Digital Ethics

Parent company Meta says bug caused ‘inappropriate’ auto-translations and was now fixed while employee says it pushed ‘a lot of people over the edge’

Companies are training their generative AI models on vast swathes of the Internet—and there’s no real way to stop them

Today Stanford University took a big swing on evaluating the transparency of a variety of AI large language models.

We tested ChatGPT-4’s ability to do a UX Audit of 12 webpages, and compared it to the results of 6 human UX professionals. GPT-4 had a 20% accuracy rate, 80% error rate, and discovered just 14–26% of the actual UX issues.

China is planning stricter curbs on how generative artificial intelligence (AI) services are applied in the country, as authorities attempt to strike a balance between harnessing the benefits of the technology while mitigating the risks.New draft guidance published on Wednesday

Rapport om risker med biometri-system.

Google said on Thursday that it will defend users of generative artificial-intelligence systems in its Google Cloud and Workspace platforms if they are accused of intellectual property violations, joining Microsoft , Adobe and other companies that have made similar pledges.

Gagan Ghotra observed that Google Search had begun to index shared Bard conversational links into its search results pages, potentially...

A cycle of elections over the next year will tell the tale.

It's time to stop firefighting. As individuals, teams and organisations, we need to become responsible firekeepers.

Why DALL-E 3 is and isn’t better than DALL-E 2

Artificial intelligence voice cloning software has rapidly increased in quality. It’s allowing anyone from foreign actors to music fans to copy somebody’s voice.

AI is a part of everyday life in countless ways, and how we choose to regulate it will shape our societies. EU lawmakers must use this opportunity to craft a law that harnesses the opportunities without undermining the protection of our rights or the rule of law, Eva Simon and Jonathan Day write.

Scientific Reports - Humans inherit artificial intelligence biases

OpenAI and Google might respect robots.txt but how about the others?

Angus Deaton says Larry Summers and other great minds in the profession have lost sight of its most important mission: Improving people’s lives.

Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

Consumers are not sufficiently trained to distinguish fake images and videos online from reality. So who gets to be the arbiter of truth? On AI IRL, Jackie…

Palantir, the analytics company led by Peter Thiel, has courted N.H.S. England with pandemic help and assertive lobbying. Its big reward may be yet to come.

Let’s not spend too much time daydreaming.

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda Williams says recreations of her late father made with artificial intelligence are “disturbing.”

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time

On Thursday 9/28, I had the opportunity to speak at a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman Bobby Scott on “AI in the Workplace: New…

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On Twitter, my colleague Jack Stilgoe mused that the term "democratize" was losing all meaning. In my opinion the term has always been a libertarian-anarchist… | 10 comments on LinkedIn

In this final video in the series on GPT-4, Jason Gorman summarises his experiences with GPT-4 in a range of software development tasks, discusses where he s...

Book spamming, sometimes with multiple bogus titles going online in one day, has hit writers like Rory Cellan-Jones

By now, many organizations using, building, or incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are realizing that they need to invest in AI ethics. The…