Category: artificial intelligence

Nicolas Chaillan: The CCP Is Using TikTok to Manipulate Americans and Gather Data for AI Weapons

TikTok is one of the Chinese regime’s most powerful weapons of mass manipulation and misinformation, argues Nicolas Chaillan, former chief software officer of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. TikTok was the most downloaded app globally and in the United States in 2021. The Chinese regime is using TikTok to manipulate Americans—particularly the younger…


Messenger RNA Technology for Heart Disease Fast-Tracked

An Australian government research fund has granted $1.7 million (US$1.1 million) to target three major cardiovascular diseases using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, accelerating the use of gene therapy’s treatment of diseases beyond COVID-19. Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, one of Australia’s oldest medical research organisations focused on heart disease, welcomed the grant from Medical Research…


Messenger RNA Technology Fast-Tracked for Treating for Heart Conditions

An Australian government research fund has granted $1.7 million (US$1.1 million) to target three major cardiovascular diseases using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, accelerating the use of gene therapy’s treatment of diseases beyond COVID-19. Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, one of Australia’s oldest medical research organisations focused on heart disease, welcomed the grant from Medical Research…


Artificial Intelligence: A Choice Between Fight or Flight

Commentary Communist China and America each proclaim artificial intelligence (AI) as the new battleground for primacy on the global stage. Yet complex technology advances in miniaturization and functionality occur dizzyingly fast, are difficult to grasp, and happen behind the scenes. Fortunately, respected retired journalist John Moody’s newest political thriller, “The World We Wish” (Brick Tower…


Australia Warned of Falling Behind in Technology Race

A five-year productivity inquiry into Australia’s digital technologies and data has found that the country could fall behind in the race against technological change. In its latest interim report, the Productivity Commission said that inadequate internet, lack of skills, low awareness and uncertainty about benefits, security concerns, cost and maintaining legacy systems were preventing Australian businesses from…


Facebook Developing AI Bots to ‘Fact-Check’ Wikipedia Entries

Facebook, now Meta, has developed the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of automatically verifying hundreds of thousands of citations at once, a feature that it says could help make entries on Wikipedia “more accurate.” Researchers designed the AI in a way that it can find appropriate sources for a claim from among millions…


Taiwan: Piggybacking on the 4th Industrial Revolution for New Military Prowess

Commentary The existential threat to Taiwan is self-apparent, or at least it should be to anyone who has watched how, in recent weeks, China has bracketed the island with missile tests, military exercises, and increasingly hostile incursions by the PLA Air Force. Equally self-evident is Taiwan’s need to beef up its defenses. Besides the usual…


AI Greatly Improves Denture Design, HK Research Wins International Award

The design and fabrication of dentures often requires a great deal of time to collect dentition information and numerous fittings due to the limitations of the current technology, and can increase the time needed for patients to get proper fitting dentures. Researchers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Faculty of Dentistry and the Department…


How the Chinese Military is Buying American AI Chips: Report

Despite measures to limit U.S. technology export to the Chinese military, chips designed by U.S. companies still end up in the hands of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), according to a report by the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University. CSET combed through over 66,000 publicly available PLA purchase records during…


Is Google’s LaMDA Woke? Its Software Engineers Sure Are

Commentary An article in the Washington Post revealed that a Google engineer who had worked with Google’s Responsible AI organization believes that Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), an artificially intelligent chatbot generator, is “sentient.” In a Medium blog post, Blake Lemoine claims that LaMDA is a person who exhibits feelings and shows the unmistakable signs of consciousness: “Over the…