Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Apple Intelligence
June 10th, 2024“Your requests and information will not be logged.” Mmm hmm. pic.twitter.com/KEH013QA8Y — cryptogon (@cryptogon) June 11, 2024 Via: The Verge: Apple announced “Apple Intelligence” at WWDC 2024, its name for a new suite of AI features for the iPhone, Mac, and more. Starting later this year, Apple is rolling out what it says is a […]
Adobe: “We May Access Your Content Through Both Automated and Manual Methods, Such as for Content Review”
June 7th, 2024Madness. Via: Venture Beat: In particular, users have objected to Adobe’s claims that it “may access, view, or listen to your Content through both automated and manual methods…using techniques such as machine learning in order to improve our Services and Software and the user experience,” which many took to be a tacit admission both of […]
Neuroplatform: World’s First Online Platform to Access Biological Neurons in Vitro
May 28th, 2024Via: tom’s HARDWARE: A Swiss biocomputing startup has launched an online platform that provides remote access to 16 human brain organoids. FinalSpark claims its Neuroplatform is the world’s first online platform delivering access to biological neurons in vitro. Moreover, bioprocessors like this “consume a million times less power than traditional digital processors,” the company says.
Denver Police Will Send Drones to Some 911 Calls
May 28th, 2024Via: Daily Mail: The Denver Police Department has launched a new program that will have drones respond to 911 calls instead of cops. … Gates said that the department is now considering using its drones to respond ahead of officers and in some instances, instead of them attending at all. If a drone is deployed […]
Trust The “Science”…That Just Retracted 11,000 “Peer Reviewed” Papers
May 27th, 2024The AI Comedy Gold keeps coming. Via: ZeroHedge: It’s yet another reminder of why blindly ‘trusting the science’ may not always be the best go-to move in the future. 217 year old Wiley science publisher has reportedly “peer reviewed” more than 11,000 papers that were determined to be fake without ever noticing. The papers were […]
Google Search Results Now Include AI Hallucinations
May 24th, 2024Just in case you thought Google Search couldn’t get any worse… Via: The Verge: Imagine this: you’ve carved out an evening to unwind and decide to make a homemade pizza. You assemble your pie, throw it in the oven, and are excited to start eating. But once you get ready to take a bite of […]
AI Relies On Mass Surveillance
May 23rd, 2024From, Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model: This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial. OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible. Via: Barron’s: The AI tools […]
Microsoft’s Vision for AI PCs: Windows Will Have Photographic Memory of Everything You Do On Your Computer
May 20th, 2024Update: “A Better Way To Recall Anything” This looks like a built-in retroactive surveillance feature that law enforcement and intelligence agencies will love: Remember: DARPA LifeLog: LifeLog was a project of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). According to its bid […]
OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded
May 18th, 2024Via: Wired: In July last year, OpenAI announced the formation of a new research team that would prepare for the advent of supersmart artificial intelligence capable of outwitting and overpowering its creators. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist and one of the company’s cofounders, was named as the colead of this new team. OpenAI said the […]
What Are The Privacy Risks Of ChatGPT-4o? “They Stress that the Training Information Is not Used to Profile People, or to Learn About Them”
May 18th, 2024Via: Forbes: The privacy implications of ChatGPT are two-pronged, says Oliver Willis, partner at BDB Pitmans. “From a user’s perspective, how does ChatGPT collect and use data about you when you are using it? From everyone else’s perspective, was ChatGPT trained on information about you and what will it tell users about you?” In its […]
