How good would an algorithm have to be to take over your job? It’s a new question for many workers amid the rise of ChatGPT and other AI programs that can hold conversations, write stories and even generate songs and images within seconds. For doctors who review scans to spot cancer and other diseases, however, AI has loomed for about …
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Top envoys from the U.S. and China huddled in closed-door talks in Geneva on Tuesday to lay out their national approaches to the promise and perils of emerging artificial intelligence technology. The talks, which Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping agreed to launch in last 2023, are meant to open up bilateral dialogue between the world’s two biggest economies — …
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The voice Alexis “Lexi” Bogan had before last summer was exuberant. She loved to belt out Taylor Swift and Zach Bryan ballads in the car. She laughed all the time — even while corralling misbehaving preschoolers or debating politics with friends over a backyard fire pit. In high school, she was a soprano in the chorus. Then that voice was …
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The world may end up breaking into tech alliances as a guiding political issue in the years to come, according to a retired American serviceman-turned-novelist as detailed in his new book. “I think for us, particularly with regards to the technology that we’re imagining and the incredible power it unleashes, it just becomes obvious that the real source of national …
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Fulfilling a bold promise to the Senate, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall put himself in the cockpit and let AI take over and fly an F-16 through an hour of aerial engagements and dogfights near Edwards Air Force Base, California. There’s just one reason Kendall, age 74, a West Point graduate and career Army officer, took that flight. …
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The use of generative AI may not be helpful in reducing burnout in health care, new research suggests. Previous research indicated that increased time spent using electronic health record (EHR) systems and handling administrative responsibilities has been a burden on doctors. So some people had heralded artificial intelligence as a potential solution — yet recent investigations by U.S. health systems …
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Sheryl Crow is calling on Congress to “act now” about artificial intelligence in the music industry and beyond. In a recent guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, the Grammy winner made it clear she was “not a scientist,” but she understands the potential existential threat the technology poses to artists. “[W]hat I can say with certainty is that what we …
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IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER: – US spies to use secretive AI service from Microsoft- Sheryl Crow demands lawmakers ‘act now’ on AI, after her fears inspired new album- US blocks some Intel, Qualcomm exports to China over Beijing’s objections ‘AI FOR SPIES’: U.S. intelligence agencies will soon be using a secretive generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform from Microsoft that will let …
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They are dangerous, tricky scams designed to tug at your better judgment, draining bank accounts, creating havoc with your friends, and manipulating your reputation. Social engineering scams – the type of scams used by criminals to exploit a person’s trust to obtain money or sensitive information or both – have become much more sophisticated with the rise of artificial intelligence. …
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Meet the Quadroin AUV, a bio-inspired aquatic robot making waves in underwater research. Mimicking penguins’ swift and graceful swimming, this autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is the brainchild of German underwater tech company EvoLogics. Quadroin AUV (EvoLogics) The evolution of the Quadroin The journey began with the PingGuin, an experimental AUV that showcased its potential back in 2020. Drawing inspiration from …
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