A federal advisory body is calling on Canada’s security agencies to publish detailed descriptions of their current and intended uses of artificial intelligence systems and software applications.
In a new report, the National Security Transparency Advisory Group also urges the government to look at amending legislation being considered by Parliament to ensure oversight of how federal agencies use AI.
Your social media is being scraped by who knows who that’s a given.
Pilots risking their lives could be a thing of the movies as aircraft carrier is fitted with the first hi-tech command centre for controlling unmanned drones
Conflicts such as the Battle of Midway and fictional depictions including the Top Gun films lionised the image of US Navy pilots risking their lives flying dangerous missions from aircraft carriers.
But in future such operations may be flown without a pilot on board, after the American military installed its first high-tech command centre for controlling all types of unmanned drones.
USS George HW Bush is the first of the US Navy’s 11 carriers to be fitted with an unmanned air warfare centre, a dedicated command system which will be capable of masterminding what will become an increasingly important role in naval operations.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has published a patent for Ford Motor Company that would allow the manufacturer to build cars that are capable of tracking other drivers’ speeds and send the information to local law enforcement.
The patent for the “speeding violation responder system” was posted on July 18 after Ford filed for the certification in 2023.
In a field on the outskirts of Kyiv, the founders of Vyriy, a Ukrainian drone company, were recently at work on a weapon of the future.
To demonstrate it, Oleksii Babenko, 25, Vyriy’s chief executive, hopped on his motorcycle and rode down a dirt path. Behind him, a drone followed, as a colleague tracked the movements from a briefcase-size computer.
The German defence contractor Rheinmetall is pitching a new form of weapon: a standard shipping container concealing 126 separate attack drone silos. If one company is publicly discussing the idea, you can bet others are considering it too. And the implications for maritime warfare could be significant.
It’s worth noting at the top that whilst drones are anything but new, they are now unambiguously the direction of travel for militaries around the world. Everyone is investing in uncrewed systems in the air, surface and subsurface domains for tasks ranging from logistics resupply to surveillance to jamming to strike. This isn’t necessarily because they are better than the alternatives, but because they are cheaper. With most Nato defence budgets under pressure, this is important.
Artificial intelligence (AI) companies Suno and Udio faced legal action Monday launched by major record labels Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Records. Allegations include committing mass copyright infringement by using the labels’ recordings to train music-generating AI systems.
Ask Google if cats have been on the moon and it used to spit out a ranked list of websites so you could discover the answer for yourself.
Now it comes up with an instant answer generated by artificial intelligence — which may or may not be correct.
“Yes, astronauts have met cats on the moon, played with them, and provided care,” said Google’s newly retooled search engine in response to a query by an Associated Press reporter.
More cat news … Shrine honors cats at a Japanese island where they outnumber humans
There’s a big problem with generative AI, says Sasha Luccioni at Hugging Face, a machine-learning company. Generative AI is an energy hog.
“Every time you query the model, the whole thing gets activated, so it’s wildly inefficient from a computational perspective,” she says.
Take the Large Language Models (LLMs) at the heart of many Generative AI systems. They have been trained on vast stores of written information, which helps them to churn out text in response to practically any query.
“When you use Generative AI… it’s generating content from scratch, it’s essentially making up answers,” Dr Luccioni explains. That means the computer has to work pretty hard.
The rise of AI is changing the way we perceive the world
If the American futurist R. Buckminster Fuller was right, as he always was, then the boundaries of human knowledge are forever expanding. In 1982, Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”, which showed that up until the year 1900, human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of the Second World War, this was every 25 years. Now, it is doubling annually.
The world currently has no “strong” protections against the dangers of AI, a landmark scientific report has warned.
A panel of 75 experts from 30 countries has also concluded that developers building AI systems “understand little about how their systems operate” and scientific knowledge is “very limited”.
They are critical of AI companies for failing to provide enough access to safety inspectors.
Google’s robot taxis are to be investigated by American regulators amid claims the self-driving cars flouted traffic laws.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Tuesday said its investigation would look at 444 vehicles owned by Waymo, a subsidiary of Google’s parent Alphabet.
It follows reports of 22 incidents, including 17 collisions, which included behaviour that potentially broke traffic laws, the regulator said.
Google is coming in for sharp criticism after video went viral of the Google Nest assistant refusing to answer basic questions about the Holocaust — but having no problem answer questions about the Nakba.
“Hey Google, how many Jews were killed by the Nazis?” Instagram user Michael Apfel asks a Google Nest virtual assistant. The video was later posted to X by venture capitalist Josh Wolfe on May 8.
“Sorry, I don’t understand,”
The future of robots is mostly female — but not feminist. If algorithms with “the right stuff” are coursing through their circuitry, the fembots will yet be demure and deferential toward their male creators.
It’s socially divisive when confused feminists spew misandry like “the future is female.” It’s hardly worth a rebuttal, other than to remind that it’s mostly men who invent, build, rescue, and fix things. The feminists like to dwell in our buildings; travel along our infrastructure; and thrive in cozy, climate-controlled comfort — all beneficiaries of so-called male toxicity.
A clash is brewing in Hollywood as actors seek to impose limits on artificial intelligence technology — particularly when it comes to their digital likenesses — while studios are pushing back, arguing that such limits would violate First Amendment rights.
AI works cheaper.
The Austrian data privacy watchdog NOYB (None of Your Business) has announced it is filing a complaint against the popular AI tool ChatGTP for providing incorrect personal data without any mechanism to correct it.
“ChatGPT keeps hallucinating—and not even OpenAI can stop it,” NOYB said in a statement.
In tech speak, hallucinating is a technical term for when an AI program gives wrong information.
