• Google Will Relaunch Gemini in a 'Few Weeks,' After Its Racial Controversy

    Google Will Relaunch Gemini in a 'Few Weeks,' After Its Racial Controversy
    Google launched a new AI image generator earlier this month that, for all intents and purposes, was incapable of generating consistent images of white people. As you might expect, rightwing influencers wasted no time in noticing this issue and promptly accused the tech giant of reverse racism. After temporarily…Read more...
  • Move Over OpenAI, Microsoft Has a New Darling Startup

    Move Over OpenAI, Microsoft Has a New Darling Startup
    Microsoft announced a new partnership with Mistral AI on Monday, a French startup whose advanced large language models rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. Mistral also released Mistral Large, its most advanced language model to date, and “le Chat,” a chat interface built on top of Mistral’s models.Read more...
  • The big idea: should we all be putting chips in our brains?

    The big idea: should we all be putting chips in our brains?
    Implants like Elon Musk’s Neuralink offer great promise, but come with massive ethical questionsAre we on the verge of a new era in which brain disorders become a thing of the past, and we all merge seamlessly with artificial intelligence? This sci-fi future may seem one step closer after Elon Musk’s recent announcement that his biotech company, Neuralink, has implanted its technology into a human brain for the first time. But is mind-melding of this kind really on the way?
  • ‘Disinformation on steroids’: is the US prepared for AI’s influence on the election?

    ‘Disinformation on steroids’: is the US prepared for AI’s influence on the election?
    Robocalls of President Biden already confused primary voters in New Hampshire – but measures to curb the technology could be too little too lateThe AI election is here.Already this year, a robocall generated using artificial intelligence targeted New Hampshire voters in the January primary, purporting to be President Joe Biden and telling them to stay home in what officials said could be the first attempt at using AI to interfere with a US election. The “deepfake” calls were li
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  • AI call quiz: see if you can spot the sham audio of Trump and Biden

    AI call quiz: see if you can spot the sham audio of Trump and Biden
    Toilets, yearbooks, snakes and toilets again! Spot the fakes among these gems from the 45th and 46th presidentsDeepfakes have arrived to US elections, with a faked audio call purporting to be Joe Biden reaching voters in New Hampshire earlier this year.Artificial intelligence tools allow people to create spoofed audio easily and cheaply – so easily and cheaply that a journalist can do it! Continue reading...
  • India confronts Google over Gemini AI tool’s ‘fascist Modi’ responses

    India confronts Google over Gemini AI tool’s ‘fascist Modi’ responses
    Junior minister accuses tech firm of violating country’s IT laws with ‘downright malicious’ answersA response from Google’s AI platform suggesting that some experts believe the policies of the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, polices to be “fascist” has provoked a confrontation between the company and the government.The journalist Arnab Ray last week put the question as to whether Modi was a fascist to Google’s generative AI platform, Gemini. He rec