ChatGPT at work: how chatbots help employees, but threaten business

We look at how user data privacy is handled by large language model-based chatbots: ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, Google Bard, Anthropic Claude, You.com, and Bing. Continue reading ChatGPT at work: how chatbots help employees, but threaten business

Sufficiently Advanced Technology and Justice

Imagine that you’re serving on a jury, and you’re given an image taken from a surveillance camera. It looks pretty much like the suspect, but the image has been “enhanced” by an AI from the original. Do you convict? How does this weigh out on the scales of reasonable doubt? …read more

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“Enhance” Is Now A Thing, But Don’t Believe What You See

It was a trope all too familiar in the 1990s — law enforcement in movies and TV taking a pixellated, blurry image, and hitting the magic “enhance” button to reveal suspects to be brought to justice. Creating data where there simply was none before was a great way to ruin …read more

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Researchers bring deep learning to IoT devices

Deep learning is everywhere. This branch of artificial intelligence curates your social media and serves your Google search results. Soon, deep learning could also check your vitals or set your thermostat. MIT researchers have developed a system that c… Continue reading Researchers bring deep learning to IoT devices

Training A Neural Network To Play A Driving Game

Often, when we think of getting a computer to complete a task, we contemplate creating complex algorithms that take in the relevant inputs and produce the desired behaviour. For some tasks, like navigating a car down a road, the sheer multitude of input data and its relationship to the desired …read more

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Black Hat 2020: Open-Source AI to Spur Wave of ‘Synthetic Media’ Attacks

The explosion of open-source AI models are lowering the barrier of entry for bad actors to create fake video, audio and images – and Facebook, Twitter and other platforms aren’t ready. Continue reading Black Hat 2020: Open-Source AI to Spur Wave of ‘Synthetic Media’ Attacks