Are you sure about that, Alexa? Amazon’s voice assistant has been spreading fake news, it has emerged.
Full Fact, a fact checking group, discovered that Alexa was spouting misinformation and even citing the organisation as a source. There are more than 100 million devices worldwide that are Alexa-enabled.
What are the risks when police & prosecutors rely upon A.I. Artificial Intelligence to gather evidence?
Unfortunately, a Canadian A.I. company called Global Intelligence might be responsible for innocent persons being criminally charged.
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— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) October 17, 2024
A robot artist is set to make history as the first to have a work put up for sale by a major auction house, with the portrait of Alan Turing expected to fetch up to £150,000 (€180,000, $196,000), organizers announced on Wednesday.
The power of the Silicon Valley oligarchs is set to expand exponentially.
The emergence of artificial intelligence marks the latest acceleration of the digital age. Like any revolution, this one has winners and losers and will likely transform the relationship between people and machines. It could also lend yet more power to Big Tech and their technocratic elites in government.
Just as the Industrial Revolution elevated manufacturers and their financiers over the old aristocratic classes, the current shift erodes the power of the large industrial, often unionised, corporations and hosts of smaller businesses, in favour of a small coterie of elite firms, which are aggressively anti-union and have an unprecedented hold on both the capital markets and increasingly the human consciousness.
A musician in the US has been accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools and thousands of bots to fraudulently stream songs billions of times in order to claim millions of dollars of royalties.
Michael Smith, of North Carolina, has been charged with three counts of wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy charges.
Prosecutors say it is the first criminal case of its kind they have handled.
YouTube streaming fraud…
Many cultures view robots as quasi-humans
In parts of Thailand, thanks to a confluence of modern technology and traditional beliefs, a peculiar transport service has emerged. The anthropologist Scott Stonington calls them “spirit ambulances”. Some Thai Buddhists feel morally obliged to preserve the life of an ailing mother or father by any means possible — even if there is no realistic hope of recovery, and even if it goes against the parent’s own wishes. Yet these same Buddhists believe that death should occur in the home, in the presence of family. So the dying parent is kept at the hospital until the last moment, receiving the best treatment medicine can provide, before being whisked home in a specially designed vehicle, the spirit ambulance.
A suspected bot campaign surrounding a recent Pierre Poilievre event shows that generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are easily accessible to anyone looking to influence political messaging online, researchers have found.
In July, the social media platform X was inundated with posts following the Conservative leader’s tour of Northern Ontario.
The posts claimed to be from people who attended Poilievre’s event in Kirkland Lake, Ont., but were actually generated by accounts in Russia, France and other places, and many of them had similar messaging.
The Machine Stops,” a 1909 short story by E. M. Forster, uncannily imagines our technology-dependent world—and what might happen when the tech breaks down.
In 1909, Edward Morgan Forster published a story, “The Machine Stops,” which now seems astonishingly prescient. One does not normally associate E. M. Forster with science fiction: he is considered more a chronicler of the etiolated emotional life of the English upper-middle classes of the Edwardian era. But his one foray into science fiction seemed to foreshadow exactly the kind of scenes that followed last month’s brief disruption to 3 million computers worldwide by the intrusion of a faulty new update into Microsoft programs.
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.
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