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Artificial Governance: AIDA Repeats the Failed Patterns of Digital Regulation
In Canada, the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA), a bill purported to regulate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the private sector, is in the latter phases of consideration by the Federal Standing Committee on Industry and Technology….
Spectrum’s Top AI Stories of 2023
The AI apocalypse, ChatGPT hallucinations, Nvidia’s success, and more 2023 may well go down in history as one of the most wild and dramatic years in the history of artificial intelligence. People were still struggling to understand the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT,…
IBM’S AI Chip May Find Use in Generative AI
The new chip is 14 times as energy efficient at speech recognition as conventional chips An artificial intelligence chip from IBM is more than a dozen times as energy efficient as conventional microchips at speech recognition. Many controversial AI systems, including ChatGPT and other…
AI Can’t Take Over Everyone’s Jobs Soon (If Ever)
Models are still expensive to run, hard to use, and frequently wrong “Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones?” This is one of several questions posed by the Future of Life Institute’s recent call for a pause on “giant AI…
Let’s Shape AI Before AI Shapes Us
It’s time to have a global conversation about how AI should be developed ILLUSTRATION: ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI/CORBIS Artificial intelligence is like a beautiful suitor who repeatedly brings his admirer to the edge of consummation only to vanish, dashing hopes and leaving an…
The Internet Isn’t Completely Weird Yet; AI Can Fix That
“Model collapse” looms when AI trains on the output of other models The Internet is hurtling into a hurricane of AI-generated nonsense, and no one knows how to stop it. That’s the sobering possibility presented in a pair of papers…
SHIPT’S ALGORITHM SQUEEZED GIG WORKERS. THEY FOUGHT BACK When their pay suddenly dropped, delivery drivers audited their employer
N EARLY 2020, gig workers for the app-based delivery company Shipt noticed something strange about their paychecks. The company, which had been acquired by Target in 2017 for US $550 million, offered same-day delivery from local stores. Those deliveries were made by Shipt…
U.S. and EU Announce Plans to Develop AI Standards
The two will have to navigate thorny differences of opinion on issues like data governance, however In late January, civil servants in the United States and European Union promised that the two would join forces and support development of AI models in…
Using AI to Make Better AI
New approach brings faster, AI-optimized AI within reach for image recognition and other applications Since 2017, AI researchers have been using AI neural networks to help design better and faster AI neural networks. Applying AI in pursuit of better AI has, to date,…
MIT researchers develop an AI model that can detect future lung cancer risk
Deep-learning model takes a personalized approach to assessing each patient’s risk of lung cancer based on CT scans. Alex Ouyang | Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health Publication Date: January 20, 2023 The name Sybil has its origins in…