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New research: #ChatGPT displays only 49% accuracy in diagnosis of medial illnesses, and so should not be relied on for this purpose, at least for now, explains Paul McClure newatlas.com/technology/cha… #medicine #AI
A study by #OpenAI finds that its "emotional" #chatgpt4o poses some risks to ppl in terms of attachments they might form with it, its powers of persuasion, etc., which should be of concern for #chatbot designers, explains gina cherelus nytimes.com/2024/08/09/sty… #AI
Ppl can get involved in unhealthy or addictive relationships with #Chatbots b/c of "dark patterns" in the way bots present themselves, a matter that should be addressed in design and regulation, argue Robert Mahari & Pat Pataranutaporn technologyreview.com/2024/08/05/109… #AI
The rise and increasing reach of automated tipping options strikes some consumers as "out of control," not to mention increasingly expensive, explain Santana Bellantoni & Taylor Pace guelphtoday.com/local-news/out… #design
Animation director Mike Rianda is rallying colleagues to fight the menace posed by #AI, much like the characters in his recent movie The Mitchells vs. the Machines, explains Brian Merchant wired.com/story/hollywoo… #employment
Google engineers have designed and trained a robot arm that can play a pretty decent game of #TableTennis, explains Michael Franco Let the arms race with China begin! newatlas.com/robotics/googl… #robots
The state of Texas is suing General Motors for surreptitiously gathering driving data from car owners for resale to companies that influence insurance rates, explains Ramishah Maruf cnn.com/2024/08/13/bus… #BigData #privacy
Recent #ransomware attacks highlight increasing vulnerability of Canadian #agriculture to hacking from hostile groups or governments, a #CyberSecurity issue that Ottawa has yet to address, explain Jonathan Montpetit & Albert Leung cbc.ca/newsinteractiv…
Amazon's deal for ⚡️⚡️ for a data center with a nuclear plant annoys other customers, a problem that will spread as #AI, #cryptocurrency mining and other big ⚡️⚡️ users increase, maybe prompting #BigTech to build its own plants, explains Andrew Moseman spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-data-ce…
Like #Google Maps, #GenAI is not your servant, you are its product, as it sells your attention to the highest bidder, argues Steve Rosenbaum fastcompany.com/91170248/ai-li…
New research: Taxonimizing and ranking #AI #risks reveals some common challenges, and suggests there is room for tighter regulation and corporate self-assessment, explains Will Knight wired.com/story/ai-model…
The Canada Border Services Agency plans to use a #FacialRecognition app to track deportees more comprehensively, raising concerns over consent, transparency, and fairness, explains Anja Karadeglija thestar.com/business/cbsa-…
As ppl depend more on #LLMs to generate text for them, scholars should help them to use it w/o giving in to its tendency to favor superficial aspects of persuasion over substantial ones, argues Omar H.Fares theconversation.com/google-gemini-… #AI #writing
VIC is an #AI #chatbot running for mayor of Cheyenne, #Wyoming, at least as far as his "meat avatar" Victor Miller is concerned, though officials regard the idea as illegal and #ChatGPT as against company policy, explains Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff washingtonpost.com/technology/202…