• OpenAI Says Stonemasons Should Be Fine in the Brave New World

    OpenAI Says Stonemasons Should Be Fine in the Brave New World
    A new paper released Monday says that 80% of the U.S. workforce will see the impact of large language models on their work. While some will only experience a moderate amount of impact on their day to day workload, close to 20% of those working today will likely find about half of their tasks automated to some extent…Read more...
  • How AI fooled Centrelink, and could fool you

    How AI fooled Centrelink, and could fool you
    Thanks to artificial intelligence, faking someone’s voice is easier than ever - all you need is a few minutes of audio. An investigation by Guardian Australia has found that this technology is able to fool a voice identification system that’s used by the Australian government to secure the private information of millions of people.Data and interactives editor Nick Evershed explains how he discovered this security flaw and AI expert Toby Walsh explores how this technology could potent
  • Agility’s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for Its First Job

    Agility’s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for Its First Job
    This morning at the ProMat conference in Chicago, Agility Robotics is introducing the latest iteration of Digit, its bipedal multipurpose robot designed for near-term commercial success in warehouse and logistics operations. This version of Digit adds a head (for human-robot interaction) along with manipulators intended for the very first task that Digit will be performing, one that Agility hopes will be its entry point to a sustainable and profitable business bringing bipedal robots into the wo
  • Cybersecurity funds should go towards beefing up Centrelink voice authentication, Greens say

    Cybersecurity funds should go towards beefing up Centrelink voice authentication, Greens say
    David Shoebridge says some of the $10bn allocated to Redspice program should counter misuse of AIFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government should be using some of the $10bn allocated in the budget to cybersecurity defences to combat people using AI to bypass biometric securities including voice authentication, a Greens senator has said.On Friday Guardian Australia reported that Centrel
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