Category: artificial intelligence

GOP Presidential Campaign Using AI Chatbot to Respond to Voters

A super PAC supporting Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to answer queries about him, marking yet another instance of the use of generative AI in 2024 presidential campaigns. The SOS America PAC bot unveiled on July 5 listens to a user’s queries and combines them…


Google Will Record Everything Users Post Online to Train Its AI Products

Google will record everything people post online in order to train its artificial intelligence products. On July 1, Google amended its privacy policy to allow it to scrape comments that posters put on the internet, to help it to hone its AI tools. The tech company’s plan to harvest and harness online public data is…


Technology: The God That Failed

Commentary The stock market was in the doldrums when Nvidia came along with ChatGPT and revived the techno-optimism of year’s past. A new innovation! Intelligence that is better than humans! People will be losing jobs to machines! The singularity is on the way! Resistance is futile so might as well buy the stock. That was…


Experts Warn of New Laws Needed to Combat COVID-19 ‘Explosion’ of AI and Surveillance

New laws are needed to regulate the “explosion” of employer surveillance and AI systems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, experts have warned. Speaking to Westminster’s Human Rights Joint Committee, Jeremias Adams-Prassl said “dark use” of the technology in the UK will grow unless legislation is implemented. The Oxford academic—who specialises in law and AI ethics—said…


Grammy CEO Emphasizes Eligibility of Music With AI-created Components

As the music industry continues to move forward in the face of rapid technological advances, the Recording Academy has asserted its stance when it comes to the use of artificial intelligence and its role in regard to artists winning the musical award. That was established in a recent interview given to the Associated Press by…


UCLA Geologists Use Artificial Intelligence to Predict Landslides

University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) geologists announced last week they are using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict where and why landslides may occur, bolstering efforts to save lives and property in disaster-prone areas. Researchers say the new method, which was detailed in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, requires “far less” computing power than traditional…


Biden Administration Aims to Make AI Technology Woke, Warns Watchdog

The Biden administration is pushing to transform artificial intelligence (AI) to promote a woke agenda led by left-wing activists and censor conservatives, warned a conservative watchdog group. The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) reviewed the White House’s plans for AI and posted a warning on Twitter that top government officials are seeking to infuse “dangerous ideologies”…


Pump the Brakes on the AI Hype?

Commentary The hype, as they say, is real with AI. Everyone is bullish on the potential created by generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its slew of competitors and alternative contenders. When ChatGPT was released late last year, more than 100 million users signed up within two months. Since then, Alphabet Inc….


ChatGPT Fails to Make the Grade

AI’s best-known “chatbot” (a nickname for AI that produces language), ChatGPT, is making waves in many industries, including health care. However, it has not yet mastered the art of test-taking—at least not in ophthalmology, gastroenterology, or urology. ChatGPT Passed Medical Licensing Exam In an early 2023 study, ChatGPT (just barely) passed the United States Medical Licensing…


Tesla Pushes Forward on Self-Driving Vehicle Software

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the end of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software earlier this week. “Version 12 won’t be beta,” Musk wrote on Twitter on June 27 in response to an FSD beta user who asked, “FSD Beta 12 ‘maybe later this year.’” While Musk provided no further detail or possible timeline, his…