When the elites of tennis take to Wimbledon’s grass courts this week, a new eye will be analyzing their moves and assessing their chances.
Tag: AI
AI RESCUES ADOBE
For Adobe, Firefly came just in time. The company known for PDFs introduced its AI-based “Firefly” photo and video editing tool in March. With simple voice commands, the program can place an image in any background, change lighting, and make almost any other adjustments.
FINANCIAL CRIMES? GOOGLE’S AI IS WATCHING
Bank employees scrutinize accounts to flag sketchy customers and suspicious transactions, but don’t always find them. Google wants to help.
PROGRAMMABLE CITIZENS: THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND SYNTHETIC ASCENDANCE
The brave new world is rushing at us faster than ever. Technocrats are impelled by an ideology of science-fueled “progress” to attempt to exert more comprehensive and precise control over all phenomena and environments.
AI PREDICTS PANCREATIC CANCER THREE YEARS BEFORE DOCTORS CAN SEE IT
Using only a patient’s medical records, artificial intelligence predicted a person’s likelihood of developing pancreatic cancer at least as well as doctors using family histories and genetic screenings, according to a study by Harvard University, Boston-area hospitals, and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Using deep-learning neural net AI to mine public (and certainly other) data, and report on travelers to government agents?
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.
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.
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.
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?