• Russia’s AI tactics for US election interference are failing, Meta says

    New Meta security report finds that AI-powered deception campaigns ‘provide only incremental’ results for bad actorsRussia is putting generative artificial intelligence to work in online deception campaigns, but its efforts have been unsuccessful, according to a Meta security report released on Thursday.The parent company of Facebook and Instagram found that so far AI-powered tactics “provide only incremental productivity and content-generation gains” for bad actors and M
  • How AI is revolutionising how firefighters tackle blazes and saving lives

    How AI is revolutionising how firefighters tackle blazes and saving lives
    Fire chief Phillip SeLegue now uses tech every day in California to predict a blaze as much as a week in advanceEvery morning, California’s top firefighters get a forecast of the day in wildfire terms – when the wind will shift, how dry the ground is and a host of other ingredients that can start or spread a fire.Lately, the routine has an extra step: checking a machine’s opinion. Continue reading...