Facebook AI Launches Its Deepfake Detection Challenge At the NeurIPS conference, Facebook asked researchers to build tools to spot deepfake videos
IN SEPTEMBER,Facebook sent out a strange casting call: We need all types of people to look into a webcam or phone camera and say very mundane things. The actors stood in bedrooms, hallways, and backyards, and they talked about topics such…
On Advancing Global AI Governance
Artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes a general-purpose technology — perhaps one with transformative potential not seen since the Industrial Revolution. The technology’s power to spur both beneficial and harmful change is enormous. Now is the time to understand collective interests around…
ChatGPT Strikes at the Heart of the Scientific World View
The past year delivered one tech debacle after another, from the cryptocurrency implosion to Elon Musk’s reputational immolation, to Mark Zuckerberg’s weird bet that people would be thrilled by the addition of legs to avatars in his Second Life-like Metaverse. Until late 2022,…