Article Alert: Deepfakes, Phrenology, Surveillance, and More! A Taxonomy of AI Privacy Risks
Article Alert: Deepfakes, Phrenology, Surveillance, and More! A Taxonomy of AI Privacy Risks Authors: Hao-Ping Lee, Yu-Ju Yang, Thomas Serban von Davier, Jodi Forlizzi, Sauvik Das Abstract: Privacy is a key principle for developing ethical AI technologies, but how does including AI technologies in products and services change privacy risks? We constructed a taxonomy of AI privacy risks by […]
Researchers Say the Deepfake Biden Robocall Was Likely Made With Tools From AI Startup ElevenLabs
Researchers Say the Deepfake Biden Robocall Was Likely Made With Tools From AI Startup ElevenLabs This article was originally written by Kate Knibbs for Wired. Last week, some voters in New Hampshire received an AI-generated robocall impersonating President Joe Biden, telling them not to vote in the state’s primary election. It’s not clear who was responsible […]
AI’s Achilles Heel: New Research Pinpoints Fundamental Weaknesses
AI’s Achilles Heel: New Research Pinpoints Fundamental Weaknesses This article was originally published in SciTechDaily. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have become the first in the world to mathematically prove that, beyond simple problems, it is impossible to develop algorithms for AI that will always be stable. ChatGPT and similar machine learning-based technologies are on […]
Article Alert: A Comprehensive Survey of Hallucination Mitigation Techniques in Large Language Models
Article Alert: A Comprehensive Survey of Hallucination Mitigation Techniques in Large Language Models This article is co-authored by S.M Towhidul Islam Tonmoy, S M Mehedi Zaman, Vinija Jain, Anku Rani, Vipula Rawte, Aman Chadha, and Amitava Das. Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance in their ability to write human-like text, a key challenge remains around their tendency to […]
Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses
Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses This article was written by Mariana Lenharo for Nature News. An artificial intelligence (AI) system trained to conduct medical interviews matched, or even surpassed, human doctors’ performance at conversing with simulated patients and listing possible diagnoses on the basis of the patients’ medical […]
Article Alert: A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models
Article Alert: A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models This article was co-authored by Raphaël Millière and Cameron Buckner. Abstract: Large language models like GPT-4 have achieved remarkable proficiency in a broad spectrum of language-based tasks, some of which are traditionally associated with hallmarks of human intelligence. This has prompted ongoing disagreements about the extent to […]
New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement This article was published in The Guardian on 28th December 2023. The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft over the use of its content to train generative artificial intelligence and large-language model systems, a move that could see the company receive billions of dollars in […]
A judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU endangers “scoring” algorithms
A judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU endangers “scoring” algorithms This article is originally published in French on Euractive France by Théophane Hartmann. The following text is a translated version of the original text and may contain errors. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Thursday, December 7, […]
Research Article: Mathematical discoveries from program search with large language models
Research Article: Mathematical discoveries from program search with large language models This article has recently been published in Nature and authored by Bernardino Romera-Paredes and colleagues. Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated tremendous capabilities in solving complex tasks, from quantitative reasoning to understanding natural language. However, LLMs sometimes suffer from confabulations (or hallucinations) which […]
AI image generators trained on pictures of child sexual abuse, study finds
AI image generators trained on pictures of child sexual abuse, study finds This article was authored by Blake Montgomery et al. for The Guardian. Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence (AI) image generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to new research published on Wednesday. The operators of some of […]