Remember way back in…May, when the Biden administration was labeling actual videos of the President’s mental lapses as “deep fakes”?
Tag: AI
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
One of the largest U.S. shopping malls is rolling out AI powered facial recognition.
APPLE REJECTS META
After The Wall Street Journal reported in late June that Apple was talking with Meta about putting Meta’s AI on the iPhone, Bloomberg cited unnamed people familiar who said Apple has spurned any such deal.
NEW AI SPOTS DEEPFAKES 98 PERCENT OF THE TIME, CREATORS SAY
“Deepfakes”—images and audio that seem to be of people you know but have been entirely synthesized by AI—are good enough to fool people into believing things that are false.
AMERICANS CONSULT SOCIAL MEDIA MORE THAN DOCTORS ABOUT THEIR HEALTH
A OnePoll survey of 2,000 Americans found that 53 percent turn first to websites for health information and 46 percent ask social media platforms, while only 44 percent seek out their doctors first.
OPENAI BUYS ANALYTICS STARTUP
OpenAI has bought Rockset, a real-time analytics startup with technology that makes data more easily searchable and easier to index.
AI LIKELY TO SPARK TURMOIL IN LABOR MARKETS, IMF WARNS
The spread of AI through the global workplace is likely to abolish a range of jobs and “raise profound concerns about massive labor disruptions and rising inequality,” the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned in a 17 June report.
COMPANIES PROVIDING DATA TO TRAIN AI SYSTEMS FORM ASSOCIATION
AI has spawned another new industry: bundling the content that’s used to train AI systems and then licensing that content to AI developers.
SMALL BUSINESSES STILL WONDERING WHAT AI CAN DO FOR THEM
JPMorgan and General Motors are all in on AI but Mort’s Hardware and the Hair Magic styling salon feel like they’re missing out.
MAJOR NEW LAWSUIT TARGETS GENERATIVE AI IP THEFT
Major music record labels including SONY, Atlantic and UMG have filed a lawsuit against two leading generative AI music companies.