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AI could be taken over by a few multinationals, warns UN
The United Nations’ High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, created last year to address AI governance issues, has made seven recommendations to address the risks with this technology in its first report, just published. The document, entitled Governing AI for humanity, highlights the importance of creating a global dialogue — the European Union is one…
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How AI can help spot wildfires
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. In February 2024, a broken utility pole brought down power lines near the small town of Stinnett, Texas. In the following weeks, the fire reportedly sparked by that equipment grew to burn…
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Anti-Immigrant Election Deniers Have Turned Their Online Following Into an Army of Activists
A coordinated effort called “National Only Citizens Vote” has been rolled out this week by a coalition of people pushing conspiracy theories about immigrants voting in the November election.
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This AI Paper from Centre for the Governance of AI Proposes a Grading Rubric for AI Safety Frameworks
AI safety frameworks have emerged as crucial risk management policies for AI companies developing frontier AI systems. These frameworks aim to address catastrophic risks associated with AI, including potential threats from chemical or biological weapons, cyberattacks, and loss of control. The primary challenge lies in determining an “acceptable” level of risk, as there is currently…
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A Game Designer Just Hid a Gold Trophy in the Woods for a Real-Life Treasure Hunt. It Starts Now
For years, Jason Rohrer put out bizarre, beloved video games. Now, with Project Skydrop, he launches (yes, today) the real-world treasure hunt of his dreams.
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7 steps to a more adaptive enterprise
AdaptiveION co-founders Steve Davis and Ken Spangler are two former technology executives who know what it takes to build and lead a highly adaptive organization capable of thriving through change or disruption. As a managing director at Accenture, Davis led some of the largest agile transformations at global scale. Spangler’s leadership and vision as a…
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Thinking of building your own AI agents? Don’t do it, advisors say
Agentic AIs, a form of technology designed to run specific functions within an organization without human intervention, are gaining traction as enterprises look to automate business workflows, augment the output of human workers, and derive value from generative AI. Analyst firm Forrester named AI agents as one of its top 10 emerging technologies this year,…
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WordLlama Released on Hugging Face: An Open Source, Fast, Lightweight (16MB) NLP Toolkit for Tasks like Fuzzy-Deduplication, Similarity and Ranking Optimized for CPUs
The release of WordLlama on Hugging Face marks a pivotal moment in natural language processing (NLP). This advanced language model is designed to offer developers, researchers, and businesses a highly efficient and accessible tool for various NLP applications. Its release is especially timely, given the increasing demand for AI-driven solutions across industries, from automated customer…
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Why virologists are getting increasingly nervous about bird flu
Bird flu has been spreading in dairy cows in the US—and the scale of the spread is likely to be far worse than it looks. In addition, 14 human cases have been reported in the US since March. Both are worrying developments, say virologists, who fear that the country’s meager response to the virus is…
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ChatWithYourDocs Chat App: A Python Application that Allows You to Chat with Multiple Docs Formats like PDF, WEB Pages and YouTube Videos
In today’s digital age, we are inundated with vast amounts of text content from various sources, including news articles, research papers, social media posts, and more. This unstructured text data, such as natural language text, is not organized in a structured format like databases. This makes it challenging to process and analyze using traditional data…