Proponents of precision agriculture hope to dodge the often scary and complex debates about the potential merits and menaces of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by making their evolving science a meat-and-potatoes issue. And Congress appears to be among those supporters with the House in April overwhelmingly adopting its second precision agriculture measure in five years. In…
House Bill Would Help Farmers Get Soil Data From Satellites
May 19, 2023
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Twitter Blames Microsoft For Data Misuse in Potential Future Conflict Over AI
May 19, 2023
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Twitter is accusing Microsoft of misusing its API data access in a move that could foreshadow a potential conflict over the data access of AI systems. In a May 18 letter (pdf) to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Twitter said that Microsoft “may have been in violation” of multiple provisions of the Twitter Developer Agreement for…
Sunak: Guardrails Needed to Regulate Growth of AI
“Guardrails” need to be put in place to make sure artificial intelligence (AI) is developed and used “safely and securely,” the prime minister has said. Speaking to journalists travelling with him in Japan, Rishi Sunak said he expects to have discussions with world leaders on AI at the G7 summit in Hiroshima. “If it’s used…
BT to Cut up to 55,000 Jobs by 2030 Amid Shift to AI
The UK’s largest broadband and mobile provider will cut up to 55,000 jobs—more than 40 percent of its workforce—by the end of the decade amid plans to shift to artificial intelligence (AI) and automated services. Telecoms giant BT Group has around 130,000 employees but said it plans to reduce that number to between 75,000 and…
AI Stocks Prevented S&P 500 Being in the Red: SocGen Analyst
The hype over artificial intelligence has resulted in a positive performance in the U.S. stock market this year, says a Societe Generale analyst. “The AI boom and hype is strong,” London-based Manish Kabra, a strategist at the financial services company, said in a note on Friday, according to Bloomberg. “So strong that without the AI-popular stocks, S&P…
Digital ‘Twins’ of Human Patients Can Be Developed Using AI to Speed Up Drug Development: FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has shed light on the possibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine language (ML) in the drug development process, pointing to the benefits these technologies bring, such as digital versions of human patients. “AI/ML’s growth in data volume and complexity, combined with cutting-edge computing power and methodological…
Kamala Harris Meets With Tech CEOs to Probe AI Risks
May 5, 2023
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Vice President Kamala Harris met with the CEOs of Alphabet, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft on May 4 to discuss the risks surrounding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) after the White House announced a $140 million investment in AI research institutes. In a statement, Harris said she had discussed with the tech leaders the “ethical, moral, and legal responsibilities” they…
UK Market Regulator Launches Review of AI Tech
The Competition and Market Authority (CMA) will investigate what the development of artificial intelligence (AI) means for UK consumers and market competition. Requested by the government, the review of generative AI, such as seemingly new and realistic text, images, or audio, was announced on May 4. Westminster seeks to understand and ensure that innovations in…
‘Dehumanizing’ Tech: New AI System Converts Thoughts Into Text
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system capable of reading people’s thoughts by measuring brain activity and converting it into text—a development that triggers worries about privacy and freedom. The study (pdf), published in the journal Nature Neuroscience on May 1, used a transformer model, similar to the one that powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence…
ChatGPT Medical Support Better Than Humans, Worries About Missing Human Touch Remain
AI chatbot ChatGPT’s responses to medical queries scored higher ratings compared to human responses, according to a new study. However, researchers raised concerns that the mechanization of such activities could take away the feeling of human support. The study, published in the JAMA Network journal on April 28, involved researchers randomly selecting 195 questions from…
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