Using deep-learning neural net AI to mine public (and certainly other) data, and report on travelers to government agents?
Tag: AI
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WALL STREET’S NEW WORRY ABOUT AI
On 22 May, a fake photo created by an artificial intelligence (AI) showing an explosion at the Pentagon was posted on Twitter. The image immediately went viral.
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CHATBOT AS BIOTERRORIST
Bioscientist Kevin Esvelt at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology asked students to use Chat GPT, Google’s Bard, or any similar “large language model” AI to find a virus capable of launching a global pandemic and help them gather the elements needed to manufacture it.
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WHAT’S AI WORTH? $4.4 TRILLION A YEAR, McKINSEY SAYS
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligences (AI) will add as much as $4.4 trillion a year to the global economy, according to a new study from the McKinsey Global Institute.
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IS AMAZON LOOKING TO CANCEL HUMAN AUTHORS?
Is Amazon looking to dominate the bookselling space even more than it does already, by deploying AI to generate fiction and nonfiction content?
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
A quartet of stories this past week showed that governments and corporate allies are only stepping up weaponization of claims of “misinformation” and “disinformation” against their own citizens, to neutralize opposition to their objectives.
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AI: HARVEST TOMATOES, SAVE HUMANITY
Researchers at technical universities in the Netherlands and Switzerland asked ChatGPT to name the greatest challenges that must be overcome in prolonging the survival of the human species.
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LARGE NUMBER OF CEOs SAY AI COULD DESTROY HUMANITY BY 2033
Forty-two percent of corporate chiefs surveyed at Yale University’s CEO Summit last week said AI has the potential to wipe out the human race within ten years.
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AI SPEEDS “REVERSE ENGINEERING” OF IMAGINED PHARMACEUTICALS
In the days before AI, biochemists would design the ideal molecule to treat an illness or chronic condition, then try to figure out how to make it—a process called “retrosynthesis” that could take years of tinkering and testing before human clinical trials even began.
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PASTOR CHATBOT PREACHES TO THE MULTITUDES
On 9 June, more than 300 believers at a Lutheran religious conference in Germany packed the pews to take part in what was billed as the world’s first church service designed and presented by an artificial intelligence.