference in Taiwan.
Corporations have lately coalesced around the mantra that their unbound AI development and shock implementation isn’t meant to replace human workers, but enhance their productivity.