Artificial intelligence has long since solved complex tasks and made our everyday lives easier. But do intelligent computer programmes also provide new solutions for environmental and climate protection? Here we set out to find answers to these questions.

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Artificial Intelligence – Can Computing Power Save Our Planet?

https://en.reset.org/topics/artificial-intelligence/

By amalgamating vast datasets, including weather information, satellite imagery and historical flight data, AI algorithms can generate precise predictions about when and where contrails are likely to form.

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https://youtu.be/xBkK7olwjx0

The rise of AI as magic

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an analysis of the hype around AI and how it causes problems for future adoption

https://open.substack.com/pub/artificialintelligencemadesimple/p/the-rise-of-ai-as-magicthoughts

Over the past year, Google has been diving deep into AI, integrating the Bard chatbot into various apps and services like Google Workspace, which includes Docs, Gmail, Drive, Sheets, and more.

#Android #Google #AI

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-bard-comes-workspace-account-holders/

Now, it looks like Google Bard is making its way to Google Messages, bringing its helpful AI features to more users.

AI political disinformation is a huge problem – but harder to fight than ever

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How OpenAI, Microsoft, and others are trying to combat deepfakes and more

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/17/ai_political_disinformation/

Website 9to5Google has been performing its customary deep dive into Google code – this time for version 15.2 of the Google app – and has discovered that the previous “Hi! I’m Assistant with Bard…” greeting message has been replaced by “Hi! I’m Bard…”

#Android #AI

https://9to5google.com/2024/01/16/google-assistant-bard-rebrand/

In case there’s any confusion as to what’s being implied here, it all suggests that Google is preparing to cut the (admittedly somewhat unwieldy) ‘Assistant with Bard’ name down to simply ‘Bard’.

OpenAI makes an election plan
Concerns over deepfakes are mounting — but there are reasons for optimism

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https://www.platformer.news/monday-newsletter/

OpenAI's approach

https://openai.com/blog/how-openai-is-approaching-2024-worldwide-elections

Here’s what Google Assistant with Bard will look like on Android

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https://www.androidauthority.com/google-assistant-with-bard-android-ui-3400661/

ChatGPT-powered productivity apps rising in popularity, but be cautious sharing personal information

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A recent investigation into privacy policies of popular personal productivity apps by security researchers at Private Internet Access (PIA) found “troubling” examples of poor transparency. One particular app was a popular AI chat assistant that uses the ChatGPT API and its existing database to tailor its answers to the user’s prompt.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/productivity-apps-safe/

Bounty hunters are using LLMs not only to translate or proofread their reports, but also to find bugs.

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Daniel “Haxx” Stenberg of cURL explains in a blogpost why he sees this as a possible problem. CURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various network protocols.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/

The name stands for Client for URL. Daniel is the original author and currently the lead developer.

‘Constantly monitored’: the pushback against AI surveillance at work

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Academics decry algorithmic monitoring of workers and call for stronger standards – but US unions have been slow to act

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/07/artificial-intelligence-surveillance-workers

This week in creepy headlines: 404 Media’s Joseph Cox discovered that a Google contractor, Telus, has offered parents $50 to upload videos of their children’s faces, apparently for use as machine learning training data.

According to a description of the project Telus posted online, the data collected from the videos would include eyelid shape and skin tone

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https://www.404media.co/google-telus-pays-50-to-scan-childrens-eyelid-shape-and-skin-tone/

60 minutes

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Artificial intelligence - interviews from 2019 upto today

https://youtu.be/aZ5EsdnpLMI

Traditionally, language models like ChatGPT’s GPT-4 have only excelled at reproducing text. Google’s latest VideoPoet model challenges that notion, however, as it can convert text-based prompts into AI-generated videos

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While Google has published dozens of example videos to demonstrate the strengths of VideoPoet, it stopped short of announcing a public rollout. In other words, we don’t know when we’ll be able to use VideoPoet, if at all.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The Emerging Landscape of AI-Driven Cybersecurity Threats: A Look Ahead

#AI #CoSoSec #Cybersecurity

While AI can significantly bolster defense mechanisms, it also equips adversaries with powerful tools to launch sophisticated cyberattacks

https://www.securityweek.com/the-emerging-landscape-of-ai-driven-cybersecurity-threats-a-look-ahead/

the Ai can call you give you a msg then call your neighbour and give them a different msg

it's like a new dark ads campaign for politicians

how can you hold a single politician accountable when almost everyone will get different promises and hear different msgs from the politician

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#AI robocalls should NOT be allowed in politics

The Commission's description of the Act outlines a tiered risk management system, with different AIs categorized by their impact on rights.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_23_6473

The Act will also require labelling of deepfakes and AI generated content, while chatbot users must be made aware they are conversing with a machine.

Meanwhile, foundational models used in AI that require training upwards of 1025 flops will face additional regulation in 12 months' time.

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AI Act Negotiations Result in Half-Baked EU Deal

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"the outcome seems to indicate that future-proof AI legislation was sacrificed for a quick deal" and "is likely to slow down innovation in Europe."

"This could lead to an exodus of European AI companies and talent seeking growth elsewhere," asserted the CCIA.

https://ccianet.org/news/2023/12/ai-act-negotiations-result-in-half-baked-eu-deal-more-work-needed-tech-industry-emphasises/

CCIA members represent a who's who of internet services, names like Amazon, Apple, Cloudflare, Intel, Google, Samsung, and Red Hat.

meanwhile:

Meta releases text-to-image tool and promises to watermark its images

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Meta released Imagine – a web-based text-to-image app – this week, and is planning to add a digital watermark to label synthetic content generated by its software.

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/12/meta-ai-updates/

So.....

Don't be fooled: Google faked its Gemini AI voice demo

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