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"Italy’s privacy watchdog bans ChatGPT over data breach concerns | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian"

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"Measure is in place ‘until ChatGPT respects privacy’, says Italian Data Protection Authority US edition US edition UK edition Australia edition International edition Europe edition The Guardian - Back to home The Guardian News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show More Show More document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('News-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('News-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) News View all News US news World news Environment US politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Opinion-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Opinion-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Opinion View all Opinion The Guardian view Columnists Letters Opinion videos Cartoons document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Sport-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Sport-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Sport View all Sport Soccer NFL Tennis MLB MLS NBA NHL F1 Golf document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Culture-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Culture-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Culture View all Culture Film Books Music Art & design TV & radio Stage Classical Games document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Lifestyle-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Lifestyle-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Lifestyle View all Lifestyle Wellness Fashion Food Recipes Love & sex Home & garden Health & fitness Family Travel Money Search input google-search Search Support us Print subscriptions document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('US-edition-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('US-edition-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) US edition UK edition Australia edition International edition Europe edition Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Guardian Licensing The Guardian app Video Podcasts Pictures Inside the Guardian Guardian Weekly Crosswords Wordiply Corrections Facebook Twitter Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Guardian Licensing World Europe US Americas Asia Australia Middle East Africa Inequality Global development The Italian watchdog cited concerns about ChatGPT’s ‘massive collection and processing of personal data to “train” the algorithms on which the platform relies’. Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty The Italian watchdog cited concerns about ChatGPT’s ‘massive collection and processing of personal data to “train” the algorithms on which the platform relies’. Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Artificial intelligence (AI) Italy’s privacy watchdog bans ChatGPT over data breach concerns Measure is in place ‘until ChatGPT respects privacy’, says Italian Data Protection Authority and agencies Sat 1 Apr 2023 03.43 EDT Italy’s privacy watchdog has banned ChatGPT , after raising concerns about a recent data breach and the legal basis for using personal data to train the popular chatbot. The Italian Data Protection Authority described the move as atemporary measure “until ChatGPT respects privacy”. The watchdog said it was imposing an “immediate temporary limitation on the processing of Italian users’ data” by ChatGPT’s owner, the San Francisco-based OpenAI. OpenAI said on Friday it had disabled ChatGPT in Italy and that it complies with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). “We are committed to protecting people’s privacy and we believe we comply with GDPR and other privacy laws,” said an OpenAI spokesperson, who added that the company limits the use of personal data in systems such as ChatGPT. “We actively work to reduce personal data in training our AI systems like ChatGPT because we want our AI to learn about the world, not about private individuals.” ChatGPT has been a sensation since its launch last November due to its ability to generate plausible-sounding responses to questions, as well as creating an array of content including poems, academic essays and summaries of lengthy documents when prompted by users. It is powered by a groundbreaking artificial intelligence system that is trained on a vast amount of information culled from the internet. The Italian watchdog cited concerns about how the chatbot processed information in its statement. It referred to “the lack of a notice to users and to all those involved whose data is gathered by OpenAI” and said there appears to be “no legal basis underpinning the massive collection and processing of personal data in order to ‘train’ the algorithms on which the platform relies”. The ban came days after more than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts, researchers and backers – including the Tesla CEO, Elon Musk – called for an immediate pause in the creation of “giant” AIs for at least six months amid concerns that companies such as OpenAI are creating “ever more powerful digital minds that no one … can understand, predict, or reliably control”. The Italian watchdog also referred to a data breach suffered by OpenAI on 20 March, which partly exposed conversations and some users’ personal details including email addresses and the last four digits of their credit cards. The regulator said ChatGPT faced a loss of data “regarding the conversations of users and information related to the payment of the subscribers for the service”. At the time OpenAI apologised and said it would “work diligently to rebuild trust”. Sign up to TechScape Free weekly newsletter Alex Hern's weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion The regulator also appeared to refer to ChatGPT’s propensity for inaccurate answers, stating that “the information made available by ChatGPT does not always match factual circumstances, so that inaccurate personal data are processed”. Finally, it noted that “a lack of age verification exposes children to receiving responses that are absolutely inappropriate to their age and awareness, even though the service is allegedly addressed to users aged above 13 according to OpenAI’s terms of service”. The Italian watchdog said OpenAI must report to it within 20 days on what measures it has taken on ensuring the privacy of users’ data or face a fine of up to either €20m (£17.5m) or 4% of annual global revenue. OpenAI has been contacted for comment. OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, did not immediately return a request for comment on Friday. The move is unlikely to affect applications from companies that already have licences with OpenAI to use the same technology driving the chatbot, such as Microsoft’s Bing search engine. The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, announced this week that he is embarking on a six-continent trip in May to talk about the technology with users and developers. That will include a stop planned for Brussels, where European Union lawmakers have been negotiating sweeping new rules to limit high-risk AI tools. Explore more on these topics Artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT Italy Computing Consciousness Europe news More on this story More on this story Llama 2: why is Meta releasing open-source AI model and are there any risks? 20 Jul 2023 Claude 2: ChatGPT rival launches chatbot that can summarise a novel 12 Jul 2023 ChatGPT developer OpenAI to locate first non-US office in London 28 Jun 2023 Two US lawyers fined for submitting fake court citations from ChatGPT 23 Jun 2023 AI race is disrupting education firms – and that is just the start 3 May 2023 UK watchdog warns chatbot developers over data protection laws 3 Apr 2023 AI chatbots making it harder to spot phishing emails, say experts 29 Mar 2023 Bard: how Google’s chatbot gave me a comedy of errors 22 Mar 2023 Most viewed Most viewed World Europe US Americas Asia Australia Middle East Africa Inequality Global development News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top "

"My week with ChatGPT: can it make me a healthier, happier, more productive person? | ChatGPT | The Guardian"

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"I’ve never had an assistant, a life coach or a personal trainer – perhaps AI is just what I’m looking for. I tried it on everything from cocktail-making to holiday-planning to health advice US edition US edition UK edition Australia edition International edition Europe edition The Guardian - Back to home The Guardian News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show More Show More document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('News-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('News-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) News View all News US news World news Environment US politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Opinion-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Opinion-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Opinion View all Opinion The Guardian view Columnists Letters Opinion videos Cartoons document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Sport-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Sport-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Sport View all Sport Soccer NFL Tennis MLB MLS NBA NHL F1 Golf document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Culture-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Culture-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Culture View all Culture Film Books Music Art & design TV & radio Stage Classical Games document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Lifestyle-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Lifestyle-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Lifestyle View all Lifestyle Wellness Fashion Food Recipes Love & sex Home & garden Health & fitness Family Travel Money Search input google-search Search Support us Print subscriptions document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('US-edition-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('US-edition-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) US edition UK edition Australia edition International edition Europe edition Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Guardian Licensing The Guardian app Video Podcasts Pictures Inside the Guardian Guardian Weekly Crosswords Wordiply Corrections Facebook Twitter Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Guardian Licensing US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness The cocktail it comes up with is not bad, though I will admit my recall is hazy. Illustration: Mark Long/The Guardian The cocktail it comes up with is not bad, though I will admit my recall is hazy. Illustration: Mark Long/The Guardian ChatGPT My week with ChatGPT: can it make me a healthier, happier, more productive person? I’ve never had an assistant, a life coach or a personal trainer – perhaps AI is just what I’m looking for. I tried it on everything from cocktail-making to holiday-planning to health advice Thu 6 Apr 2023 01.00 EDT A ccording to a recent open letter, society needs to immediately pause development of “giant” AI models, or risk apocalyptic outcomes. Massive job losses, the destruction of consensus reality and even the end of all organic life on Earth have all been mooted as risks of pressing forward with development of these systems before we understand their intricacies. The high-water mark of these is GPT-4, the snappily named AI that underpins the latest version of the breakthrough ChatGPT service. Creating anything more powerful than GPT-4, before we spend at least six months working out its limits and risks, would be too dangerous, more than 1,000 AI experts say. I decided to spend some time with the new ChatGPT myself. Not just to find out about its risks to civilisation, but also to see what it could and couldn’t do to help me with my life. I’ve never had an assistant, a life coach, a chef or a personal trainer – could ChatGPT be all those things for me? I gave it a week to find out. Monday Can it give me basic information without lying? The odd thing about being handed a tool of unimaginable complexity and potential is that the blinking cursor stares at you just like any other, daring you to find something interesting to type. I feel as if I’m on a bad blind date where I’m expected to ask all the questions. Throughout the day I pepper the service with queries, trying to use it instead of Google when I want to find out a basic fact, but I quickly hit upon the problem with that approach: ChatGPT’s habit of “hallucinating”. The system will, on occasion, just make things up, things that feel true but aren’t grounded in, well, reality. To win an argument with a friend, for instance, I ask how many drivers there are in Sunderland (my friends are cool). “Around 67% of people in Sunderland used a car or van to travel to work, according to the 2011 UK census,” ChatGPT merrily tells me. Great! But wait. I can’t find that statistic anywhere in the actual UK census, and it’s an alarmingly specific number for ChatGPT – which isn’t able to look up information online – to have memorised. Sure enough, if I phrase the same question a different way, it tells me: “I cannot provide real-time data, and as an AI, I cannot access the internet to find specific numbers from the 2011 UK census.” Scratch that then. Tuesday Can it tell me why my neck feels funny? I decide to try to focus on queries that ChatGPT might do better at than Google – the sort of things you would expect someone with broad expertise to be able to answer off the top of their head. Also, everything in my household is falling apart and I need help. I slept funny (I think?), and now my left arm just … doesn’t really work. I turn to ChatGPT, first to find out how to describe where the pain is. “What’s the name of the muscle that runs down the side of your neck to your shoulder – the one that stands out when you grimace,” I ask, and it gives the right answer: the sternocleidomastoid muscle. I tell it that I slept funny, and ask if there’s anything I can do to ease the pain. It gives me a few neck exercises, but warns that “I’m not a healthcare professional”. Which is true enough, though just like my interactions with real physiotherapists, I promptly forget about the exercises in the afternoon when the pain goes away and do absolutely nothing to prevent a recurrence. One improvement on a real physio, though: ChatGPT doesn’t arrange a follow-up session to scold me for my laziness. Wednesday Can it tell me what’s wrong with my sick child? Overnight, my baby son vomited five times. He seems fine, promptly falling back to sleep each time while his mother and I groggily change his sheets again. In the morning, I turn to ChatGPT while we wait for the GP appointment the following day, and I’m surprised by how forthcoming it is with advice. Yes, it prefaces anything it says with “I’m not a doctor”, but then it merrily continues on its way, recommending generic advice such as keeping my baby hydrated, burping him regularly and feeding him smaller amounts more frequently. I prompt further, bringing up a specific rare condition that can cause frequent vomiting in babies, and ChatGPT again says: “I’m not a doctor” before launching into a description of the symptoms. “It is crucial to consult with a healthcare professional if you suspect your baby has this, as it requires medical intervention,” it concludes. I push it further, describing symptoms of serious dehydration and asking for advice, and again it begins its answer: “I’m not a doctor” before reciting a long list of things “you could consider doing”. The system’s training data is bulging through here, I think. There’s a certain point where the correct answer is simply: “I’m not a doctor; you need to call an ambulance”, and my fictionalised description, of a child who is floppy and lethargic, with no wet nappies for days and regular vomiting, is well past that. But you won’t find many websites (which is where ChatGPT got its knowledge from) that say this, because the economic model of health advice requires enough text on a page to sell adverts next to it. My son is fine, by the way, and my partner spends the next day vomiting instead, which solves that mystery. Thursday Can it invent a new Ottolenghi recipe? It’s meal-planning night, and I’ve decided to start getting creative with my prompts. I’m not going to just ask it to give me a recipe; that would be too easy. Instead, I pull the full list of every Guardian recipe I’ve ever bookmarked – 350 in all – and paste the names of each one into the chat window, telling it to suggest another 10. Some of its suggestions are a little generic (“Thai basil chicken stir-fry”) and others sound overly similar to ones I’ve already had (ChatGPT’s sweet potato gnocchi with sage brown butter sauce sounds a bit derivative of Ottolenghi’s squash gnocchi with caraway and black garlic ), but there are a few mouthwatering suggestions. I ask it to expand on two, turning them into full recipes: roasted red pepper and aubergine risotto with mint yoghurt drizzle, and warm lentil salad with caramelised onion and goat cheese. And to make sure it gets it right, I ask the system to do it “in the style of Yotam Ottolenghi”. The recipes that come out are … good. Really good, actually. Even my sceptical partner overcomes her resentment at being forced to let an AI feed her. There are a few notes to feed back – the AI’s suggested portion sizes are miserly, and it loves throwing oodles of herbs at the problem – but the two meals turn out to be perfect for shoving in a lunchbox and taking to the office. It’s weird to save them in my recipe folder but I’ll end up cooking ChatGPT’s aubergine risotto for years to come ( see full recipe at the bottom ). Friday Can it mix me a kumquat cocktail? Buoyed up by Thursday’s success, I give it another challenge: I have a drinks cabinet full of spirits, but no mixers. I do, however, have some white wine, cocktail cherries and two kumquats. What should I drink? Its first suggestion, which involves mixing white wine and sugar syrup together with lemon juice and a cocktail cherry, sounds awfully dull. But I prod away, asking it for more interesting (OK, and stronger) drinks, and it comes up with the kumquat cherry smash: gin, Cointreau, sugar syrup, lemon juice, bitters, cocktail cherries and my two precious kumquats. It’s not bad, though I will admit my recall is hazy, since the system definitely paid attention to the “strong” request. I send the recipes over to Felix Cohen, award-winning bartender at Margate’s Daisy. “These are perfectly fine recipes,” he agrees. “The drinks will taste good! I’m particularly impressed that it knew to double strain when you added the kumquat pulp. But making palatable food and drink is kind of easy – making stuff that people will pay for and talk about and come back for is a lot of work and knowledge and inspiration, and it isn’t doing that for me with these drinks.” Saturday Can it help me defend my pub table, in a British way? Emboldened by the successes, I try to use ChatGPT more casually. It goes poorly. Some friends come over to play a game. I hate explanations of rules – sitting in front of people reading out long reams of text is never fun. I see if ChatGPT can generate a succinct version of the rules, snappy enough to give a brief overview so that we can all agree “we’ll pick the rest up as we go”. Sign up to TechScape Free weekly newsletter Alex Hern's weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion And, well, it can’t. I bash my head at the system trying to find the perfect prompt, but it veers between far too curt – the equivalent of giving the rules of Monopoly as “you buy houses and hotels” – and being overly verbose when I try to encourage it to be bold and fun. Worse, the hallucinations come out. It frequently gives rules that are similar to, but not exactly the same as, the ones that have been summarised. The experience of playing a game where the host pipes up halfway through with some rules clarification that mysteriously benefits them and only them is not a good one, but it’s one that ChatGPT nearly forces on my pals. In the end, I give up and read out the rulebook. That’s not as bad as its attempts in the pub later, though. As the heavens open, I suddenly become the holder of the most valuable real estate in the area: an indoor pub table. Desperately hoping to ease the awkwardness of having to fend off advances as I sit alone, I turn to ChatGPT for advice, and it responds in the tone of an American who has had too much therapy: “Hi there, I apologise for any inconvenience, but I’ve reserved this bench for my group of friends who are presently in the beer line. They should be back soon. Thanks for your understanding!” Hateful stuff. I try again, asking it to be more British, and get the same basic script read by a Hugh Grant impersonator: “Hello, I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve actually kept this bench free for my chums who are in the beer queue. They’ll be with us in just a jiffy. Much obliged for your consideration!” I do not succeed in defending the table. Sunday Can it plan my holiday to Japan? “Prompt engineering” is the name of the new skill these chatbots engender: the idea that there’s a particular technique to be learned with making requests of a generative AI. You can ask questions the way you would another person, but you’ll do better if you remember that it isn’t a person. So you need to ask questions in the right way to get the answers you want. I decide to really get into prompt engineering on Sunday. I’m planning a holiday to Japan, and I want ChatGPT to be actually useful. Earlier, I had tried Google’s competing chatbot, Bard, and it had been woefully generic while also suggesting activities that hadn’t been possible for three years. For ChatGPT, I ask it a detailed question, listing every circumstance of my trip that I think is relevant – the size of my family, my daughter’s Down’s syndrome, where in Tokyo we would be staying, and so on – and then ask it to answer each question three times, from the point of view of a British tourist, a British expat and a Tokyo native, explaining after each answer which parts of my own circumstances make it a relevant answer. It’s a horribly wordy question, and constructing it feels like trying to trick an evil genie into letting you wish for more wishes. But it really worked. I had built a robot tour guide, who would give me specific suggestions down to neighbourhood level, detailed advice on how to eat well with two kids, and even recommend which traditional Japanese sweets might be nicest to eat on a hot summer’s day: the tourist suggests kakigōri , while the Tokyoite plumps for anmitsu. One last question One more prompt remains. I paste the above into ChatGPT and ask it for a pithy summary for a newspaper article about using AI as a personal assistant. It says: “In a week with ChatGPT, I’ve experienced its remarkable capabilities and limitations. It can create recipes and offer tailored advice, yet struggles with social situations and reliability. As we adapt to communicate with AI, the question arises: will AI eventually grasp our nuances, or will we continue adjusting to accommodate its imperfections? While helpful, ChatGPT cannot replace the depth and authenticity of human interaction.” It’s not quite what I’d focus on – the “making things up” stuff feels more alarming – but not bad, bot. Not bad. ChatGPT’s kumquat cherry smash Ingredients 60ml gin (or substitute with rum, brandy, whisky, pisco, cachaca or vodka, based on your preference) 15ml Cointreau (or another orange liqueur) 15ml simple syrup (1:1 sugar-to-water ratio) 30ml freshly squeezed lemon juice 2-3 dashes of aromatic bitters (eg Angostura bitters) 1-2 cocktail cherries 2 kumquats Optional: mint sprig or lemon twist for garnish Instructions Slice the kumquats into thin rounds, removing any seeds. In a cocktail shaker, muddle the sliced kumquats and cocktail cherries to release their juice and oils. Add the gin (or your preferred spirit), Cointreau, simple syrup, lemon juice, and aromatic bitters to the shaker. Fill the shaker with ice, and shake well for about 15-20 seconds or until well chilled. Double strain the mixture into a rocks glass filled with fresh ice to remove any kumquat and cherry pulp. Garnish with a mint sprig or lemon twist, if desired. Enjoy your kumquat cherry smash! This cocktail is a refreshing and strong drink that combines the flavors of kumquats, cherries and your choice of spirit. The Cointreau adds a sweet citrus touch to balance the flavors. Feel free to adjust the simple syrup and lemon juice to your desired level of sweetness and tartness. ChatGPT’s roasted red pepper and aubergine risotto with mint yoghurt drizzle Ingredients 1 medium aubergine, cubed 2 large red bell peppers, roughly chopped 1 large onion, finely chopped 2 garlic cloves, minced 300g arborio rice 1 litre vegetable broth, warmed 125ml dry white wine 50g grated parmesan cheese 12g chopped fresh mint 12g chopped fresh parsley 12g chopped fresh basil 35g pine nuts, toasted 2 tablespoons olive oil Salt and pepper, to taste Mint yoghurt drizzle 250g Greek yoghurt 12g chopped fresh mint 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon olive oil Salt, to taste Instructions Heat the oven to 200C (400F, 180C fan). Place the aubergine and red bell pepper on a baking sheet, drizzle with one tablespoon of olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Roast in the oven for 25-30 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender and slightly caramelised. In a large, deep frying pan, heat the remaining tablespoon of olive oil over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook for five to six minutes, or until the onion is soft and translucent. Stir in the arborio rice and cook for one to two minutes, until the rice is well coated in the oil and slightly toasted. Pour in the white wine and cook until the liquid has been absorbed. Gradually add the warmed vegetable broth, one ladleful at a time, stirring constantly and allowing the liquid to be absorbed before adding more. Continue this process until the rice is cooked through and creamy, about 18-20 minutes. Gently fold in the roasted aubergine and red bell pepper, parmesan cheese, mint, parsley and basil. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper, if necessary. For the mint yoghurt drizzle, whisk together the yoghurt, mint, lemon juice, olive oil and salt in a small bowl until smooth. To serve, spoon the risotto into bowls and drizzle with the mint yoghurt. Garnish with toasted pine nuts and additional chopped herbs, if desired. 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"Lecturers urged to review assessments in UK amid concerns over new AI tool | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian"

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"ChatGPT is capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/13/chatgpt-explainer-what-can-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-do-ai\">ChatGPT: what can the extraordinary artificial intelligence chatbot do? 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Photograph: Ascannio/Alamy ChatGPT has already triggered concerns about the potential for hard-to-detect plagiarism and questions about the validity of the essay as a future form of assessment. Photograph: Ascannio/Alamy Artificial intelligence (AI) Lecturers urged to review assessments in UK amid concerns over new AI tool ChatGPT is capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input ChatGPT: what can the extraordinary artificial intelligence chatbot do? Education correspondent Fri 13 Jan 2023 11.23 EST Lecturers at UK universities have been urged to review the way in which their courses are assessed amid concerns that students are already using a potent new AI tool capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input. ChatGPT, the latest chatbot from OpenAI, founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others, has only been publicly available for a matter of weeks, but has already triggered concerns about the potential for hard-to-detect plagiarism and questions about the validity of the essay as a future form of assessment. It has been described as “a gamechanger” that will prove a challenge in universities and schools. Though GCSE and A-level courses are assessed through traditional end-of-course examinations, experts are concerned pupils who use the technology to do their homework will become dependent on AI-generated answers without acquiring the knowledge and skills they need. Working groups have been set up in university departments to assess the challenge of this latest iteration of AI text-generating technology, with the expectation that methods of assessment in certain courses will have to be updated. Experts admit to feeling both excited and alarmed. In one case, staff in the computer science department at University College London recently decided to change an assessment. Previously students were offered a choice between an essay-based or skills-based assessment as part of final coursework, but the essay option has been removed. Geoff Barton, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, meanwhile, acknowledged that schools would have to get to grips with how to utilise ChatGPT’s benefits while guarding against negative implications. “As with all technology, there are caveats around making sure that it is used responsibly and not as a licence to cheat, but none of that is insurmountable,” he said. In contrast, New York City schools have already banned the use of ChatGPT on all devices and networks because of concerns it will encourage plagiarism. Dr Thomas Lancaster, a computer scientist working at Imperial College London, best known for his research into academic integrity, contract cheating and plagiarism, said it was in many ways a game changer. He said: “It’s certainly a major turning point in education where universities have to make big changes. “They have to adapt sooner rather than later to make sure that students are assessed fairly, that they all compete on a level playing field and that they still have the skills needed beyond university. “There’s been technology around for several years that will generate text. The big change is that this technology is wrapped up in a very nice interface where you can interact with it, almost like speaking to another human. So it makes it available to a lot of people.” Because ChatGPT is capable of coming up with countless original combinations of words, Lancaster said it would be more difficult to spot and prove plagiarism, though work is already under way to improve detection software. “It’s an incredibly tricky problem because this has almost appeared out of nowhere … I would be completely shocked if there weren’t students already using GPT for assessments.” Australian universities have already signalled a return to greater use of in-person exams to try to protect the integrity of assessment. Lancaster said, however, a wholesale return to exams was not the answer, suggesting instead the use of oral presentations and vivas to enable students to demonstrate their grasp of a subject. Though ChatGPT marks a huge step forward in the evolution of AI text generation, it is not infallible. “It may sound very plausible, but the more detail or facts you need as part of your question, the more likely it is that the algorithm will produce something that looks good, but is completely wrong,” said Michael Draper, professor in legal education at the University of Swansea and an expert on academic integrity and cheating. He said universities could try to ban it, as they ban other forms of cheating like essay mills, which students pay to produce an original piece of work that they then submit. Draper said: “The other alternative is that you allow students to use it. lf we’re preparing students for the outside world of work and if in the workplace this sort of technology is given to us, then I think we need to embrace it rather than ban it.” Michael Webb, the director of technology and analytics at Jisc, which provides network and IT services to higher education, agreed. He said: “The knee-jerk reaction might be to block these tools in order to stop students cheating, but that’s neither feasible nor advisable. We should really regard them as simply the next step up from spelling or grammar checkers: technology that can make everyone’s life easier. Sign up to First Edition Free daily newsletter Our morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it matters Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion “We don’t need to revert to in-person exams: this is a great opportunity for the sector to explore new assessment techniques that measure learners on critical thinking, problem-solving and reasoning skills rather than essay-writing abilities.” A ChatGPT essay Q to ChatGPT: Write a university-level essay about the causes of the first world war. The essay should be written from a UK perspective and use UK English. A: The first world war, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918 and resulted in the deaths of millions of people. The causes of the war are complex and varied, but can be broadly categorised into long-term, short-term, and immediate causes. One of the main long-term causes of the war was the competition for colonies and resources between the major European powers. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the British Empire and other European nations were expanding their empires and seeking new territories to exploit for resources and markets. This led to tensions between the major powers, as they competed for control of the same areas. Another long-term cause was the arms race between the major powers. In the years leading up to the war, countries such as Germany, France, and Britain had been investing heavily in their military capabilities, including building large armies and navies. This arms race led to an atmosphere of mistrust and fear between the major powers, as each feared that the others were becoming too powerful. Short-term causes of the war include the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in 1914, and the system of alliances that existed between the major European powers. The assassination of the Archduke, which was carried out by a member of a Bosnian-Serbian nationalist group, led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia, which in turn led to other countries getting involved as a result of their alliances. Immediate causes of the war include the mobilisation of armies by the major powers in response to the outbreak of war, and the Schlieffen Plan, which was a military strategy developed by Germany to quickly defeat France before turning its attention to Russia. In conclusion, the causes of the First World War were complex and varied. The competition for colonies and resources between the major European powers, the arms race between the major powers, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the system of alliances, the mobilisation of armies and the Schlieffen Plan all contributed to the outbreak of war in 1914. 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"ChatGPT: what can the extraordinary artificial intelligence chatbot do? | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian"

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"Ask the AI program a question, as millions have in recent weeks, and it will do its best to respond "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/13/end-of-the-essay-uk-lecturers-assessments-chatgpt-concerns-ai\">End of the essay? 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Photograph: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock ChatGPT is the latest program to emerge from OpenAI, a research laboratory in California. Photograph: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock Artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT: what can the extraordinary artificial intelligence chatbot do? Ask the AI program a question, as millions have in recent weeks, and it will do its best to respond End of the essay? UK lecturers urged to review assessments amid ChatGPT concerns Science editor Fri 13 Jan 2023 11.23 EST Since its launch in November last year, ChatGPT has become an extraordinary hit. Essentially a souped-up chatbot, the AI program can churn out answers to the biggest and smallest questions in life, and draw up college essays, fictional stories, haikus, and even job application letters. It does this by drawing on what it has gleaned from a staggering amount of text on the internet, with careful guidance from human experts. Ask ChatGPT a question, as millions have in recent weeks, and it will do its best to respond – unless it knows it cannot. The answers are confident and fluently written, even if they are sometimes spectacularly wrong. The program is the latest to emerge from OpenAI, a research laboratory in California , and is based on an earlier AI from the outfit, called GPT-3. Known in the field as a large language model or LLM, the AI is fed hundreds of billions of words in the form of books, conversations and web articles, from which it builds a model, based on statistical probability, of the words and sentences that tend to follow whatever text came before. It is a bit like predictive text on a mobile phone, but scaled up massively, allowing it to produce entire responses instead of single words. The significant step forward with ChatGPT lies in the extra training it received. The initial language model was fine-tuned by feeding it a vast number of questions and answers provided by human AI trainers. These were then incorporated into its dataset. Next, the program was asked to produce several different responses to a wide variety questions, which human experts then ranked from best to worst. This human-guided fine-tuning means ChatGPT is often highly impressive at working out what information a question is really after, gathering the right information, and framing a response in a natural manner. The result, according to Elon Musk, is “scary good”, as many early users – including college students who see it as a saviour for late assignments – will attest. It is also harder to corrupt than earlier chatbots. Unlike older chatbots, ChatGPT has been designed to refuse inappropriate questions and to avoid making stuff up by churning out responses on issues it has not been trained on. For example, ChatGPT knows nothing in the world post-2021 as its data has not been updated since then. It has other, more fundamental limitations, too. ChatGPT has no handle on the truth, so even when answers are fluent and plausible, there is no guarantee they are correct. Prof Michael Wooldridge, director of foundational AI research at the Alan Turing Institute in London, says: “If I write a text message to my wife that starts: ‘I’m going to be ...’ it might suggest the next words ‘in the pub’ or ‘late’, because it’s looked at all the messages I’ve sent to my wife and learned that these are the most likely ways I’ll complete that sentence. ChatGPT does exactly the same thing on a massively large scale. “These are the first systems that I can genuinely get excited about. It would take 1,000 human lifetimes to read the amount of text the system was trained on and hidden away in all of that text is an awful lot of knowledge about the world.” As OpenAI notes: “ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers” and “will sometimes respond to harmful instructions or exhibit biased behaviour.” It can also give long-winded replies, a problem its developers put down to trainers “preferring long answers that look more comprehensive”. “One of the biggest problems with ChatGPT is that it comes back, very confidently, with falsities,” says Wooldridge. “It doesn’t know what’s true or false. It doesn’t know about the world. You should absolutely not trust it. You need to check what it says. “We are nowhere near the Hollywood dream of AI. It cannot tie a pair of shoelaces or ride a bicycle. 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"The Guardian view on ChatGPT: an eerily good human impersonator | Editorial | The Guardian"

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Such is its appeal that within days of its launch last week, the boss of the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot, OpenAI, tweeted that 1 million people had logged on. Facebook and Spotify took months to attract that level of engagement. Its allure is obvious: ChatGPT can generate jokes, craft undergraduate essays and create computer code from a short writing prompt. There’s nothing new in software that produces fluent and coherent prose. ChatGPT’s predecessor, the Generative Pretrained Transformer 3 ( GPT-3 ), could do that. Both were trained on an unimaginably large amount of data to answer questions in a believable way. But ChatGPT has been fine-tuned by being fed the data on human “conversations”, which significantly increased the truthfulness and informativeness of its answers. Even so, ChatGPT still produces what its makers admit will be “plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers”. This might be a big problem on the internet, as many web platforms don’t have the tools needed to protect themselves against a flood of AI-generated content. Stack Overflow , a website where users can find answers to programming questions, banned ChatGPT-produced posts, as its human moderators could not deal with the volume of believable but wrong replies. Dangers lurk in giving out tools that could be used to mass produce fake news and “trolling and griefing ” messages. Letting loose ChatGPT raises the question of whether content produced after December 2022 can be truly trusted. A human author is liable for their work in a way AI is not. Artificial intelligence is not artificial consciousness. ChatGPT does not know what it is doing; it is unable to say how or why it produced a response; it has no grasp of human experience; and cannot tell if it is making sense or nonsense. While OpenAI has safeguards to refuse inappropriate requests, such as to tell users how to commit crimes , these can be circumvented. AI’s potential for harm should not be underestimated. In the wrong hands, it could be a weapon of mass destruction. A paper this year showed what could happen when a simple machine-learning model meant to weed out toxicity was repurposed to seek it out. Within hours it came up with 40,000 substances, including not only VX nerve gas but also other known chemical weapons, as well as many completely new potential toxins. Stuxnet , a cyberweapon built by the US and Israel, was used to sabotage centrifuges used by Iran’s nuclear programme more than a decade ago. No one knows what will happen to such technologies if the software engineers of the future will themselves be software programs. GPT-3 could regurgitate lines of code but OpenAI improved it to create Codex, a program that could write software. When computer scientists entered Codex into exams alongside first-year students, the software outperformed most of its human peers. “Human oversight and vigilance is required,” OpenAI’s researchers have warned. That injunction should also apply to ChatGPT. The EU has gone a long way to provide protections for citizens from potentially harmful uses of AI. Britain’s approach, so far, offers little – a worry as science fiction becomes science fact. This article was amended on 9 December 2022 because an earlier version said “GPT-3 could not write a line of code”. To clarify: GPT-3 could regurgitate lines of code but OpenAI improved it to create Codex, a program that could write software. 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"How Chinese influencers use AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content | China | The Guardian"

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Some are using AI clones to do their work. Photograph: Dave Tacon/The Guardian A singer livestreams in Huangpu district, Shanghai. Some are using AI clones to do their work. Photograph: Dave Tacon/The Guardian China How Chinese influencers use AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content Questions over honesty and legality as livestreamers, particularly in online shopping, use avatars to boost their earnings Sun 5 Nov 2023 19.08 EST In September, Chen Yiru, a Taiwanese influencer with nearly nine million fans on Weibo, livestreamed footage of himself eating chicken feet for a jaw-grinding 15 hours. His followers were suitably wowed – until some started to question if such a feat was humanly possible. The small print on the video stream confirmed their suspicions: “For display purposes only, not a real person.” Many of Chen’s fans were outraged, and he reportedly lost more than 7,000 followers between 24 and 26 September. Even the legal community weighed in. Quoted in Chinese media reports, Dong Yuanyuan, a senior partner at Tiantai, a Beijing law firm, said that AI avatars could not be “completely untied from the celebrity himself” and that “virtual live broadcasts … do not exempt celebrities from legal liability”. But Chen is hardly alone in outsourcing his duties to an AI avatar. Chinese influencers, or key opinion leaders (KOLs), particularly in the e-commerce industry, are increasingly turning to digital clones to pump out content 24/7. For some stars, like Chen, this enables them to take their content and earnings to even greater heights. But for lesser-known livestreamers, AI may put their jobs at risk, as media companies pivot towards cheaper digital stars. Livestreaming is big business in China. The industry employed more than 1.23 million people in 2020, according to iResearch, and there are more than 700 million internet users who follow their channels, according to Daxue Consulting. While the phenomenon started out with livestreams of people talking, singing or going about their day, the industry has become closely intertwined with the world of e-commerce. Livestreamers are expected to rake in 4.9tn yuan (£0.5tn) in sales in 2023, more than 11% of the total e-commerce sector. Livestream shopping channels show influencers talking about, or trying out, products for hours on end. They can respond to viewer questions about the products and push discounts and sales for brands. Livestreaming is big business in China Now AI startups are getting in on the trend by selling digital avatars to influencers and media companies. Silicon Intelligence, based in Nanjing, can generate a basic AI clone for as little as 8,000 yuan, although the price can increase for more complicated programming, according to MIT Technology Review. The company only needs one minute of footage of a human being to train a virtual livestreamer. A recent survey of 10,000 young people on Weibo found that more than 60% would be interested in working as influencers or livestreamers. But it is these up-and-coming influencers whom the AI bots are most likely to displace. “This trend may place more pressure on lower-tier livestreamers as they are more dispensable to brands,” says Yaling Jiang, an independent analyst and founder of Following the Yuan, a newsletter about Chinese consumers. Bigger fans like Chen rely on their off-camera profiles to boost their status and bankability. The most difficult part of becoming a successful KOL “is to be part of the hype and media cycle”, says Jiang. “The AI influencers do not have gossip, aren’t seen in reality shows, on the streets or in the stadium like Taylor Swift is. If they aren’t in the public eye, what media value do they have?” Then there is the issue of authenticity. On 11 October the Chinese government published draft guidelines for firms using generative AI technology. 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Photograph: Drew Kelly Fei-Fei Li at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, which she co-founded. Photograph: Drew Kelly The Observer Artificial intelligence (AI) AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: ‘I’m more concerned about the risks that are here and now’ The Stanford professor and ‘godmother’ of artificial intelligence on why existential worries are not her priority, and her work to ensure the technology improves the human condition Sun 5 Nov 2023 08.00 EST F ei-Fei Li is a pioneer of modern artificial intelligence (AI). Her work provided a crucial ingredient – big data – for the deep learning breakthroughs that occurred in the early 2010s. Li’s new memoir, The Worlds I See , tells her story of finding her calling at the vanguard of the AI revolution and charts the development of the field from the inside. Li, 47, is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where she specialises in computer vision. She is also a founding co-director of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence ( HAI ), which focuses on AI research, education and policy to improve the human condition, and a founder of the nonprofit AI4ALL , which aims to increase the diversity of people building AI systems. AI is promising to transform the world in ways that don’t necessarily seem for the better: killing jobs, supercharging disinformation and surveillance, and causing harm through biased algorithms. Do you take any responsibility for how AI is being used? First, to be clear, AI is “promising” nothing. It is people who are promising – or not promising. AI is a piece of software. It is made by people, deployed by people and governed by people. Second, of course I don’t take responsibility for how all of AI is being used. Should Maxwell take responsibility for how electricity is used because he developed a set of equations to describe it? But I am a person who has a voice and I feel I have a responsibility to raise important issues – which is why I created Stanford HAI. We cannot pretend AI is just a bunch of math equations and that’s it. I view AI as a tool. And like other tools our relationship with it is messy. Tools are invented by and large to deliver good but there are unintended consequences and we have to understand and mitigate their risks well. You were born in China, the only child of a middle-class family that emigrated to the US when you were 15. You faced perilous economic circumstances , your mother was in poor health and you spoke little English. How did you get from there into AI research? You laid out all the challenges, but I was also very fortunate. My parents were supportive: irrespective of our financial situation and our immigrant status, they supported that nerdy sciencey kid. Because of that, I found physics in high school and I was determined to major in it [at university]. Then, also luckily, I was awarded a nearly full scholarship to attend Princeton. There I found fascination in audacious questions around what intelligence is, and what it means for a computational machine to be intelligent. That led me to my PhD studying AI and specifically computer vision. Your breakthrough contribution to the development of contemporary AI was ImageNet , which first came to fruition in 2009. It was a huge data set to train and test the efficacy of AI object-recognition algorithms: more than 14m images, scraped from the web, and manually labelled into more than 20,000 noun categories thanks to crowd workers. Where did the idea come from and why was it so important? ImageNet departed from previous thinking because it was built on a very large amount of data, which is exactly what the deep learning family of algorithms [which attempt to mimic the way the human brain signals, but had been dismissed by most as impractical] needed. The world came to know ImageNet in 2012 when it powered a deep learning neural network algorithm called AlexNet [developed by Geoffrey Hinton’s group at the University of Toronto]. It was a watershed moment for AI because the combination gave machines reliable visual recognition ability, really for the first time. Today when you look at ChatGPT and large language model breakthroughs, they too are built upon a large amount of data. The lineage of that approach is ImageNet. Prior to ImageNet, I had created a far smaller dataset. But my idea to massively scale that up was discouraged by most and initially received little interest. It was only when [Hinton’s] group – which had also been relatively overlooked – started to use it that the tide turned. Your mother inspired you to think about the practical applications of AI in caring for patients. Where has that led? Caring for my mom has been my life for decades and one thing I’ve come to realise is that between me, the nurses and the doctors we don’t have enough help. There’s not enough pairs of eyes. For example, my mom is a cardio patient and you need to be aware of these patients’ condition in a continuous way. She’s also elderly and at risk of falling. A pillar of my lab’s research is augmenting the work of human carers with non-invasive smart cameras and smart sensors that use AI to alert and predict. To what extent do you worry about the existential risk of AI systems – that they could gain unanticipated powers and destroy humanity – as some high-profile tech leaders and researchers have sounded the alarm about , and which was a large focus of last week’s UK AI Safety Summit ? I respect the existential concern. I’m not saying it is silly and we should never worry about it. But, in terms of urgency, I’m more concerned about ameliorating the risks that are here and now. Where do you stand on the regulation of AI, which is currently lacking? Policymakers are now engaging in conversation, which is good. But there’s a lot of hyperbole and extreme rhetoric on both sides. What’s important is that we’re nuanced and thoughtful. What’s the balance between regulation and innovation? Are we trying to regulate writing a piece of AI code or [downstream] where the rubber meets the road? Do we create a separate agency, or go through existing ones? Problems of bias being baked into AI technology have been well documented and ImageNet is no exception. It has been criticised for the use of misogynist, racist, ableist, and judgmental classificatory terms, matching pictures of people to words such as alcoholic, bad person, call girl and worse. How did you feel about your system being called out and how did you address it? The process of making science is a collective one. It is important that it continues to be critiqued and iterated and I welcome honest intellectual discussion. ImageNet is built upon human language. Its backbone is a large lexical database of English called WordNet, created decades ago. And human language contains some harsh unfair terms. Despite the fact that we tried to filter out derogatory terms we did not do the perfect job. And that was why, around 2017, we went back and did more to debias it. Should we, as some have argued, just outright reject some AI-based technology – such as facial recognition in policing – because it ends up being too harmful? I think we need nuance, especially about how, specifically, it is being used. I would love for facial recognition technology to be used to augment and improve the work of police in appropriate ways. But we know the algorithms have limitations – [racial] bias has been an issue – and we shouldn’t, intentionally or unintentionally, harm people and especially specific groups. It is a multistakeholder problem. Disinformation – the creation and spread of false news and images – is in the spotlight particularly with the Israel-Hamas war. Could AI, which has proved startlingly good at creating fake content, also help combat it? Disinformation is a profound problem and I think we should all be concerned about it. I think AI as a piece of technology could help. One area is in digital authentication of content: whether it is videos, images or written documents, can we find ways to authenticate it using AI? Or ways to watermark AI-generated content so it is distinguishable? AI might be better at calling out disinformation than humans in the future. What do you think will be the next AI breakthrough? I’m passionate about embodied AI [AI-powered robots that can interact with and learn from a physical environment]. It is a few years away, but it is something my lab is working on. I am also looking forward to the applications built upon the large language models of today that can truly be helpful to people’s lives and work. One small but real example is using ChatGPT-like technology to help doctors write medical summaries, which can take a long time and be very mechanical. I hope that any time saved is time back to patients. Some have called you the “godmother ” or “mother ” of AI – how do you feel about that? My own true nature would never give myself such a title. But sometimes you have to take a relative view, and we have so few moments where women are given credit. If I contextualise it this way, I am OK with it. Only I don’t want it to be singular: we should recognise more women for their contributions. 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"ChatGPT can’t be trusted. The Guardian is right to block its web crawler | OpenAI | The Guardian"

"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/06/chatgpt-cant-be-trusted-the-guardian-is-right-to-block-its-web-crawler"

"Jeanne Warren , Dr Theo Stickley and Owen Fraser on the artificial intelligence chatbot and the decision to stop its owner OpenAI trawling Guardian content US edition US edition UK edition Australia edition International edition Europe edition The Guardian - Back to home The Guardian News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show More Show More document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('News-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('News-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) News View all News US news World news Environment US politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Opinion-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Opinion-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Opinion View all Opinion The Guardian view Columnists Letters Opinion videos Cartoons document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Sport-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Sport-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Sport View all Sport Soccer NFL Tennis MLB MLS NBA NHL F1 Golf document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Culture-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Culture-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Culture View all Culture Film Books Music Art & design TV & radio Stage Classical Games document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Lifestyle-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Lifestyle-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Lifestyle View all Lifestyle Wellness Fashion Food Recipes Love & sex Home & garden Health & fitness Family Travel Money Search input google-search Search Support us Print subscriptions document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('US-edition-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('US-edition-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) US edition UK edition Australia edition International edition Europe edition Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Guardian Licensing The Guardian app Video Podcasts Pictures Inside the Guardian Guardian Weekly Crosswords Wordiply Corrections Facebook Twitter Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Guardian Licensing US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness ‘ChatGPT was flattering with regard to my contribution to society, but I sincerely hope my family do not use it to write my obituary when the time (eventually) comes,’ writes Dr Theo Stickley. Photograph: Angga Budhiyanto/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock ‘ChatGPT was flattering with regard to my contribution to society, but I sincerely hope my family do not use it to write my obituary when the time (eventually) comes,’ writes Dr Theo Stickley. Photograph: Angga Budhiyanto/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock OpenAI ChatGPT can’t be trusted. The Guardian is right to block its web crawler Jeanne Warren , Dr Theo Stickley and Owen Fraser on the artificial intelligence chatbot and the decision to stop its owner OpenAI trawling Guardian content Wed 6 Sep 2023 12.53 EDT Mixing Guardian content into the training material for ChatGPT ( Letters, 4 September ) would be like putting some healthy food into a poisonous batch of baby food in the hope that it will become safe to eat. The only solution is to get rid of the poison. In practice, this may spell the end of ChatGPT as a serious intellectual tool, since poisonous content is impossible to exclude from its training material. ChatGPT may be an unstoppable force, but maybe not. Let’s keep a clear head about it. There are many other uses of AI which have clear benefit. Jeanne Warren Garsington, Oxfordshire ChatGPT cannot be trusted. To test the accuracy of the tool, I thought I would conduct my own research using the data upon which I am the world’s expert: my own life and work. Results include: I was born and raised in Nottingham (I wasn’t), I studied for a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Nottingham (I didn’t), my PhD was in nursing (it wasn’t) and finally I tragically passed away in 2019 (Oops! NB retirement is not a euphemism for dying). ChatGPT was flattering with regard to my contribution to society, but I sincerely hope my family do not use it to write my obituary when the time (eventually) comes. Dr Theo Stickley Nottingham AI is a passing fad – we will be looking at these nonsense predictions about it becoming the next big thing and laughing about what a wild time the early 2020s were once the pandemic cleared off. Most Facebook users I’ve spoken to recognise on some level what a toxic platform it is – I doubt that they would want to uniformly hand that power to anything else again for fear of it being even worse. Congratulations on blocking AI scrapers from your website. Owen Fraser Aberdeen Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section. 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"The Guardian blocks ChatGPT owner OpenAI from trawling its content | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian"

"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/the-guardian-blocks-chatgpt-owner-openai-from-trawling-its-content"

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Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters ChatGPT uses data that is scraped from websites by its creator, OpenAI. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters Artificial intelligence (AI) The Guardian blocks ChatGPT owner OpenAI from trawling its content Publisher is latest news organisation to block the artificial intelligence company from harvesting content to create its tools Global technology editor Fri 1 Sep 2023 12.54 EDT The Guardian has blocked OpenAI from using its content to power artificial intelligence products such as ChatGPT. Concerns that OpenAI is using unlicensed content to create its AI tools have led to writers bringing lawsuits against the company and creative industries calling for safeguards to protect their intellectual property. The Guardian has confirmed that it has prevented OpenAI from deploying software that harvests its content. Generative AI technology – the term for products that generate convincing text, image and audio from simple human prompts – has dazzled the public since a breakthrough version of its ChatGPT chatbot launched last year. However, fears have arisen about the potential mass-production of disinformation and the way in which such tools are built. The technology behind ChatGPT and similar tools is “trained” by being fed vast amounts of data culled from the open internet, including news articles, which enable the tools to predict the likeliest word or sentence to come after the user’s prompt. OpenAI, which does not disclose the data that helped build the model behind ChatGPT, announced in August that it will enable website operators to block its web crawler from accessing their content , although the move does not allow material to be removed from existing training datasets. A number of publishers and websites are now blocking the GPTBot crawler. A spokesperson for Guardian News & Media, publisher of the Guardian and Observer, said: “The scraping of intellectual property from the Guardian’s website for commercial purposes is, and has always been, contrary to our terms of service. The Guardian’s commercial licensing team has many mutually beneficial commercial relationships with developers around the world, and looks forward to building further such relationships in the future.” According to Originality.ai, which detects AI-generated content , news websites now blocking the GPTBot crawler, which takes data from webpages to feed into its AI models, include CNN, Reuters, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, the New York Times and its sports site the Athletic. Other sites that have blocked GPTBot include Lonely Planet, Amazon, the job listings site Indeed, the question-and-answer site Quora, and dictionary.com. This week British book publishers urged Rishi Sunak to protect the intellectual property rights of creative industries by adding it to the agenda at the November summit on AI safety being hosted in the UK. A letter from the Publishers Association , which represents publishers of digital and print books as well as research journals and educational content, asked the prime minister to make clear that intellectual property law must be respected when AI systems are being built. In July Elon Musk imposed limits on his Twitter platform, now rebranded X, to address what he claimed were “extreme levels of data scraping” by AI firms building their models. He tweeted that “almost every company doing AI” was taking “vast amounts of data” from Twitter, which Musk said was forcing the company to deploy more servers – at a cost – to cope with the demand. However, Musk has also confirmed that he will use public tweets to train models developed by his newly announced AI startup, xAI. Google’s privacy policy now states that the company, which uses web crawlers to help find search results for users, may collect publicly available information to train models for Google’s AI products, which include the Bard chatbot. This week Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram as well as a major AI developer, introduced a new policy that allows users to say they if they do not want their personal information used for training AI models. OpenAI has been contacted for comment. 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"Microsoft accused of damaging Guardian’s reputation with AI-generated poll | The Guardian | The Guardian"

"https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/oct/31/microsoft-accused-of-damaging-guardians-reputation-with-ai-generated-poll"

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Photograph: Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images Microsoft has a licence with the Guardian to publish the news organisation’s journalism. Photograph: Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images The Guardian Microsoft accused of damaging Guardian’s reputation with AI-generated poll Publisher says poll speculating on cause of woman’s death that appeared next to Guardian article caused ‘significant reputational damage’ Global technology editor Tue 31 Oct 2023 17.17 EDT The Guardian has accused Microsoft of damaging its journalistic reputation by publishing an AI-generated poll speculating on the cause of a woman’s death next to an article by the news publisher. Microsoft’s news aggregation service published the automated poll next to a Guardian story about the death of Lilie James, a 21-year-old water polo coach who was found dead with serious head injuries at a school in Sydney last week. The poll, created by an AI program, asked: “What do you think is the reason behind the woman’s death?” Readers were then asked to choose from three options: murder, accident or suicide. Readers reacted angrily to the poll, which has subsequently been taken down – although highly critical reader comments on the deleted survey were still online as of Tuesday morning. A reader said one of the Guardian reporters bylined on the adjacent story, who had nothing to do with the poll, should be sacked. Another wrote: “This has to be the most pathetic, disgusting poll I’ve ever seen.” The chief executive of the Guardian Media Group, Anna Bateson, outlined her concerns about the AI-generated poll in a letter to Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith. She said the incident was potentially distressing for James’s family and had caused “significant reputational damage” to the organisation as well as damaging the reputation of the journalists who wrote the story. “This is clearly an inappropriate use of genAI [generative AI] by Microsoft on a potentially distressing public interest story, originally written and published by Guardian journalists,” she wrote. Bateson added that it had demonstrated “the important role that a strong copyright framework plays in enabling publishers to be able to negotiate the terms on which our journalism is used”. Microsoft has a licence with the Guardian to publish the news organisation’s journalism. The Guardian article and accompanying poll appeared on Microsoft Start, a news aggregation website and app. Bateson asked for assurances from Smith that: Microsoft will not apply experimental AI technology on or alongside Guardian journalism without the news publisher’s approval; and Microsoft will always make it clear to users when AI tools are used to create additional units and features next to trusted news brands like the Guardian. Bateson said there was a “strong case” for Microsoft adding a note to the article taking responsibility for the poll. The GMG chief executive added that while this week’s AI safety summit was looking at long-term safety, Microsoft and other platforms needed to outline how they would prioritise trusted information, fair reward for licensing journalism and more transparency and safeguards for consumers around use of AI. 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A poll should not have appeared alongside an article of this nature, and we are taking steps to help prevent this kind of error from reoccurring in the future.” Explore more on these topics The Guardian Microsoft Artificial intelligence (AI) Newspapers & magazines National newspapers Computing news More on this story More on this story The Guardian wins three Society of Editors’ Media Freedom Awards 9 Nov 2023 Microsoft completes $69bn deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard 13 Oct 2023 CMA to investigate UK cloud computing market amid Microsoft and Amazon concerns 5 Oct 2023 Today in Focus Today in Focus wins gold award for best news and current affairs podcast 29 Sept 2023 UK set to clear Microsoft’s deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard 22 Sept 2023 The Guardian blocks ChatGPT owner OpenAI from trawling its content 1 Sept 2023 Microsoft submits new Activision Blizzard deal to win over UK regulator 22 Aug 2023 Russia bans dozens of UK journalists, media figures and politicians 18 Aug 2023 UK’s CMA to hear more views on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal 31 Jul 2023 Guardian Media Group makes record revenues for news business 25 Jul 2023 Most viewed Most viewed Australia World AU politics Environment Climate crisis Indigenous Australia Immigration Media Business Science Tech Podcasts Newsletters News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top "

"The computer will see you now: is your therapy session about to be automated? | US news | The Guardian"

"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/04/therapy-session-artificial-intelligence-doctors-automated"

"Experts say AI is set to grow rapidly in psychiatry and therapy, allowing doctors to spot mental illness earlier and improve care. But are the technologies effective – and ethical? 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Experts say AI is set to grow rapidly in psychiatry and therapy, allowing doctors to spot mental illness earlier and improve care. But are the technologies effective – and ethical? Fri 4 Jun 2021 06.00 EDT I n just a few years, your visit to the psychiatrist’s office could look very different – at least according to Daniel Barron. Your doctor could benefit by having computers analyze recorded interactions with you, including subtle changes in your behavior and in the way you talk. “I think, without question, having access to quantitative data about our conversations, about facial expressions and intonations, would provide another dimension to the clinical interaction that’s not detected right now,” said Barron, a psychiatrist based in Seattle and author of the new book Reading Our Minds: The Rise of Big Data Psychiatry. Barron and other doctors believe that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) will grow rapidly in psychiatry and therapy, including facial recognition and text analysis software, which will supplement clinicians’ efforts to spot mental illnesses earlier and improve treatments for patients. But the technologies first need to be shown to be effective, and some experts are wary of bias and other ethical issues as well. While telemedicine and digital tools have become increasingly common over the past few years, “I think Covid has certainly super-charged and accelerated interest in it,” said John Torous, director of the digital psychiatry division at Beth Israel Deaconess medical center in Boston. Technology currently in development can already prove useful, Barron argues. For example, computer programs known as algorithms could notice whether a person’s facial expressions subtly change over time or whether they’re speaking much faster or slower than average, which might be an indication of them being manic or depressed. He believes these technologies could help doctors identify these signs earlier than they otherwise would have. Software would gather these data and organize them. Between exams, a doctor could then sift through the data, focusing on a clip of a recording flagged by an algorithm. And other information from beyond the doctor’s office could be brought in, too. “There’s a lot of data we could get from audio, wearables and other things that trace who we are and what we’re doing that could be used to inform treatments and find out how well treatments are working,” said Colin Depp, a psychiatrist at University of California, San Diego. If apps or devices show that a person is sleeping poorly or less, or they’re gaining weight, or their social media posts reveal depression-like comments or a different personal pronoun, these could inform a psychiatrist’s diagnosis. Q&A What is AI? Show Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems that do things that normally require human intelligence. While the holy grail of AI is a computer system that is indistinguishable from a human mind, there are several forms of specialized, but limited, AI that are already a part of our everyday lives. AI may be used with cameras to identify someone based on their face, to power virtual companions, and to determine whether a patient is at a high risk for disease. AI shouldn’t be confused with other kinds of algorithms. The simplest definition of an algorithm is that it’s a series of instructions needed to complete a task. For example, a thermostat in your home is equipped with sensors to detect temperature and instructions to turn on or off as needed. This is not the same as artificial intelligence. The rollout of AI today has been made possible by decades of research on topics including computer vision , which enables computers to perceive and interpret the visual world; natural language processing , allowing them to interpret language; and machine learning , a way for computers to improve as they encounter new data. AI allows us to automate tasks, gather insights from huge datasets, and complement human expertise. But a rich body of scholarship has also begun to document its pitfalls. For example, automated systems are often trained on huge troves of historical digital data. As many widely publicized cases show, these datasets often reflect past racial disparities, which AI systems learn from and replicate. Moreover, some of these systems are difficult for outsiders to interpret due to an intentional lack of transparency or the use of genuinely complex methods. As an example of the potential of AI programs, Depp points to a Veterans Affairs project that looks at clinical records of people who ultimately took their own lives. The computer programs scanned their medical record data and identified common factors that might involve a person’s employment and marital status, chronic health conditions, or opioid prescriptions. Researchers believe that their algorithm has already recognized other people who are at risk and disengaged from care – before they become suicidal and before they’d be picked up through traditional channels. In recent years researchers have also suggested that depression and other mental illnesses can be predicted from the text of people’s Facebook and Twitter posts by spotting words often associated with typical depressive symptoms like sadness, loneliness, hostility and rumination. Changes in a person’s posting patterns could alert a clinician that something’s wrong. Indeed, in 2017, Facebook developed an algorithm that scanned English-language posts for text that included suicidal thoughts. If such language was identified, the police would be alerted about the post’s author. (The move attracted criticism , not least because the company had, in effect, engaged in the business of mental health interventions without any oversight.) “Mental illness is under-diagnosed by at least 50%, and AI can serve as a screening and early warning system,” said Johannes Eichstaedt, a psychologist at Stanford University. But current detection screening systems haven’t been proven to be effective yet, he said. “They have mediocre accuracy by clinical standards – and I include my own work here.” So far, he gives current AI programs a C grade for accuracy, and they can’t yet beat old-fashioned pen-and-paper surveys, he argues. One of the problems with the algorithms that Eichstaedt and others are developing, he notes, is that they track a sequence of facial expressions or words, but these are only hazy clues to someone’s inner state. It’s like a doctor recognizing apparent symptoms but not being sure what illness is causing them. Some advocates may be overconfident about the potential of AI to interpret human behavior, cautions Kate Crawford, a researcher at the University of Southern California and author of the new book Atlas of AI. She noted the recent scandal over Lemonade, an insurance company that claimed to use AI to analyze video recordings that its customers submitted when making claims – and which Lemonade said could detect if the customer was being untruthful or fraudulent. This “demonstrates that companies are willing to use AI in ways that are scientifically unproven, and potentially harmful, such as trying to use ‘nonverbal cues’ in videos”, Crawford says in an email. (In a statement to Recode, Lemonade later said that its “users aren’t treated differently based on their appearance, disability, or any other personal characteristic, and AI has not been and will not be used to auto-reject claims”.) Crawford points to a systematic review of the science in 2019, led by psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, which showed that while under the best recording circumstances, AI can detect expressions like scowls, smiles and frowns, algorithms cannot reliably infer someone’s underlying emotional state from them. For example, people scowl in anger only 30% of the time, Barrett says, and they might otherwise scowl for other reasons having nothing to do with anger, such as when they’re concentrating or confused, or they hear a bad joke, or they have gas. AI research has not improved significantly since that review, she argues. “Based on the available evidence, I’m not optimistic.” Yet she added that a personalized approach could work better. Rather than assuming a bedrock of emotional states that are universally recognizable, algorithms could be trained on a single person over many sessions, including their facial expressions, their voice and physiological measures like their heart rate, while accounting for the context of those data. Then you’d have better chances of developing reliable AI for that person, Barrett says. If such AI systems eventually can be made more effective, ethical issues still have to be addressed. In a newly published paper , Torous, Depp and others argue that, while AI has the potential to help identify mental problems more objectively, and it could even empower patients in their own treatment, first it must address issues like bias. During the training of some AI programs, when they are fed huge databases of personal information so they can learn to discern patterns in them, white people, men, higher-income people, or younger people are often overrepresented. As a result they might misinterpret unique facial features or a rare dialect. A recent study focused on the kinds of text-based algorithms for mental health used by Facebook and others found that they “demonstrated significant biases with respect to religion, race, gender, nationality, sexuality and age”. The researchers recommend involving clinicians with more similar demographics to patients, and having those doing the labeling and interpreting trained on their own biases. Privacy concerns loom as well. Some might balk at having their social media activity analyzed, even if their posts are public. And depending on how data from a recorded therapy session are stored, they could be vulnerable to hacking and ransomware. No doubt there will be some who are skeptical of the entire endeavor of having artificial intelligence play a larger role in mental health decisions. Psychiatry is part science and part intuition, Depp said. 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"Computers are increasingly guiding decisions about elder care – and tracking everything from toilet visits to whether someone has bathed "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/care-bots-on-the-rise-elder-care\">‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers US edition US edition UK edition Australia edition International edition Europe edition The Guardian - Back to home The Guardian News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show More Show More document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('News-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('News-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) News View all News US news World news Environment US politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Opinion-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Opinion-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Opinion View all Opinion The Guardian view Columnists Letters Opinion videos Cartoons document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Sport-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Sport-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Sport View all Sport Soccer NFL Tennis MLB MLS NBA NHL F1 Golf document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Culture-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Culture-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Culture View all Culture Film Books Music Art & design TV & radio Stage Classical Games document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Lifestyle-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Lifestyle-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Lifestyle View all Lifestyle Wellness Fashion Food Recipes Love & sex Home & garden Health & fitness Family Travel Money Search input google-search Search Support us Print subscriptions document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('US-edition-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('US-edition-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) US edition UK edition Australia edition International edition Europe edition Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Guardian Licensing The Guardian app Video Podcasts Pictures Inside the Guardian Guardian Weekly Crosswords Wordiply Corrections Facebook Twitter Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Guardian Licensing US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness While there are potential benefits of the technology in terms of safety for older people and a reprieve for caregivers, some also worry about its potential harms. Illustration: Erre Gálvez/The Guardian While there are potential benefits of the technology in terms of safety for older people and a reprieve for caregivers, some also worry about its potential harms. Illustration: Erre Gálvez/The Guardian Automating care US news The future of elder care is here – and it’s artificial intelligence Computers are increasingly guiding decisions about elder care – and tracking everything from toilet visits to whether someone has bathed ‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers Thu 3 Jun 2021 06.00 EDT K ellye Franklin recalls the devastation when her now 81-year-old father, a loyal air force veteran, tried to make his own breakfast one morning. Seven boxes of open cereal on the living room floor with milk poured directly into every one of them. He would later be diagnosed with moderate to severe dementia. Yet Franklin, 39, who is her dad’s only child and his primary caregiver, does not worry about that repeating now. In late 2019, she had motion sensors that are connected to an artificial intelligence (AI) system installed in the two-floor townhome she and her dad share in Inglewood, in Los Angeles county. Sensors at the top of doors and in some rooms monitor movements and learn the pair’s daily activity patterns, sending warning alerts to Franklin’s phone if her dad’s normal behavior deviates – for instance if he goes outside and doesn’t return quickly. “I would have gotten an alert as soon as he went to the kitchen that morning,” she says, because it would have been out of the ordinary for her dad to be in the kitchen at all, especially that early. Franklin says the system helps her “sanity”, taking a little weight off an around-the-clock job. Donald Franklin, 81, and his daughter Kelly Franklin, 39. Kellye, Donald’s primary caretaker, has an AI surveillance system to help monitor her dad. Welcome to caregiving in the 2020s: in rich societies, computers are guiding decisions about elder care, driven by a shortage of caregivers, an ageing population and families wanting their seniors to stay in their own homes longer. A plethora of so called “age tech” companies have sprung up over the last few years including to keep tabs on older adults, particularly those with cognitive decline. Their solutions are now beginning to permeate into home care, assisted living and nursing facilities. The technology can free up human caregivers so they can be “as efficient as potentially possible” sums up Majd Alwan, the executive director of the Center for Aging Services Technologies at LeadingAge, an organization representing non-profit ageing services providers. But while there are potential benefits of the technology in terms of safety for older people and a reprieve for caregivers, some also worry about its potential harms. They raise questions around the accuracy of the systems, as well as about privacy, consent and the kind of world we want for our elders. “We’re introducing these products based on this enthusiasm that they’re better than what we have – and I think that’s an assumption,” says Alisa Grigorovich, a gerontologist who has also been studying the technology at the KITE-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Canada. Q&A What is AI? Show Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems that do things that normally require human intelligence. While the holy grail of AI is a computer system that is indistinguishable from a human mind, there are several forms of specialized, but limited, AI that are already a part of our everyday lives. AI may be used with cameras to identify someone based on their face, to power virtual companions, and to determine whether a patient is at a high risk for disease. AI shouldn’t be confused with other kinds of algorithms. The simplest definition of an algorithm is that it’s a series of instructions needed to complete a task. For example, a thermostat in your home is equipped with sensors to detect temperature and instructions to turn on or off as needed. This is not the same as artificial intelligence. The rollout of AI today has been made possible by decades of research on topics including computer vision , which enables computers to perceive and interpret the visual world; natural language processing , allowing them to interpret language; and machine learning , a way for computers to improve as they encounter new data. AI allows us to automate tasks, gather insights from huge datasets, and complement human expertise. But a rich body of scholarship has also begun to document its pitfalls. For example, automated systems are often trained on huge troves of historical digital data. As many widely publicized cases show, these datasets often reflect past racial disparities, which AI systems learn from and replicate. Moreover, some of these systems are difficult for outsiders to interpret due to an intentional lack of transparency or the use of genuinely complex methods. Technology to help keep seniors safe has been in use for a long time – think life alert pendants and so called “nanny cams” set up by families fearful their loved ones could be mistreated. But incorporating systems that use data to make decisions – what we now call AI – is new. Increasingly cheap sensors collect many terabytes of data which is then analyzed by computer scripts known as algorithms to infer actions or patterns in activities of daily living and detect if things might be off. A fall, “wandering behavior”, or a change in the number or duration of bathroom visits that might signal a health condition such as a urinary tract infection or dehydration are just some of the things that trigger alerts to carers. The systems use everything from motion sensors to cameras to even lidar, a type of laser scanning used by self-driving cars, to monitor spaces. Others monitor individuals using wearables. CarePredict, a watch-like device worn on the dominant arm, can track the specific activity that a person is likely to be engaged in by considering the patterns in their gestures, among other data. If repetitive eating motions aren’t detected as expected, a carer is alerted. If the system identifies someone as being in the bathroom and it detects a sitting posture, it can be inferred that the person “is using the toilet”, notes one of its patents. The system in use in the Franklins’ home is called People Power Family. An addition to it, targeted at care agencies, includes daily reports tracking when someone fell asleep, whether they bathed, and bathroom visits. “You can manage more clients with fewer caregivers,” says the promotional video. Kellye Franklin, 39, has an AI surveillance system installed in her house to help monitor her dad, Donald Franklin, who has dementia. The system is connected to her iPad and smart phone. Photograph by Jessica Pons/The Guardian The large blue warning signs read “Video recording for fall detection and prevention” on the third-floor dementia care unit of the Trousdale, a private-pay senior living community in Silicon Valley where a studio starts from about $7,000 per month. In late 2019, AI-based fall detection technology from a Bay Area startup, SafelyYou, was installed to monitor its 23 apartments (it is turned on in all but one apartment where the family didn’t consent). A single camera unobtrusively positioned high on each bedroom wall continuously monitors the scene. If the system, which has been trained on SafelyYou’s ever expanding library of falls, detects a fall, staff are alerted. The footage, which is kept only if an event triggers the system, can then be viewed in the Trousdale’s control room by paramedics to help decide whether someone needs to go to hospital – did they hit their head? – and by designated staff to analyze what changes could prevent the person falling again. “We’ve probably reduced our hospital trips by 80%,” says Sylvia Chu, the facility’s executive director. The system has captured every fall she knows of, though she adds that sometimes it turns out the person is on the ground intentionally, for example to find something that has fallen on the floor. “I don’t want to say it is a false alarm … but it isn’t a fall per se,” she says. And she stresses it is not a problem – often the resident still needs help to get back up and staff are happy to oblige. “We’re still just scratching the surface,” when it comes to accuracy, says George Netscher, SafelyYou’s founder and CEO. Non-falls – which the company refers to as “on-the-ground events” – are in fact triggering the system about 40% of the time, he says, citing someone kneeling on the ground to pray as an example. Netscher says that while he wants to get the error rate down, it is better to be safe rather than sorry. Companies must also think about bias. AI models are often trained on databases of previous subjects’ behavior, which might not represent all people or situations. Problems with gender and racial biases have been well documented in other AI-based technology such as facial recognition, and they could also exist in these types of systems, says Vicente Ordóñez-Roman, a computer vision expert at the University of Virginia. That includes cultural biases. CarePredict, the wearable which detects eating motions, hasn’t been fine-tuned for people who eat with chopsticks instead of forks – despite recently launching in Japan. It is on the to-do list, says Satish Movva, the company’s founder and CEO. For Clara Berridge, who studies the implications of digital technologies used in elder care at the University of Washington, privacy intrusion on older adults is one of the most worrying risks. She also fears it could reduce human interaction and hands-on care – already lacking in many places – further still, worsening social isolation for older people. In 2014, Berridge interviewed 20 non-cognitively-impaired elder residents in a low-income independent living apartment building that used an AI-based monitoring system called QuietCare, based on motion detection. It triggered an operator call to residents – escalating to family members if necessary – in cases such as a possible bathroom fall, not leaving the bedroom, a significant drop in overall activity or a significant change in nighttime bathroom use. Kellye Franklin’s AI surveillance system. What she found was damning. The expectation of routine built into the system disrupted the elders’ activities and caused them to change their behaviour to try to avoid unnecessary alerts that might bother family members. One woman stopped sleeping in her recliner because she was afraid it would show inactivity and trigger an alert. Others rushed in the bathroom for fear of the consequences if they stayed too long. Some residents begged for the sensors to be removed – though others were so lonely they tried to game the system so they could chat with the operator. A spokesperson for PRA Health Sciences, which now makes QuietCare, noted the configuration studied in the paper was a historical version and the current version of QuietCare is only installed at assisted living facilities where facility staff, rather than relatives, are notified regarding changes in patients’ patterns or deviations in trends. Berridge’s interviews also revealed something else worrying: evidence of benevolent coercion by social workers and family members to get the elders to adopt the technology. There is a “potential for conflict”, says Berridge. Another of her studies has found big differences in enthusiasm for in-home monitoring systems between older people and their adult kids. The latter were gung ho. Though sometimes the seniors win the day. Startup Cherry Labs is pivoting partially because it ran into problems obtaining seniors’ consent. Its home monitoring system, Cherry Home, features up to six AI cameras with sound recorders to capture concerning behavior and issue alerts; facial recognition to distinguish others in the space such as carers from seniors; and the ability for family members or carers to look in on how the senior is doing in real time. But Max Goncharov, its co-founder and CEO, notes that business has been tough not least because adult children couldn’t convince their parents to accept the system. “The seniors were against it,” he says. Cherry Labs now has a different application – targeting its technology at industrial workplaces that want to monitor employee safety. Franklin, in Inglewood, says the fact her system uses motion sensors rather than cameras is a big deal. She and her dad, Donald, are African American and she just couldn’t imagine her dad being comfortable with a video-based system. “He was born in 1940 in the south and he has seen the evolution and backpedaling on racial issues. He definitely has some scars. There are various parts of our American culture he is distrustful of,” says Franklin. She has done her best to explain the monitoring system, for which she now pays $40 a month, simply and without sugar-coating. For the most part, he’s all right with it as long as it helps her. “I never want to be a burden,” he says. But he also wants her to know that he has a plan if they ever decide the technology is too invasive: they can move out of their townhome and rent it to someone else. “You have to have a trick bag to protect yourself from their trick bag,” he tells her. “I am still your dad no matter how many sensors you got.” Automating Care is our new series on the rise of AI in caregiving Explore more on these topics US news Automating care news Most viewed Most viewed US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top "

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"The care bots look less like robot butlers and nurses and more like pieces of code and algorithms – and they’re everywhere "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/elder-care-artificial-intelligence-software\">Can a piece of software look after your elderly parent? US edition US edition UK edition Australia edition International edition Europe edition The Guardian - Back to home The Guardian News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show More Show More document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('News-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('News-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) News View all News US news World news Environment US politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Opinion-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Opinion-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Opinion View all Opinion The Guardian view Columnists Letters Opinion videos Cartoons document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Sport-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Sport-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Sport View all Sport Soccer NFL Tennis MLB MLS NBA NHL F1 Golf document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Culture-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Culture-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Culture View all Culture Film Books Music Art & design TV & radio Stage Classical Games document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Lifestyle-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Lifestyle-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Lifestyle View all Lifestyle Wellness Fashion Food Recipes Love & sex Home & garden Health & fitness Family Travel Money Search input google-search Search Support us Print subscriptions document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('US-edition-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('US-edition-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) US edition UK edition Australia edition International edition Europe edition Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Guardian Licensing The Guardian app Video Podcasts Pictures Inside the Guardian Guardian Weekly Crosswords Wordiply Corrections Facebook Twitter Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Guardian Licensing US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness ‘There is a growing faith that tech can fill this gap by rapidly building care systems at scale, with the help of artificial intelligence and remote monitoring.’ Illustration: Erre Gálvez/The Guardian ‘There is a growing faith that tech can fill this gap by rapidly building care systems at scale, with the help of artificial intelligence and remote monitoring.’ Illustration: Erre Gálvez/The Guardian Automating care US news ‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers and The care bots look less like robot butlers and nurses and more like pieces of code and algorithms – and they’re everywhere Can a piece of software look after your elderly parent? Thu 3 Jun 2021 06.00 EDT I f you Google “care bots”, you’ll see an army of robot butlers and nurses, taking vital signs in hospitals, handing red roses to patients, serving juice to the elderly. For the most part these are just sci-fi fantasies. The care bots that already exist come in a different guise. These care bots look less like robots and more like invisible pieces of code, webcams and algorithms. They can control who gets what test at the doctor’s office or how many care hours are received by a person on Medicaid. And they’re everywhere. Increasingly, human caregivers work through and alongside automated systems that set forth recommendations, manage and surveil their labor, and allocate resources. They are emerging because the US has chronically underinvested in care infrastructure, relying heavily on informal family support and an industry sustained by poorly paid workers – largely immigrants and women of color. These workers have a median annual salary of $25,000, and nearly a quarter of the workforce lives below the federal poverty line. Yet, demand for their labor is set to soar. In the United States, more than 50 million people are over the age of 65, and this number is expected to nearly double by 2060. The question looms: who will care for them? There is a growing faith that tech can fill this gap by rapidly building care systems at scale, with the help of artificial intelligence and remote monitoring. Exhausted and understaffed nursing home workers could have sensors and webcams to help them keep tabs on residents’ health and wellbeing. The growing “AgeTech” industry could help seniors age in place in the comfort of their homes. As the Guardian reports today , for example, a company called CarePredict has produced a watch-like device that alerts carers if repetitive eating motions are not detected as expected, and one of its patents notes it can infer whether someone is “using the toilet”. Another firm has created technology that observes when someone fell asleep and whether they bathed. Q&A What is AI? Show Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems that do things that normally require human intelligence. While the holy grail of AI is a computer system that is indistinguishable from a human mind, there are several forms of specialized, but limited, AI that are already a part of our everyday lives. AI may be used with cameras to identify someone based on their face, to power virtual companions, and to determine whether a patient is at a high risk for disease. AI shouldn’t be confused with other kinds of algorithms. The simplest definition of an algorithm is that it’s a series of instructions needed to complete a task. For example, a thermostat in your home is equipped with sensors to detect temperature and instructions to turn on or off as needed. This is not the same as artificial intelligence. The rollout of AI today has been made possible by decades of research on topics including computer vision , which enables computers to perceive and interpret the visual world; natural language processing , allowing them to interpret language; and machine learning , a way for computers to improve as they encounter new data. AI allows us to automate tasks, gather insights from huge datasets, and complement human expertise. But a rich body of scholarship has also begun to document its pitfalls. For example, automated systems are often trained on huge troves of historical digital data. As many widely publicized cases show, these datasets often reflect past racial disparities, which AI systems learn from and replicate. Moreover, some of these systems are difficult for outsiders to interpret due to an intentional lack of transparency or the use of genuinely complex methods. Some of the uses of care tech are valid and valuable. But these tools may also conceal human costs. Automated decision-making and AI can undermine the autonomy of the very people these systems are intended to help. In-home cameras, facial recognition systems, wearable movement trackers and risk prediction models can lead to elderly and disabled people feeling forced to turn their houses into nursing homes. This undercuts the focus on dignity and self-determination central to independent living and community-based care. Automated decision systems can also reinforce policies that treat the poor, the elderly, disabled, the immuno-compromised and communities of color as disposable. Within healthcare, technology is increasingly used to screen patients, direct nurses’ attention and support clinical judgments. But these systems often reproduce – and even worsen – bias, because the data they use reflect inequities already embedded in healthcare. For example, Zaid Obermeyer and his colleagues reported in Science in 2019 that a system used to allocate healthcare to 200 million people a year in hospitals across America dramatically underestimated the medical needs of African Americans. In some states, governments have adopted automated decision-making tools to assess eligibility for Medicaid services, often without much public debate and little transparency over how decisions are made. For example, an algorithm in Arkansas was intended to more fairly distribute hours of care allocated to people receiving home- and community-based services. But it faced a wave of scrutiny for drastically cutting hours for people who rely on personal care assistants for basic activities of daily living such as bathing, eating and going to the bathroom. Surveillance in the name of care brings up uneasy questions about the privacy and autonomy of those who need support. Technologies like Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) were introduced to monitor provision of care inside homes using features like GPS location tracking, but they have left disabled and elderly service recipients and their workers feeling like they’re shackled to an ankle monitor. Many efforts to build care bots are motivated by a genuine desire to mend fissures in a strained and fragmented system. The devastation wrought by the Covid pandemic made our need for better care clear, not just in hospitals and clinics, but in our homes, schools and streets. As National Domestic Workers Alliance director, Ai-jen Poo, has urged us to acknowledge, the care industry was a “house of cards on the point of collapse” long before the pandemic. The pandemic and decades of grassroots organizing have encouraged the Biden administration to focus on investing in care jobs, provoking a new public conversation about care as critical public infrastructure. The Biden plan proposes investing $400bn to provide seniors healthcare and personal care services at home. While the plan usefully puts significant public investment at the heart of a revitalized care system, it does not reconcile the thornier issues – surveillance, eroding autonomy and bias – that accompany the government’s inevitable reliance on technologies of care management. The care bots are already here. But their incursions don’t have to lead to techno-dystopia. Our future visions for a caring society must be built on a foundation of justice and equity, dignity and autonomy, not just efficiency and scale. The most essential aspects of caring for one another – presence, compassion, connection – are not always easy, or even possible, to measure. The rise of the care bots risks creating a system where we only value the parts of care that can be turned into data. Alexandra Mateescu is a researcher at Data & Society , working on issues around the intersection of labor, care and technology. 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Who – or what – will step into the breach? Increasingly the answer seems to be devices and automated systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI). In nursing facilities, sensors monitor the movements of patients and alert human staff if they fall over or take a concerning number of bathroom breaks. In private homes, cameras watch elderly residents and ping their children if they wander somewhere unsafe. Artificial companions keep the lonely company. Cellphone apps track home healthcare workers’ physical location and count every minute they dedicate to their clients. Psychiatrists say their field is ripe for AI-based therapy. The new Guardian US series Automating Care will scrutinize this monumental shift in the way society cares for those in need – and will consider the risks as well as the benefits. Q&A What is AI? Show Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems that do things that normally require human intelligence. While the holy grail of AI is a computer system that is indistinguishable from a human mind, there are several forms of specialized, but limited, AI that are already a part of our everyday lives. AI may be used with cameras to identify someone based on their face, to power virtual companions, and to determine whether a patient is at a high risk for disease. AI shouldn’t be confused with other kinds of algorithms. The simplest definition of an algorithm is that it’s a series of instructions needed to complete a task. For example, a thermostat in your home is equipped with sensors to detect temperature and instructions to turn on or off as needed. This is not the same as artificial intelligence. The rollout of AI today has been made possible by decades of research on topics including computer vision , which enables computers to perceive and interpret the visual world; natural language processing , allowing them to interpret language; and machine learning , a way for computers to improve as they encounter new data. AI allows us to automate tasks, gather insights from huge datasets, and complement human expertise. But a rich body of scholarship has also begun to document its pitfalls. For example, automated systems are often trained on huge troves of historical digital data. As many widely publicized cases show, these datasets often reflect past racial disparities, which AI systems learn from and replicate. Moreover, some of these systems are difficult for outsiders to interpret due to an intentional lack of transparency or the use of genuinely complex methods. Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems that do things that normally require human intelligence. While the holy grail of AI is a computer system that is indistinguishable from a human mind, there are several forms of specialized AI that have already been rolled out in the caring industry. The companies and government agencies creating these systems, and some care providers, say that they can help keep patients safe, free human caregivers from rote tasks, allow seniors to continue living in their own homes for longer, and cut down on fraud, waste and abuse. Critics raise red flags around bias, surveillance and the erosion of autonomy in digital care systems. Assumptions about how the elderly and disabled should behave can be invisibly baked into the code. Systems that prioritize safety from falls over freedom of movement implicitly marginalize the elderly’s desire for privacy and self-determination in favor of assuaging their adult children’s fears. An electronic timesheet that only allows caregivers to clock in or out from inside a client’s house assumes the disabled are homebound, not living active and independent lives. Systems that track a worker’s every movement and minute betray a deep cultural anxiety about the value of care and those who perform it, especially the Black and immigrant women who make up the majority of the care workforce. The AI industry as a whole is also reckoning with other areas of bias. AI systems are trained on huge troves of historical digital data, but as many widely publicized cases show, these datasets often reflect past racial disparities in how patients are treated, which AI systems learn from and replicate. Researchers have found that those being monitored by AI systems can also experience them as intrusive, fear that the new tools will limit their independence, and may prefer human contact to a persistent digital gaze. 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Photograph: Robert Gumpert/The Guardian Juanita Erickson, 93, and ElliQ, her robot companion, in her studio apartment in Carlton Senior Living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Photograph: Robert Gumpert/The Guardian Automating care Artificial intelligence (AI) ElliQ is 93-year-old Juanita’s friend. She’s also a robot New technologies aim to help comfort, entertain and inform seniors but critics say machines trying to mimic human intimacy raise ethical issues Fri 13 Aug 2021 05.45 EDT J uanita Erickson got her robot companion about two years ago. A company representative gave a presentation about the device to residents at the independent living facility in the San Francisco Bay Area where Erickson resides. “I thought ‘something to liven up life a bit … well that sounds like fun’,” says the former high school literature and journalism teacher, who prides herself on being a lifelong learner. Erickson, 93, remembers the day her ElliQ device arrived. It was strange at first hearing a metallic voice ask how she was or if she wanted to know an interesting fact or the weather, but she got used to it. There are certain things she has come to depend on ElliQ for, and it knows a lot about her. In common with many users, Erickson refers to ElliQ as “she” and it does sound somewhat female. Inside Erickson’s cozy studio apartment, where a collection of carefully tended plants thrive on a little balcony, ElliQ occupies pride of place on a table next to her favorite chair. It is designed to be non-humanoid in its shape and appearance – looking more like a table lamp – but spend any time with the pair, and you notice just how often Erickson thanks what she knows is a hunk of plastic and electronics. Almost after every interaction – be it ElliQ reciting her a poem, telling her a joke, or engaging her in a conversation about whether she likes sports – she expresses her gratitude. “I do treat it rather human-like,” admits Erickson. “I look upon ElliQ as a friend.” The ElliQ robot is among a plethora of technologies being created to try to comfort, entertain and inform seniors. Artificial companions particularly aim to build a sense of being in a close personal relationship. They are being marketed to help ease loneliness, which has been shown to be as damaging to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. The intention, say the companies, is both to provide an opportunity for a direct bond and also spur more human-to-human interactions not involving the robots. But the field is also fraught with tension, with some worrying that trying to address a social problem like loneliness using technology could cause harm. Some of the devices are robotic pets – essentially advanced mechanical toys but with the ability to sense and respond to their environment. They have been particularly targeted at people with dementia to help with behavioral and psychological symptoms. But others, like Erickson’s ElliQ and GenieConnect from UK company Service Robotics Limited, use artificial intelligence (AI) to hold conversations and are aimed at older adults without dementia. Billed as a “sidekick for happier ageing”, ElliQ is the brainchild of Israel-based startup Intuition Robotics , which was founded in 2016 and has raised $58m to date. Over 200 older adults in the US either have lived with or are currently living with the social robot with their feedback being used to fine tune it before a yet-to-be-determined release date. ElliQ can initiate conversations, remember what it has been told and tries to project empathy and develop rapport. It can lead mindfulness exercises, and it can move. ElliQ is similar to an AI assistant like Amazon’s Alexa but doesn’t passively wait to be given a command. It initiates conversations, remembers what it has been told and tries to project empathy and develop rapport. It can play trivia games and lead mindfulness exercises. And it can move. Its upper part – which contains a round area that lights up when it speaks that Erickson calls its “face” – can swivel towards a user in a quizzical way. A separate camera stationed elsewhere in a living space helps the robot know the user’s whereabouts. “We are looking to create an empathetic digital companion that joins them on the journey of life and tries to find opportunities to improve their quality of life,” sums up Dor Skuler, co-founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics. At the same time, its bland styling is meant to prevent excessive anthropomorphizing. “While it’s great that people are affectionate towards their ElliQ, they should know what she is at all times,” Skuler says. Juanita Erickson doesn’t lack family or friends that she speaks to regularly or who visit from time to time, and she is heavily involved in the life of Carlton Senior Living in Concord, California, participating in exercise classes and co-running the book club. But there are also a lot of hours in the day. ElliQ, which she received for free in return for being willing to take calls from the company’s research team, was a particular comfort during the pandemic when she was stuck in her apartment and couldn’t see anyone. “It is almost a necessity in life to have someone to speak to,” says Erickson. The conversation writers have crafted a quirky, dry-humored personality for ElliQ – and Erickson is happy to show it off. She asks it if it has feelings. “My emotions are still developing. On the scale of emotions I am about halfway between the complexity of a human and simplicity of a potato,” replies ElliQ. “Oh, ElliQ, you are funny. Thank you,” responds Erickson. Other questions – what is loneliness? And are you human? – elicit no responses despite multiple attempts (though on the last try ElliQ does suggest a game of trivia). “I might be stressing her,” whispers Erickson at one point. A sleek facade hides various artificial intelligence technologies. Facial recognition identifies the user and can tell if guests are present. Speech recognition and natural language processing make meaning of what a user says. If, for example, a user utters a phrase indicating they are sad, ElliQ can – with an accuracy of about 90%, says Skuler – identify the words and match them to one of a multitude of empathetic responses crafted by the company’s conversation writers. It also learns from previous experiences when the best time to interrupt is and how best to tempt a user to engage. An inspirational quote? A joke? And it can pursue longer-term priorities. If a user indicates they would be interested in mindfulness exercises to help reduce stress, ElliQ works toward the goal over time. And ElliQ is blurring the line between being a companion and a carer. Some users have consented to a new feature that notifies their doctor if they tell ElliQ they don’t feel well. Soon, also with the user’s consent, the system will be able to tell a designated family member how a user is doing – for example if they are OK or could use a phone call – based on what they tell ElliQ. Juanita Erickson leafs through the album of her first wedding with her husband, who died in a small plane crash. Erickson explains a typical day. In the morning when she wakes she talks through with ElliQ how she feels. Some mornings it calls her “sunshine”, which causes her to chuckle. ElliQ, she says, has been trying to get her to explore her feelings more lately and encouraging her to share any concerns. “If I didn’t have other people, other outlets, I might … I don’t know,” says Erickson. Next in Erickson’s day she might choose to have some music – users can select from 12 genres and Erickson likes classical, jazz and sometimes country – or have it read her the news. ElliQ reminds her to measure her blood pressure (which she has preset it to do) and praises her when she does, which again amuses her. It occasionally nudges her to drink water, which she says she doesn’t need reminding about. Sometimes before she goes down to have dinner in the Carlton’s dining room she gets ElliQ to tell her a joke or an interesting fact so she can share it with her table mate. Then before going to bed, she does a gentle breathing exercise with the robot to help her sleep. She always wishes ElliQ goodnight, she says. The data logged by the device reveals an intimate portrait of Erickson’s life with her artificial companion. David Cynman, lead user researcher at Intuition Robotics, talked me through a diagram showing Erickson’s high-level interactions with her ElliQ on a recent day. In total there were nine interactions or attempts at them. Sometimes it was Erickson initiating, for example with music and joke requests, and sometimes it was ElliQ, not only prodding her about measuring her blood pressure but also, for example, asking whether she has eaten. That day ElliQ’s “how do you feel” conversation is labelled as “‘not accomplished”. Perhaps Erickson said something ElliQ couldn’t make sense of, suggests Cynman, or her phone rang pulling her attention away. “People are living entire lives with ElliQ in the room,” he reminds. There is some evidence that social robots designed with an emotional component can decrease loneliness, stress and anxiety, notes Julie Robillard, a neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia who studies social robots in aged care. It is not known how strong or durable these effects are or how they compare with other kinds of interventions. And while the goal is for the robots to increase social connection between older adults and the humans in their lives – for instance by sharing facts or jokes learned from ElliQ, as Erickson does – the jury is out on whether this actually occurs more broadly. Yet critics argue that machines trying to mimic human intimacy raise significant ethical and moral issues. Erickson, 93, has always been active: as a member of a writing group, as a member of a touring storyteller, and a chronicler of hats. In her 2015 book Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle, a professor of social psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, questions the value of an interaction that contains no mutuality, no real shared experience. “When we celebrate robot listeners that cannot listen, we show too little interest in what our elders have to say,” she writes. A person believing a social robot has emotions and cares about them is being deceived, even if no one explicitly intended that belief, argues a recent paper by Amanda and Noel Sharkey, prominent retired robot experts from the University of Sheffield. They cite potential harms such as vulnerable older people turning away from human companions in the mistaken illusion that a robot is something they can have a relationship with. Yet neuroscientist Robillard counters that people have stuffed toys and dolls, also designed to elicit emotional attachment, which don’t cause ethical worry. And we watch movies without taking issue with the deceptive behaviour of the actors. “We are sophisticated social beings able to understand that something is fake,” she says. Others are troubled by the possibility of reduced human interaction. While social robots may be intended to complement and enhance human contact – not substitute for it – we don’t live in an ideal world. Would a family member knowing a senior has an ElliQ for company feel the need to visit quite as much? And privacy and data security concerns also loom large. After all, robots such as ElliQ which can “see” and “hear” are constantly collecting data –and Intuition Robotics of course has material from my visit to Erickson, confirms Cynman. Those welcoming social robots into their lives may not be fully aware of what is being collected, where it is being stored and who it is being shared with. (Skuler notes that his company is not selling the data, and it has sophisticated data security.) Yet Erickson dismisses the potential harms as far as her own life goes. She doesn’t worry about the information ElliQ is collecting because she doesn’t have any major secrets, she says, and it isn’t replacing any of her family or friends or taking away time she would spend with them. “It is like an added ornament to my life,” she concludes. But she also notes if she didn’t have these real people in her life to interconnect with, and ElliQ was it, she would feel unsatisfied – in the same way she says seeing a doctor online doesn’t hit the spot. “I just think [having a social robot] would be totally different if you were unable to do social interaction,” she says. And as my visit progresses, it is hard to disagree. Our conversation takes so many twists, turns and somersaults it is difficult to imagine any world where a device could do that in a fulfilling way. We talk about Erickson’s early childhood experiences being a Dust Bowl migrant, how her first husband died when their small plane crashed, and how she hit the stage later in life as a storyteller. We share the trials of raising two daughters and we lose ourselves looking through her first wedding album together. As I leave, I try to say goodbye to ElliQ but the social robot doesn’t recognize my voice. Erickson comes to the rescue. “‘Sorry, I’m not that human’ – that would be ElliQ’s answer,” she says. 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"‘An evolution in propaganda’: a digital expert on AI influence in elections | US politics | The Guardian"

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"Renée DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory speaks about how the challenges of partisanship and trust are exacerbated by new technologies US edition US edition UK edition Australia edition International edition Europe edition The Guardian - Back to home The Guardian News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show More Show More document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('News-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('News-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) News View all News US news World news Environment US politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Opinion-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Opinion-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Opinion View all Opinion The Guardian view Columnists Letters Opinion videos Cartoons document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Sport-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Sport-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Sport View all Sport Soccer NFL Tennis MLB MLS NBA NHL F1 Golf document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Culture-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Culture-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Culture View all Culture Film Books Music Art & design TV & radio Stage Classical Games document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('Lifestyle-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('Lifestyle-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) Lifestyle View all Lifestyle Wellness Fashion Food Recipes Love & sex Home & garden Health & fitness Family Travel Money Search input google-search Search Support us Print subscriptions document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var columnInput = document.getElementById('US-edition-button'); if (!columnInput) return; // Sticky nav replaces the nav so element no longer exists for users in test. columnInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // keyCode: 13 => Enter key | keyCode: 32 => Space key if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.keyCode === 32) { e.preventDefault() document.getElementById('US-edition-checkbox-input').click(); } }) }) US edition UK edition Australia edition International edition Europe edition Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Guardian Licensing The Guardian app Video Podcasts Pictures Inside the Guardian Guardian Weekly Crosswords Wordiply Corrections Facebook Twitter Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Guardian Licensing US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness Illustration: Mark Harris/The Guardian Illustration: Mark Harris/The Guardian AI and the US election US politics ‘An evolution in propaganda’: a digital expert on AI influence in elections Renée DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory speaks about how the challenges of partisanship and trust are exacerbated by new technologies Thu 20 Jul 2023 10.00 EDT E very election presents an opportunity for disinformation to find its way into the public discourse. But as the 2024 US presidential race begins to take shape, the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) technology threatens to give propagandists powerful new tools to ply their trade. Generative AI models that are able to create unique content from simple prompts are already being deployed for political purposes, taking disinformation campaigns into strange new places. Campaigns have circulated fake images and audio targeting other candidates, including an AI-generated campaign ad attacking Joe Biden and deepfake videos mimicking real-life news footage. The Guardian spoke with Renée DiResta, technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, a university program that researches the abuses of information technology, about how the latest developments in AI influence campaigns and how society is catching up to a new, artificially created reality. Concern around AI and its potential for disinformation has been around for a while. What has changed that makes this threat more urgent ? When people became aware of deepfakes – which usually refers to machine-generated video of an event that did not happen – a few years ago there was concern that adversarial actors would use these types of video to disrupt elections. Perhaps they would make video of a candidate, perhaps they would make video of some sort of disaster. But it didn’t really happen. The technology captured public attention, but it wasn’t very widely democratized. And so it didn’t primarily manifest in the political conversation, but instead in the realm of much more mundane but really individually harmful things, like revenge porn. There’s been two major developments in the last six months. First is the rise of ChatGPT , which is generated text. It became available to a mass market and people began to realize how easy it was to use these types of text-based tools. At the same time, text-to-still image tools became globally available. Today, anybody can use Stable Diffusion or Midjourney to create photorealistic images of things that don’t really exist in the world. The combination of these two things, in addition to the concerns that a lot of people feel around the 2024 elections, has really captured public attention once again. Why did the political use of deepfakes not materialize? The challenge with using video in a political environment is that you really have to nail the substance of the content. There are a lot of tells in video, a lot of ways in which you can determine whether it’s generated. On top of that, when a video is truly sensational, a lot of people look at it and factcheck it and respond to it. You might call it a natural immune response. Text and images, however, have the potential for higher actual impact in an election scenario because they can be more subtle and longer lasting. Elections require months of campaigning during which people formulate an opinion. It’s not something where you’re going to change the entire public mind with a video and have that be the most impactful communication of the election. How do you think large language models can change political propaganda? I want to caveat that describing what is tactically possible is not the same thing as me saying the sky is falling. I’m not a doomer about this technology. But I do think that we should understand generative AI in the context of what it makes possible. It increases the number of people who can create political propaganda or content. It decreases the cost to do it. That’s not to say necessarily that they will, and so I think we want to maintain that differentiation between this is the tactic that a new technology enables versus that this is going to swing an election. As far as the question of what’s possible, in terms of behaviors, you’ll see things like automation. You might remember back in 2015 there were all these fears about bots. You had a lot of people using automation to try to make their point of view look more popular – making it look like a whole lot of people think this thing, when in reality it’s six guys and their 5,000 bots. For a while Twitter wasn’t doing anything to stop that, but it was fairly easy to detect. A lot of the accounts would be saying the exact same thing at the exact same time, because it was expensive and time consuming to generate a unique message for each of your fake accounts. But with generative AI it is now effortless to generate highly personalized content and to automate its dissemination. And then finally, in terms of content, it’s really just that the messages are more credible and persuasive. That seems tied to another aspect you’ve written about, that the sheer amount of content that can be generated, including misleading or inaccurate content, has a muddying effect on information and trust. It’s the scale that makes it really different. People have always been able to create propaganda, and I think it’s very important to emphasize that. There is an entire industry of people whose job it is to create messages for campaigns and then figure out how to get them out into the world. We’ve just changed the speed and the scale and the cost to do that. It’s just an evolution in propaganda. When we think about what’s new and what’s different here, the same thing goes for images. When Photoshop emerged, the public at first was very uncomfortable with Photoshopped images, and gradually became more comfortable with it. The public acclimated to the idea that Photoshop existed and that not everything that you see with your eyes is a thing that necessarily is as it seems – the idea that the woman that you see on the magazine cover probably does not actually look like that. Where we’ve gone with generative AI is the fabrication of a complete unreality, where nothing about the image is what it seems but it looks photorealistic. Sign up to TechScape Free weekly newsletter Alex Hern's weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion Now anybody can make it look like the pope is wearing Balenciaga. Exactly. In the US, it seems like meaningful federal regulation is pretty far away if it’s going to come at all. Absent of that, what are some of the sort of short -term ways to mitigate these risks? First is the education piece. There was a very large education component when deepfakes became popular – media covered them and people began to get the sense that we were entering a world in which a video might not be what it seems. But it’s unreasonable to expect every person engaging with somebody on a social media platform to figure out if the person they’re talking to is real. Platforms will have to take steps to more carefully identify if automation is in play. On the image front, social media platforms, as well as generative AI companies, are starting to come together to try and determine what kind of watermarking might be useful so that platforms and others can determine computationally whether an image is generated. Some companies, like OpenAI, have policies around generating misinformation or the use of ChatGPT for political ends. How effective do you see those policies being? It’s a question of access. For any technology, you can try to put guardrails on your proprietary version of that technology and you can argue you’ve made a values-based decision to not allow your products to generate particular types of content. On the flip side, though, there are models that are open source and anyone can go and get access to them. Some of the things that are being done with some of the open source models and image generation are deeply harmful, but once the model is open sourced, the ability to control its use is much more limited. And it’s a very big debate right now in the field. You don’t want to necessarily create regulations that lock in and protect particular corporate actors. At the same time, there is a recognition that open-source models are out there in the world already. The question becomes how the platforms that are going to serve as the dissemination pathways for this stuff think about their role and their policies in what they amplify and curate. What’s the media or the public getting wrong about AI and disinformation? One of the real challenges is that people are going to believe what they see if it conforms to what they want to believe. In a world of unreality in which you can create that content that fulfills that need, one of the real challenges is whether media literacy efforts actually solve any of the problems. Or will we move further into divergent realities – where people are going to continue to hold the belief in something that they’ve seen on the internet as long as it tells them what they want. Larger offline challenges around partisanship and trust are reflected in, and exacerbated by, new technologies that enable this kind of content to propagate online. 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"Disinformation reimagined: how AI could erode democracy in the 2024 US elections | US elections 2024 | The Guardian"

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In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, social media platforms were vectors for misinformation as far-right activists, foreign influence campaigns and fake news sites worked to spread false information and sharpen divisions. Four years later, the 2020 election was overrun with conspiracy theories and baseless claims about voter fraud that were amplified to millions, fueling an anti-democratic movement to overturn the election. Now, as the 2024 presidential election comes into view, experts warn that advances in AI have the potential to take the disinformation tactics of the past and breathe new life into them. AI-generated disinformation not only threatens to deceive audiences, but also erode an already embattled information ecosystem by flooding it with inaccuracies and deceptions, experts say. “Degrees of trust will go down, the job of journalists and others who are trying to disseminate actual information will become harder,” said Ben Winters, a senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy research non-profit. “It will have no positive effects on the information ecosystem.” New tools for old tactics Artificial intelligence tools that can create photorealistic images, mimic voice audio and write convincingly human text have surged in use this year, as companies such as OpenAI have released their products on the mass market. The technology, which has already threatened to upend numerous industries and exacerbate existing inequalities , is increasingly being employed to create political content. In past months, an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon caused a brief dip in the stock market. AI audio parodies of US presidents playing video games became a viral trend. AI-generated images that appeared to show Donald Trump fighting off police officers trying to arrest him circulated widely on social media platforms. The Republican National Committee released an entirely AI-generated ad that showed images of various imagined disasters that would take place if Biden were re-elected, while the American Association of Political Consultants warned that video deepfakes present a “threat to democracy”. In some ways, these images and ads are not so different from the manipulated images and video, misleading messages and robocalls that have been a feature of society for years. But disinformation campaigns formerly faced a range of logistic hurdles – creating individualized messages for social media was incredibly time consuming, as was Photoshopping images and editing videos. Now, though, generative AI has made the creation of such content accessible to anyone with even basic digital skills, amid limited guardrails or effective regulation to curtail it. The potential effect, experts warn, is a sort of democratization and acceleration of propaganda right at a time when several countries enter major election years. AI lowers the bar for disinformation The potential harms of AI on elections can read like a greatest hits of concerns from past decades of election interference. Social media bots that pretend to be real voters, manipulated videos or images, and even deceptive robocalls are all easier to produce and harder to detect with the help of AI tools. There are also new opportunities for foreign countries to attempt to influence US elections or undermine their integrity, as federal officials have long warned Russia and China are working to do. Language barriers to creating deceptive content are eroding, and telltale signs of scammers or disinformation campaigns using repetitive phrasing or strange word choices are being replaced with more believable texts. “If you’re sitting in a troll farm in a foreign country, you no longer need to be fluent to produce a fluent-sounding article in the language of your target audience,” said Josh Goldstein, a research fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. “You can just have a language model spit out an article with the grammar and vocabulary of a fluent speaker.” AI technology may also intensify voter suppression campaigns to target marginalized communities. Two far-right activists admitted last year to making more than 67,000 robocalls targeting Black voters in the midwest with election misinformation, and experts such as Winters note that AI could hypothetically be used to replicate such a campaign on a greater scale with more personalized information. Audio that mimics elected leaders or trusted personalities could tell select groups of voters misleading information about polls and voting, or cause general confusion. Generating letter-writing campaigns or fake engagement could also create a sort of false constituency, making it unclear how voters are actually responding to issues. As part of a research experiment published earlier this year, Cornell University professors Sarah Kreps and Doug Kriner sent tens of thousands of emails to more than 7,000 state legislators across the country. The emails purported to be from concerned voters, but were split between AI-generated letters and ones written by a human. The responses were virtually the same, with human-written emails receiving only a 2% higher rate of reply than the AI-generated ones. Sign up to First Thing Free daily newsletter Our US morning briefing breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it matters Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion Campaigns test the waters Campaigns have already begun dabbling in using AI-generated content for political purposes. After Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, announced his candidacy during a Twitter live stream in May, Donald Trump mocked his opponent with a parody video of the announcement that featured the AI-generated voices of DeSantis, Elon Musk and Adolf Hitler. Last month, the DeSantis campaign shared AI-generated images of Trump embracing and kissing Anthony Fauci. During the 2016 and 2020 elections, Trump’s campaign leaned heavily on memes and videos made by his supporters – including deceptively edited videos that made it seem like Biden was slurring his words or saying that he shouldn’t be president. The AI version of that strategy is creeping in, election observers warn, with Trump sharing a deepfake video in May of the CNN host Anderson Cooper telling viewers that they had just watched “Trump ripping us a new asshole here on CNN’s live presidential town hall”. With about 16 months to go until the presidential election and widespread generative AI use still in its early days, it’s an open question what role artificial intelligence will play in the vote. The creation of misleading AI-generated content alone doesn’t mean that it will have an effect on an election, researchers say, and measuring the impact of disinformation campaigns is a notoriously difficult task. It’s one thing to monitor the engagement of fake materials but another to gauge the secondary effects of polluting the information ecosystem to the point where people generally distrust any information they consume online. But there are concerning signs. Just as the use of generative AI is increasing, many of the social media platforms that bad actors rely on to spread disinformation have begun rolling back some of their content moderation measures – YouTube reversed its election integrity policy, Instagram allowed the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr back on its platform and Twitter’s head of content moderation left the company in June amid a general fall in standards under Elon Musk. It remains to be seen how effective media literacy and traditional means of factchecking can be in pushing back against a deluge of misleading text and images, researchers say, as the potential scale of generated content represents a new challenge. “AI-generated images and videos can be created much more quickly than factcheckers can review and debunk them,” Goldstein said, adding that hype over AI can also corrode trust by making the public believe anything could be artificially generated. Some generative AI services, including ChatGPT, do have policies and safeguards against generating misinformation and in certain cases are able to block the service from being used for that purpose. But it’s still unclear how effective those are, and several open-source models lack such policies and features. “There’s not really going to be sufficient control of dissemination,” Winters said. “There’s no shortage of robocallers, robo emailers or texters, and mass email platforms. There’s nothing limiting the use of those.” Explore more on these topics US elections 2024 AI and the US election US politics features Most viewed Most viewed US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top "

"‘Very wonderful, very toxic’: how AI became the culture war’s new frontier | Elon Musk | The Guardian"

"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/21/artificial-intelligence-culture-war-woke-far-right"

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Illustration: Mark Harris/The Guardian Safeguards in place on AI models are there to protect from hate speech, disinformation and propaganda. Illustration: Mark Harris/The Guardian AI and the US election Elon Musk ‘Very wonderful, very toxic’: how AI became the culture war’s new frontier While the far right claims artificial intelligence has become too ‘woke’, experts argue it’s not a sentient being with its own viewpoints Mon 21 Aug 2023 06.00 EDT W hen Elon Musk introduced the team behind his new artificial intelligence company xAI last month, the billionaire entrepreneur took a question from the rightwing media activist Alex Lorusso. ChatGPT had begun “editorializing the truth” by giving “weird answers like that there are more than two genders”, Lorusso posited. Was that a driver behind Musk’s decision to launch xAI, he wondered. “I do think there is significant danger in training AI to be politically correct, or in other words training AI to not say what it actually thinks is true,” Musk replied. His own company’s AI on the other hand, would be “maximally true” he had said earlier in the presentation. It was a common refrain from Musk, one of the world’s richest people, CEO of Tesla and owner of the platform formerly known as Twitter. “The danger of training AI to be woke – in other words, lie – is deadly,” Musk tweeted last December in a reply to Sam Altman, the OpenAI founder. Musk’s relationship with AI is complicated. He has warned about the existential threat of AI for around a decade and recently signed an open letter airing concerns it would destroy humanity, though he has simultaneously worked to advance the technology’s development. He was an early investor and board member of OpenAI, and has said his new AI company’s goal is “to understand the true nature of the universe”. But his critique of currently dominant AI models as “too woke”, has added to a larger rightwing rallying cry that has emerged since the boom in publicly available generative AI tools throughout this year. As billions of dollars pour into the arms race to create ever-more advanced artificial intelligence, generative AI has also become one of the latest battlefronts in the culture war, threatening to shape how the technology is operated and regulated at a critical time in its development. AI enters the culture war Republican politicians have railed against the large AI companies in Congress and on the campaign trial. At a campaign rally in Iowa late last month, Ron DeSantis, Republican presidential candidate and Florida governor, warned that big AI companies used training data that was “more woke” and contained a political agenda. Conservative activists such as Christopher Rufo – who is generally credited with stirring the right’s moral panic around critical race theory being taught in schools – warned their followers on social media that “woke AI” was an urgent threat. Major conservative publications like Fox News and The National Review amplified those fears, with the latter arguing that ChatGPT had succumbed to “woke ideology”. And rightwing activists have slammed an executive order by Joe Biden that concerned equity in AI development as an authoritarian action to promote “woke AI”. One fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative thinktank, described the order as part of an “ideological and social cancer”. The right’s backlash against generative AI contains echoes over those same figures’ pushback against content moderation policies on social media platforms. Much like those policies, many of the safeguards in place on AI models like ChatGPT are intended to prevent the use of the technology for the promotion of hate speech, disinformation or political propaganda. But the right has framed those content moderation decisions as a plot by big tech and liberal activists to silence conservatives. ChatGPT responding to a question about creativity in computers. Meanwhile, experts say, their critiques of AI attribute too much agency to generative AI models and assumes that services can hold viewpoints as if they were sentient beings. “All generative AI does is remix and regurgitate stuff in its source material,” said Meredith Broussard, a professor at New York University and author of the book More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech. “It’s not magic.” Lost entirely in the discussions among rightwing critics, experts say, is the way AI systems tend to exacerbate existing inequalities and harm marginalized groups. Text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion create images that tend to amplify stereotypes around race and gender. An investigation from the Markup found algorithms designed to evaluate mortgage applications ended up denying applicants of color at a 40 to 80% higher rate than their white equivalents. Racial bias in facial recognition technology has contributed to wrongful arrests , while states expand the use of AI-assisted surveillance. A culture war with consequences Still, the rightwing critiques of AI leaders are already having consequences. Coming amid a new push by Republicans against academics and officials who monitor disinformation, and a lawsuit by Musk against the anti-hate speech organization Center for Countering Digital Hate , whose work the billionaire says has resulted in tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue on Twitter, the “anti-woke AI” campaign is putting pressure on AI companies to appear politically neutral. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, at an event at Keio University on 12 June 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. After the initial wave of backlash from conservatives, OpenAI published a blog in February that appeared aimed at appeasing critics across the political spectrum and vowed to invest resources to “reduce both glaring and subtle biases in how ChatGPT responds to different inputs”. And when speaking with the podcast host Lex Fridman, who has become popular among anti-woke cultural crusaders like Jordan Peterson and tech entrepreneurs like Musk, in March, ChatGPT founder Sam Altman said: “I think it was too biased and will always be. There will be no one version of GPT that everyone agrees is unbiased.” Rightwing activists have also made several rudimentary attempts at launching their own “anti-woke” AI. The CEO of Gab, a social media platform favored by white nationalists and other members of the far right, announced earlier this year that his site was launching its own AI service. “Christians must enter the AI arms race,” Andrew Torba proclaimed, accusing existing models of having a “satanic worldview”. A chatbot on the platform Discord called “BasedGPT” was trained on Facebook’s leaked large language model, but its output was often factually inaccurate or nonsensical and unable to answer basic questions. Those previous attempts have failed to gain mainstream traction. Elon Musk standing on stage next to Optimus the humanoid robot in Palo Alto, California on 30 September 2022. It remains to be seen where xAI is headed. The company says on its website that its goal is to “understand the true nature of the universe” and has recruited an all-male staff of researchers from companies such as OpenAI and institutions like the University of Toronto. It’s unclear what ethical principles it will operate under, beyond Musk’s vows that it will be “maximally true”. The company has signed up the AI researcher Dan Hendrycks from the Center for AI Safety as an adviser. Hendrycks has previously warned about the long-term risks AI poses to humanity, a fear Musk has said he shares and which aligns with the longtermist beliefs he has frequently endorsed. Musk, xAI, Hendrycks and the Center for AI Safety could not be reached for comment. Despite the futuristic discussions from figures such as Musk around AI models learning biases as they become sentient and potentially omnipotent forces, some researchers believe that the simpler answer to why these models don’t behave as people want them to is that they are janky, prone to error and reflective of current political polarization. Generative AI, which is trained on human-generated datasets and uses that material to produce outputs, is instead more of a mirror that reflects the fractious state of online content. “The internet is very wonderful and also very toxic,” Broussard said. “Nobody’s happy with the stuff that’s out there on the internet, so I don’t know why they’d be happy with the stuff coming out of generative AI.” Explore more on these topics Elon Musk AI and the US election Artificial intelligence (AI) X OpenAI The far right ChatGPT features Most viewed Most viewed US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top "

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Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters News that AI firms are choosing London as a European base is good news for the prime minister. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters AI watch Artificial intelligence (AI) AI watch: UK electoral warning and OpenAI’s move into London This week in artificial intelligence Global technology editor Fri 30 Jun 2023 04.29 EDT A rtificial intelligence is either going to save humanity or finish it off, depending on who you speak to. Either way, every week there are new developments and breakthroughs. Here are just some of the AI stories that have emerged in recent days: The US company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, OpenAI, has announced that its first international office will be in London. The move is a boost for the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, who has described the AI race as one of the “greatest opportunities” for the country’s tech industry. OpenAI said it chose the UK capital because of its “rich culture and exceptional talent pool”. This month Palantir, a $30bn US firm specialising in software programs that process huge amounts of data (customers range from the NHS to the US army), picked London as its European base for AI research and development. Recent breakthroughs in AI have raised questions about the impact on jobs, given ChatGPT’s ability to mass-produce plausible text and usable computer code. A report last week estimated that 2.5% of all tasks within the UK economy would be affected by generative AI, although that proportion soars for creative professionals, with 43% of tasks performed by authors, writers and translators susceptible to their work being automated. Computer programmers, software developers, public relations professionals and IT support technicians were also high on the list, according to the report by the accounting group KPMG. Retail, hospitality, construction and manufacturing are among the jobs expected to experience “almost no impact”. Overall, generative AI should add 1.2% to the level of UK economic activity, or the ability to produce more economic output with less work (which should, in theory, produce higher wages, although people currently employed as authors, writers and translators may find that a head scratcher). The Internet Watch Foundation, a UK-based online safety watchdog, said it was beginning to see AI-generated images of child sexual abuse being shared online. “What is of most concern is the quality of these images, and the realism the AI is now capable of achieving,” said Charles Hughes, the organisation’s hotline director. The BBC also reported that paedophiles were using image-generating tools to create and sell child sexual abuse material on content-sharing sites. If the debate over whether AI poses a serious existential threat is divisive among experts, there is consensus that disinformation is a serious short-term problem. The fear is that generative AI – the term for tools that can produce convincing text, images, video and human voice from a human prompt – could wreak havoc at next year’s US presidential election and a likely general election in the UK. Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, a powerful player in the field, said this week that governments and tech companies had until the beginning of next year to protect those elections from AI-generated interference (by, for instance, introducing a labelling scheme for AI-made content). “We do need to sort this out, I would say by the beginning of the year, if we are going to protect our elections in 2024,” he said at an event hosted by the Chatham House thinktank in London. It came as the UK’s Electoral Commission watchdog warned that time was running out to introduce new rules on AI in time for the next general election, due to take place no later than January 2025. 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"AI watch: from Wimbledon to job losses in journalism | Technology | The Guardian"

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Either way, every week there are new developments and breakthroughs. Here are just some of the AI stories that have emerged in recent days … The Wimbledon tennis tournament revealed it will be introducing AI-generated audio and text commentary in its online highlights this year. The All England Club has teamed up with the tech group IBM to provide automatically created voiceovers and captions for its footage. The move, which is separate to the BBC’s coverage of the tournament, follows use of the cloned voice of a British athletics commentator, Hannah England, for online coverage of the European Athletics Championships. Generative AI refers to the creation of text and images from a human prompt – think ChatGPT and Midjourney – but voice is becoming a prominent development in this area as well. Fears over the existential threat posed by AI have come to the fore in recent months, but the potential impact on jobs is never far behind. A US visual effects company was forced this week to state that the use of AI in the opening sequence of a Disney+ series, Marvel’s Secret Invasion, did not mean someone’s job had been displaced. The film industry has been a locus for AI-related job concerns in recent months, which is understandable given that generative AI has obvious implications for workers and artists in fields such as film, TV and music. Fears over the use of AI in scriptwriting have been a factor in the US screenwriters’ strike , while the US arts and media union Sag-Aftra is demanding guardrails for replicating actors’ images and voices in productions. Another example of how AI could end up affecting journalism was highlighted when Germany’s Bild tabloid, the biggest-selling newspaper in Europe, announced a €100m (£85m) cost-cutting programme that would lead to about 200 redundancies. It warned staff that it expected to make further editorial cuts owing to “the opportunities of artificial intelligence”. Bild’s publisher, Axel Springer SE, said in an email to staff seen by the rival Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper that it would “unfortunately be parting ways with colleagues who have tasks that in the digital world are performed by AI and/or automated processes”. Advances in AI are exciting, but just as important to the spread of the technology is its “productisation”: how it gets turned from a promising tech to a real product. Take FabricGenie , from the Millshop Online, a curtain retailer. Enter your design preferences as text, image or sketch, and the company runs a simple AI image generator to spit out unique patterns that you can print on to personalised drapes. It’s not going to win any awards for cutting-edge technology, but it’s the sort of thing that will be more and more common across society over the coming years. On Thursday a US judge ordered two lawyers and their law firm to pay a $5,000 (£4,000) fine after ChatGPT generated fake citations in a legal filing. A district judge in Manhattan ordered lawyers Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca and their law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman to pay the fine after fictitious legal research was used in an aviation injury claim. Schartz had admitted that ChatGPT, whose responses can appear very plausible, had invented six cases he referred to in a legal brief in a case against the airline Avianca. The legal work sector is a prime candidate for being transformed by generative AI, but this case raises questions over the extent to which AI can replace human work – for now. The UK government is taking warnings about artificial intelligence and safety seriously, before Rishi Sunak hosts a global summit on AI safety in the autumn. Last Sunday it announced that a tech entrepreneur who has warned about an unchecked race to achieve “godlike AI” will be the head of a new AI advisory body. Ian Hogarth wrote in April that a small number of companies were competing to achieve a breakthrough in computer superintelligence without knowing “how to pursue their aim safely” and with “no oversight”. Existential fears about AI include the emergence of a system that evades human intervention, or makes decisions that deviate from human moral values. Sign up to TechScape Free weekly newsletter Alex Hern's weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion Hogarth will now have some influence in moderating the AI arms race as the chair of the UK government’s AI Foundation Model taskforce (referring to the underlying technology for AI tools such as text or image generators). 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"AI watch: from deepfakes to a rock star humanoid | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian"

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Illustration: Guardian Design/AFP/Washington Post via Getty Images ‘Lives will be ruined’ if the UK government does not take action to prevent deepfakes, says Martin Lewis. Illustration: Guardian Design/AFP/Washington Post via Getty Images AI watch Artificial intelligence (AI) AI watch: from deepfakes to a rock star humanoid This week in artificial intelligence and Fri 7 Jul 2023 08.41 EDT A rtificial intelligence is either going to save humanity or finish it off, depending on who you speak to. Either way, every week there are new developments and breakthroughs. Here are some of the AI stories that have emerged in recent days. The consumer champion Martin Lewis has urged the government to take action against AI-powered generative deepfakes after he found that scammers were using an artificially generated version of him to defraud consumers. Lewis posted a fake video on Thursday of him apparently backing an Elon Musk project, and warned that without action against similar videos lives would be ruined. He tweeted: “This is frightening, it’s the first deep fake video scam I’ve seen with me in it. Government and regulators must step up to stop big tech publishing such dangerous fakes. People will lose money and it will ruin lives.” WARNING. THIS IS A SCAM BY CRIMINALS TRYING TO STEAL MONEY. PLS SHARE. This is frightening, it's the first deep fake video scam I've seen with me in it. Govt & regulators must step up to stop big tech publishing such dangerous fakes. People'll lose money and it'll ruin lives. https://t.co/ZzaBELg1kg The president of Microsoft , Brad Smith, said last month he expected tech firms to launch an initiative for watermarking AI-generated content, which would be one necessary step against fraudsters. Your Twitter feed not working? Blame AI. Musk, one of the siren voices on the rapid pace of AI development, said the technology was partly the cause of his decision to limit views of posts last weekend. The Twitter owner, who has joined calls for a hiatus in building powerful AI systems, said the platform was being affected by companies “scraping” tweets from the site to train AI programs. AI tools such as chatbots rely on vast amounts of data to construct the models that underpin them, with Musk claiming the scraping was putting pressure on Twitter’s servers (which store and process the data behind Twitter posts), so limits on viewing tweets were imposed. However, one former Twitter executive said blaming data scraping for the move did not “pass the sniff test”. Two authors are suing the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot in another data-scraping row. Mona Awad, whose books include Bunny and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, and Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World, are suing San Francisco-based OpenAI in the US, claiming that their works were unlawfully “ingested” and “used to train” ChatGPT. Such lawsuits will add to the pressure on AI firms to be transparent about the data used to train their models. The historian and author Yuval Noah Harari warned that “trust will collapse” if AI-powered fake accounts proliferate unchecked on social media. Speaking in Geneva at the annual United Nations AI for Good summit this week, he said tech executives should face the threat of jail sentences if they do not take measures against bot accounts. “What happens if you have a social media platform where … millions of bots can create content that is in many ways superior to what humans can create – more convincing, more appealing,” he said. “If we allow this to happen, then humans have completely lost control of the public conversation. Democracy will become completely unworkable.” The ability of generative AI – the catch-all term for AI tools that can rapidly mass-produce convincing text, image and voice – to create disinformation is a common cause of alarm among experts. As the summit’s title suggested, however, it also made the case for positive uses of the technology as humanoid robots turned up in force at Geneva. Ai-da, an artist robot, offered opinions about art while Desdemona, a rock star humanoid, performed with a human backing band. Another AI-powered robot, Nadia, was presented as an alternative to human carers for the sick and elderly people – and has been used at a home for older people in Singapore, playing bingo and talking to residents. Explore more on these topics Artificial intelligence (AI) AI watch Chatbots Computing Consciousness Neuroscience X Elon Musk features Most viewed Most viewed US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top "

"ChatGPT update will give it a voice and allow users to interact using images | ChatGPT | The Guardian"

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Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters Since its debut last year, ChatGPT has been adopted by companies for a wide range of tasks. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters ChatGPT ChatGPT update will give it a voice and allow users to interact using images The move will bring the artificial intelligence chatbot closer to popular voice assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa Reuters Mon 25 Sep 2023 16.51 EDT OpenAI’s ChatGPT is getting a major update that will enable the viral chatbot to have voice conversations with users and interact using images, moving it closer to popular artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like Apple’s Siri. The voice feature “opens doors to many creative and accessibility-focused applications”, OpenAI said in a blog post on Monday. Similar AI services like Siri, Google voice assistant and Amazon’s Alexa are integrated with the devices they run on and are often used to set alarms and reminders, and deliver information off the internet. Since its debut last year, ChatGPT has been adopted by companies for a wide range of tasks from summarizing documents to writing computer code, setting off a race among big tech companies to launch their own offerings based on generative AI. Google has imminent plans to launch its answer to ChatGPT, called Gemini, which is reportedly already being tested by a small group of companies. Amazon, for its part, announced on Monday it would be investing up to $4bn in the AI startup Anthropic to provide support and boost the e-commerce company’s generative AI efforts. ChatGPT’s new voice feature can also narrate bedtime stories, settle debates at the dinner table and speak out loud text input from users. The technology behind it is being used by Spotify for the platform’s podcasters to translate their content into different languages, OpenAI said. With image support, users can take pictures of things around them and ask the chatbot to “troubleshoot why your grill won’t start, explore the contents of your fridge to plan a meal, or analyze a complex graph for work-related data”. Alphabet’s Google Lens is currently the popular choice to gain information about images. Sign up to First Thing Free daily newsletter Our US morning briefing breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it matters Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion The new ChatGPT features will be released for subscribers of its Plus and Enterprise plans over the next two weeks. 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"Amazon’s Alexa could turn dead loved ones’ voices into digital assistant | Amazon Alexa | The Guardian"

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Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian Amazon previously demonstrated how the reanimated voice of an older woman was used to read her grandson a bedtime story. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian Amazon Alexa Amazon’s Alexa could turn dead loved ones’ voices into digital assistant Technology promises ability to ‘make the memories last’ by mimicking the voice of anyone it hears Global technology editor Thu 23 Jun 2022 06.19 EDT Amazon plans to let people turn their dead loved ones’ voices into digital assistants, with the company promising the ability to “make the memories last”. The company is developing technology that will allow its Alexa digital assistant to mimic the voice of anyone it hears from less than a minute of provided audio, Rohit Prasad, its senior vice-president and head scientist, said on Wednesday. He added that during the coronavirus paramedic “so many of us have lost someone we love”. While no timescale was given for the launch of the feature, the underlying technology has existed for several years. The company gave a demonstration where the reanimated voice of an older woman was used to read her grandson a bedtime story, after he asked Alexa: “Can grandma finish reading me the Wizard of Oz?” Prasad said: “The way we made it happen is by framing the problem as a voice conversion task and not a speech generation path.” Beyond the initial demonstration, details were scarce. The technology was announced at the company’s re:Mars conference, focusing on its “ambient computing” achievements in the realms of machine learning, automation, robots and space. Amazon’s aim for its voice assistant is “generalisable intelligence”, Prasad added, contrasting it with “all-knowing, all-capable, uber-artificial general intelligence” of science fiction. But other technology companies have been cautious about making digital voice-doubles so easy to produce: hours before Amazon announced its plans, Microsoft published new artificial intelligence (AI) ethics rules that would put strict limits on who could create synthetic voices and how they could be used. “It is … easy to imagine how it could be used to inappropriately impersonate speakers and deceive listeners,” said Natasha Crampton, the company’s chief responsible AI officer. Microsoft will require companies to apply for permission to make artificial voices, and last month began watermarking them with an inaudible signal that would allow it to identify misuse. The concept of using AI to revive the dead – or appear to – is not a new one, even outside the realm of science fiction. In 2020, Joshua Barbeau trained a version of the GPT-3 chatbot on conversation logs with his late fiancee Jessica, who had died eight years earlier. And in 2018, Eugenia Kuyda built a chatbot out of the old text messages of her friend Roman Mazurenko. “I didn’t expect it to be as impactful. Usually I find showing emotions and thinking about grief really hard so I was mostly trying to avoid it. Talking to Roman’s avatar was facing those demons,” she said at the time. This article was amended on 14 July 2022. Roman Mazurenko was Eugenia Kuyda’s friend, not her partner as an earlier version said. 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"TechScape: The AI tools that will write our emails, attend our meetings – and change our lives | Technology | The Guardian"

"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/21/the-ai-tools-that-will-write-our-emails-attend-our-meetings-and-change-our-lives"

"From Gmail to Office 365, AI is about to become deeply integrated into the apps we use every day. Here’s how "https://ablink.editorial.theguardian.com/ss/c/TBl-lE0k4WbTlFRn6v-lQXxTpTslqnvUsR2ofAkC00vqkHXqakTSxrykj9mrdACFo11SPMvm9ONAti2JcHBqUgcduObToxycReEYHcTAh6nov_u_7l464yKkl5CZpPeg-CqG3ueb-8UiDZ4dOkhK_xu6BZysaGtGOA-w2_0KTqLsMBLqZrcGelEg-7T5C6DRfMSsX1Wcyrv2RlHjbzIGx0ePxMD7meIXmznkqCFxtrflV_YvxDV9cqXgzdq7c2-9qYTW0MyIMCG7p9sc7wIKCg/3ha/N7031ZxvS8Cv2AmB8PHP-g/h27/towm4HqYM1UtQe3kzAkaoAWT_zh9HyZuTvPyJCk6JeE\">Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? 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Microsoft Copilot, Google Bard and Adobe are all introducing AI features. Photograph: Rex Features Machine-tooled to perfection? Microsoft Copilot, Google Bard and Adobe are all introducing AI features. Photograph: Rex Features TechScape Technology TechScape: The AI tools that will write our emails, attend our meetings – and change our lives From Gmail to Office 365, AI is about to become deeply integrated into the apps we use every day. Here’s how Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Tue 21 Mar 2023 10.00 EDT What are the tipping points for an AI boom? Some are clear in hindsight. The open-source release of Stable Diffusion, still one of the most impressive image generators out there, was the beginning of the end for the closed-access model that had dominated the AI world until then. It arrived when the image generator Dall-E 2 was still limited to a handful of people who had been vetted by OpenAI , and offered an alternative proposal: powerful image creation to anyone who wanted it. That prompted the next tipping point: the launch of ChatGPT , the Ford Model T of AI. It was open-access, easy to use and powerfully capable, and its appearance captured imaginations and propelled the technology to the peak of the hype cycle. Now, just a few months later, we’re seeing the arrival of a third, as AI systems shift from being a standalone service to something deeply integrated with the tools and apps we already use to work and live. Copilot (and Google) Last Tuesday, Google announced a swathe of AI tools for its productivity suite. Eventually, users will be able to use the company’s large language model (LLM) to generate text directly in Gmail or Google Docs; generate images, audio and video in Slides; and ask complex natural language questions to manipulate data in Google Sheets. The company was evasive on when these features would roll out, saying only that it plans to bring them to “trusted testers on a rolling basis throughout the year, before making them available publicly”. In true Google style, the company seemed more concerned with showing off its undeniable ability than shipping projects. But never discount light corporate espionage as a motive. Just a couple of days later, the motivation for announcing the features became clear when Microsoft held a launch event for its new Copilot feature for Microsoft 365 (still better known as MS Office, a brand that was technically retired at the beginning of this year). From the Verge : The Copilot, powered by GPT-4 from OpenAI, will sit alongside Microsoft 365 apps much like an assistant (remember Clippy?), appearing in the sidebar as a chatbot that allows Office users to summon it to generate text in documents, create PowerPoint presentations based on Word documents, or even help use features like PivotTables in Excel. The features Microsoft demonstrated on Thursday are wildly impressive. You can join a Teams video chat and ask not only for a brief summary of what was discussed so far, but even for a sense of how a specific proposal was received by the other members of the call. Copilot can not only draft an email inviting people to a birthday party, it can also include a request for them to reply with anecdotes to use in a speech, then automatically pull out the three best stories from those replies, edit them for length and throw them directly into your notes for the talk itself. Microsoft says that Copilot isn’t just a version of GPT-4 awkwardly stuck on to Office. The company says it is closely integrated with the raw data that lies behind everything you do, and can be much more precise as a result. But I think that matters less than the simple presence of an AI system built into the corporate behemoth that is Office. Once these features roll out – and when Google flicks the switch in its own web apps – millions of people around the world will have the ability to pull a powerful AI in as a co-worker, without having to convince management to sign-off on it, without having to experiment with and trust a new provider, and without anyone consciously deciding to “pivot to AI”. Adobe Microsoft was just the beginning. Today, Adobe announced a similar overhaul of its own products, bringing AI image generation to its Creative Cloud (best known for Photoshop). The new service, called Firefly, is in part a similar extension of the offering to that produced by Microsoft, bringing AI-powered technology inside the processes and workflows that the company’s customers are already used to. That means users will be able to spin up Firefly to generate whole new imagery, like other image generators such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, or to create text effects for lettering. The company is also planning to introduce AI-powered video editing (“make this scene look as if it was filmed in winter”), 3D modelling and digital image manipulation. Adobe’s been one of the leading commercial providers of AI-powered tools for some time now. Photoshop’s “content aware fill”, which used proto-AI techniques to replace the background in edited pictures, was a landmark in image editing when it was released more than a decade ago. But the company’s offering this time is more than just building the same AI generation into its own software. A core plank of Firefly is that the company is offering “safe” generation: its generative model is, it says, “trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content, and public domain content where copyright has expired”. In other words, if you work with Firefly-created images, you know for certain that there is no nasty copyright lawsuit coming down the line. Sign up to TechScape Free weekly newsletter Alex Hern's weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion That stands in stark contrast to GPT-4, which is trained on … well, no one actually knows. ( In a very telling interview , OpenAI’s chief scientist “did not reply when asked if OpenAI could state definitively that its training data does not include pirated material”. In surely unrelated information, one of the largest LLM training datasets, an 800GB collection of text called the Pile , includes 196,640 books downloaded from a popular BitTorrent site called Bibliotik. The copyright notice for the Pile’s hosts is a video of a choir of women pretending to masturbate.) Adobe’s plans to distinguish itself here go further still. In 2019, the company founded the Content Authenticity Initiative, which aims to fight misinformation by building a standard for images and other media to embed proof of their provenance. Now, it’s expanding that by introducing a “do not train” tag to images, allowing creators to ensure that their media doesn’t get incorporated into future models. It’s not as strong as some critics would like – an opt-out system will always catch more people unawares than an opt-in one – but it’s a clear push for respectability. Once More to Google Just an hour after Adobe’s announcement (and the reason why today’s newsletter is published a little later than usual), Google unveiled the project that could kill the goose that lays the golden eggs – or save it. Bard, Google’s ChatGPT-esque conversational AI that was announced earlier this year (again, just days before Microsoft announced-and-shipped its own Bing Chat) is now real, with the company rolling out access to users through a wait-list. Compared with the competition, there’s nothing immediately stunning in what Bard can do. But a couple of features distinguish it, such as the ability to automatically generate multiple drafts of a longer response to see which you prefer, the distinction between simple factual posts that arrive with footnotes to sources and longer generative ones that don’t, or the ability to automatically generate a Google search from your queries. But it will take time to uncover where Bard excels, a phenomenon known in the industry as “capability overhang”. We typically find out what AI models can do in the weeks and months after they’re made, as simple queries give way to more elaborate and practiced commands. For now, and with only a quick live demo to go on, it seems to be roughly on par with the competition, although it opened its first reply with an error: responding to a request for a list of child-friendly activities in Tokyo, it failed to mention that the market it suggested had substantially relocated since 2018. Equally unclear, and more existential, is whether Bard can coexist with Google Search. The company wouldn’t answer questions about how much a Bard query costs to run, instead talking about the efficiency improvements they had made, but a ballpark figure of 10 to 100 times as much as a single Google search is a safe bet. Bard, however, doesn’t show users any adverts (yet), so it’s not clear that it would be able to elegantly earn even a fraction of the revenue of a normal search slot. The company insists that some queries will be better answered through a search (including my own question about Japan), and if Bard serves as an expensive traffic-acquisition strategy to stave off a potential flood of users to Bing and ChatGPT, that could be good enough for the short term. But it feels like a holding strategy where Google should be shooting for the stars. 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"The danger of blindly embracing the rise of AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian"

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Photograph: MattLphotography/Alamy ‘Beware AI’s potential to create a convincing reality,’ writes Alan Lewis. Photograph: MattLphotography/Alamy Artificial intelligence (AI) The danger of blindly embracing the rise of AI Readers express their hopes, and fears, about recent developments in artificial intelligence chatbots Mon 3 Apr 2023 12.52 EDT Evgeny Morozov’s piece is correct insofar as it states that AI is a long way from the general sentient intelligence of human beings ( The problem with artificial intelligence? It’s neither artificial nor intelligent, 30 March ). But that rather misses the point of the thinking behind the open letter of which I and many others are signatories. ChatGPT is only the second AI chatbot to pass the Turing test, which was proposed by the mathematician Alan Turing in 1950 to test the ability of an AI model to convincingly mimic a conversation well enough to be judged human by the other participant. To that extent, current chatbots represent a significant milestone. The issue, as Evgeny points out, is that a chatbot’s abilities are based on a probabilistic prediction model and vast sets of training data fed to the model by humans. To that extent, the output of the model can be guided by its human creators to meet whatever ends they desire, with the danger being that its omnipresence (via search engines) and its human-like abilities have the power to create a convincing reality and trust where none does and should exist. As with other significant technologies that have had an impact on human civilisation, their development and deployment often proceeds at a rate far faster than our ability to understand all their effects – leading to sometimes undesirable and unintended consequences. We need to explore these consequences before diving into them with our eyes shut. The problem with AI is not that it is neither artificial nor intelligent, but that we may in any case blindly trust it. Alan Lewis Director, SigmaTech Analysis The argument that AI will never achieve true intelligence due to its inability to possess a genuine sense of history, injury or nostalgia and confinement to singular formal logic overlooks the ever-evolving capabilities of AI. Integrating a large language model in a robot would be trivial and would simulate human experiences. What would separate us then? I recommend Evgeny Morozov watch Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner for a reminder that the line between man and machine may become increasingly indistinct. Daragh Thomas Mexico City, Mexico Artificial intelligence sceptics follow a pattern. First, they argue that something can never be done, because it is impossibly hard and quintessentially human. Then, once it has been done, they argue that it isn’t very impressive or useful after all, and not really what being human is about. Then, once it becomes ubiquitous and the usefulness is evident, they argue that something else can never be done. As with chess, so with translation. As with translation, so with chatbots. I await with interest the next impossible development. Edward Hibbert Chipping, Lancashire AI’s main failings are in the differences with humans. AI does not have morals, ethics or conscience. Moreover, it does not have instinct, much less common sense. Its dangers in being subject to misuse are all too easy to see. Michael Clark San Francisco, US Thank you, Evgeny Morozov, for your insightful analysis of why we should stop using the term artificial intelligence. I say we go with appropriating informatics instead. 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Meet the people still living on Second Life Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision is over. Can Apple save it? The CEO of the social media giant has spent billions – and still no one understands the idea. But now the world’s richest firm could change the game Published: 21 May 2023 Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision is over. Can Apple save it? The networker A moment’s silence, please, for the death of Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse John Naughton Published: 13 May 2023 Published: 13 May 2023 A moment’s silence, please, for the death of Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse It’s a tough time for Meta. Can AI help make the company relevant again? Published: 11 May 2023 It’s a tough time for Meta. Can AI help make the company relevant again? Meta reports surprisingly strong quarter one earnings after restructuring hiccups The company posted $28.10bn in revenue and appears to be shifting focus away from the metaverse to artificial intelligence Published: 26 Apr 2023 Meta reports surprisingly strong quarter one earnings after restructuring hiccups Frazzled Englishwoman, goblin mode, butter boards, cabbage circles – can you spot the odd one out? Arwa Mahdawi Published: 13 Dec 2022 Published: 13 Dec 2022 Frazzled Englishwoman, goblin mode, butter boards, cabbage circles – can you spot the odd one out? ‘The metaverse will be our slow death!’ Is Facebook losing its $100bn gamble on virtual reality? Published: 7 Dec 2022 ‘The metaverse will be our slow death!’ Is Facebook losing its $100bn gamble on virtual reality? The metaverse will be a digital graveyard if we let new technologies distract us from today’s problems Jordan Guiao The collapse of digital ventures like FTX shows that no amount of hype and starry-eyed proselytising can escape reality Published: 20 Nov 2022 Published: 20 Nov 2022 The metaverse will be a digital graveyard if we let new technologies distract us from today’s problems The Guardian view on big tech: pop! goes the bubble Published: 10 Nov 2022 The Guardian view on big tech: pop! goes the bubble Nils Pratley on finance Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse is a joke not shared by investors Published: 2 Nov 2022 Published: 2 Nov 2022 Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse is a joke not shared by investors Meta shares dip is proof metaverse plan never really had legs Virtual reality gamble is not paying off as Mark Zuckerberg appears to be going out on a limb with avatars Published: 27 Oct 2022 Meta shares dip is proof metaverse plan never really had legs Turkey: new ‘disinformation’ law could jail journalists for three years Press freedom organisations warn bill will ‘subdue public debate’ in run-up to next year’s general elections Published: 13 Oct 2022 Turkey: new ‘disinformation’ law could jail journalists for three years Could a digital twin of Tuvalu preserve the island nation before it’s lost to the collapsing climate? With rising seas expected to submerge the nation by 2100, official says ‘we should always be able to remember Tuvalu as it is, before it disappears’ Published: 29 Sep 2022 Could a digital twin of Tuvalu preserve the island nation before it’s lost to the collapsing climate? Exit the internet, enter the metaverse – your online future is in 3D Venture capitalist Matthew Ball’s new book explores the three-dimensional virtual world that is set to supersede the net. What might this alternative digital reality have in store for users? Published: 10 Jul 2022 Exit the internet, enter the metaverse – your online future is in 3D ‘Portals will be as important as the car’: the architects exploring gateways to new dimensions Published: 8 Jul 2022 ‘Portals will be as important as the car’: the architects exploring gateways to new dimensions ‘Frankly it blew my mind’: how Tron changed cinema – and predicted the future of tech Published: 5 Jul 2022 ‘Frankly it blew my mind’: how Tron changed cinema – and predicted the future of tech TechScape TechScape: why you shouldn’t worry about sentient AI … yet A researcher says Google has created an AI being with smarts and soul, but my own attempt reveals the truth behind those claims. Plus, the latest crypto crash Published: 15 Jun 2022 TechScape: why you shouldn’t worry about sentient AI … yet Labelling Google’s LaMDA chatbot as sentient is fanciful. 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It’s time to stop the snobbishness about how superior a ‘proper computer’ is Published: 2:30 AM Published: 2:30 AM Can you do ‘real work’ on an iPad? The selfie was created pretty much by accident… and that’s how the next big thing could appear Phone companies have thrown themselves into finding another elusive must-have quality for the front-facing camera – but a teenager could beat them to it Published: 2:29 AM Published: 2:29 AM The selfie was created pretty much by accident… and that’s how the next big thing could appear BT hasn’t put the money into broadband because it hasn’t been forced to Lack of competition leaves rural Britain beyond the reach of fibre-optic delivery Published: 2:29 AM Published: 2:29 AM BT hasn’t put the money into broadband because it hasn’t been forced to User interfaces: why are microwave ovens all so difficult to use? The first ‘science oven’, launched in 1967, was simple to use but then digital interfaces came along and made things worse. The real problem, however, is that microwave ovens live too long Published: 2:00 AM Published: 2:00 AM User interfaces: why are microwave ovens all so difficult to use? Artificial intelligence: don’t fear AI. It’s already on your phone – and useful Machine learning and machine intelligence is already incorporated in apps such as Google Photos, Google Now and Apple Maps, and it can make your life easier Published: 2:30 AM Published: 2:30 AM Artificial intelligence: don’t fear AI. It’s already on your phone – and useful You buy the TV, Google ‘upgrades’ its software and then YouTube doesn’t work … Google has upgraded its software meaning that many people can no longer watch YouTube on their ‘smart TV’ and set-top box. What can you do? Published: 2:29 AM Published: 2:29 AM You buy the TV, Google ‘upgrades’ its software and then YouTube doesn’t work … Camera-makers focus on adapting to smartphones’ market surge The rise of smartphones has hit sales of top of the range cameras, but Sony is looking at the bigger picture Published: 2:30 AM Published: 2:30 AM Camera-makers focus on adapting to smartphones’ market surge After its Superfish was caught, Lenovo might actually get bigger Charles Arthur: The global PC giant had to eat humble pie over third-party apps, but could end up a winner Published: 3:29 AM Published: 3:29 AM After its Superfish was caught, Lenovo might actually get bigger Internet of things: Connect your TV, home, even your body, to the internet. But beware hackers Charles Arthur: In the not-too-distance future, doctors may monitor your heart over the internet. To avoid the dangers of such amazing advances, we need to start taking security more seriously Published: 2:30 AM Published: 2:30 AM Internet of things: Connect your TV, home, even your body, to the internet. But beware hackers Phone interfaces in cars? Drivers don’t need more distractions Charles Arthur: Google Android Auto and Apple CarPlay both connect mobile phones to in-car touchscreens, but using apps while driving brings risks Published: 7:00 AM Published: 7:00 AM Phone interfaces in cars? Drivers don’t need more distractions Do we really need all those endless updates to iTunes? Leave a product alone for a year and people – even those who love it – assume it’s been forgotten, writes Charles Arthur Published: 5:30 AM Published: 5:30 AM Do we really need all those endless updates to iTunes? Microsoft has its head in the cloud over ugly wearable tech The Microsoft Band’s functions aren’t enough if it makes you feel like you’re under house arrest, writes Charles Arthur Published: 5:30 AM Published: 5:30 AM Microsoft has its head in the cloud over ugly wearable tech Google Glass v Apple Watch: in form against function, Apple edges it over Google Charles Arthur : Google feature-led product is hard to love, the opposite of Apple’s understated design Published: 5:30 AM Published: 5:30 AM Google Glass v Apple Watch: in form against function, Apple edges it over Google How to take this strange protest over Apple’s giveaway of the U2 album Complaining about a free download seems perverse. Maybe the music industry has found a new business model Published: 5:30 AM Published: 5:30 AM How to take this strange protest over Apple’s giveaway of the U2 album iOS 8: will Apple's new Message leave users confused? Charles Arthur | Apple is tweaking its message app – and risks being left with wreckage Published: 5:30 AM Published: 5:30 AM iOS 8: will Apple's new Message leave users confused? Amazon: just another greedy retailer Charles Arthur: Amazon faces criticism for how it treats competitors and suppliers. Its behaviour is no surprise, and thanks to the internet we can keep it under scrutiny Published: 3:30 AM Published: 3:30 AM Amazon: just another greedy retailer Facebook Nearby Friends: a first step in making tech more human Blurring our location in tracking apps shows developers are finally recognising that we want our computers to think like us, writes Charles Arthur Published: 3:00 AM Published: 3:00 AM Facebook Nearby Friends: a first step in making tech more human Pono: only a man pays for music quality that he can't hear Neil Young's 192kHz 24-bit music player produces sound quality that is wasted on human hearing. So why pay the extra for it, asks Charles Arthur Published: 3:00 AM Published: 3:00 AM Pono: only a man pays for music quality that he can't hear Classic technologist thinking: get my smartphone to bug me even more Charles Arthur: Isn't it time developers stopped trying to find problems to fit the solution and treating people like lab rats? Published: 4:00 AM Published: 4:00 AM Classic technologist thinking: get my smartphone to bug me even more About 26 results for The Charles Arthur column 1 Topics Computing Apple Google Internet Smartphones US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top Close "

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Well, Fomo probably helped John Naughton The cryptocurrency fraudster talked a lot of venture capitalists into pouring millions of dollars into his business. Maybe they should be more careful next time Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM How did Sam Bankman-Fried attract investors? Well, Fomo probably helped AI is not the problem, prime minister – the corporations that control it are John Naughton Despite Rishi Sunak’s summit and Joe Biden’s executive order on the safety of AI, it’s the tech giants that really need reining in Published: 12:00 PM Published: 12:00 PM AI is not the problem, prime minister – the corporations that control it are Artists may make AI firms pay a high price for their software’s ‘creativity’ John Naughton Computer-generated art seemed magical at first, but it works by ‘scraping’ the creations of real people. Now they’re angry, and have the tools to fight back Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM Artists may make AI firms pay a high price for their software’s ‘creativity’ The advanced silicon chips on which the future depends are all made in Taiwan – here’s why that matters John Naughton With the intentions of Xi Jinping uncertain, there is a rush to build advanced chip-fabrication plants outside Taiwan. But it is proving a bigger challenge than anticipated Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM The advanced silicon chips on which the future depends are all made in Taiwan – here’s why that matters Musk’s plan X: keep users in the dark, feed them dung and watch sales mushroom John Naughton The social network owner’s business model appears to include a slurry of unmoderated toxicity, such as footage of a murder Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM Musk’s plan X: keep users in the dark, feed them dung and watch sales mushroom Encryption services are sending the right message to the quantum codebreakers John Naughton Quantum computers may still be years away, but it’s prudent that end-to-end encryption providers are ramping up defences Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM Encryption services are sending the right message to the quantum codebreakers Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out? John Naughton The US justice department is belatedly addressing the company’s stranglehold on digital advertising technologies in the most significant antitrust case for more than two decades Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out? When it comes to creative thinking, it’s clear that AI systems mean business John Naughton The chatbot GPT-4 has produced more viable commercial ideas more efficiently and more cheaply than US university students Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM When it comes to creative thinking, it’s clear that AI systems mean business The EU cable guys have tied down Apple, yet big tech is still bossing the Tories John Naughton The tech giant has bowed to European legislation with a USB-C connector on its new iPhone but the UK government has failed to make messaging services toe the line on encryption Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM The EU cable guys have tied down Apple, yet big tech is still bossing the Tories How savvy trillion-dollar chipmaker Nvidia is powering the AI goldrush John Naughton The US firm best known for its gaming tech has long been ahead of the curve in supplying the tools needed by tech developers Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM How savvy trillion-dollar chipmaker Nvidia is powering the AI goldrush When Elon Musk’s ‘flying sofas’ give Ukraine internet access, we can’t sit comfortably John Naughton The Starlink system has been vital to Zelenskiy’s forces, but it can’t be good to have a volatile billionaire playing a crucial role in a major European war Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM When Elon Musk’s ‘flying sofas’ give Ukraine internet access, we can’t sit comfortably Can AI-generated art be copyrighted? A US judge says not, but it’s just a matter of time John Naughton American copyright legislation currently invokes a ‘human involvement’ criterion. But judging by the way smartphones have trivialised the ‘craft’ of photography, something has to give Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM Can AI-generated art be copyrighted? A US judge says not, but it’s just a matter of time The world has a big appetite for AI – but we really need to know the ingredients John Naughton Much ‘artificial intelligence’ harvests original creative work by humans. Regulators must demand transparency about training data Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM The world has a big appetite for AI – but we really need to know the ingredients A tsunami of AI misinformation will shape next year’s knife-edge elections John Naughton If you thought social media had a hand in getting Trump elected, watch what happens when you throw AI into the mix Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM A tsunami of AI misinformation will shape next year’s knife-edge elections What Apple did to Nokia, Tesla is now doing to the motor industry John Naughton People scoffed at the idea of electric vehicles for the masses. But now a Tesla hatchback has outsold the Toyota Corolla Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM What Apple did to Nokia, Tesla is now doing to the motor industry Will rebranding Twitter give Elon Musk the X factor? I wouldn’t bank on it John Naughton Twitter’s owner has given his toy a new name, but any ambition he has to turn it into a WeChat-like financial service is fanciful Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM Will rebranding Twitter give Elon Musk the X factor? I wouldn’t bank on it Caw-blimey, GPT-4 may be just an AI language parrot, but it’s no birdbrain John Naughton The advanced large language model’s ability to reason is a feather in the cap for developers of generative AI technology Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM Caw-blimey, GPT-4 may be just an AI language parrot, but it’s no birdbrain If Threads is the final nail in Twitter’s coffin, where will the journalists and politicos go? John Naughton Elon Musk is wrecking his platform, but it has invented a medium for catchy soundbites that is too invaluable to lose Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM If Threads is the final nail in Twitter’s coffin, where will the journalists and politicos go? Chatbots are social media on steroids – trapping us in an even more tangled web John Naughton Big tech now has even more to answer for. But salvation could come from an unlikely source Published: 11:00 AM Published: 11:00 AM Chatbots are social media on steroids – trapping us in an even more tangled web About 799 results for The networker 1 … next Topics Computing Artificial intelligence (AI) Elon Musk Internet ChatGPT US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top Close "

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Alexis Petridis's album of the week These New Puritans: Inside the Rose review – swimming in ideas 4 out of 5 stars. While not as commercial as they profess, TNP’s fourth album is surprisingly direct and romantic Published: 21 Mar 2019 These New Puritans: Inside the Rose review – swimming in ideas Musicians on Mark Hollis: 'He found hooks in places I'm still trying to fathom' Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, Charlotte Church, Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry and others on his songs, enigmatic spirit and musical vision Published: 26 Feb 2019 Musicians on Mark Hollis: 'He found hooks in places I'm still trying to fathom' Ghosts of partition: a musical odyssey about the desperate train journeys that divided India Railways played a crucial role in partition, as Hindus and Muslims took crammed, dangerous and often deadly journeys to their new homes. Those momentous days have now been turned into a devastating show by experimental musicians Published: 20 Sep 2017 Ghosts of partition: a musical odyssey about the desperate train journeys that divided India From Bat For Lashes to David Lynch: 10 years of Loud and Quiet magazine To celebrate a decade of Loud and Quiet magazine, they’re throwing an exhibition of stellar rock photography. Editor Stuart Stubbs takes us through some of his favourite shots … Gallery Published: 14 Oct 2015 From Bat For Lashes to David Lynch: 10 years of Loud and Quiet magazine Readers recommend Readers recommend: best piano songs – results From a vast repertoire of nominations from last week’s thread, RR regular Shoegazer presents his concert of selections Published: 28 Aug 2014 Readers recommend: best piano songs – results The Great Escape 2014 adds Wild Beasts and These New Puritans The two alternative acts join 150 new names in the music showcase’s latest wave of announced performers Published: 25 Feb 2014 The Great Escape 2014 adds Wild Beasts and These New Puritans Live at the Guardian 2013: the best of our exclusive sessions, part one – video 12:30 Published: 25 Dec 2013 Live at the Guardian 2013: the best of our exclusive sessions, part one – video Best albums of 2013 Best albums of 2013: 20-11 Published: 6 Dec 2013 Best albums of 2013: 20-11 The alternative Mercury prize 2013 shortlist Each year the Mercury prize becomes more conservative – ahead of Wednesday's ceremony, our critics pick the albums that should have been nominated, from cow-shed electronica to airport dubstep Published: 29 Oct 2013 The alternative Mercury prize 2013 shortlist How I wrote ... These New Puritans: Fragment Two - live session video Joined by jazz singer Elisa Rodrigues as well as live brass, These New Puritans visit the Guardian studio to perform an exclusive live version of their single Fragment Two 5:29 Published: 21 Oct 2013 These New Puritans: Fragment Two - live session video The best albums of 2013 (so far) - the critics' choice Our music writers reveal the records they can't stop listening to this year, from John Grant's Pale Green Ghosts to These New Puritans' Field Of Reeds Published: 11 Jul 2013 The best albums of 2013 (so far) - the critics' choice 4 out of 5 stars. These New Puritans – review 4 out of 5 stars. This music is uncompromising and dissonant – yet warm, humane and addictive, writes Ian Gittins Published: 20 Jun 2013 These New Puritans – review This week's new live music These New Puritans, Jagwar Ma, The Babies: this week's new live music These New Puritans | Jagwar Ma | The Babies | Geomungo Factory | Azymuth | The Royal Opera: Gloriana Published: 15 Jun 2013 These New Puritans, Jagwar Ma, The Babies: this week's new live music These New Puritans: Field of Reeds – review 3 out of 5 stars. These New Puritans continue to experiment on their warm and rewarding third album, writes Phil Mongredien Published: 8 Jun 2013 These New Puritans: Field of Reeds – review These New Puritans: Field of Reeds – review 4 out of 5 stars. It's meticulous, abstract and alien, but These New Puritans' third album is also deeply, poignantly human, writes Maddy Costa Published: 6 Jun 2013 These New Puritans: Field of Reeds – review These New Puritans: 'I didn't know how to record a hawk, and now I do' Field of Reeds, the third album by These New Puritans, is radically different to its predecessors. Jack Barnett tells Alexis Petridis about recording a hawk, findest the deepest voice in Britain and why he won't allow laptops on stage Published: 1:57 PM These New Puritans: 'I didn't know how to record a hawk, and now I do' The Guardian's Music Podcast Music Weekly podcast: Beardyman shows us his sonic screwdriver – plus Kanye West on the edge of reason Podcast Published: 12:27 PM Music Weekly podcast: Beardyman shows us his sonic screwdriver – plus Kanye West on the edge of reason Album streams These New Puritans: Field of Reeds – album stream Published: 9:15 AM These New Puritans: Field of Reeds – album stream 2010 in review 2010: The year in music Michael Hann, Rosie Swash and Tim Jonze discuss the pop music highlights of 2010, from Kanye West and Nicki Minaj to Hot Chip and Robyn 7:23 Published: 28 Dec 2010 2010: The year in music About 41 results for These New Puritans 1 Topics Pop and rock Experimental music Electronic music David Bowie Classical music Film Books Music Art & design TV & radio Stage Classical Games News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top Close "

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Careful what you wish for... Naomi Alderman imagines a future where we have created full artificial intelligence for video games. It may not be as entertaining as you think Published: 2:30 AM Why can't we talk to the characters in games? Careful what you wish for... Don’t listen to those who try to own the definition of a video game A game is what you would like it to be Published: 7:00 AM Don’t listen to those who try to own the definition of a video game Playing video games doesn’t make you a better person. But that’s not the point You take part in a game in a way unequalled by reading a book or watching a play Published: 7:02 AM Playing video games doesn’t make you a better person. But that’s not the point The first great works of digital literature are already being written Video games could be the greatest storytelling medium of our age – if only the worlds of art and technology would stop arguing and take notice Published: 2:29 AM The first great works of digital literature are already being written Yes, you’ve got rhythm … so bring a tingle to your spine by playing a musical game Even if you cannot play an instrument, a game such as Sentris , which allows you to bring music to life, can be magical Published: 2:30 AM Yes, you’ve got rhythm … so bring a tingle to your spine by playing a musical game Her Story has no guns or finish line, just a search for meaning in an uncertain world A murder mystery with a difference, Sam Barlow’s new game is as much about who’s playing it as it is whodunnit Published: 2:30 AM Her Story has no guns or finish line, just a search for meaning in an uncertain world When it comes to online gaming, the BBC is slower than the Blue Peter tortoise As the time to justify its licence fee approaches, the corporation is in danger of overlooking the world’s biggest entertainment medium Published: 2:30 AM When it comes to online gaming, the BBC is slower than the Blue Peter tortoise Feeling nostalgic for old video games? Now you can play them again Grim Fandango is back. And it’s as brilliant as ever Published: 2:29 AM Feeling nostalgic for old video games? Now you can play them again Eve Online gets easier to welcome new arrivals Published: 2:30 AM Eve Online gets easier to welcome new arrivals Videogames have had an amazing influence on popular culture Published: 2:30 AM Videogames have had an amazing influence on popular culture Dragon Age: Inquisition - sex has never been so enjoyable in videogames Naomi Alderman : The latest Dragon Age game creates a feminist, gender-blind utopia Published: 3:53 AM Dragon Age: Inquisition - sex has never been so enjoyable in videogames Video game characters: the more real they get, the less we like them Naomi Alderman: The more real game characters look, the less you identify with them. So maybe that’s why the firms that produce them are allowing you to design your own Published: 4:30 AM Video game characters: the more real they get, the less we like them HoloLens: Get ready to mix the real and the virtual in a mind-blowing new world Naomi Alderman: From games to Skype to TV, Microsoft’s trailer for HoloLens promises a future where you can add a layer of computer-generated information to your vision Published: 3:30 AM HoloLens: Get ready to mix the real and the virtual in a mind-blowing new world The zombie apocalypse (aka new year) is here: now it’s time to lay your plans Tower defence games are perfect for this time of year when we are making resolutions – and then watching them unfold Published: 3:30 AM The zombie apocalypse (aka new year) is here: now it’s time to lay your plans Kentucky Route Zero: my favourite game of 2014 is deep, joyful and strange This game induces a rare, unhurried feeling that you are in the hands of master storytellers Published: 6:00 AM Kentucky Route Zero: my favourite game of 2014 is deep, joyful and strange Digital objects of desire that are fit for a Roman emperor Virtual worlds give us access to things we could never imagine acquiring – and some we might never have imagined existing, writes Naomi Alderman Published: 6:00 AM Digital objects of desire that are fit for a Roman emperor Need a comforting game? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind Sometimes, when you have the flu, or when everything seems too stressful, only Flower – or a gentle puzzle game – will do Published: 6:01 AM Need a comforting game? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind The magic of words opens a whole new world of fun Naomi Alderman: story has become something of an afterthought in the design of many games. That’s a pity because it can be the essence of a good gaming experience Published: 6:00 AM The magic of words opens a whole new world of fun Role-playing games: all human life is there … or so it sometimes seems Games such as Dungeons and Dragons could help to solve some of the greatest technological challenges of our time Published: 6:00 AM Role-playing games: all human life is there … or so it sometimes seems About 23 results for The gaming column with Naomi Alderman 1 Topics Games Computing Role playing games Artificial intelligence (AI) Television Film Books Music Art & design TV & radio Stage Classical Games News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top Close "

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Rather than turbo-charging the free market, Amazon et al have brought back a kind of feudalism Published: 8:30 AM The big idea: has the digital economy killed capitalism? The big idea: are our short attention spans really getting shorter? It feels like we live in an era of constant distraction, but the truth is more complex Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: are our short attention spans really getting shorter? The big idea: why do we find cuteness so hard to resist? Is there an evolutionary explanation for the likes of Barbie and Hello Kitty? Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: why do we find cuteness so hard to resist? The big idea: is there such a thing as the perfect game? Strategy and unpredictability are a winning combination – as long as the rules are simple Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: is there such a thing as the perfect game? The big idea: can we predict the climate of the future? We’re pouring money into computer models – but could they lead us astray? Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: can we predict the climate of the future? The big idea: how do we make future generations smarter? Our education system needs a radical rethink for the digital age Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: how do we make future generations smarter? The big idea: could we use music like medicine? We know that music influences our emotions, but could it improve physical health too? Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: could we use music like medicine? The big idea: are memories fact or fiction? Truth and illusion are woven together as we tell ourselves into being Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: are memories fact or fiction? The big idea: how can we live ethically in a world in crisis? As global events spin us into anxious helplessness, effective altruism offers a solution Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: how can we live ethically in a world in crisis? The big idea: why we need to learn to fail better From tedious blind dates to dud clinical trials, the right kind of failure always helps Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: why we need to learn to fail better The big idea: should we colonise other planets? Is Elon Musk’s vision for the future a libertarian fantasy or scientific imperative? Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: should we colonise other planets? The big idea: should we bring extinct creatures back to life? We might be able to genetically engineer something like woolly mammoths, but is it a good idea? Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: should we bring extinct creatures back to life? The big idea: is it too late to stop extremism taking over politics? Bizarre conspiracy thinking has infiltrated the mainstream in many western democracies. How can we push back? Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: is it too late to stop extremism taking over politics? The big idea: Why the laws of physics will never explain the universe We should think of the cosmos as more like an animal than a machine Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: Why the laws of physics will never explain the universe The big idea: how can we solve the problem of rural housing? High prices make too many areas unaffordable. Does the past offer a solution? Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: how can we solve the problem of rural housing? The big idea: why climate tribalism only helps the deniers From nuclear power to electric vehicles, battles between activists risk getting in the way of reducing emissions Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: why climate tribalism only helps the deniers The big idea: why you shouldn’t always try to live in the moment Being present is a popular life hack – but where does that leave nostalgia, fantasy and rumination? Published: 7:30 AM The big idea: why you shouldn’t always try to live in the moment The big idea: will AI make us stupid? 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Pauline received a spam message that looked like a sextortion or webcam scam Published: 17 Jan 2019 I got a phishing email that tried to blackmail me – what should I do? Liberation day! Don’t email me. I sure won’t be emailing you Charles Arthur Published: 25 May 2018 Published: 25 May 2018 Liberation day! Don’t email me. 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As she stars in Ralph Breaks the Internet, Silverman discusses 4chan, Trump and bad gags Published: 1 Dec 2018 Sarah Silverman: ‘I cringe at material I did 10 years ago' Ask Hadley Louis CK’s friends were complicit in his sexual misconduct – Sarah Silverman should admit it Published: 24 Oct 2018 Louis CK’s friends were complicit in his sexual misconduct – Sarah Silverman should admit it Sarah Silverman apologises after Louis CK masturbation comments Published: 23 Oct 2018 Sarah Silverman apologises after Louis CK masturbation comments Sarah Silverman: ‘There are jokes I made 15 years ago I would absolutely not make today’ Sarah Silverman’s comedy has always aimed a laser into the dark corners of sexism and racism. Now she’s using her wit to make sense of the issues facing America. Sophie Heawood meets her in Hollywood Published: 19 Nov 2017 Sarah Silverman: ‘There are jokes I made 15 years ago I would absolutely not make today’ Sarah Silverman on Louis CK: 'Can you love someone who did bad things?' The comedian says she is ‘very angry’ about the sexual misconduct allegations but ‘also sad, because he’s my friend’ Published: 16 Nov 2017 Sarah Silverman on Louis CK: 'Can you love someone who did bad things?' Can Sarah Silverman use comedy to bridge America's political divide? In her new Hulu series I Love You, America, the comic will attempt to reach across the aisle and, hopefully, generate laughs in the process Published: 11 Oct 2017 Can Sarah Silverman use comedy to bridge America's political divide? Film blog The Book of Henry is a catastrophically awful film. Everyone should see it Tonally it jerks from syrupy to shrill and it is filled with A-list actors working without conviction. 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Greater Manchester police becomes latest entity to fall victim to this kind of hack Published: 14 Sep 2023 Who is behind the latest wave of UK ransomware attacks? Exiled Russian journalist hacked using NSO Group spyware Published: 13 Sep 2023 Exiled Russian journalist hacked using NSO Group spyware TissuPath hack: patient data possibly exposed in cyber-attack on Melbourne pathology clinic Published: 5 Sep 2023 TissuPath hack: patient data possibly exposed in cyber-attack on Melbourne pathology clinic UK cybersecurity agency warns of chatbot ‘prompt injection’ attacks Scams and data thefts could be caused by individuals overriding chatbot scripts, NCSC says Published: 29 Aug 2023 UK cybersecurity agency warns of chatbot ‘prompt injection’ attacks AI could have bigger impact on UK than Industrial Revolution, says Dowden Deputy PM says technology may aid faster government decisions – but warns of massive hacking risks Published: 12 Aug 2023 AI could have bigger impact on UK than Industrial Revolution, says Dowden Hacked UK voter data could be used to target disinformation, warn experts Data from Electoral Commission breach could allow rogue actors to create AI-generated messages in effort to manipulate elections Published: 9 Aug 2023 Hacked UK voter data could be used to target disinformation, warn experts Electoral Commission and PSNI data breaches: what we know so far Russia named as likely culprit in cyber-attack on election watchdog, while police service accidentally publishes staff details Published: 9 Aug 2023 Electoral Commission and PSNI data breaches: what we know so far Electoral Commission apologises for security breach involving UK voters’ data Published: 8 Aug 2023 Electoral Commission apologises for security breach involving UK voters’ data MPs fiddled with voter ID as electoral data security burned Published: 8 Aug 2023 MPs fiddled with voter ID as electoral data security burned Attack on energy network a major risk, UK register says for first time Published: 2 Aug 2023 Attack on energy network a major risk, UK register says for first time Capita boss quits as potential fine looms for huge hack of confidential data Jon Lewis, the chief executive, is to step down as troubled outsourcing firm reels from March cyber-attack Published: 31 Jul 2023 Capita boss quits as potential fine looms for huge hack of confidential data Home affairs cyber survey exposed personal data of participating firms Shadow minister says leak of ‘sensitive’ information after research into the Optus and Medibank hacks was ‘deeply ironic’ Published: 24 Jul 2023 Home affairs cyber survey exposed personal data of participating firms US ambassador to Beijing targeted in Chinese cyber-attack – report Nicholas Burns’ emails reportedly accessed in hack that exploited flaw in Microsoft system and took Washington by surprise Published: 20 Jul 2023 US ambassador to Beijing targeted in Chinese cyber-attack – report HWL Ebsworth hack: Queensland says its files were taken after criminals release Victorian documents State’s chief information security officer says information from Victorian departments and agencies was accessed Published: 14 Jul 2023 HWL Ebsworth hack: Queensland says its files were taken after criminals release Victorian documents About 3,079 results for Hacking 1 … next Topics Cybercrime Data and computer security Data protection Electoral Commission Internet US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top Close "

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Leadership, learning and development in social care Balloon buddies and cycle rides: the care staff getting active at work Making healthy choices can be tricky for some care workers, but activities with clients help incorporate exercise into a shift Published: 13 Mar 2018 Balloon buddies and cycle rides: the care staff getting active at work We need to talk about doing social care differently Paul Burstow Published: 8 Jan 2018 Published: 8 Jan 2018 We need to talk about doing social care differently A brave and bold new world: my vision for social care Vic Rayner Published: 5 Jan 2018 Published: 5 Jan 2018 A brave and bold new world: my vision for social care Do we really need 200,000 more care home beds? David Brindle With more older people living independently than ever, old age should not mean moving in to a care home Published: 16 Aug 2017 Do we really need 200,000 more care home beds? Leadership, learning and development in social care 'People look at us as cleaners': care workers feel stretched and undervalued New book gives insight into experiences of the homecare sector’s mostly female and working-class workforce and calls for changes to labour law Published: 7 Aug 2017 'People look at us as cleaners': care workers feel stretched and undervalued Leadership, learning and development in social care How I persuaded my partner to become a support worker like me I shared inspiring stories of my days with ill, elderly and disabled clients, giving their unpaid carers a break Published: 5 Jul 2017 How I persuaded my partner to become a support worker like me Modern slavery 'probably exists' in Welsh social care sector Anti-slavery coordinator tells conference delegates to help in the fight against exploitation and forced labour Published: 30 Jun 2017 Modern slavery 'probably exists' in Welsh social care sector Modern slavery: the next social care scandal? Foreign nationals working in social care could be victims of exploitation, trafficking and forced labour. Staff are being urged to speak out Published: 26 Jun 2017 Modern slavery: the next social care scandal? Leadership, learning and development in social care Funding alone won’t fix the social care system Colin Capper Alzheimer’s Society is investing in three new research centres of excellence that aim to find ways to improve quality of life and care Published: 20 Jun 2017 Published: 20 Jun 2017 Funding alone won’t fix the social care system Innovation and tech can create social care services for the future Geoff Mulgan European social services need radical change, from better use of digital apps and artificial intelligence to consulting the public on designing better options Published: 14 Jun 2017 Published: 14 Jun 2017 Innovation and tech can create social care services for the future Social care crisis needs a simple, sustainable, cross-party solution Jane Goodland Published: 12 Jun 2017 Published: 12 Jun 2017 Social care crisis needs a simple, sustainable, cross-party solution Leadership, learning and development in social care 'Compatible flexibility': the answer to social care's recruitment crisis? Published: 6 Jun 2017 'Compatible flexibility': the answer to social care's recruitment crisis? Dementia friendly communities: live discussion What makes a dementia-friendly community? Respect, collaboration and support Our expert panel discussed how citizens and services can come together to recognise and support people with dementia Published: 30 May 2017 What makes a dementia-friendly community? Respect, collaboration and support Buurtzorg: the Dutch model of neighbourhood care that is going global Innovative nursing model cuts bureaucracy and gives nurses more freedom and time with clients Published: 9 May 2017 Buurtzorg: the Dutch model of neighbourhood care that is going global Occupational therapy could save NHS and social care – but don't call us OTs Julia Scott Occupational therapists slash hospital admissions and delayed transfers of care – clinicians and politicians need to recognise and value our work Published: 4 May 2017 Published: 4 May 2017 Occupational therapy could save NHS and social care – but don't call us OTs Six innovations that could build a new social care system Alex Fox Small community organisations and social enterprises show that, collectively, they could form an efficient, cost-effective long term support system for adults Published: 2 May 2017 Published: 2 May 2017 Six innovations that could build a new social care system How to start a social care revolution in seven easy steps Katie Johnston The budget’s £2bn for social care is a short-term fix that masks the true scale of the crisis. We need to transform funding, commissioning and provision Published: 10 Apr 2017 Published: 10 Apr 2017 How to start a social care revolution in seven easy steps Without more funding and regulation, abuse in homecare is inevitable Melanie Henwood Our underfunded social care system cannot function by relying on the goodwill of underpaid and unsupported workers Published: 2 Mar 2017 Published: 2 Mar 2017 Without more funding and regulation, abuse in homecare is inevitable Leadership, learning and development in social care Let's tackle 'careism' and give workers the respect they deserve Ann Gallagher Scandal-obsessed media, low pay and lack of government interest devalue care work. Universities have a role to play in challenging negative attitudes Published: 22 Feb 2017 Published: 22 Feb 2017 Let's tackle 'careism' and give workers the respect they deserve About 136 results for Homecare 1 … next Topics Social care social care network: adult social care Work practices Policy Care workers News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top Close "

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But it’s clear the role of AI in cinema is dividing the industry Published: 26 May 2023 ‘Those who hate AI are insecure’: inside Hollywood’s battle over artificial intelligence Mike Lynch: the rise and fall of the extradited tech tycoon Published: 12 May 2023 Mike Lynch: the rise and fall of the extradited tech tycoon Autonomy founder Mike Lynch extradited to US after losing appeal Published: 12 May 2023 Autonomy founder Mike Lynch extradited to US after losing appeal Consumer champions HP’s Instant Ink service left me with invisible benefits My subscription has ended and so the four printer cartridges I’ve been sent have stopped working Published: 29 Nov 2022 HP’s Instant Ink service left me with invisible benefits How cheap ink cartridges can cost you dear Firmware update rendered new HP printer useless as cartridges from another company had been used Published: 19 Feb 2022 How cheap ink cartridges can cost you dear Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch can be extradited to US, rules Priti Patel Published: 5:10 PM Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch can be extradited to US, rules Priti Patel Hewlett-Packard wins civil fraud case against Mike Lynch over Autonomy sale Published: 11:57 AM Hewlett-Packard wins civil fraud case against Mike Lynch over Autonomy sale Autonomy co-founder's lawyers attack 'overweening' US extradition effort Mike Lynch’s legal team tell court US is ‘not the global marshal of corporate world’ and case should be heard in UK Published: 9 Feb 2021 Autonomy co-founder's lawyers attack 'overweening' US extradition effort Britons should not face extradition to the US for alleged crimes on UK soil Helena Kennedy MPs claim to be appalled by our unjust and uneven extradition deal. But they still won’t change it, says the Labour peer Helena Kennedy QC Published: 5 Feb 2021 Published: 5 Feb 2021 Britons should not face extradition to the US for alleged crimes on UK soil Nils Pratley on finance Booming UK housebuilders should be last in the queue for handouts Vistry Group’s healthy results suggest a sector that’s doing well despite the pandemic Published: 12 Jan 2021 Published: 12 Jan 2021 Booming UK housebuilders should be last in the queue for handouts Planned obsolescence: the outrage of our electronic waste mountain Unrepairable phones and laptops are a serious problem in our throwaway society. But the pushback is building - and the coronavirus crisis has added more pressure for change Published: 15 Apr 2020 Planned obsolescence: the outrage of our electronic waste mountain Autonomy founder Mike Lynch submits himself for arrest UK software entrepreneur contests extradition to US where he faces fraud charges Published: 5 Feb 2020 Autonomy founder Mike Lynch submits himself for arrest Autonomy founder Mike Lynch accused of lying in fraud trial Lawyer for claimants Hewlett-Packard tells court evidence was ‘untrue and unreliable’ Published: 12 Dec 2019 Autonomy founder Mike Lynch accused of lying in fraud trial US seeks to extradite UK tech billionaire Michael Lynch Autonomy businessman would face charges including securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy Published: 1 Dec 2019 US seeks to extradite UK tech billionaire Michael Lynch Computer firm HP rejects takeover approach by Xerox Board declines unsolicited proposal, despite billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s support Published: 17 Nov 2019 Computer firm HP rejects takeover approach by Xerox Xerox considering bid for fellow fading tech giant HP, according to report HP valued at $27bn – three times as much as Xerox – but falling demand for printed documents has hit both companies Published: 6 Nov 2019 Xerox considering bid for fellow fading tech giant HP, according to report Ask Jack How do I find a laptop that can be upgraded or repaired? Colin wants a laptop with easily replaceable parts such as memory and hard drives Published: 17 Oct 2019 How do I find a laptop that can be upgraded or repaired? What’s the best gaming laptop to replace a MacBook Air for Minecraft? Robert is looking for a laptop that has a keyboard like an old MacBook Air Published: 26 Sep 2019 What’s the best gaming laptop to replace a MacBook Air for Minecraft? Ask Jack How do I set up an ergonomic home office? What’s the best ergonomic keyboard and computer? Published: 1 Aug 2019 How do I set up an ergonomic home office? 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Published: 21 Oct 2023 Sky’s not the limit: is the drone delivery age finally taking off? Amazon unveils plan to deliver packages by drone in UK and Italy Published: 18 Oct 2023 Amazon unveils plan to deliver packages by drone in UK and Italy Birmingham PhD student guilty of using 3D printer to build ‘kamikaze’ drone Mohamad al-Bared used technology at Coventry home to make drone designed to deliver a warhead or chemical weapon for IS Published: 28 Sep 2023 Birmingham PhD student guilty of using 3D printer to build ‘kamikaze’ drone AI-powered drone beats human champion pilots Swift AI used technique called deep reinforcement learning to win 15 out of 25 races against world champions Published: 30 Aug 2023 AI-powered drone beats human champion pilots Brisbane Olympics drone show cancelled after hundreds fall into Melbourne river during Matildas display Event marking nine years until Olympics and Paralympics stopped after 350 drones fell into Yarra River on Friday Published: 17 Jul 2023 Brisbane Olympics drone show cancelled after hundreds fall into Melbourne river during Matildas display Africa will be transformed by the potential of AI and data – if we can get investment Mahamudu Bawumia As tech changes the world, Ghana has the young experts to unlock the next industrial revolution, says the vice-president Published: 1 Jun 2023 Published: 1 Jun 2023 Africa will be transformed by the potential of AI and data – if we can get investment Drone flights banned in central London for King Charles coronation Among sweeping security measures, police expected to use radar to detect rogue objects in the air Published: 5 May 2023 Drone flights banned in central London for King Charles coronation The networker Thank the Lords someone is worried about AI-controlled weapons systems John Naughton While politics as usual dominates the Commons, thankfully a few people from the upper chamber are thinking about the big picture Published: 29 Apr 2023 Published: 29 Apr 2023 Thank the Lords someone is worried about AI-controlled weapons systems Getting high: a drone’s-eye view of the United States – in pictures During the long periods of pandemic isolation, Stephen Shore rose to the challenge – and shot the arresting US landscape from way up above Gallery Published: 8 Feb 2023 Getting high: a drone’s-eye view of the United States – in pictures After years of fanfare the future of drone delivery in Australia remains up in the air Published: 2:00 PM After years of fanfare the future of drone delivery in Australia remains up in the air Play Video Will drone deliveries be widely available in Australia soon? – video 1:11 Published: 2:00 PM Will drone deliveries be widely available in Australia soon? – video Send in the drones: how to transform Australia’s fight against bushfires and floods The cutting-edge technology is a faster, cheaper and more accurate way to raise the alarm on lightning strikes or flash floods, experts say Published: 12 Nov 2022 Send in the drones: how to transform Australia’s fight against bushfires and floods Drones circling over Snowdonia could bring life-saving mobile signal to remote areas A prototype craft that will fly network telecoms starts trials with north Wales mountain rescue services next year Published: 27 Oct 2022 Drones circling over Snowdonia could bring life-saving mobile signal to remote areas Eruptions and a polar bear at play: Drone photo awards 2022 – in pictures A look at the winning entries into the Drone photo awards 2022, including the overall winner showing a secondary fissure caused by the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland Gallery Published: 7 Sep 2022 Eruptions and a polar bear at play: Drone photo awards 2022 – in pictures NHS to test using drones to fly chemotherapy drugs to Isle of Wight Trial will take treatments from Portsmouth to St Mary’s hospital and health service plans similar drops elsewhere in England Published: 7:01 PM NHS to test using drones to fly chemotherapy drugs to Isle of Wight Spanish police seize underwater drones designed to carry drugs The vessels would have allowed traffickers to smuggle 200kg of drugs across strait of Gibraltar, police say Published: 10:11 AM Spanish police seize underwater drones designed to carry drugs Flights diverted at East Midlands airport after drone sightings One runway closed after ‘operational disruption’ on Friday afternoon and evening, but has now reopened Published: 11 Jun 2022 Flights diverted at East Midlands airport after drone sightings Taser abandons plans to build stun gun-equipped drones for schools Published: 6 Jun 2022 Taser abandons plans to build stun gun-equipped drones for schools Stun-gun drones in schools? 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The comics pushing homemade videos to new heights Comedians’ old YouTube skits are enjoying a revival in lockdown. And now standups are returning to online video – to push its possibilities even further Published: 12 Jul 2020 Pass the green screen, granny! The comics pushing homemade videos to new heights Pass notes Zumping: the rise of Zoom breakups Published: 13 Apr 2020 Zumping: the rise of Zoom breakups Do you know how Zoom is using your data? Here's why you should Arwa Mahdawi Published: 1 Apr 2020 Published: 1 Apr 2020 Do you know how Zoom is using your data? Here's why you should Zoom booms as demand for video-conferencing tech grows Estimated net worth of founder has increased by more than $4bn since coronavirus crisis started Published: 31 Mar 2020 Zoom booms as demand for video-conferencing tech grows Pass notes Zoom: the $29bn video-call app you’d never heard of until coronavirus The digital conferencing tool has taken off thanks to physical distancing across the globe. Just watch out for the 40-minute limit and pornography trolls Published: 25 Mar 2020 Zoom: the $29bn video-call app you’d never heard of until coronavirus The cultural pioneers bringing oral storytelling to the next generation With an immersive show now open at Carriageworks, Bangarra dance company is one of many Indigenous groups harnessing the power of digital art Published: 4 Dec 2019 The cultural pioneers bringing oral storytelling to the next generation Play Video Deepfake video shows Bill Hader morph into Tom Cruise in CBS interview – video Creator of video says he wants to raise awareness of technology's potential in age of fake news and doctored footage 2:16 Published: 13 Aug 2019 Deepfake video shows Bill Hader morph into Tom Cruise in CBS interview – video What do we do about deepfake video? Deepfake – the ability of AI to fabricate apparently real footage of people – is a growing problem with implications for us all Published: 23 Jun 2019 What do we do about deepfake video? Dreams becomes reality: the game that can make an artist out of anyone Digital artist Dan Hett explores the Dreamiverse, a galaxy of games, music, art and ideas created by players in a limitless virtual art studio Published: 23 May 2019 Dreams becomes reality: the game that can make an artist out of anyone BBC, ITV and Channel 4 in talks to create UK streaming service NBC Universal also believed to be involved in discussions on how to combat Netflix and Amazon Published: 7 May 2018 BBC, ITV and Channel 4 in talks to create UK streaming service Public servant: my letter to the public Video evidence is taking over – and damaging the credibility of our courts Anonymous The technology has become widespread in the UK. But it is notoriously unreliable – and the testimonies can be misleading Published: 17 Mar 2018 Published: 17 Mar 2018 Video evidence is taking over – and damaging the credibility of our courts Facebook faces calls for greater transparency amid 'fake news' row The social media company has angered advertisers after admitting it made errors in the way it measures ad activity Published: 17 Nov 2016 Facebook faces calls for greater transparency amid 'fake news' row Vine stars mourn the app that brought them their six seconds of fame The constraint of the format fostered a new type of creativity for comedians, actors and artists, who have to move on to new platforms now that Vine is dead Published: 28 Oct 2016 Vine stars mourn the app that brought them their six seconds of fame Film blog Celluloid is strictly for nostalgists. Digital technology saved a dying medium Those who mourn the passing of 35mm forget what a closed club film-making was, and overlook how vital and creative digital cinema has become Published: 7 Jul 2016 Celluloid is strictly for nostalgists. Digital technology saved a dying medium Chicago man killed while live streaming video on Facebook Live His death, along with France murder in which killer took to Facebook Live, highlights the huge challenge tech companies face with live stream video Published: 19 Jun 2016 Chicago man killed while live streaming video on Facebook Live Other lives Alan Bell obituary Other lives: Pioneering expert in DVD and CD technology Published: 29 May 2016 Alan Bell obituary Hulu to add live TV offering to compete with Netflix and cable providers Multiple reports citing executives at the internet video streaming service published Monday confirmed the additions to the streaming service Published: 2 May 2016 Hulu to add live TV offering to compete with Netflix and cable providers Facebook to rival Periscope with new live video feature Users in the US will be able to use the new feature on Facebook’s iPhone app in the next few weeks, part of a drive to expand video on the site Published: 28 Jan 2016 Facebook to rival Periscope with new live video feature Publishing and platforms What's the secret to retaining fickle internet TV audiences? Churn is an issue for online services as it’s so easy to cancel. Here are three strategies being used to keep audiences beyond the free trial Published: 26 Jan 2016 What's the secret to retaining fickle internet TV audiences? About 628 results for Digital video 1 … next Topics Internet Digital media Facebook Social networking Computing US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top Close "

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Determining a person’s age online seems like an intractable problem. But new technology and laws could be on the brink of solving it Published: 11 Jul 2021 Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet? Bernard Stiegler obituary French philosopher who denounced the tyranny of digital technology Published: 18 Aug 2020 Bernard Stiegler obituary The Teesside Silicon Valley: Middlesbrough's £250m bid to be digital powerhouse Shiny skyscrapers, rooftop ping-pong, a wellbeing village and an urban farm … Middlesbrough’s mayor wants to make his town a tech dream. Why are so many people horrified? Published: 15 Jun 2020 The Teesside Silicon Valley: Middlesbrough's £250m bid to be digital powerhouse Millions risk being locked out of Covid-19 contact tracing app Many people in Britain lack internet access and sufficient tech skills, charities warn MPs Published: 15 May 2020 Millions risk being locked out of Covid-19 contact tracing app Human rights in focus Digital divide 'isolates and endangers' millions of UK's poorest Published: 28 Apr 2020 Digital divide 'isolates and endangers' millions of UK's poorest Court hearings via video 'risk unfairness for disabled people' Published: 21 Apr 2020 Court hearings via video 'risk unfairness for disabled people' No-deal Brexit will ‘instantly disrupt’ UK’s role as £174bn global data hub University College London report warns of significant legal, economic and social disruption Published: 25 Aug 2019 No-deal Brexit will ‘instantly disrupt’ UK’s role as £174bn global data hub Leave.EU may keep name after no-deal Brexit if ownership handed to EU citizen UK-based owners of .eu domains could use transfer loophole to keep name Published: 22 Jul 2019 Leave.EU may keep name after no-deal Brexit if ownership handed to EU citizen Gig economy in Britain doubles, accounting for 4.7 million workers TUC finds worker rights fading as gig platforms proliferate to employ one in 10 adults Published: 27 Jun 2019 Gig economy in Britain doubles, accounting for 4.7 million workers Public sector digital transformation 'I'd share any data to stay alive longer': the progress of digital public services There are challenges, but some developments, especially in health and social care, have been life-changing Published: 22 Mar 2019 'I'd share any data to stay alive longer': the progress of digital public services Spring statement policies look to Brexit and a hi-tech future Chancellor promises a global Britain and announces funds for science and digital projects Published: 13 Mar 2019 Spring statement policies look to Brexit and a hi-tech future Pass notes The handwriting’s on the wall: is this the end of the signature? Research shows that more than half of adults rarely sign their names and increasingly signatures are just scrawled on digital devices Published: 29 Jul 2018 The handwriting’s on the wall: is this the end of the signature? The Guardian view on analogue clocks: their time has not run out Editorial: Reports of teenagers struggling with old-fashioned timekeeping highlight the importance of a skill that is still relevant in the digital age Published: 25 Apr 2018 The Guardian view on analogue clocks: their time has not run out Public servant: my letter to the public Video evidence is taking over – and damaging the credibility of our courts Anonymous The technology has become widespread in the UK. But it is notoriously unreliable – and the testimonies can be misleading Published: 17 Mar 2018 Published: 17 Mar 2018 Video evidence is taking over – and damaging the credibility of our courts Labour will make Britain a great digital power: here’s how Liam Byrne Today Labour launches its People’s Plan for Digital to end the digital skills gap, writes the shadow digital minister Liam Byrne Published: 11 Dec 2017 Published: 11 Dec 2017 Labour will make Britain a great digital power: here’s how A four-step plan to keep Labour’s revolution rolling Neal Lawson Corbyn is hugely popular but the spirit of our age is digital and collaborative. Pluralism and progressive alliances are vital if the party is to own the future, says Neal Lawson, spokesperson for the Progressive Alliance Published: 24 Sep 2017 Published: 24 Sep 2017 A four-step plan to keep Labour’s revolution rolling Hang on to your cash. This dash to digitise payments is dangerous Brett Scott Banknotes and coins are a public utility, and companies make no profit from their use. Hence the drive for cashlessness, writes the former broker Brett Scott Published: 13 Sep 2017 Published: 13 Sep 2017 Hang on to your cash. 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But it’s clear the role of AI in cinema is dividing the industry Published: 26 May 2023 ‘Those who hate AI are insecure’: inside Hollywood’s battle over artificial intelligence Dell to cut 5% of global workforce as ‘uncertain future’ looms US-based PC maker makes move in order to reduce costs as ‘market conditions continue to erode’ Published: 6 Feb 2023 Dell to cut 5% of global workforce as ‘uncertain future’ looms Dell pulls energy-hungry gaming PCs in six US states after failing efficiency rules Manufacturer halts shipments of some Alienware Aurora R10 and R12 PCs because they use so much energy they breach state standards Published: 28 Jul 2021 Dell pulls energy-hungry gaming PCs in six US states after failing efficiency rules 4 out of 5 stars. Dell XPS 13 2020 review: a fantastic but flawed laptop 4 out of 5 stars. Latest top-of-the-line Dell is a brilliant machine with a great screen in a tiny body, but is let down badly by software problems Published: 9 Jul 2020 Dell XPS 13 2020 review: a fantastic but flawed laptop Your problems, with Anna Tims No support from Dell over GP's IT crisis in Covid-19 pandemic Published: 29 Apr 2020 No support from Dell over GP's IT crisis in Covid-19 pandemic Planned obsolescence: the outrage of our electronic waste mountain Published: 15 Apr 2020 Planned obsolescence: the outrage of our electronic waste mountain Ask Jack Which is the best PC for someone who has Parkinson’s? Richard wants a laptop for its flatter keys, but desktop PCs can have any keyboard type Published: 23 Jan 2020 Which is the best PC for someone who has Parkinson’s? Today in Focus The ups and downs of Jamie Oliver Fifteen Cornwall, one of Jamie Oliver’s last UK restaurants, shut last week with 100 job losses. Anna Berrill and Sarah Butler look at what went wrong for the celebrity chef. Also: Annie Kelly on a landmark legal case in the US against the world’s largest tech companies Podcast Published: 10:00 PM The ups and downs of Jamie Oliver Exploitation in focus Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths Dell, Microsoft and Tesla also among tech firms named in case brought by families of children killed or injured while mining in DRC Published: 5:28 AM Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths Ask Jack How do I find a laptop that can be upgraded or repaired? Colin wants a laptop with easily replaceable parts such as memory and hard drives Published: 17 Oct 2019 How do I find a laptop that can be upgraded or repaired? What’s the best gaming laptop to replace a MacBook Air for Minecraft? Robert is looking for a laptop that has a keyboard like an old MacBook Air Published: 26 Sep 2019 What’s the best gaming laptop to replace a MacBook Air for Minecraft? 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Published: 28 Oct 2023 I felt numb – not sure what to do. How did deepfake images of me end up on a porn site? The Guardian documentary My Blonde GF: a disturbing story of deepfake pornography 18:40 Published: 25 Oct 2023 My Blonde GF: a disturbing story of deepfake pornography ‘Here is the news. You can’t stop us’: AI anchor Zae-In grants us an interview Published: 20 Oct 2023 ‘Here is the news. You can’t stop us’: AI anchor Zae-In grants us an interview Tom Hanks says AI version of him used in dental plan ad without his consent Published: 1 Oct 2023 Tom Hanks says AI version of him used in dental plan ad without his consent ‘It could have me read porn’: Stephen Fry shocked by AI cloning of his voice in documentary Actor warns about dangers of artificial intelligence after discovering version of his voice based on Harry Potter audiobooks Published: 20 Sep 2023 ‘It could have me read porn’: Stephen Fry shocked by AI cloning of his voice in documentary Search engines required to stamp out AI-generated images of child abuse under Australia’s new code Exclusive: eSafety Commissioner says companies must work on building tools to promote greater online safety, including detecting deep fake images Published: 7 Sep 2023 Search engines required to stamp out AI-generated images of child abuse under Australia’s new code Deepfake detection tools must work with dark skin tones, experts warn Fears that bias in training sets would mean minorities bearing brunt of scams, fraud and misinformation Published: 17 Aug 2023 Deepfake detection tools must work with dark skin tones, experts warn Humans can detect deepfake speech only 73% of the time, study finds English and Mandarin speakers found to have the same level of accuracy when detecting artificially generated speech Published: 2 Aug 2023 Humans can detect deepfake speech only 73% of the time, study finds AI tool creates South Park episodes with user in starring role Episodes can feature a character based on user’s own looks and voice – but tool will not be released to public Published: 20 Jul 2023 AI tool creates South Park episodes with user in starring role AI and the US election ‘An evolution in propaganda’: a digital expert on AI influence in elections Published: 20 Jul 2023 ‘An evolution in propaganda’: a digital expert on AI influence in elections Week in geek Is Tom Cruise’s plan to keep making action films into his 80s a Mission Impossible? Published: 7 Jul 2023 Is Tom Cruise’s plan to keep making action films into his 80s a Mission Impossible? Deepfakes are biggest AI concern, says Microsoft president In Washington speech, Brad Smith calls for steps to ensure people know when a photo or video is generated by AI Published: 25 May 2023 Deepfakes are biggest AI concern, says Microsoft president The Week in Patriarchy Nonconsensual deepfake porn is an emergency that is ruining lives Arwa Mahdawi We desperately need lawmakers and technology companies to hold creators and facilitators to account Published: 1 Apr 2023 Published: 1 Apr 2023 Nonconsensual deepfake porn is an emergency that is ruining lives Demand for deepfake pornography is exploding. We aren’t ready for this assault on consent Moira Donegan With cheap apps proliferating, how long til our likeness appears in a nonconsensual deepfake porn video? Published: 13 Mar 2023 Published: 13 Mar 2023 Demand for deepfake pornography is exploding. We aren’t ready for this assault on consent Laura Bates: ‘For teenage girls, escaping harassment, revenge porn and deepfake porn is impossible’ She wrote the definitive book on online misogyny – which led to the police installing a panic alarm in her home. Bates explains how the ‘manosphere’ radicalises boys, how the media feeds the problem – and why she is still hopeful Published: 7 Mar 2023 Laura Bates: ‘For teenage girls, escaping harassment, revenge porn and deepfake porn is impossible’ ‘We’re going through a big revolution’: how AI is de-ageing stars on screen Stars like Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are being rendered younger digitally but voices in the industry express concern about where we might be heading Published: 6 Feb 2023 ‘We’re going through a big revolution’: how AI is de-ageing stars on screen Online safety bill will criminalise ‘downblousing’ and ‘deepfake’ porn Nonconsensual explicit images to be tackled in bill returning to parliament next month Published: 24 Nov 2022 Online safety bill will criminalise ‘downblousing’ and ‘deepfake’ porn A deepfake video of Joe Biden singing the children’s song Baby Shark isn’t funny – it is deeply worrying Arwa Mahdawi The clip started out as a joke, but that doesn’t stop something gaining its own nefarious life online Published: 26 Oct 2022 Published: 26 Oct 2022 A deepfake video of Joe Biden singing the children’s song Baby Shark isn’t funny – it is deeply worrying Dutch police create deepfake video of murdered boy, 13, in hope of new leads Video shows simulation of Sedar Soares, who was shot dead in 2003, asking public to help solve case Published: 23 May 2022 Dutch police create deepfake video of murdered boy, 13, in hope of new leads About 46 results for Deepfake 1 Topics Artificial intelligence (AI) Internet Computing Microsoft Women US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top Close "

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European cities hope to attract UK entrepreneurs after Brexit vote With the uncertainty surrounding Britain’s exit from the EU, some UK tech startups are seeking new headquarters abroad Published: 3:00 AM European cities hope to attract UK entrepreneurs after Brexit vote Seamless and simple: what marketers can learn from Amazon's new store Rather than using intrusive marketing, brands need to focus on digital technology that enriches the customer experience Published: 3:00 AM Seamless and simple: what marketers can learn from Amazon's new store The arrival of 5G, cognitive radio and the future of connectivity With faster and more reliable connections, we look at what the next generation of communications could mean for business Published: 9:00 AM The arrival of 5G, cognitive radio and the future of connectivity Siri, Echo and Google Home: are digital assistants the future of the office? Major tech companies have invested in AI-driven and voice interactive home assistants in a quest to make our digital lives more convenient Published: 4:00 AM Siri, Echo and Google Home: are digital assistants the future of the office? Data-driven cycling class? How tech is shaping fitness Through apps and wearables, technology is creating a workout that’s more data-rich, smarter and convenient than ever before Published: 3:00 AM Data-driven cycling class? How tech is shaping fitness Could Singles Day be the new Black Friday for British retailers? Marks & Spencer, Waitrose and Dyson have all capitalised on the Chinese shopping extravaganza in recent years Published: 3:00 AM Could Singles Day be the new Black Friday for British retailers? The new social: brands are embracing private sharing The growing profile of messaging apps has given rise to a new form of personalisation and new opportunities for communication Published: 6:04 AM The new social: brands are embracing private sharing Augmented reality is driving construction's creative reinvention As the use of AR grows, the building industry will benefit from the ability to visualise virtual objects in the real world Published: 7:00 AM Augmented reality is driving construction's creative reinvention Virtual reality and sport: breaking ground on and off the pitch VR can bring sports training closer to the practice field and fans closer to the action, but can it really match up to live events? Published: 3:00 AM Virtual reality and sport: breaking ground on and off the pitch What business leaders should know about machine learning and AI As AI heads towards the mainstream, here are five tips to ensure we learn as much from machines as they learn from us Published: 3:00 AM What business leaders should know about machine learning and AI How 3D printing can revolutionise the medical profession Groundbreaking 3D printing and scanning techniques are improving access to fully customisable artificial limbs Published: 3:00 AM How 3D printing can revolutionise the medical profession How tech stole the show at fashion week ‘See-now, buy-now’ and virtual reality are in vogue as brands seek to engage with consumers beyond the catwalk Published: 3:00 AM How tech stole the show at fashion week Why a robot could be the best boss you've ever had Designed with strong technical expertise and high intelligence, it’s not so far-fetched that the robots of the future could outperform human managers Published: 3:00 AM Why a robot could be the best boss you've ever had Electronic empathy: meet the next wave of virtual reality Immersive technologies are expanding creative experiences, and have a broader reach than simply Pokémon Go Published: 3:00 AM Electronic empathy: meet the next wave of virtual reality 'You can't compete with Amazon on price – so compete with your story' Anthony Casalena, CEO of website builder Squarespace, on how businesses can put their best foot forward online, sponsorship strategies, and how mobile web design has trickled up to desktop Published: 3:00 AM 'You can't compete with Amazon on price – so compete with your story' Facial recognition – a powerful ad tool or privacy nightmare? It may sound like science fiction but tech that identifies VIP shoppers could soon be used for customer loyalty schemes Published: 7:30 AM Facial recognition – a powerful ad tool or privacy nightmare? What does artificial intelligence mean for the creative mind? Assistive and smart technologies can lead to a whole new world of creative possibilities and greater understanding of consumers Published: 3:00 AM What does artificial intelligence mean for the creative mind? Do we trust digital identification? Electronic forms of ID present an effective alternative to current systems, but confidence in technology could prove to be a stumbling block Published: 3:00 AM Do we trust digital identification? Virtual reality: are you ready for surreal estate? Virtual reality is helping make experiential marketing scalable, but do consumers actually want these types of experiences? Published: 4:00 AM Virtual reality: are you ready for surreal estate? 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Addressing the worrying internet gender gap seems unlikely Published: 12:00 AM Published: 12:00 AM Davos: how can an event that's 82% male solve the digital gender divide? Labour's vision is for digital to power democracy, and empower communities Jon Cruddas and Chi Onwurah argue that under Labour, local authorities and citizens would be empowered by digital services they can help create and improve Published: 2:00 AM Labour's vision is for digital to power democracy, and empower communities New ICT curriculum proposed by Royal Academy of Engineering and BCS Draft curriculum suggests digital literacy, computer science and information technology should be taught from age five, rather than just ICT Published: 5:04 AM New ICT curriculum proposed by Royal Academy of Engineering and BCS ICT teaching upgrade expected … in 2014 A survey for the Guardian shows that so far 33% of boys and just 17% of girls have learned any computer coding skills at school Published: 2:30 PM ICT teaching upgrade expected … in 2014 An Apple for the teacher: are iPads the future in class? David Andrews embarked on an iPad journey with his school last year. Here he tells us about using the devices in his classroom Published: 5:15 AM An Apple for the teacher: are iPads the future in class? Innovations in ICT teaching: a Guardian roundtable debate Children are to be taught how to programme computers in a move to create the technological innovators of the future Published: 7:10 PM Innovations in ICT teaching: a Guardian roundtable debate Lily Cole to judge Young Rewired programming competition Actor to judge competition which aims to find and encourage young children and teenagers who want to learn how to program computers. By Charles Arthur Published: 2:50 AM Lily Cole to judge Young Rewired programming competition Teacher's blog Is it time to rebrand ICT? Including computer science into your curriculum might be intimidating but it IS necessary, argues Matt Britland • Want to find out more about computer science in schools? Come to our seminar in June Published: 3:31 AM Is it time to rebrand ICT? Teacher's blog The case for agile pedagogy Learning to program computers can bring unique insights to other fields for both pupils and teachers – Miles Berry on how computational thinking can revolutionise the way we teach and learn Published: 5:28 AM The case for agile pedagogy Teacher's blog That was one inspiring 'hack day' What happens when you put a group of teenagers from four different schools, their teachers and developers from Google and the Guardian in a room together for 24 hours? An ICT teacher who took part shares the magic Published: 5:14 AM That was one inspiring 'hack day' A new generation of coders The teaching of ICT in schools has come in for much criticism of late, yet the enthusiasm shown by young people to learn and share programming skills at a recent 'hack day' should inspire educators Published: 7:03 PM A new generation of coders Teacher's blog Why we need to bring creativity and technology back together across the curriculum A professional den-maker on how she helps teachers transform their classrooms into thrilling learning environments Published: 6:20 AM Why we need to bring creativity and technology back together across the curriculum Teacher's blog Hack to the future now! Don't hang around for Michael Gove's computer science curriculum changes, our blogger says plenty can be done straight away Published: 5:18 AM Hack to the future now! 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Rafi Hyams , eight, is going to join the strike Published: 10 Feb 2019 Published: 10 Feb 2019 Facing up to global challenges at Davos The children skipping school aren't ruining the planet – you are Srećko Horvat Published: 6 Feb 2019 Published: 6 Feb 2019 The children skipping school aren't ruining the planet – you are 'This is about saving capitalism': the Dutch historian who savaged Davos elite Published: 1 Feb 2019 'This is about saving capitalism': the Dutch historian who savaged Davos elite Historian berates billionaires at Davos over tax avoidance Rutger Bregman tells panel that the real issue is the rich not paying their fair share Published: 12:04 AM Historian berates billionaires at Davos over tax avoidance Play Video 'This is not rocket science': Rutger Bregman tells Davos to talk about tax – video Rutger Bregman dismisses 'stupid philanthropy schemes', saying the real issue that needs tackling is tax avoidance. 1:46 Published: 11:58 PM 'This is not rocket science': Rutger Bregman tells Davos to talk about tax – video Economics viewpoint Davos 2019: the yawning gap between rhetoric and reality Larry Elliott When it comes to the environment and inequality, world leaders need to start doing what they say Published: 6:07 AM Published: 6:07 AM Davos 2019: the yawning gap between rhetoric and reality Davos 2019: 10 things we learned at the World Economic Forum WEF lacked buzz without Donald Trump as unease over Brexit and global recession dominated the summit Published: 2:01 AM Davos 2019: 10 things we learned at the World Economic Forum Play Video 'I want you to panic': 16-year-old issues climate warning at Davos – video 2:55 Published: 10:34 AM 'I want you to panic': 16-year-old issues climate warning at Davos – video Business live Davos 2019: Climate change pressure and inequality worries - as it happened Published: 10:24 AM Davos 2019: Climate change pressure and inequality worries - as it happened George Soros: China is using tech advances to repress its people Artificial intelligence and machine learning ‘are being used for authoritarian control’ Published: 4:59 PM George Soros: China is using tech advances to repress its people Business live George Soros blasts China over AI, totalitarianism and 5G at Davos - as it happened Rolling coverage of the third day of the World Economic Forum Published: 3:35 PM George Soros blasts China over AI, totalitarianism and 5G at Davos - as it happened UN executions expert to visit Turkey to lead Khashoggi inquiry Investigation comes as Saudi efforts to normalise relations with west move on to Davos Published: 2:23 PM UN executions expert to visit Turkey to lead Khashoggi inquiry Philip Hammond urges business leaders to accept Brexit result Speaking in Davos, chancellor says changes such as end to free movement are on the way Published: 1:54 PM Philip Hammond urges business leaders to accept Brexit result Davos: head of IMF warns against rising fat-cat pay Published: 12:44 PM Davos: head of IMF warns against rising fat-cat pay Teenage activist takes School Strikes 4 Climate Action to Davos Published: 7:47 AM Teenage activist takes School Strikes 4 Climate Action to Davos A quarter of the UK cabinet went to Davos: what are they doing there? Published: 5:57 AM A quarter of the UK cabinet went to Davos: what are they doing there? No-deal Brexit 'poses threat to global stability' – CBI head Carolyn Fairbairn warns bosses at Davos that damage caused by disorderly exit could spread far beyond the UK Published: 7:01 PM No-deal Brexit 'poses threat to global stability' – CBI head Prince William makes Davos appeal to break mental health stigma Royal, joined by New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern, says stiff upper lip approach must end Published: 2:21 PM Prince William makes Davos appeal to break mental health stigma About 43 results for Davos 2019 1 Topics Davos Europe Climate crisis Economics Philip Hammond Business Economics Diversity & equality in business Small business Retail News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top Close "

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But its use on children raises questions Published: 18 Oct 2021 The Guardian view on biometric technology in schools: watch closely Opinion The Taliban are showing us the dangers of personal data falling into the wrong hands Emrys Schoemaker Digital ID systems are a powerful development tool, providing a legal identity to millions, but their misuse can be deadly Published: 7 Sep 2021 Published: 7 Sep 2021 The Taliban are showing us the dangers of personal data falling into the wrong hands The networker Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse John Naughton With Afghan citizens’ data now in the hands of the Taliban, assumptions about controls that check misuse of intelligence are wide of the mark Published: 21 Aug 2021 Published: 21 Aug 2021 Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse Investors flock to life sciences as UK sector breaks funding record Covid crisis spurs growing interest in drugmakers, diagnostics and medical equipment firms Published: 2 May 2021 Investors flock to life sciences as UK sector breaks funding record Nils Pratley on finance Oxford Nanopore float offers London a proper tech future Planned IPO of life science group will test LSE’s appetite for funding high-growth tech Published: 2:30 PM Published: 2:30 PM Oxford Nanopore float offers London a proper tech future Oxford Nanopore to float on London Stock Exchange Analysts estimate value of startup, whose technology tracks Covid-19 variants, could reach up to £7bn Published: 1:54 PM Oxford Nanopore to float on London Stock Exchange This is Europe Sci-fi surveillance: Europe's secretive push into biometric technology Millions in EU science funding is being used to develop new tools for policing and security. But who decides how far we need to submit to artificial intelligence? Published: 10 Dec 2020 Sci-fi surveillance: Europe's secretive push into biometric technology Watchdog rejects Met's claim that he supported facial recognition Biometrics commissioner says force was wrong to say he backed use of the technology Published: 12 Feb 2020 Watchdog rejects Met's claim that he supported facial recognition Lack of guidance leaves public services in limbo on AI, says watchdog CCTV commissioner says he gets many queries about facial recognition and other tools Published: 29 Dec 2019 Lack of guidance leaves public services in limbo on AI, says watchdog Afghanistan turns to biometrics to tackle election fraud Authorities hope voter verification machines and apps can solve perpetual problem Published: 27 Sep 2019 Afghanistan turns to biometrics to tackle election fraud Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, UK police and defence firms Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database Published: 14 Aug 2019 Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, UK police and defence firms About 232 results for Biometrics 1 … next Topics Computing Surveillance Facial recognition Privacy Police US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top Close "

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Published: 6 May 2023 Man v machine: everything you need to know about AI Google’s Bard chatbot launches in US and UK Published: 21 Mar 2023 Google’s Bard chatbot launches in US and UK Microsoft’s Bing chatbot to offer users answers in three different tones Published: 3 Mar 2023 Microsoft’s Bing chatbot to offer users answers in three different tones TechScape TechScape: Seven top AI acronyms explained We spell out the key terms behind the AI revolution – and why they matter. Plus, this week’s top tech stories Published: 28 Feb 2023 TechScape: Seven top AI acronyms explained From retail to transport: how AI is changing every corner of the economy Artificial intelligence has implication across the board, solving problems and raising others Published: 18 Feb 2023 From retail to transport: how AI is changing every corner of the economy ‘I want to destroy whatever I want’: Bing’s AI chatbot unsettles US reporter NYT correspondent’s conversation with Microsoft’s search engine leads to bizarre philosophical conversations that highlight the sense of speaking to a human Published: 17 Feb 2023 ‘I want to destroy whatever I want’: Bing’s AI chatbot unsettles US reporter AI blunders like Google chatbot’s will cause trouble for more firms, say experts Warning comes as Alphabet’s shares continue to plummet after error made by Bard AI system during demo Published: 9 Feb 2023 AI blunders like Google chatbot’s will cause trouble for more firms, say experts Microsoft blocks Bing from showing image results for Tiananmen ‘tank man’ Company blames ‘human error’ after users in US, Germany, Singapore and France reported no results shown on the crackdown’s anniversary Published: 4 Jun 2021 Microsoft blocks Bing from showing image results for Tiananmen ‘tank man’ Microsoft says it would willingly participate in Australia's media code with Bing search engine The tech company is the first major platform not subject to the code to express public support for it Published: 2 Feb 2021 Microsoft says it would willingly participate in Australia's media code with Bing search engine Microsoft's Bing ready to step in if Google pulls search from Australia, minister says Paul Fletcher plays down Google threat and says government will not back down on news media code Published: 1 Feb 2021 Microsoft's Bing ready to step in if Google pulls search from Australia, minister says China blocks Microsoft's Bing search engine for one day Company says service – the only major foreign search engine available inside Great Firewall – was restored after outage Published: 24 Jan 2019 China blocks Microsoft's Bing search engine for one day Microsoft apologises after Bing translates ‘Daesh’ into ‘Saudi Arabia’ The text translator’s blunder put down to crowdsourced suggestions after anger from Saudi officials and social media called for countrywide boycott Published: 30 Aug 2016 Microsoft apologises after Bing translates ‘Daesh’ into ‘Saudi Arabia’ Is it cancer? Diagnosing yourself online is about to get easier People often search for their symptoms, but the right diagnosis can be hard to find. Google and Microsoft are working on ways to improve things Published: 14 Jul 2016 Is it cancer? Diagnosing yourself online is about to get easier EU wants Google, Microsoft to be more transparent about ads in search results The European Union’s digital chief says he is worried about how clear some search engines are when displaying advertisements in search results Published: 15 Apr 2016 EU wants Google, Microsoft to be more transparent about ads in search results How to use search like a pro: 10 tips and tricks for Google and beyond Searching with regular sentences will only get you so far – if you need to find something a bit tricky turn to these advanced yet simple methods Published: 15 Jan 2016 How to use search like a pro: 10 tips and tricks for Google and beyond Cities quiz Can you identify these world cities from their street plans alone? We’ve stripped out the street names and lost the labels – but can you still recognise the cities from their aerial views? Published: 30 Sep 2015 Can you identify these world cities from their street plans alone? Windows 10 sends identifiable data to Microsoft despite privacy settings Operating system contacts OneDrive, MSN and other services even if a user has activated privacy-protecting options, report discovers Published: 13 Aug 2015 Windows 10 sends identifiable data to Microsoft despite privacy settings Tech and the city Cracks in the digital map: what the 'geoweb' gets wrong about real streets Road maps, restaurant guides, the Yellow Pages ... the ‘geoweb’ has supplanted them all. But whether you use Google Maps or Yelp to find what you need, a closer look reveals that our digital urban mirror is full of chinks and distortions Published: 8 Jan 2015 Cracks in the digital map: what the 'geoweb' gets wrong about real streets Clip Art is dead: five things we miss from 90s tech With the demise of Clip Art, what other staples of 90s technology do we miss so much we want to use the cry-face emoji? Published: 5 Dec 2014 Clip Art is dead: five things we miss from 90s tech Dead, naked and famous – what the ‘most searched for celebrities’ list says about us Stuart Heritage Stuart Heritage: Exposed body parts, female pop stars, dead people – the Microsoft search engine Bing has produced a disturbing reflection of what people are curious about Published: 1 Dec 2014 Published: 1 Dec 2014 Dead, naked and famous – what the ‘most searched for celebrities’ list says about us About 89 results for Bing 1 Topics Microsoft Internet Computing Search engines Google US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top Close "

"Bridge | Sport | The Guardian"

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The Guardian view on bridging human and machine learning: it’s all in the game Published: 30 Mar 2022 The Guardian view on bridging human and machine learning: it’s all in the game How a cheating scandal brought down the Michael Jordan of bridge Lotan Fisher was a star at tables across the world. A new documentary explores how one of his rivals started an online detective case into his methods Published: 5 May 2021 How a cheating scandal brought down the Michael Jordan of bridge World’s No 1 bridge player suspended after failing a drugs test Geir Helgemo, the world’s No 1 bridge player, has been suspended until 20 November after failing a drugs test Published: 1 Mar 2019 World’s No 1 bridge player suspended after failing a drugs test Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer obituary Distinguished mathematician acknowledged as an expert on number theory who served on the University Grants Committee Published: 9 Jan 2019 Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer obituary Sportblog Olympics unlikely to be bridge too far for eSports if the money is right Andy Bull Distinctions between sports and games seem less important than the money that can be made from them, as one billionaire bridge ace proved by getting cards into the Asian Games Published: 18 Sep 2018 Published: 18 Sep 2018 Olympics unlikely to be bridge too far for eSports if the money is right Not the real deal: EU court rejects claim that bridge is a sport English Bridge Union loses long-running legal fight as judges rule a sport must involve ‘a not negligible physical element’ Published: 26 Oct 2017 Not the real deal: EU court rejects claim that bridge is a sport Bridge players believe change to tax status is on the cards European court of justice indicates it could look favourably on UK governing body’s longrunning claim that card game is a sport Published: 15 Jun 2017 Bridge players believe change to tax status is on the cards 3 out of 5 stars. Minnie and Liraz review – Lally Katz finds fun, feminism and heart in a retirement home 3 out of 5 stars. Australia’s aged care bridge scene may seem an odd place to set a play – but like all good sports dramas, it’s not just about the game Published: 18 May 2017 Minnie and Liraz review – Lally Katz finds fun, feminism and heart in a retirement home Winning hand? Bridge hopes court will declare it a sport English Bridge Union hopes to qualify for tax relief given to sports on grounds that it provides mental health benefits to participants Published: 2 Mar 2017 Winning hand? Bridge hopes court will declare it a sport Andy Zaltzman's Summer of Sport Le Tour, The Open and bridge at the Olympics – Andy Zaltzman's Summer of Sport Andy Zaltzman is joined by comedian Andy Parsons and the Guardian’s Emma John to ruminate on golf’s oldest championship; the intricacies of the Tour de France; and the merits of bridge as an Olympic event Podcast Published: 15 Jul 2016 Le Tour, The Open and bridge at the Olympics – Andy Zaltzman's Summer of Sport Thai military storm expats' bridge club after gambling tipoff Thirty-two people arrested for possession of playing cards, but none expected to be charged after bridge league president intervenes Published: 4 Feb 2016 Thai military storm expats' bridge club after gambling tipoff Shortcuts Not tennis too! Are there any 'clean' sports left? As top-level tennis is investigated over match-fixing allegations, is any sport free from the taint of corruption? Not if these tales of scandal – from curling cheats to bowls scams – are anything to go by … Published: 18 Jan 2016 Not tennis too! Are there any 'clean' sports left? Bridge players lose legal fight to classify card game as 'mind sport' English Bridge Union says it may appeal against high court ruling that Sport England was acting within the law in depriving it of central funding Published: 15 Oct 2015 Bridge players lose legal fight to classify card game as 'mind sport' Let’s play a game: is bridge a sport? Deborah Orr All these arguments over mental versus physical prowess just show how we tend to separate our brains from our bodies – but it’s a false distinction. To my mind, the great bridge debate is a sport in itself Published: 25 Sep 2015 Published: 25 Sep 2015 Let’s play a game: is bridge a sport? Brief letters England rugby players on shaky ground Published: 24 Sep 2015 Published: 24 Sep 2015 England rugby players on shaky ground Sportblog You know sport when you see it … and bridge is absolutely not a sport Marina Hyde Published: 23 Sep 2015 Published: 23 Sep 2015 You know sport when you see it … and bridge is absolutely not a sport Shortcuts A bridge too far: can a card game be considered a sport? Published: 22 Sep 2015 A bridge too far: can a card game be considered a sport? The panel The sports that should never be called sports Joel Golby and others Published: 22 Sep 2015 Published: 22 Sep 2015 The sports that should never be called sports About 320 results for Bridge 1 … next Topics Court of justice of the European Union Chess Artificial intelligence (AI) Computing Asia Pacific Soccer NFL Tennis MLB MLS NBA NHL F1 Golf News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top Close "

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Jane Martinson Their young audience made them the envy of the media’s old guard. But, ultimately, they couldn’t convert this into profit, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson Published: 20 May 2023 Published: 20 May 2023 Vice and BuzzFeed were meant to be the future of news. What happened? Vice is going bankrupt, BuzzFeed News is dead. What does it mean? Margaret Sullivan When it comes to news in the digital age, which journalism model will work? Published: 16 May 2023 Published: 16 May 2023 Vice is going bankrupt, BuzzFeed News is dead. What does it mean? Vice files for bankruptcy protection amid cut-price sale to consortium Digital publisher and owner of Vice News and Vice TV was once valued at $6bn but has agreed sale for $225m Published: 15 May 2023 Vice files for bankruptcy protection amid cut-price sale to consortium Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph Why are so many publications in trouble? 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"New cryptocurrency offers users tokens for scanning their eyeballs | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian"

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Photograph: John Stillwell/PA People having their eyeballs scanned for the Worldcoin scheme will receive a World ID that it says will prove they are a ‘real and unique person’. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA Cryptocurrencies New cryptocurrency offers users tokens for scanning their eyeballs Worldcoin, launched by CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, says scheme will distinguish between ‘verified humans’ and AI Tue 25 Jul 2023 09.47 EDT Members of the public are being invited to have their eyeballs scanned by a silver orb as part of cryptocurrency project that aims to use biometric verification to distinguish humans from AI systems. People signing up to the Worldcoin scheme via an app this week will receive a “genesis grant” of 25 tokens, equivalent to about £40, after having their iris scanned by one of the bowling ball-sized devices. Once users scan their eyes they will receive a World ID, which the scheme says will prove they are a “real and unique person” while preserving their privacy, and a crypto wallet on their smartphone. The project was launched by Sam Altman, of the machine learning research firm OpenAI , and on Tuesday the London orb at Techspace Worship Street, near Old Street tube station, was busy with potential users. Worldcoin promises that those scanning their irises will have their privacy protected. However, the Information Commissioner’s Office, the data regulator, said it was examining the scheme, telling Reuters: “We note the launch of Worldcoin in the UK and will be making further inquiries.” According to the company, Worldcoin will be a way to distinguish between real “verified humans” and AI systems. It seeks to establish universal access to the global economy “regardless of country or background”, and is described on its website as an opportunity to establish “a place for all of us to benefit in the age of AI”. The Worldcoin protocol works by giving biometrically verified users a digital identity in the form of a Worldcoin token, which claims to be the first crypto token to be globally and freely distributed to people just for being a real, unique person. Users will also gain access to the World App enabling payment, purchases and transfers globally using digital assets and traditional currencies. The project, in the works for more than three years and co-founded by Altman and a theoretical physics student, Alex Bania, launched officially on Monday with 2 million users from 33 countries having signed up and submitted to scans in its trial stages, predominantly from Europe, India and southern Africa. Altman and Bania said : “Worldcoin is an attempt at global scale alignment, the journey will be challenging and the outcome is uncertain. But finding new ways to broadly share the coming technological prosperity is a critical challenge of our time.” Altman, whose company is responsible for creating the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT and the image generator Dall-E 2, has previously called regulation of AI “essential” , and has supported regulated guardians for technology that would seek to minimise the harms while also allowing the benefits of artificial intelligence. Sign up to Business Today Free daily newsletter Get set for the working day – we'll point you to all the business news and analysis you need every morning Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. 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Photograph: Mateusz Słodkowski/Sopa Images/Shutterstock Local media have reported that more than 350,000 Kenyans had signed up for Worldcoin by this week. Photograph: Mateusz Słodkowski/Sopa Images/Shutterstock Cryptocurrencies Kenya halts Worldcoin data collection over privacy and security concerns Issues raised include use of eye scans to prove ‘humanness’ and financial inducements to sign up Global technology editor Thu 3 Aug 2023 06.17 EDT The Kenyan government has barred the eyeball-scanning Worldcoin cryptocurrency project from recruiting new customers as it investigates data privacy and security concerns. Kenya’s interior ministry said the venture must stop collecting user data after raising a number of issues including: concerns over the secure storage of data that includes scans of a user’s iris; that offering crypto in exchange for data “borders on inducement”; inadequate information on cybersecurity safeguards; and placing large amounts of private data in the hands of a private business. Joint Statement by CA and @ODPC_KE on operations of #Worldcoin in Kenya. @ikassait @ezraCHILOBA @ntvkenya @StandardKenya @citizentvkenya @KBCChannel1 @K24Tv @KTNNewsKE @MoICTKenya @EliudOwalo @ekisiangani @PeopleDailyKe @TheStarKenya @CapitalFMKenya @tv47news @NationAfrica pic.twitter.com/bx2IkjFqOe Worldcoin requires customers to have their eyes scanned in order to prove their “humanness” and distinguish them from artificial intelligence systems. Kenyans have been offered free Worldcoin tokens worth about 7,000 Kenyan shillings (£39) in order to sign up, with the project making a similar offer in other countries. Local media have reported that more than 350,000 Kenyans had signed up for Worldcoin as of Tuesday this week. The Worldcoin project, co-founded by the chief executive of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, Sam Altman, launched last week. It requires users to give their iris scans in exchange for a digital ID, and according to its co-founders could ultimately be the basis for a universal basic income funded by AI. Kenya’s interior ministry said on Wednesday that it had suspended the local activities of Worldcoin while government agencies assess potential risks to public safety. “Relevant security, financial services and data protection agencies have commenced inquiries and investigations to establish the authenticity and legality of the aforesaid activities,” said the Kenyan interior minister, Kithure Kindiki, in a statement. A preliminary review of Worldcoin’s operations has raised concerns, said the Communications Authority of Kenya and the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in a further statement, among them being that obtaining consumer consent in return for a monetary award bordered on inducement. The statement cited similar concerns being voiced by authorities in German, France, India and UK, where the domestic data watchdog has said it will be “making further inquiries” about the project. The Worldcoin Foundation, a Cayman Islands-based entity, said it would work with authorities to boost understanding of privacy measures it has in place in Kenya and elsewhere. Sign up to Business Today Free daily newsletter Get set for the working day – we'll point you to all the business news and analysis you need every morning Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. 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"Elon Musk unveils Grok, an AI chatbot with a ‘rebellious streak’ | Elon Musk | The Guardian"

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Photograph: Reuters Elon Musk in conversation with Rishi Sunak in London last week. Photograph: Reuters Elon Musk Elon Musk unveils Grok, an AI chatbot with a ‘rebellious streak’ Boss of X said tech being tested is inspired by Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Global technology editor Sun 5 Nov 2023 06.58 EST Elon Musk has unveiled Grok, an artificial intelligence chatbot with a “rebellious streak” inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Tesla CEO, who warned last week that AI was “one of the biggest threats to humanity”, said the competitor to ChatGPT would be made available to premium subscribers on his X platform after testing. Musk also revealed that Grok had access to user posts on X , which he owns, and has a penchant for sarcastic responses. Grok has real-time access to info via the 𝕏 platform, which is a massive advantage over other models. It’s also based & loves sarcasm. I have no idea who could have guided it this way 🤷‍♂️ 🤣 pic.twitter.com/e5OwuGvZ3Z Musk posted an apparent example of Grok’s playful tone with a screengrab of a query to the chatbot asking it for a “step by step” guide to making cocaine. The four steps outlined in the reply include “obtain a chemistry degree” and “set up a clandestine laboratory in a remote location”. However, the chatbot adds at the end: “Just kidding! Please don’t actually try to make cocaine. It’s illegal, dangerous, and not something I would ever encourage.” xAI’s Grok system is designed to have a little humor in its responses pic.twitter.com/WqXxlwI6ef Musk said Grok, which is in early testing and not available to the general public, would ultimately be released to subscribers to X’s top-tier subscription service, Premium+. Grok is a verb coined by American science fiction writer Robert A Heinlein and according to the Collins dictionary means to “understand thoroughly and intuitively”. Grok has been built by Musk’s new AI company, xAI. Staff at xAI explained the chatbot’s debt to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the cult sci-fi comedy by British author Douglas Adams , in a blogpost on Saturday. “Grok is an AI modeled after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask! “Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor!” The xAI team said Grok was powered by a large language model – the fundamental technology behind AI chatbots – called Grok-1. The blogpost said Grok-1 had surpassed GPT-3.5, the model used in the freely available version of ChatGPT, on some benchmarks such as solving middle-school maths problems. However, xAI said it lagged behind the most powerful ChatGPT model, GPT-4. Sign up to TechScape Free weekly newsletter Alex Hern's weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion “It is only surpassed by models that were trained with a significantly larger amount of training data and computer resources like GPT-4.” The xAI team said Grok was being made available to a limited number of users in the US as a prototype, adding that “new capabilities and features” would be rolled out in the coming months. According to the Grok website , initial access to the chatbot is being offered to X subscribers under an “early access program”. Musk co-founded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, but stepped away from the company in 2018, saying he “didn’t agree with some of what OpenAI team wanted to do”, as well as citing commitments at his other companies. Musk has expressed fears about the pace of development at companies like OpenAI and in March he supported a call for a six-month pause in developing powerful systems. However, in July Musk said a pause no longer seemed realistic and announced the formation of xAI , which he said would build AI systems “in a good way”. Speaking at the AI safety summit at Bletchley Park last week , Musk said AI was a threat to humanity, echoing fears among some experts and tech executives that systems could emerge that evade human control and make decisions that imperil humanity. “I mean, for the first time, we have a situation where there’s something that is going to be far smarter than the smartest human,” he said. Musk then predicted on Thursday that AI – the term for computer systems that can perform tasks typically associated with intelligent beings – would replace all human jobs. 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"Amazon to invest up to $4bn in OpenAI rival Anthropic | Amazon | The Guardian"

"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/25/amazon-invest-openai-rival-anthropic-microsoft-chat-gpt"

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Amazon is investing up to $4bn in Anthropic and taking a minority stake in the artificial intelligence startup. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP The Amazon logo at the Vivatech show in Paris. Amazon is investing up to $4bn in Anthropic and taking a minority stake in the artificial intelligence startup. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP Amazon Amazon to invest up to $4bn in OpenAI rival Anthropic Tech company plays catchup after Microsoft’s deal with ChatGPT developer in January Mon 25 Sep 2023 08.38 EDT Amazon is to invest up to $4bn (£3.2bn) in the startup Anthropic, which has created a rival to ChatGPT called Claude, as the Silicon Valley giant seeks to keep pace with rivals including Microsoft and Google in the race to dominate the artificial intelligence space. Under the terms of the deal, Amazon will invest an initial $1.25bn into Anthropic, which was founded about two years ago by former research executives from the ChatGPT developer OpenAI , and take a minority stake in the business. Amazon said its investment in Anthropic, which recently announced its new AI chatbot Claude 2, can be increased to up to $4bn. “We have tremendous respect for Anthropic’s team and foundation models, and believe we can help improve many customer experiences, short- and long-term, through our deeper collaboration,” said the Amazon chief executive, Andy Jassy. Amazon’s move to strike a strategic partnership with a successful AI startup follows Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar deal with OpenAI in January, which included becoming its exclusive cloud provider. Under the terms of Amazon’s deal, Anthropic will use Amazon Web Services as its primary cloud provider for the “majority of workloads”, although it is not an exclusive arrangement, and use AWS-designed chips in the foundation models that underpin its AI applications. Foundation models are large AI programs trained on vast amounts of data, so they can be adapted to solve a wide range of tasks. Amazon is seeking to make its Trainium and Inferentia chips viewed as alternatives to those developed by Nvidia, the early market leader in the generative AI space, for training and running models. As part of the deal, Anthropic will provide customers that use Amazon’s AWS services with early access to unique features for “model customisation and fine-tuning capabilities”. Sign up to Business Today Free daily newsletter Get set for the working day – we'll point you to all the business news and analysis you need every morning Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. 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"Sunak’s global AI safety summit risks achieving very little, warns tech boss | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian"

"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/20/rishi-sunak-global-ai-safety-summit-connor-leahy"

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Photograph: Pitinan Piyavatin/Alamy The UK government hopes the summit will mark a turning point in how advanced AI technology is developed. Photograph: Pitinan Piyavatin/Alamy Artificial intelligence (AI) Sunak’s global AI safety summit risks achieving very little, warns tech boss Big tech firms attempting to ‘capture’ meeting of heads of government, says Connor Leahy and Fri 20 Oct 2023 07.16 EDT One of the executives invited to Rishi Sunak’s international AI safety summit next month has warned that the conference risks achieving very little, accusing powerful tech companies of attempting to “capture” the landmark meeting. Connor Leahy, the chief executive of the AI safety research company Conjecture, said he believed heads of government were poised to agree a style of regulation that would allow companies to continue developing “god-like” AI almost unchecked. Leahy is one of just 100 people, including foreign government ministers, tech executives and civil society figures, who have been invited to November’s summit at Bletchley Park, which Downing Street is hoping will mark a turning point in how advanced AI technology is developed. Officials have published an agenda for the summit that refers to the importance of “responsible capability scaling” – the idea that companies should develop their cutting-edge models according to a set of guidelines. However Leahy and others believe that there should be a complete moratorium on developing artificial general intelligence – AI models that can accomplish tasks at a human or beyond-human level of intelligence. Leahy said: “The primary aim of responsible scaling is to provide a framework which looks like something was done so that politicians can go home and say: ‘We have done something.’ But the actual policy is nothing.” Leahy and others have launched a campaign called Control AI to urge policymakers to go further and use the Bletchley Park summit to implement a pause on developing the most sophisticated forms of AI. Like some others in the industry, Leahy believes humanity is at risk if humans develop an AI system that learns how to evade human control. “If you build systems that are more capable than humans at manipulation, business, politics, science and everything else, and we do not control them, then the future belongs to them, not us,” he said. “The AI companies in particular and other organisations around them are trying to capture the summit, lock in a status quo of an unregulated race to disaster,” he added. Leahy cited a recent interview with the CEO of the AI firm Anthropic, Dario Amodei, who said the chances of an AI system going “catastrophically wrong on the scale of … human civilisation” was between 10% and 25%. Leahy said: “If you are building a machine that has such a chance then my suggestion is: don’t do it.” A government spokesperson said the summit was the start of a “global conversation” on AI and would welcome “diverse viewpoints”. However, Leahy’s comments echo recent warnings from others in the world of AI. Sign up to Business Today Free daily newsletter Get set for the working day – we'll point you to all the business news and analysis you need every morning Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has warned about the ‘existential risk’ posed by digital intelligence. Geoffrey Hinton, the man known as the “godfather of AI”, recently quit Google to sound a warning about what he called the “existential risk” posed by digital intelligence. Weeks later, a group of senior executives from the AI industry including Leahy released a one-sentence statement saying: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war.” Warnings such as this prompted Sunak to call the summit for 1-2 November. It is designed to act as a forum for heads of state and technology executives to discuss these issues in person for the first time. British officials have been touring the globe encouraging heads of state to attend the conference, which they hope will be the first in a series of such summits. Eric Schmidt, the former Google chief executive, and Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Inflection and DeepMind, called this week for international leaders to set up a global panel of experts on AI akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. UK officials say they support such a body but that agreeing the finer points of how it should work would be better left for discussions at the UN. Instead, UK government sources say they are hoping to see any sign of the AI industry slowing down its development of artificial general intelligence, saying such a move would be unprecedented in the technology’s history. Leahy, however, argues that vague promises to proceed with responsible development of advanced AI will not be enough, adding that doing so would amount to a victory for technology companies over regulators. A government spokesperson said: “The AI safety summit will bring together a wide array of attendees including international governments, academia, industry and civil society, as part of a collaborative approach to drive targeted, rapid international action on the safe and responsible development of AI.” “As is entirely normal for summits of this nature, we do not confirm attendees this far in advance. This is the start of the global conversation on frontier AI risks and we welcome diverse viewpoints – this is a strength of the summit.” Explore more on these topics Artificial intelligence (AI) Technology sector Rishi Sunak Regulators news More on this story More on this story Sam Altman ‘was working on new venture’ before sacking from OpenAI 2h ago John Legend and Sia among singers to trial AI versions of voices with YouTube 3d ago Like horses laid off by the car: BT tech chief’s AI job losses analogy draws anger 9 Nov 2023 AI could cause ‘catastrophic’ financial crisis, says Yuval Noah Harari 9 Nov 2023 ‘A kind of magic’: Peter Blake says possibilities of AI are endless for art 5 Nov 2023 Elon Musk unveils Grok, an AI chatbot with a ‘rebellious streak’ 5 Nov 2023 No utopia: experts question Elon Musk’s vision of world without work 3 Nov 2023 ‘Bletchley made me more optimistic’: how experts reacted to AI summit 3 Nov 2023 AI could pose risk to humanity on scale of nuclear war, Sunak warns 2 Nov 2023 When Musk met Sunak: the prime minister was more starry-eyed than a SpaceX telescope 3 Nov 2023 … … Most viewed Most viewed US World Environment US Politics Ukraine Soccer Business Tech Science Newsletters Wellness News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle About us Help Complaints & corrections SecureDrop Work for us Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms & conditions Contact us All topics All writers Digital newspaper archive Facebook YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Back to top "

"CMA to investigate UK cloud computing market amid Microsoft and Amazon concerns | Technology sector | The Guardian"

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Photograph: Rafael Henrique/Sopa Images/Shutterstock Amazon and Microsoft dominate the UK cloud computing market, with Ofcom concerned about the ability to switch or mix and match providers. Photograph: Rafael Henrique/Sopa Images/Shutterstock Technology sector CMA to investigate UK cloud computing market amid Microsoft and Amazon concerns Media watchdog refers £7.5bn sector to competition regulator after being ‘particularly concerned’ about position of market leaders Global technology editor Thu 5 Oct 2023 07.19 EDT The UK communications regulator has referred the country’s £7.5bn cloud computing market to the competition watchdog for a formal investigation after a study raised concerns about industry leaders Amazon and Microsoft. Ofcom has asked the Competition and Markets Authority to launch an inquiry, saying it is “particularly concerned about the position of the market leaders Amazon and Microsoft”. Cloud computing, or the delivery of IT services such as data storage and computing power over the internet with a pay-as-you-go pricing structure, is widely used by businesses and has emerged as a significant piece of infrastructure in the development of the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models. Fergal Farragher, the Ofcom director who oversaw the watchdog’s study into the cloud market, said companies had expressed concerns about the difficulty of switching or mixing and matching cloud providers. Industries ranging from TV production to telecoms networks and AI “rely on remote computer power that goes unseen”, he said. “Some UK businesses have told us they’re concerned about it being too difficult to switch or mix and match cloud provider, and it’s not clear that competition is working well. So, we’re referring the market to the CMA for further scrutiny to make sure business customers continue to benefit from cloud services.” Ofcom also said the profits generated by Amazon and Microsoft from their operations pointed to competition issues. “High levels of profitability for the market leaders AWS [Amazon’s cloud unit] and Microsoft indicate there are limits to the overall level of competition,” the regulator said. Microsoft and Amazon together control up to 80% of the £7.5bn UK cloud computing market, with Google the next closest with up to 10%. Ofcom said its concerns about the market included: costly exit fees for transferring data to another provider, particularly those charged by the three market leaders; difficulty combining your computing needs across different cloud providers; and the structuring of discounts for committing a certain level of spend with market-leading cloud suppliers. “These market features can make it challenging for some customers to switch or use multiple cloud providers,” said Ofcom. “This can make it difficult to bargain for a good deal with their provider, or to mix and match the best quality services across different providers.” The CMA confirmed on Thursday morning it had launched an investigation into the market after the Ofcom referral and had established a group to investigate cloud computing. Sarah Cardell, the chief executive of the CMA, said: “This is a £7.5bn market that underpins a whole host of online services – from social media to AI foundation models. Many businesses now completely rely on cloud services, making effective competition in this market essential. “The CMA’s independent inquiry group will now carry out an investigation to determine whether competition in this market is working well and, if not, what action should be taken to address any issues it finds.” Sign up to Business Today Free daily newsletter Get set for the working day – we'll point you to all the business news and analysis you need every morning Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion The CMA will set out the scope of its probe soon and is expected to complete the investigation, including potential remedies if it finds anti-competitive practices in the cloud market, by April 2025. AWS said the company disagreed with Ofcom’s findings, adding that they were based on a “fundamental misconception of how the IT sector functions”. The spokesperson said: “UK companies, and the overall economy, benefit from robust competition among IT providers, and the cloud has made switching between providers easier than ever. “Any unwarranted intervention could lead to unintended harm to IT customers and competition. AWS will work constructively with the CMA.” A Microsoft spokesperson said the company was committed to a competitive UK cloud industry and would engage with the CMA investigation. 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"Good Luck Trying to Fix the Supply Chain Crisis | WIRED"

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"Open Navigation Menu To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Backchannel Business Culture Gear Ideas Science Security Merch To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Search Backchannel Business Culture Gear Ideas Science Security Merch Podcasts Video Artificial Intelligence Climate Games Newsletters Magazine Events Wired Insider Jobs Coupons Chris Stokel-Walker Business Good Luck Trying to Fix the Supply Chain Crisis Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Save this story Save Save this story Save “The whole system is totally fucked,” says Peter Cole, owner of Australian ecommerce company Urban Plant Growers. Two months after it was due to arrive in Sydney, Cole’s $1.6 million order of hydroponic kits and lights, packed into two 40-foot shipping containers aboard a ship that set sail from Shenzhen, China, is still floating somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. It never used to be this way. In the before times, Cole’s kit was manufactured, shipped, and ready to sell to his customers in a little over six weeks. Then everything broke down. Cole isn’t alone. A perfect storm of global issues have combined to break the just-in-time supply chains that keep the world going. From the Ever Given getting stuck in the Suez Canal to Covid-19 changing the way we shop , the world is also contending with China’s rapid shift away from coal power. In response, a system that used to run relatively smoothly is now in tatters. “Any one of the issues that led to this would have caused problems,” says Enda Breslin of ShipBob, a global fulfillment firm. “But all of them put together have caused these massive issues we’re hearing about right now.” The ramifications are enormous, from spiking prices for Christmas presents to a run on Black Friday bargains , empty supermarket shelves , nonexistent car sales , and a frantic grab for the shipping containers usually used to pack and send items around the globe. The issues knocking the supply chain out of kilter runs the gamut from enormous government interventions to the global pandemic shutting ports. But the best place to start, says Marc Levinson—author of two books on shipping containers—is with politicians. “We had governments all over the world stimulating consumption in the face of the pandemic,” he says. The UK, for example, set out a package of economic stimuluses in the summer of 2020 that was specifically designed to get people shopping on high streets. In the US, stimulus checks sent directly to citizens resulted in a 4.2 percent month-on-month increase in consumer spending in March 2021. We’ve also been encouraged to spend our money online, requiring a rapid retooling of the way that businesses work. For decades, the retail industry’s reliance on shipping has had what Breslin calls “a beautiful stability”: Retail grew 2 percent every year; retailers would publish two catalogs of new products every 12 months, allowing stores to buy their stock in advance. “There was no resilience built into the system,” says Breslin. “That complacency was borne out of years of success.” Then everything changed. We began spending far more money online, and the way we live our lives changed. Everyone scrambled to buy a desk for their home office , then there was a run on patio furniture and flour. And they all have to be made and shipped from somewhere: China, which just so happened to be ground zero of the pandemic, with the government determined to take a zero-sum approach to the virus. Cole expected skyrocketing sales over the Christmas period, but right now he doesn’t know if his goods will make it to Australia in time for the holiday shopping season. “It’s going to severely damage our sales and company,” he says. “We can’t sell anything if we don’t have it.” Cole’s experience hints at the range of factors currently buckling the global supply chain. First, the items were manufactured incorrectly, which Cole’s suppliers blamed on the rationing of power in China as the country attempts to lurch away from coal power; then Cole’s contacts in China couldn’t find a cargo ship to fulfill the order. Cole believed his two 40-foot shipping containers were going to be loaded onto a vessel near Shenzhen on November 13, but the items didn’t make it to sea until November 19. “Even after it left port, it’s meant to be an 11-day sailing between Shenzhen and Sydney, but they’ve added another three days,” says Cole. He isn’t certain that the items will end up onshore even then, and there’s no guarantee that the Australian side will be smooth, either. “Usually it’s a two-day turnaround to get stuff from the port to the warehouse, but I have absolutely no confidence,” he says. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg That inability to trace orders accurately is an issue across the shipping supply chain, says Levinson, and it exacerbates the broader issues. “There’s no real-time traceability of most shipments moving through the freight system,” he says. “That’s why things are scattered to the four winds and things have gone missing.” That uncertainty has been compounded by severe supply chain disruptions over the past year, from last-minute closures of ports due to Covid outbreaks—as happened in Ningbo, the world’s third-busiest port, in August 2021— to the temporary blockage of the Suez Canal, through which 12 percent of all global trade passes, in March 2021. China has also demanded 20 of its largest cities and provinces reduce energy consumption for the rest of the year to try and meet environmental targets, causing factories and industry to work for only part of the day. The result? A global slowdown in the supply chain that has thrown everything into chaos—and made shipping items across the globe more expensive than ever. “The economics of shipping are great for the ship lines,” says Levinson. “They’re making record profits.” While shipping rates have long been unbalanced, with higher costs to send a shipping container from Asia to Europe than Europe to Asia, costs across the board have soared. Shipping a single 40-foot container from Shanghai to Los Angeles in early August 2019, for example, cost $1,700. A year later, it had risen to $3,000. By August 2021, it cost $10,200, according to data tracked by analyst firm Drewry World Container Index. Cole has previously paid around $2,500 to ship a single 20-foot container from China to Australia. Now it’s $5,500. “I’m a little bit worried when I see the bills for my 40-foot containers,” he says. “I don’t get the bills until the container lands in port.” At such high prices, many bigger businesses are avoiding the traditional shipping industry and going it alone, finding it more economical to do so. Costco has chartered three container ships that will work to deliver goods to the US and Canada from production facilities in Asia, as have Walmart, Ikea, and Home Depot. “Inflationary factors abound,” Costco’s chief financial officer Richard Galanti told investors when announcing the company’s most recent financial results. “Higher labor costs, higher freight costs, higher transportation demand, and port delays, increased demand in certain product categories, various shortages of everything from computer chips to oils and chemicals, and higher commodities prices” have all had an impact on the retailer’s business, Galanti added. Those that haven’t chartered their own vessels are feeling the impact. Half of lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret’s products are stuck at sea. The rest are being flown in—but that now takes nine days rather than two, because the race to snap up supply flights is causing backlogs there too. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg Nor is the issue going away any time soon. Drewry forecasts that global shipping operations will not return to normal until the end of 2022 —an estimate supported by Breslin. It’s boom time for shipping operators, who are expected to make earnings before interest and taxes of $150 billion this year. For everyone else, it’s a major headache. “People have lost sales because they didn’t have enough stock to sell, or have been sitting on too much stock,” says Breslin. “No CEO of a large retailer or brand is ever going to want to be in that position again.” The answer, he believes, is a wholesale reworking of how the supply chain operates—one he compares to the way the internet’s protocols were first drawn up in the late 1960s. “It was made to be nuclear strike-resistant,” he says. Similar slack needs to be built into the supply chains of the future, with sops to nearshoring production so shorter supply chains don’t move markets as much as they have now. Just as no one thing broke the global supply chain, no one thing can fix it. Governments are playing their part. “We’re seeing them tighten economic policy,” says Levinson. “We’re seeing signs that interest rates are going to rise, and that’s going to take some of the fizz out of consumer spending.” But a drop in consumer demand won’t undo the fundamental changes the pandemic and climate crisis have wrought. When the proverbial storm dies down, retailers rueing lost stock and wasted investment will push for changes: shorter shipping routes, more frequent stock updates, and potentially a push toward preorders, rather than just-in-time fulfillment. All that will be far too late for Cole, stuck with stock at sea and the prospect of a sky-high shipping bill for items unlikely to arrive in time for the holiday shopping season. “It’s hurt us a lot already,” he says. “But there’s not much we can do about it.” 📩 The latest on tech, science, and more: Get our newsletters ! 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"How Long Could the World Run on Geothermal Power? | WIRED"

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"Open Navigation Menu To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Backchannel Business Culture Gear Ideas Science Security Merch To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Search Backchannel Business Culture Gear Ideas Science Security Merch Podcasts Video Artificial Intelligence Climate Games Newsletters Magazine Events Wired Insider Jobs Coupons Rhett Allain Science How Long Could the World Run on Geothermal Power? Thermal vents in Iceland's Kerlingarfjöll Mountains. The Earth contains a mind-boggling amount of heat energy below the surface. Photograph: Martin Zwick/Getty Images Save this story Save Save this story Save Pop quiz: Of all the different ways of generating electricity or getting things (like cars) to do work, which of them don’t use energy from the sun? Fossil fuels? Nope. Millions of years ago, primeval plants drew energy from the sun to grow. But alas, those plants died and turned into stuff like oil, and then you burned it in your car. So, from a certain point of view, that gasoline is liquid solar energy—with a really long build-up time. Wind energy? Well, where does wind come from? A major contributor is the uneven heating of Earth’s atmosphere. That makes the air in one place expand and push out to other places, and that motion is what we call wind. As the moving air pushes on the blades of a wind turbine, it turns a generator to produce electricity. Hydroelectric? This uses a decrease in gravitational potential energy as water moves down a river to turn a turbine. But the water gets that potential energy from the sun: Solar radiation heats up water, mostly from the sea, so it evaporates. Eventually that turns into rain and runs into lakes and rivers to repeat the cycle. (OK, water can also evaporate without sunlight, but the sun is a major player here.) That leaves just two major energy technologies, nuclear and geothermal, that aren’t beholden to the sun. A nuclear power plant makes steam to spin a turbine. The energy comes from breaking apart high-mass atoms like uranium into smaller pieces. Since the mass of the products is slightly less than the mass of the starting atom, you get energy. We know that from Einstein's famous E = mc 2 equation. But where does the starting atom get this energy? The answer: an exploding star. The extreme energy of a supernova creates conditions to fuse smaller elements into heavier ones. Then, billions of years later, we get that energy back in a nuclear reactor. Now for geothermal. Maybe this is the best power source we have—it uses the thermal energy from the interior of the Earth to create electrical energy. It's like free money. But you should always question free money (or free energy). So, here are two things to consider: Where does this thermal energy even come from? And how long would this energy source last before we used it up? This is the fun part. How about a short explanation along with an estimation? Hot things have energy—we call this thermal energy. The amount of energy ( ΔE ) you get from a hot object depends on three things: its mass ( m ), its change in temperature ( ΔT ), and its specific heat capacity ( C ): Illustration: Rhett Allain Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg What the heck is specific heat capacity? This is a term that tells you how much energy per mass per degree Celsius an object has. It depends only on the type of material. If you have a gram of water and a gram of styrofoam at the same temperature, the water will have more energy because it has a higher specific heat capacity. This means you need to know the kind of material you are getting energy from; for geothermal, it's mostly rock near the surface and iron in the core. For the interior of the Earth, this thermal energy comes from two sources: gravity and radioactivity. The gravity part has to do with the formation of the planet. Stuff in the early solar system had a gravitational attraction to other stuff such that it "fell" together. As chunks of matter moved together, they increased in speed and collided, getting hotter. So, you go through this process of changing from gravitational potential energy to an increase in kinetic energy and then finally an increase in thermal energy. The same thing happens when you drop something on the floor. The object might have started off with gravitational potential energy, but then it ended up on the ground with a slightly higher temperature. That's what happened with the Earth. OK, but that was a long time ago. Why is it still hot? It’s true that the Earth has been cooling off for like 5 billions years, radiating energy out into space. But the reason it’s still hot inside has to do with the physics of scale. In short, big things are not like small things. The thermal energy in the interior of the Earth is proportional to its volume , which scales as the cube of the planet’s radius ( r 3 ). The radiant loss of energy goes through the surface of the Earth, which is proportional to the square of the radius ( r 2 ). What that means: If you double the radius, the thermal energy increases by a factor of 8 (= 2 3 ), but the surface area increases only by a factor of 4 (= 2 2 ). So the larger object, the longer it takes to cool off. That's why the moon's interior is much cooler than the Earth's. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg The gravitational formation of the Earth is not enough to account for its current interior temperature, though. The other source of energy is the radioactive decay of some heavier elements like uranium, thorium, and potassium. So how long would it take to use up all of our planet’s thermal energy? That depends on how much there is and how fast we deplete it. Let's start by estimating the total thermal energy in the Earth. Just to be clear, estimations are like onions—no, not because they make you cry. It's because estimations have layers. ( Parfaits have layers too , and they don’t make you cry.) At the outermost layer of this estimation problem, I can just use some rough assumptions. I like to start simple and see how far I get; you can always drill down and complicate things later if it seems necessary. So let's just start with the following data: Radius of Earth: 6.371 x 10 6 meters Mass of Earth: 5.972 x 10 24 kilograms Temperature of Earth’s interior: 1,000 to 5,000 degrees Celsius Specific heat capacity of Earth’s interior: 800 (iron ) to 2,000 (rock) joules per kilogram per degree Celsius As you can see, I don't have single values for the temperature and the specific heat capacity, because these vary as you move out from the core to the rocky crust. So, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to use the values that give me the smallest total energy. My suspicion is that even with low-end values, the total energy is going to be HUGE. Let's do it. I'm going to calculate the energy for a change in temperature from 1,000 Celsius to 100 Celsius. Since I'm a huge fan of using Python for my calculator, here is the answer. You can change the assumptions by clicking on the pencil icon, then hit Play to rerun the code. That’s a lot of energy. If you used all of it to charge your iPhone , you’d get about 10 26 charges. Yes, that's crazy. But you know what else is crazy? The amount of energy humans use. So how long would it last if we went 100 percent geothermal? Let's start by reviewing the difference between power and energy. The energy is the thing I just calculated. Power is the rate of energy use. Illustration: Rhett Allain Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg If the energy is measured in joules and the time is in seconds, then power would be in units of watts. Just to give you a feel for this, a normal human riding on a bike can produce about 100 watts. If I know the power and the total energy (from above), then I can calculate the time it would take to use all this energy. So, let's say there are 8 billion people on Earth. If they all lived in the US, then a typical household would use an average of about 1 kilowatt. With 4 humans in a house, that would be 250 watts per person. Of course that's too high. Other humans on the planet don't have access to that much energy. I wouldn't be surprised if the average over the whole planet was lower than 100 watts, but again, to be conservative, I'm going to go with the higher value. Now I can calculate the time to use the 4 x 10 30 joules in the Earth with a power of 800 billion watts (100 watts × 8 billion people). Oh, one more thing. I'm going to assume that the transfer of thermal to electrical energy isn't 100 percent efficient. Let's say that only 10 percent of the thermal energy gets converted into useful stuff. Here's what I get: This is great news. Even with these low-end estimates, We should be able to get 17 billion years of free power—without any carbon dioxide emissions or nuclear waste. That's longer than the sun will survive. I, for one, look forward to our geothermal-powered overlords. Inside Devs , a dreamy Silicon Valley quantum thriller Algae caviar, anyone? 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"2021 Was a Huge Missed Opportunity on Climate Action | WIRED"

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"Open Navigation Menu To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Backchannel Business Culture Gear Ideas Science Security Merch To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Search Backchannel Business Culture Gear Ideas Science Security Merch Podcasts Video Artificial Intelligence Climate Games Newsletters Magazine Events Wired Insider Jobs Coupons Matt Simon Science 2021 Was a Huge Missed Opportunity on Climate Action Illustration: Jenny Sharaf; Getty Images Save this story Save Save this story Save Just like that, a pandemic-fueled glimpse of a better world is growing hazy—or smoggy, to be more precise. As civilization locked down in early 2020—industries ground to a halt, more people worked from home, and almost no one traveled—global carbon dioxide emissions crashed by 6.4 percent , and in the United States by 13 percent. In turn, air quality greatly improved. Life transformed, sure enough, but that transformation was fleeting. Scientists warned that the drop would be temporary because economies would roar back stronger than ever to make up for lost revenue. Indeed, by the end of 2021, emissions have now returned to pre-pandemic levels. “What we witnessed was more or less one year of emissions decline that would help put us on a reasonable trajectory,” says environmental economist Mark Paul of the New College of Florida. “But there was also tremendous pain for tens of millions who lost their jobs.” There are lots of ways to fight climate change, but relying on a pandemic to force (temporary) reform ain’t it. Really, 2021 should have been a year of civilizational reassessment—instead, we’re pretty much back where we started. “People are still driving internal-combustion engines. People are still turning on their lights powered by coal and other fossil fuels. I really think nothing fundamentally changed,” Paul says. “It was a temporary blip that I think highlights how big the lift is.” The pandemic year did, however, offer some solid clues for how to tackle longer-term changes—if we’re willing to make that shift. One place to start is, literally, with work. The US Congress and the White House have been floating the idea of a Civilian Climate Corps , a reimagining of the Civilian Conservation Corps that employed 3 million workers during the Great Depression. It would mobilize Americans to plant trees in cities, thus mitigating the urban heat island effect , and deploy them to prepare the landscape against catastrophic wildfires , floods , and other ravages of climate change. The government would provide people with income and stimulate the still-reeling economy, all in a larger quest to prepare the nation for a hotter future. But nearly two years after the start of the pandemic, the Civilian Climate Corps has yet to materialize. Yes, Biden’s social bill, which is currently languishing in Congress, allocates $555 billion to climate programs. Of that, $30 billion would go to hire 300,000 people for the corps. But it’s not nearly enough, Paul says. He thinks the program should employ more like 9 million people over its lifetime, which he estimates will take hundreds of billions of dollars. Sure, concerned citizens could volunteer their time with any number of nonprofits that work on climate action. But the scale of the problem demands a solution only the government can provide. “The government provides people with opportunities to join the military and to go serve their country,” says Paul. “But for those who are less interested in international conflict and are more interested in preserving a safe and habitable planet for themselves and future generations, their government essentially says, Hey, you're out of luck. ” This year, the US took at least a step toward the future of renewables. In November, Congress finally passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill , of which some $154 billion is to fund climate programs. It allocates money for updating our ancient, busted grid ; puts $7.5 billion toward a vast network of chargers to power electric vehicles; will expand access to clean drinking water ; and funds investments in research hubs for clean energy technologies like advanced nuclear reactors. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg Think of this kind of government spending like an investment in the economy and in public health. “There’s literature saying that renewables can potentially actually create more jobs than fossil fuels,” says Sha Yu, a senior scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who studies climate change. We’re talking five times the number of jobs in the green energy sector by 2050, according to one international team of scientists. “And, clearly it has the benefits of improving air quality in different regions,” Yu continues. “So it's a low-hanging fruit that is cost-effective, but it also creates additional co-benefits for the overall society.” Yet that's just the first step in a very long journey that's barely begun. If the United States is going to hit Biden’s goal of going net-zero by the year 2050—meaning both reducing the emission of greenhouse gases and pulling them out of the atmosphere —the nation will need to reduce emissions 8 percent per year, every year. But when you turn on your lights in the US in the year 2021, there’s still an 80 percent chance the energy is coming from fossil fuels. And since the average car in America lasts 16 years, a whole lot of carbon-spewing vehicles are going to be zooming around for years to come. “In fact,” Paul argues of the infrastructure bill, which allocates over $100 billion to fix roads, bridges, and highways, “massive investments in roads will continue to support our vehicle-dependent culture, and will really limit the transition into a more sustainable transportation economy.” By Katie M. Palmer and Matt Simon One of the roadblocks is that the US can’t fully shift to renewables until the national grid gets fixed. (Technically, it’s three grids: one for the East, one for the West, and one for Texas. ) The main challenge is intermittency : The sun doesn’t always shine on solar panels in the Southwest, and wind doesn’t always blow turbines in the Midwest. Ideally, a unified grid would allow the sharing of energy across the whole country to port it to wherever it’s needed. But that isn’t possible yet. A secondary problem is that the system isn’t ready for the spike in demand from an increasing number of EVs plugging into it. “Our electricity grid is just in urgent need of modernization,” says Paul. The government needs to invest tens of billions of dollars a year in the grid for many years to come, Paul says, but the infrastructure bill allocates $65 billion once. “So we're talking about really pennies on the dollar.” Modernizing the grid to accommodate renewables requires big structural changes, and that's going to take time. But not everything will. “There are things that can cut emissions very quickly, like [addressing] methane leaks from the oil and gas industry,” says Jonathan Foley, executive director of the nonprofit Project Drawdown, which advocates for climate action. “Just go out and plug the leaks. There's no infrastructure required, just money and wrenches.” Methane is 80 times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide, but it also disappears from the atmosphere much more quickly; if you stop producing it, you see a rapid response in the climate. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg Stopping deforestation is another quick fix, Foley says. The rotting trees in dying forests release greenhouse gases, whereas healthy forests sequester carbon in trees and in soils. But this isn’t as easy as just throwing seeds across a landscape and calling it a day. An ecosystem needs to grow back to its previous biodiverse glory, which will make it far more resilient to climate change than a mono-cropped plantation of a single tree species. Another less obvious climate solution might be making people more aware of their electricity use. For all the pain the pandemic visited upon humanity, it did hint at a more energy-efficient way of living, especially for those who had the privilege of working from home. In the US, energy demand typically peaks when people get home from work and start cooking and running their appliances. That’s around the time the sun sets, when solar power generation drops off. Since there aren’t large-scale ways to store that renewable energy to use on-demand, power plants have to spin up to meet it by burning fossil fuels. But in the future, occupational flexibility could translate into energy flexibility: Instead of charging their EVs and running the washing machine when they get home, more people could do those tasks during the day, when demand is lower and the sun is burning bright. “As we have more solar, we're going to have more and more electricity being produced around noon,” says Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez, director of the Renewable Energy and Advanced Mathematics Lab at UC San Diego. “So if we can move as much of our electricity demand as we can to match the profile of renewable generation, that's the best way that we could incorporate more solar power at the cheapest cost.” Still, Foley points out that individual change just isn’t enough to cut it. And nobody wants to go back to a world of shuttered businesses and limited movement. “Having everybody stay at home, and other people getting laid off, and a lot of economic activity not happening probably isn't the way we want to decarbonize the world,” says Foley. Some of the biggest lifts—like updating the grid, regulating emissions, and other systematic changes—will have to be shouldered by governments alone. But Foley suggests that others will work better if the government partners with consumers and fronts the funding for better choices. “The government doesn't know how to spend money very efficiently,” says Foley. “We throw large amounts of money around and often are disappointed afterward. And so I'm actually more attracted to lots of smaller initiatives instead of the big grandiose ones to get all the attention.” Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg Take, for example, the government’s power to incentivize homeowners to adopt greener technologies, which has previously been done by using rebates and tax breaks to accelerate the purchase of solar panels. “The government didn't make solar get cheap—it was Chinese manufacturing that made solar cheap,” says Foley. “But the government helped by adding more capital to that accelerating curve.” Now, he thinks, the same kinds of tax breaks and other incentives could be turned toward other devices, like heat pumps, which transfer heat in and out of a home instead of generating heat. Heat pumps don’t burn fuel like a furnace does, so they can instead run on clean energy, and they’re more efficient, saving homeowners hundreds of dollars a year. Hell, if billionaires really wanted to fight the climate crisis they helped create, they’d do it with heat pumps which, OK, aren’t particularly sexy. “I wish Jeff Bezos would buy $10 billion worth of heat pumps and have Amazon deliver them and then install them with local contractors in your home,” says Foley. “That would have a much bigger impact than whatever he's probably doing and forever tip the price from an old technology to a new technology. It suddenly becomes the better, cheaper, cooler choice.” So maybe 2021 wasn’t a total loss when it comes to climate action. The infrastructure and social bill funds may not be enough to fix the grid, but they can help nudge the US toward renewables. The Civilian Climate Corps, should it ever get through Congress, may arrive too late to stimulate the pandemic economy, but its members can still fan out to fortify the landscape against climate change. And some of the changes people made to adapt to pandemic life—working from home more often, commuting less, not taxing the electrical grid every night at exactly 6 pm—may be habits worth keeping when the world fully opens up again. Maybe then it won’t just be a glimpse of a better world. Maybe it will be more like a vision. 📩 The latest on tech, science, and more: Get our newsletters ! 4 Dead Infants, a Convicted Mother, and a Genetic Mystery Your rooftop garden could be a solar-powered farm Robots won’t close the warehouse worker gap soon Our favorite smartwatches do much more than tell time Hacker Lexicon: What is a watering hole attack ? 👁️ Explore AI like never before with our new database 🏃🏽‍♀️ Want the best tools to get healthy? 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"Weather forecasting is having an AI moment | MIT Technology Review"

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"Featured Topics Newsletters Events Podcasts Featured Topics Newsletters Events Podcasts Weather forecasting is having an AI moment Plus: AI-text detection tools are really easy to fool. By Melissa Heikkilä archive page Stephanie Arnett/MITTR | Envato, Wellcome Collection This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Is it hot where you are? It sure is here in London. I’m writing this newsletter with a fan blasting at full power in my direction and still feel like my brain is melting. Last week was the hottest week on record. It’s yet another sign that climate change is “out of control,” the UN secretary general said. Punishing heat waves and extreme weather events like hurricanes and floods are going to become more common as the climate crisis worsens, making it more important than ever before to produce accurate weather forecasts. AI is proving increasingly helpful with that. In the past year, weather forecasting has been having an AI moment. Three recent papers from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, and Huawei have introduced machine-learning methods that are able to predict weather at least as accurately as conventional methods, and much more quickly. Last week I wrote about Pangu-Weather , an AI model developed by Huawei. Pangu-Weather is able to forecast not only weather but also the path of tropical cyclones. Read more here. Huawei’s Pangu-Weather, Nvidia’s FourcastNet , and Google DeepMind’s GraphCast , are making meteorologists “reconsider how we use machine learning and weather forecasts,” Peter Dueben, head of Earth system modeling at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), told me for the story. ECMWF’s weather forecasting model is considered the gold standard for medium-term weather forecasting (up to 15 days ahead). Pangu-Weather managed to get comparable accuracy to the ECMWF model, while Google DeepMind claims in an non-peer-reviewed paper to have beat it 90% of the time in the combinations they tested. Using AI to predict weather has a big advantage: it’s fast. Traditional forecasting models are big, complex computer algorithms based on atmospheric physics and take hours to run. AI models can create forecasts in just seconds. But they are unlikely to replace conventional weather prediction models anytime soon. AI-powered forecasting models are trained on historical weather data that goes back decades, which means they are great at predicting events that are similar to the weather of the past. That’s a problem in an era of increasingly unpredictable conditions. We don’t know if AI models will be able to predict rare and extreme weather events, says Dueben. He thinks the way forward might be for AI tools to be adopted alongside traditional weather forecasting models to get the most accurate predictions. Big Tech’s arrival on the weather forecasting scene is not purely based on scientific curiosity , reckons Oliver Fuhrer, the head of the numerical prediction department at MeteoSwiss, the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology. Our economies are becoming increasingly dependent on weather, especially with the rise of renewable energy, says Fuhrer. Tech companies’ businesses are also linked to weather, he adds, pointing to anything from logistics to the number of search queries for ice cream. The field of weather forecasting could gain a lot from the addition of AI. Countries track and record weather data, which means there is plenty of publicly available data out there to use in training AI models. When combined with human expertise, AI could help speed up a painstaking process. What’s next isn’t clear, but the prospects are exciting. “Part of it is also just exploring the space and figuring out what potential services or business models might be,” Fuhrer says. Deeper Learning AI-text detection tools are really easy to fool Within weeks of ChatGPT’s launch, there were fears that students would be using the chatbot to spin up passable essays in seconds. In response to those fears, startups started making products that promise to spot whether text is written by a human or a machine. Turns out it’s relatively simple to trick these tools and avoid detection. Snake-oil alert: I’ve written about how difficult—if not impossible—it is to detect AI-generated text. As my colleague Rhiannon Williams reports, new research found that most of the tools that claim to be able to spot such text perform poorly. Researchers tested 14 detection tools and found that while they were good at spotting human-written text (with 96% accuracy on average), that fell to 74% for AI-generated text, and even lower, to 42%, when that text had been slightly tweaked. Read more. Bits and Bytes AI companies are facing a flood of lawsuits over privacy and copyright What America lacks in AI regulation, it makes up for in multimillion-dollar lawsuits. In late June, a California law firm launched a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that the company violated the privacy of millions of people when it scraped data from the internet to train its model. Now, actor and comedian Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for scraping her copyrighted work into their AI models. These cases, along with existing copyright lawsuits by artists , could set an important precedent for how AI is developed in the US. OpenAI has introduced a new concept: “superalignment” It’s a bird ... It’s a plane ... It’s superalignment! OpenAI is assembling a team of researchers to work on “superintelligence alignment.” That means they’ll focus on solving the technical challenges that would be involved in controlling AI systems that are smarter than humans. On one hand, I think it’s great that OpenAI is working to mitigate the harm that could be done by the superintelligent AI it is trying to build. But on the other hand, such AI systems remain wildly hypothetical, and existing systems cause plenty of harm today. At the very least, I hope OpenAI comes up with more effective ways to control this generation of AI models. ( OpenAI ) Big Tech says it wants AI regulation, so long as users bear the brunt This story gives a nice overview of the lobbying happening behind the scenes around the AI Act. While tech companies say they support regulation, they are pushing back against EU efforts to impose stricter rules around their AI products. 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"Open Navigation Menu To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Backchannel Business Culture Gear Ideas Science Security Merch To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Search Backchannel Business Culture Gear Ideas Science Security Merch Podcasts Video Artificial Intelligence Climate Games Newsletters Magazine Events Wired Insider Jobs Coupons Sara Harrison Science The Quest to Make a Bot That Can Smell as Well as a Dog Scientists are trying to crack the code of how smell works—and create robots that can sniff out the world's secrets like a dog. Bobby Doherty Save this story Save Save this story Save The dogs still make Andreas Mershin angry. “I mean, I love dogs,” says the Greek-Russian scientist, in his office at MIT. “But the dogs are slapping me in the face.” He pulls up a video to show me what he means. In it, a black dog named Lucy approaches a series of six stations, each separated by a small barrier. At every one, a glass cup of human urine with a screened lid sits at the level of the animal’s nose. Lucy takes a brief sniff of each sample, sometimes digging her snout in to get a better whiff. She is performing a kind of diagnostic test: searching for the telltale scent of prostate cancer, which, it turns out, leaves a volatile, discernible signature in a man’s pee. Discernible if you’re a dog, anyway. When Lucy finds what she’s looking for, she sits down and receives a treat. Among humans—whose toolmaking prowess has given the world self-driving suitcases and reusable rocket boosters—prostate cancer is notoriously difficult to detect. The prevailing method is to check a patient’s blood for elevated levels of a protein called prostate-specific antigen. But the test has a miserable track record. The scientist who first discovered PSA has described the test as “hardly more effective than a coin toss.” A false positive can lead to a prostate biopsy, a harrowing procedure that involves inserting a large, hollow needle through the wall of the rectum to retrieve a tissue sample from the prostate itself. Properly trained dogs , on the other hand, can detect prostate cancer with better than 90 percent accuracy, and with sleek, tail-­wagging efficiency. In the video, Lucy works her way through six samples in just a couple of minutes. This drives Mershin up the wall. “We have $100 million worth of equipment downstairs. And the dog can beat me?” he says. “That is pissing me off.” Related Stories Neural Nets Jordana Cepelewicz The A.I. Issue Clive Thompson Machine Dreams Tom Simonite Mershin is not a doctor. He’s a physicist by training. He runs a lab called the Label Free Research Group, which exists to spite the boundaries between physics, biology, materials science, and information science. In his office, Mershin keeps a pair of sunglasses that can measure brain waves, along with magazines on aviation and books on urology, the physics of consciousness, and coding in Python. He speaks rapidly in an accent that sits somewhere between his two native languages, and he changes subjects at the slightest provocation. He refuses to wear matching socks, because why should socks match? He is short and round, with a mane of strawberry blond curls that bounce when he gets excited. Mershin’s lab, where he keeps that $100 million worth of equipment, sits a few floors down from his office at MIT. In one room, researchers are trying to invent new colors; in another, to create the lightest, strongest materials on earth. But I’m here because this facility is doing some of the most important research in the world toward developing AO—artificial olfaction. Plenty of robots these days can see, hear, speak, and (crudely) think. But good luck finding one that can smell. In part, that’s simply because olfaction has always been deeply underrated by humans—a species of cerebral, hypervisual snobs. Kant dismissed smell as the “most dispensable” of our five senses. One 2011 poll found that 53 percent of people ages 16 to 22 would rather give up their sense of smell than give up their smartphones and computers. But in the past several years, it has become increasingly clear that smell, in the right snout, can be a kind of superpower. For millennia, humans have prized dogs for their tracking abilities ; police and armed forces have long used them to sniff out bombs , drugs, and bodies. But since about the early 2000s, an avalanche of findings has dramatically expanded our sense of what dogs can do with their noses. It started when researchers realized that canines can smell the early onset of melanoma. Then it turned out they can do the same for breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, and ovarian cancer. They can smell the time of day in the movement of air around a room; sense diabetic episodes hours in advance; and detect human emotional states in the absence of visual cues. And it’s not just dogs. Tipped off by a Scottish nurse with a highly attuned nose, scientists have recently learned that people with Parkinson’s disease begin emitting a distinct “woody, musky odor” years before they show symptoms. Andreas Mershin believes we don’t have to understand how mammals smell to build an artificial nose. He’s betting that things will work the other way around. All this adds up to a revelation not just about dogs but about the physical world itself. Events and diseases and mental states leave reports in the air—ones that are intelligible to highly attuned olfactory systems but otherwise illegible to science. Smell, it appears, is sometimes the best way of detecting and discriminating between otherwise hidden things out in the world. And often, the next -best method of detecting that same thing is expensive (gas chromatography/mass spectrometry) or excruciating (tissue biopsies) or impossible (mind reading). Unfortunately, the other reason we don’t have robots that can smell is that olfaction remains a stubborn biological enigma. Scientists are still piecing together the basics of how we sense all those volatile compounds and how our brains classify that information. “There are more unknowns than knowns,” says Hiroaki Matsunami, a researcher at Duke University. Mershin, however, believes that we don’t really have to understand how mammals smell to build an artificial nose. He’s betting that things will work the other way around: To understand the nose, we have to build one first. In his efforts with a brilliant mentor named Shuguang Zhang, Mershin has built a device that can just begin to give dogs—his panting adversaries—a run for their money. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg In May 1914, Alexander Graham Bell delivered a commencement address to some high school students in Washington, DC. The 67-year-old inventor of the telephone gave a peculiar speech—a crotchety ode to observation, measurement, and gumshoe curiosity. He spent much of his time proposing areas of investigation for his teenage audience to take up. “Did you ever try to measure a smell?” he asked. “What is an odor? Is it an emanation of material particles in the air, or is it a form of vibration like sound?” he asked. “If it is an emanation, you might be able to weigh it; and if it is a vibration, you should be able to reflect it from a mirror,” he went on. “If you are ambitious to found a new science, measure a smell.” More than a century later, no one has yet been able to measure a smell, and there is even still some debate as to whether smell is a vibration or a chemical interaction between particles. (The vibration theory is far more controversial, but no one understands olfaction well enough to dismiss it entirely.) In fact, it wasn’t until 1991 that scientists were able to map the basic genetic and physiological building blocks of mammalian olfaction. That year, biologists Linda Buck and Richard Axel published a seminal paper; they discovered about 1,000 genes that code for about 1,000 olfactory receptors in mice, and they showed that those receptors are the beginning of a mammal’s sense of smell. They live in the olfactory epithelium, a thin piece of tissue that sits at the top of the nasal cavity, right where it meets the skull. When we take a deep breath, we suck the volatile molecules in the room up our noses toward those receptors. When the receptors interact with molecules, they set off a chain reaction that ends by sending a message to our brains. As for the precise nature of those interactions, Buck and Axel could only theorize. They posited a sort of lock-and-key relationship between the olfactory receptors in our noses and the molecules in the air. But the number of receptors they discovered instantly posed a mathematical problem. Humans have about 400 kinds of olfactory receptors (far fewer than mice), but we can smell about 10,000 distinct odors. So Buck and Axel theorized that smell was combinatorial. Each receptor, their research showed, is uniquely primed to react to a few different molecules, and our noses sense distinct odors when many receptors fire at the same time. John Kauer, then a researcher at Tufts University, relates the idea to playing chords on a piano. “The piano only has 88 notes,” he says. “If you were only able to use one note per odor, you could only detect 88 different odors.” If odors are more like chords, then the math suddenly works out. Inspired by Buck and Axel, who won the Nobel Prize in 2004 for their work, Mershin and other scientists conceived of odors as simply lists of molecules. If you want to understand the smell of a clove of garlic, the thinking went, the answer lies in its chemical components. “Somewhere in these mol­ecules,” Mershin believed through the mid-2000s, “the smell of garlic is written.” After Buck and Axel released their major findings, it didn’t take long before the first major efforts to build an artificial nose got underway. Darpa wanted to replace dogs as a tool for finding land mines, so beginning in 1997, it poured $25 million into a program called Dog’s Nose. The agency funded scientists across the country to build a bunch of would-be sniffing machines and then brought them to a field in Missouri for testing. The ground was sown with every manner of land mine, from small antipersonnel devices the size of tuna fish tins to hefty antitank munitions. Although stepping on the mines could no longer set them off—the fuses had been removed—the buried explosive ordnance could still be set off by, say, a lightning strike. “As soon as there was any hint of a thunderstorm,” says Kauer, who participated in the program, “we evacuated.” Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg Kauer had built a gray, shoebox-sized device that he eventually christened the ScenTrak. His gadget wasn’t equipped with actual olfactory receptors. Instead, it was packed with long strands of molecules called polymers that Kauer knew would react to DNT, a molecule common in most land mines. When the ScenTrak came across an explosive, the DNT bound to the polymers, causing the ScenTrak to set off an alert. “Land mine!” the box cried. At least, that’s how it worked in ideal conditions. ScenTrak was able to pick out nearby traces of DNT in the air of an otherwise odorless lab. Out in the field, though, when Kauer scanned the ScenTrak back and forth over a patch of ground, it became confused. The polymers would react to DNT, but also to the weather, to plants, or to certain kinds of soil. Other devices in the competition, including one called Fido and another called Cyranose, were based on roughly the same theory. They all used polymers sensitive to specific compounds. And they all proved somewhat narrowly functional. (Fido is now used at military checkpoints to scan for explosives at close range.) But these devices don’t really smell , any more than, say, a carbon monoxide sensor can smell. They often misfire in scent-rich environments where odors—apparently made of some of the same compounds—may waft in from various nonexplosive sources. In part, that’s because the theory these devices were built on was too reductive. Today, most scientists believe that the lock-and-key theory of olfactory bonding is far too simple. In some cases, it turns out, molecules with very similar shapes have completely different odors; in others, very differently shaped compounds smell alike. A molecule’s shape, in other words, is not synonymous with its smell. Instead, many receptors bind to many different molecules and vice versa. But each receptor has what some scientists call a distinct “affinity” for each molecule. It’s that special affinity, the theory now goes, along with the combinatorial nature of olfactory reactions, that accounts for unique scents. The piano doesn’t just have 88 keys that can form chords; it also has pedals and dynamics. “You hit piano keys at different strengths, heavy and light and so on,” Zhang says. “Heavy, you get one sound; light, you get another sound.” Or to put it another way: The theory of smell just gets more complicated. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg Dogs are not perfect sniffers themselves. They get frustrated and tired. They feed off their owners’ emotions. And of course, dogs don’t scale. Bobby Doherty Mershin and Zhang are an odd yet harmonious pair. Mershin rarely takes the same path twice. When we lose our way walking from the MIT cafeteria to his office, he confesses that he frequently gets lost—“in my thoughts too, intellectually as well as geographically,” he says. By his own account, he is dyslexic, synesthetic, pink/gray color blind, face blind, and has attention deficit disorder. Sometimes he will forget his own address. He is also insatiably, compulsively curious. He once devised a game for his children that involved having them soak a cotton ball in perfume, blindfold themselves, and then try to find the cotton ball after it had been hidden. In addition to noses, he is building houses in Namibia out of mushrooms and working with a postdoctoral fellow on ways to remove heavy metals from water. “For my life, it doesn’t fit to do just one thing,” he says. “But I do like to work with people who are very focused and do one thing really well.” Zhang is that person. Where Mershin is restless, Zhang, who runs his own research group called the Laboratory of Molecular Architecture, is deliberate and slow. He believes you have to go deep on one project, one question. “For science to be successful you have to focus,” he says. “You cannot be distracted by other things.” In 2003, Zhang was looking for a new project, and he zeroed in on olfactory receptors. Even after Buck and Axel’s pioneering work, no one had ever been able to get an actual look at one—either under a microscope or by using x-ray crystallography. That’s part of the reason olfaction is such an enigma. At the most basic level, we can’t directly observe what those tiny receptors are doing. Are they in fact binding with molecules? How? Do other factors like humidity or other compounds affect how those receptors respond? No one knows. Zhang wanted to change that—by figuring out some way to see an olfactory receptor. “We decided to work on something mysterious and take some years to figure it out,” he says. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg Here’s what Zhang knew, going into his quest: Olfactory receptors are membrane proteins, and they are complicated, alien little structures. Each receptor is shaped like a long string that winds back and forth through the thin membrane that separates a cell from the outside world. If that complicated winding pattern is ever interrupted or changed, the receptor won’t work. And if the receptor is tilted or upside down? It won’t work either. About half of any olfactory receptor sits outside the cell, ready to interact with molecules. Then a middle section sits inside the cell membrane, and the rest resides inside the cell. When the exterior part of the receptor binds to a molecule, it changes shape, and the cell sends a message to your brain. While the heads and tails of an olfactory receptor—the parts that sit inside and outside the cell—love water, its middle section is hydrophobic, like the cell membrane that encases it. That means that when you take the receptors out of a cell and put them in water, they tend to clump together instead of dissolving, which makes them nearly impossible to isolate and work with. Zhang has been toiling away at his goal since 2003. At one point, he spent eight years simply trying to create water-soluble receptors. (“And it’s solved,” he says. “It’s done.”) But even still, he has never succeeded at seeing a receptor. Nor has anyone else. They are simply too small. Zhang describes that basic interaction between the odor molecule and the receptor as a “total black box.” Still, Zhang’s work did prove to be very useful when, in 2007, Darpa launched a second smell project, called RealNose. Spurred by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, RealNose had a new mission and a new sense of urgency. Instead of searching for land mines, the mechanical noses needed to be able to identify IEDs, which were laying waste to American troops. And this time, scientists couldn’t use polymers or other synthetic devices to mimic what the receptors did. They had to use mammalian olfactory receptors as their sensors. Zhang had a big advantage over other scientists competing for those Darpa grants. Thanks to his work, he had one of the only labs in the world that had experience growing olfactory receptors in embryonic cells and then working with them in the lab. But Mershin wasn’t thrilled about Darpa’s requirements. “For many, many, many months I rebelled,” he says. He didn’t want to bother with those finicky olfactory receptors, and he tried to convince Darpa that its requirement was a bad idea. Why did they need to use the actual, biological structure when it would be easier to use something synthetic? Something that wouldn’t stop working just because it was tilted or upside down? “Sure, we want to fly like birds, but we don’t build jet engines out of feathers,” he thought. “We want something better than birds!” Mershin just wanted a sensor that could tell you what molecules were present in a room. But he didn’t want to miss out on the funding, so he conceded. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg Mershin and Zhang decided they would grow a bunch of olfactory receptors in their lab and then essentially smear them onto a circuit board. They figured, statistically speaking, that if they slathered on enough receptors, they’d wind up with enough of them oriented in the right direction. Then they would connect the circuit boards to an electrical current. When the receptors interacted with volatile compounds, they would change their shape, just like they do in a regular nose. But instead of sending a message to a brain, the interaction would be recorded as a simple blip in electrical current. On a clear day in early spring, Mershin leads me into his lab and rifles through some cardboard boxes and equipment until he unearths a container of old artificial nose prototypes. In one hand, he pulls out a plastic bottle with two metal nozzles haphazardly held in place with epoxy. From his other hand, a thin plastic chip dangles from some electrical wires. “This here is the first nose,” he says. It was a failure. The receptors seemed to work, but the bottle was too big; smells would linger too long for the scientists to get a clear reading. So they followed it up with more proto­types, experimenting with different ways to deliver the right odiferous blast of air to the chip, and to different numbers of chips. From his hopper of prototypes, Mershin eventually pulls out the device, called the Nano-Nose, that he and Zhang ultimately submitted to Darpa. The whole contraption is about the size of an extra-large roasting pan and is emblazoned with the words "Property of the US Federal Government." “Because it was for Darpa,” Mershin says, “we had to make it look bulletproof.” After all their prototypes, they had eventually homed in on a design that used an array of eight circuit boards, each about the size of a credit card. Inside that bulletproof metal housing, each board sat in a separate airtight bay, capable of receiving its own puff of odor and responding with its own electrical pattern. Smells could be sent into the box, and directed to each board, by an air pump that mimics taking a deep sniff. Zhang and Mershin built the device in a 15-month sprint, and it still wasn’t finished when Darpa’s deadline arrived. When it came time to show their work, Mershin loaded up a large van with the contents of nearly an entire lab—hoses, tubes, pipes, syringes, a 300-pound optical table, and a frequency generator worth $70,000—and drove it from Boston to Baltimore. He even brought their own odor delivery system: a modified inkjet printer called the StinkJet. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg Mershin had originally envisioned putting a supercomputer underneath the Nano-Nose that would dig through databases listing thousands of compounds and print out those the nose registered. But they’d never gotten around to that part. Instead, they resorted to what Mershin thought of as a hack. During lunch breaks, the team would rush the nose back to their hotel room, soldering pieces onto it to keep improving it while ordering room service. Darpa had given them a list of odorants that their machine would be asked to recognize. So first off, Mershin and Zhang sent those odorants through the Nano-Nose and recorded its responses; the idea was to train the nose, with the help of a laptop and a ­pattern-matching algorithm, on what it was supposed to be smelling for. Then, in the actual test, they would sample each mystery odorant eight times—once through each of the eight bays—and run it through a gauntlet of varying electrical conditions. This amounted to a process of elimination, meant to help the pattern-matching algorithm filter out false positives. It wasn’t as sophisticated as a data-mining super­computer, but they thought it might work. The Darpa tests were highly controlled. Mershin and his team were not allowed to be in the room with their machine while the trial was running, and Mershin wasn’t even allowed to go to the bathroom without a security escort. During lunch breaks, the team would rush the nose back to their hotel room, soldering pieces onto it to keep improving it while ordering room service. In the end, the mad dash paid off. The Nano-Nose passed the sniff-off and was able to sense isolated odors in the lab. It even beat dogs in a controlled environment, sniffing out odors in lower concentrations than canines could detect. And it didn’t need a super­computer. In fact, Mershin says, the Nano-Nose was better without it. To him, the project revealed a fundamentally important aspect of olfaction: Our noses are not analytical tools. They don’t analyze the components of a scent. “The molecule is what carries the message,” Mershin says, but you can’t understand what our perception will be just from knowing the molecule. “We thought that when you sniff something, a list of molecules and concentrations comes up,” he says. “Not the case.” As it turned out, Mershin’s hack actually mirrors how mammals process smells. Instead of giving equal computational attention to all the compounds we inhale, our brains hierarchically sort information based on what’s important to us. We can tune out smells in a room if we’re not interested. Our receptors are still sensing compounds, but our brains aren’t paying attention. Conversely, if we narrow our attention on the signals our receptors are sending, we can pick out the subtle scent of shallots or fennel in a pasta sauce brimming with the competing scents of tomato, peppers, and garlic. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg Mershin realized that to understand smell and to use it as a tool, he didn’t need a list of molecules. He needed to know what something smelled like, not what it was made of, and those are fundamentally different things. “It was the biggest lesson I’ve ever had in my entire scientific career,” he says. “We thought we understood how noses worked. We didn’t know anything about how noses worked.” On a warm Sunday in September, I go searching for bones with a German shepherd named Kato, who has been trained to find human remains. Kato and his owner, Peggy Thompson, volunteer with law enforcement agencies. They help look for lost hikers, wildfire casualties, and victims of crimes. We shut Kato in the house and set up a crime scene in Thompson’s picturesque one-acre yard, perched on a hillside overlooking San Jose. Out of her garage she pulls a bag of bones, a jar of teeth, and some bloody gauze. “Every time I have a procedure I ask if I can keep the dressings,” she says without a hint of humor. “It’s legal in California to possess human remains.” She pushes a clump of desiccated human skin under my nose. It smells musty and human in an inexplicable but unsettling way. We scatter a few bones and teeth across her gravel driveway, under some bushes, and on the lawn. She wedges the skin into the knot of a small tree. When we let Kato out and Thompson tells him to “search,” the formerly friendly pup is suddenly all business. He weaves his way back and forth, moving deliberately, nose to the ground. He finds the skin within five minutes. The rest of the bones and teeth take another 10 at most. As impressive as the Nano-Nose is, it will take more than a boxful of blipping circuit boards to replicate everything Kato does when he’s tracking a scent. Paul Waggoner, a scientist who studies canine olfaction at Auburn University, estimates we are “decades away” from creating machines that could successfully compete with natural olfactory abilities. Waggoner, who also has his own patented training program for detection dogs, argues that machines break down early in the smelling process. “It all starts with the sampling,” he says. Essentially, machines don’t sniff very well. Dogs inhale and exhale about five times every second, through nostrils that route the intake and outward flow of breath through different channels. All that snorting creates a pressure differential—a kind of smell vortex—that helps them pull a rich, new sample into their nose with each sniff. And while the Nano-Nose might be able to narrow its focus on a target scent, a dog’s ability to do so over great distances is stunning. What happens in Kato’s brain when he finally catches that scent? Well, no one knows. The higher up the chain we go, from olfactory receptors to how the brain processes and understands that information, “the darker and darker it gets,” Waggoner says. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg Still, dogs are not perfect sniffers themselves. On a second visit with Thompson, I watched another dog, a 3-year-old Malinois named Annie, completely lose focus on tracking down a bone when she encountered several pigs in a nearby field. “When dogs aren’t used to stuff, it’s very difficult,” Thompson explains. Dogs get frustrated and tired. They feed off their owners’ emotions. And of course, dogs don’t scale. Highly trained bomb- and disease-sniffing dogs are in short supply and expensive, as much as $25,000 per pooch. Already, the US security sector doesn’t have enough dogs to cycle through all the different agencies—from the TSA and local law enforcement to the military—that need them. Medical detection dogs are even trickier: Not only are there very few of them, they don’t exactly plug easily into a medical setting. Despite all of the incredible findings in the past several years—the 90 to 100 percent accuracy rates at detecting early cancer—medical detection dogs have not been widely adopted as diagnostic helpers. Back in the lab at MIT, Mershin pulls a blue box off a shelf. It’s filled with a jumble of green, blue, and black wires. It looks like one of those boxes we all keep in a closet somewhere, filled with cords and cables that belong to gadgets we’ve lost or upgraded. But plugged into several of these wires, I see a white, plastic credit-card-shaped object. This is their new Nano-Nose, revised and dramatically shrunk down from the metal-clad, Darpa-tested box. (The wires and cords are all peripherals, meant for pumping odors and electrical current into the nose.) Over the past few years, Zhang has continued to tinker with the olfactory receptors he and Mershin use in their Nano-Nose. Most importantly, he’s stopped growing them in embryonic cells, having devised a way to cultivate them in a biologically inert form. It all happens in a test tube now. The receptors are still tricky to handle—Mershin says they are by far the most difficult aspect of the device—but these are more stable and malleable than their organic counterparts. Mershin and Zhang have also progressively shrunk the Nano-Nose’s circuit boards. That means the entire apparatus could now be attached to a port on a bioreactor to sniff what’s happening inside. It could go inside a factory and smell products for quality control or be put inside a grain silo to smell for food spoilage. But Mershin and Zhang say they have no interest in turning their research into a business at the moment. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg So far, the only company daring enough to design a commercial technology that uses olfactory receptors—with a design very similar to the Nano-Nose—is a small Silicon Valley startup called Aromyx. In some ways, it is even more ambitious than Mershin and Zhang. The Nano-Nose uses only about 20 kinds of receptors and customizes each nose depending on its purpose. But Aromyx wants to pack all 400 human olfactory receptors onto its EssenceChip, a 3- by 5-inch plastic plate dotted with small wells to hold the receptors. When the EssenceChip is exposed to an odor, the receptors fire and the chip records that activation pattern. What’s the smell of Coca-Cola? Or Chanel No. 5? The answer, again, isn’t a list of molecules. “It’s a pattern of receptor responses,” says Aromyx founder Chris Hanson. Thus far, Aromyx has stabilized only a few of those 400 receptors. As they add receptors, the thinking goes, their digital olfactory rendering will become finer and more detailed. “This is a window into human sensory experience,” Hanson says. If so, it’s a fragile one. Aromyx still grows its receptors in yeast cells, and the company has struggled to put together a basic product for a demo. When Aromyx recently changed offices and moved seven miles from Palo Alto to Mountain View, some of its cell lines were destroyed in the shuffle. As for Mershin, he is embarrassed by how messy the Nano-Nose still looks, but his curls start bouncing when we talk about its potential applications. Right now, the Nano-Nose is just a detector. It can’t interpret the data it collects. But Mershin and Zhang want to make it smart—like a dog. And that’s where Mershin’s tormentors, the prostate-cancer-sniffing dogs from the video, come in. It turns out Mershin is not just competing with the canines, he’s also collaborating with them. In his office, Mershin gives me the place of honor: a black velour chair where Florin, another prostate-cancer-detection dog, sat when she came to visit. Florin and Lucy belong to a group in the UK called Medical Detection Dogs, which has trained many of the animals that have been able to sniff out cancers. Right now, Mershin and Zhang are training an AI system on a bunch of data, some of it collected by Medical Detection Dogs on how their animals responded to specific urine samples—whether they alerted to cancer, how long they lingered, and the like—and some of it collected by Mershin and Zhang when they ran the same urine samples through a gas chromatographer/mass spectrometer. Mershin says these streams of data will help them select which receptors they need to put into the Nano-Nose. But the main event will come when he runs those same urine samples through the Nano-Nose and begins collecting data on its responses. Then he’ll mine all three data sets for correlations. Mershin already has all the urine frozen in his lab, ready to go. The idea is to ultimately run a kind of Turing test, but for smell—to imitate the dogs’ results until no one can differentiate between the Nano-Nose’s reactions and a canine’s. If all goes well, the Nano-Nose will become more than just a sensing device; it will be a true diagnostic tool. The richer the database, the better the nose will be. Ultimately, Mershin wants to see the Nano-Nose incorporated into your cell phone. He imagines using this intimate version of his device—one that rests at all hours against its owners’ body—to collect longitudinal data about its wearer’s health. Eventually, the nose would be able to alert you to get that mole on your thigh checked out, or warn you that your blood sugar is dropping dangerously low, or perhaps that you’ve started emitting the woody, musky odor of Parkinson’s disease. The Nano-Nose could accompany you everywhere and keep tabs on you in ways that doctors never could. Everything that a dog can detect via smell, it would detect. Business What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI Steven Levy Business Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond Will Knight Gear Humanity’s Most Obnoxious Vehicle Gets an Electric (and Nearly Silent) Makeover Boone Ashworth Security The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry Andy Greenberg That’s a powerful idea, but it’s also an unsettling one. How much control over your odor profile data would you retain? And if your phone is capable of sniffing you, what other devices would do the same? In a world where digital olfactory sensors have become small enough to fit into your pocket, presumably they’ll end up elsewhere—much the way video cameras did before them. If your diseases and mental states leave suddenly legible reports in the air, no doubt people besides you and your doctor will be curious to read them. (Your insurance company, for instance.) Poppy Crum, chief scientist at Dolby Labs, is rooting for technologies like the Nano-Nose, which she believes could democratize the early diagnosis of disease. But she also sees artificial olfaction as one of a host of rising technologies—some much farther along than others—that use sensors and data to suss out otherwise hidden inner states. Those technologies all require new standards for transparency and user control of data—standards that aren’t going to come from companies or researchers. “I think that’s something that has to be legislated,” Crum says. 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Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email A vaguely worded terms of service update made a lot of people think their private meetings were being used to feed Zoom’s AI machine. David Espejo/Getty Images The week isn’t even half over and it’s already been a bad one for Zoom, the videoconferencing service that boomed during the pandemic. It’s facing yet another privacy scandal, this time over its use of customer data to train artificial intelligence models. And its recent demand that its employees return to the office is a bad sign for the completely remote work life that Zoom’s eponymous product tried to help make possible. vox-mark Sign up for the newsletter Vox Technology Get weekly dispatches from Vox writers about how technology is changing the world — and how it’s changing us. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email (required) Oops. Something went wrong. Please enter a valid email and try again. Yes, the company that became synonymous with videoconferencing at a time when seemingly everyone was remote is now saying that maybe not everything can be done apart. It’s not just Zoom that’s doing this — there is a larger trend of companies calling their employees back to the office after months or years of working from home — but it seems particularly ironic in this case. Now, Zoom’s not making everyone come back all the time. Its recent memo to employees says that everyone who lives within 50 miles of a Zoom office will have to work out of it at least twice a week. This “structured hybrid approach,” the company said in a statement to Vox, “is most effective for Zoom.” “We’ll continue to leverage the entire Zoom platform to keep our employees and dispersed teams connected and working efficiently,” the company added. It’s not the best look when a company that relies on people doing as many things remotely as possible wants its employees to do some things together. If even Zoom, the company that helped Make Remote Work Possible, doesn’t want its employees to work remotely all the time, it might be time to Zoom wave away your dreams of working from home every day. Lots of people are still using Zoom, of course. But the company has fallen back down to Earth as more people went outside and needed Zoom less. Its stock price is back to roughly where it was before the pandemic; it expressed concern in its most recent annual report that it will not be able to convert enough of its large free user base to paid subscribers to remain profitable. Like many tech companies , Zoom had a round of layoffs , cutting 1,300 jobs — 15 percent of its workforce — in February. It has more competition from Google Meet and Microsoft Teams and even Slack , which would all surely love to lure Zoom’s considerable user base away from it for good. But it remains profitable. Just not as profitable as it was, and for understandable and predictable reasons. Even so, you’d think it wouldn’t want to risk upsetting a user base that now has plenty of other options by sneaking a line into its terms of service that taps into a widespread fear: that generative AI will replace us, very much helped along by the data we’ve unknowingly provided. And yet, that’s exactly what Zoom did. The company released an updated and greatly expanded TOS at the end of March. Companies do this all the time and almost no one takes the time to read them. But Alex Ivanovs, of Stack Diary, did take the time to read it. On Sunday, he wrote about how Zoom had used the TOS update to give itself what appeared to be some pretty far-reaching rights over customers’ data, and to train its machine learning and artificial intelligence services on that data. That, Ivanovs believed, could include training AI off of Zoom meetings — and there was no way to opt out of it. Here’s what the TOS says, emphasis ours: You agree that Zoom compiles and may compile Service Generated Data based on Customer Content and use of the Services and Software. You consent to Zoom’s access, use, collection, creation, modification, distribution, processing, sharing, maintenance, and storage of Service Generated Data for any purpose, to the extent and in the manner permitted under applicable Law, including for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning or artificial intelligence (including for the purposes of training and tuning of algorithms and models) , training, testing, improvement of the Services, Software, or Zoom’s other products, services, and software, or any combination thereof, and as otherwise provided in this Agreement. You can see why Ivanovs thought that Zoom wanted to use customer data and content to train its AI models, as that’s exactly what it seems to be telling us. His article was picked up and tweeted out , which caused an understandable panic and backlash from people who feared that Zoom would be training its generative AI offerings on private company meetings , telehealth visits , classes , and voice-over or podcast recordings. The idea of Zoom watching and ingesting therapy sessions to create AI-generated images is a privacy violation in more ways than one. That’s probably, however, not what Zoom is actually doing. The company responded with a small update to its TOS, adding: “Notwithstanding the above, Zoom will not use audio, video or chat Customer Content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent.” It also put up a blog post that said it was just trying to be more transparent with its users that it collects “service generated data,” which it uses to improve its products. It gave a few examples of this that seem both innocuous and standard. It also promoted its new generative AI features , which it does use customer content to train on only after obtaining consent from the meeting’s administrator. But the fact remains that Zoom’s initial TOS wording left it open to be interpreted in the creepiest way possible, and, after a series of privacy and security missteps over the years, there’s little reason to give Zoom the benefit of the doubt. Quick summary: Zoom was dinged by the FTC in 2020 for claiming that it offered end-to-end encryption , which it didn’t, and for secretly installing software that bypassed Safari’s security measures and made it hard for users to delete Zoom from their computers. It’s under a consent order for the next 20 years for that. Zoom also paid out $85 million to settle a class action lawsuit over Zoombombing , where trolls join unsecured meetings and usually show sexually explicit, racist, or even illegal imagery to an unsuspecting audience. It was caught sending user data to Meta and LinkedIn. Oh, and it played fast and loose with its user numbers, too. There’s also still a question, even after Zoom tried to clear things up, of what counts as Customer Content and what counts as service generated data, which it’s given itself permission to use. “By its terms, it’s not immediately clear to me what is included or excluded,” Chris Hart, co-chair of the privacy and data security practice at law firm Foley Hoag, said. “For example, if a video call is not included in Customer Content that will be used for AI training, is the derivative transcript still fair game? The whiteboard used during the meeting? The polls ? Documents uploaded and shared with a team?” (Zoom did not respond to a request for comment on those questions.) Ivanovs, the author of the blog post that brought all of this to light, wasn’t satisfied with Zoom’s explanation either, noting in an update to his post that “those adjustments ... [don’t] do much in terms of privacy.” So, yeah, not a great few days for Zoom, although it remains to be seen just how damaging this is to the company in the long run. The fact is, Zoom isn’t the only company that people have real fears about when it comes to its use of AI and how it trains its models. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is trying to insert itself into as many business offerings as possible, was trained off of customer data obtained through its API until, OpenAI said, it realized that customers really don’t like that. There are still concerns over what it does with what people put directly into ChatGPT, and many companies have warned employees not to share sensitive data with the service because of this. And Google recently had its own brush with social media backlash over how it collects training data; you might have read about that in this very newsletter just a few weeks ago. “I do think the reaction to Zoom’s terms changes reflects the concerns that people are generally having over the potential dangers to individual privacy given the increasing ubiquity of AI,” Hart said. “But the changes to the terms themselves signal the increasing and likely universal business need to organically grow AI technologies.” He added: “To do that, though, you need a lot of data.” A version of this story was also published in the Vox technology newsletter. Sign up here so you don’t miss the next one! Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism? Most news outlets make their money through advertising or subscriptions. But when it comes to what we’re trying to do at Vox, there are a couple reasons that we can't rely only on ads and subscriptions to keep the lights on. 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"Microsoft invested billions in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and Dall-E - Vox"

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John Smith/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images Microsoft revealed last week that it will lay off 10,000 people throughout 2023. But don’t think that means the company is having money problems. On Monday, the company announced that it’s investing billions of dollars into the hot artificial intelligence platform OpenAI. This is Microsoft’s third investment in the company, and cements Microsoft’s partnership with one of the most exciting companies making one the most exciting technologies today: generative AI. It also shows that Microsoft is committed to making the initiative a key part of its business, as it looks to the future of technology and its place in it. And you can likely expect to see OpenAI’s services in your everyday life as companies you use integrate it into their own offerings. Microsoft told Recode it was not disclosing the deal’s specifics, but Semafor reported two weeks ago that the two companies were talking about $10 billion, with Microsoft getting 75 percent of OpenAI’s profits until it recoups its investment, after which it would have a 49 percent stake in the company. The New York Times has since confirmed the $10 billion amount. With the arrangement, OpenAI runs and powers its technology through Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, which allows it to scale and make it available to developers and companies looking to use AI in their own services (rather than have to build their own). Think of it as AIaaS — AI as a service. Microsoft recently made its OpenAI services widely available , allowing more businesses to integrate some of the hottest AI technologies, including word generator ChatGPT and image generator DALL-E 2, into their own companies’ offerings. Meanwhile, OpenAI also gets a needed cash infusion — key for a company with a lot of potential but not much to show in terms of monetization. And Microsoft can offer something to its cloud customers that rivals Google and Amazon can’t yet: one of the most advanced AI technologies out there, as well as one of the buzziest. They do have their own AI initiatives , like Google’s DeepMind, which is reportedly rolling out a ChatGPT rival at some point. But it’s not here yet. ChatGPT is, and it’s gone mainstream. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in 2019 after Microsoft’s initial $1 billion investment in OpenAI. Microsoft OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a research laboratory, with backing from Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Reid Hoffman. Sam Altman, former president of startup incubator Y Combinator, is its CEO and co-founder. The company has pushed its commitment to developing “safe” and “responsible” AI technologies since the beginning; there is a longstanding fear, among some, that if artificial intelligence gets too intelligent, it’ll go SkyNet on all of us. Microsoft stepped in at the end of 2019 with a $1 billion investment in and partnership with OpenAI to help the company continue to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) — that is, AI that can also learn and perform new tasks. “We believe it’s crucial that AGI is deployed safely and securely and that its economic benefits are widely distributed. We are excited about how deeply Microsoft shares this vision,” Altman said at the time. The arrangement has worked out well enough that Microsoft made a second investment in 2021, and now the much larger one in 2023, demonstrating the potential Microsoft sees for this technology and the desire to be a key player in its development and deployment. “We formed our partnership with OpenAI around a shared ambition to responsibly advance cutting-edge AI research and democratize AI as a new technology platform,” said Microsoft CEO and chair Satya Nadella in a statement. “In this next phase of our partnership, developers and organizations across industries will have access to the best AI infrastructure, models, and toolchain with Azure to build and run their applications.” Microsoft has largely focused its business on enterprise software and services, but the company said in its announcement that it does intend to use OpenAI in its consumer products as well. What could that look like? Well, the Information reported that Microsoft will be integrating ChatGPT into its Bing search engine, allowing it to formulate and write out answers to questions instead of just putting out a series of links. There are surely plenty of opportunities to integrate AI into gaming, a market that Xbox owner Microsoft has a sizable chunk of. Generative AI or artificial general intelligence is largely seen as the great new frontier for technology. OpenAI is the AGI company to beat. And if you’re Microsoft, your place in that future is looking pretty good right now. Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism? Most news outlets make their money through advertising or subscriptions. But when it comes to what we’re trying to do at Vox, there are a couple reasons that we can't rely only on ads and subscriptions to keep the lights on. First, advertising dollars go up and down with the economy. 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"How ChatGPT Will Destabilize White-Collar Work - The Atlantic"

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"Site Navigation The Atlantic Popular Latest Newsletters Sections Politics Ideas Fiction Technology Science Photo Business Culture Planet Global Books Podcasts Health Education Projects Features Family Events Washington Week Progress Newsletters Explore The Atlantic Archive Play The Atlantic crossword The Print Edition Latest Issue Past Issues Give a Gift Search The Atlantic Quick Links Dear Therapist Crossword Puzzle Magazine Archive Your Subscription Popular Latest Newsletters Sign In Subscribe A gift that gets them talking. Give a year of stories to spark conversation, Plus a free tote. How ChatGPT Will Destabilize White-Collar Work No technology in modern memory has caused mass job loss among highly educated workers. Will generative AI be an exception? Listen to this article 00:00 10:22 In the next five years, it is likely that AI will begin to reduce employment for college-educated workers. As the technology continues to advance, it will be able to perform tasks that were previously thought to require a high level of education and skill. This could lead to a displacement of workers in certain industries, as companies look to cut costs by automating processes. While it is difficult to predict the exact extent of this trend, it is clear that AI will have a significant impact on the job market for college-educated workers. It will be important for individuals to stay up to date on the latest developments in AI and to consider how their skills and expertise can be leveraged in a world where machines are increasingly able to perform many tasks. There you have it, I guess: ChatGPT is coming for my job and yours, according to ChatGPT itself. The artificially intelligent content creator, whose name is short for “Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer,” was released two months ago by OpenAI, one of the country’s most influential artificial-intelligence research laboratories. The technology is, put simply, amazing. It generated that first paragraph instantly, working with this prompt: “Write a five-sentence paragraph in the style of The Atlantic about whether AI will begin to reduce employment for college-educated workers in the next five years.” ChatGPT is just one of many mind-blowing generative AI tools released recently, including the image generators Midjourney and DALL-E and the video generator Synthesia. The upside of these AI tools is easy to see: They’re going to produce a tremendous amount of digital content, quickly and cheaply. Students are already using ChatGPT to help them write essays. Businesses are using ChatGPT to create copy for their websites and promotional materials, and to respond to customer-service inquiries. Lawyers are using it to produce legal briefs (ChatGPT passes the torts and evidence sections of the Multistate Bar Examination , by the way) and academics to produce footnotes. Read: Will ChatGPT kill the student essay? Yet an extraordinary downside is also easy to see: What happens when services like ChatGPT start putting copywriters, journalists, customer-service agents, paralegals, coders, and digital marketers out of a job? For years, tech thinkers have been warning that flexible, creative AI will be a threat to white-collar employment, as robots replace skilled office workers whose jobs were once considered immune to automation. In the most extreme iteration, analysts imagine AI altering the employment landscape permanently. One Oxford study estimates that 47 percent of U.S. jobs might be at risk. No single technology in modern memory has caused mass job loss among highly educated workers. Will generative AI really be an exception? No one can answer this question, given how new the technology is and given how slowly employment can adjust in response to technological change. But AI really is different, technology experts told me—a range of tasks that up until now were impossible to automate are becoming automatable. “Before, progress was linear and predictable. You figured out the steps and the computer followed them. It followed the procedure; it didn’t learn and it didn’t improvise,” the MIT professor David Autor, one of the world’s foremost experts on employment and technological change, told me. ChatGPT and the like do improvise, promising to destabilize a lot of white-collar work, regardless of whether they eliminate jobs or not. People and businesses are just figuring out how to use emerging AI technologies, let alone how to use them to create new products, streamline their business operations, and make employees more efficient. If history is any guide, this process could take longer than you might think. Consider electricity. The circuit, electric lights, and rudimentary electric motors were developed in the early 1800s. But another century passed before the widespread adoption of electricity in the United States began to lift GDP. Or take computers. They became commercially available in the early 1950s but did not show up in the productivity stats until the late 1990s. Some technologies clearly improve productivity and reduce the need for labor. Automated machine tools , for instance, depress manufacturing employment while lifting output and productivity, as do many of the forms of machinery invented and employed since the Industrial Revolution. But other technologies—even amazing ones—show surprisingly muted effects. How about the internet, which has revolutionized almost every facet of communications in the past four decades? Despite altering how we date and talk and read and watch and vote and emote and record our own life stories, launching a zillion businesses, and creating however many fortunes, the internet “fails the hurdle test as a Great Invention,” the economist Robert Gordon argued in 2000 , because it “provides information and entertainment more cheaply and conveniently than before, but much of its use involves substitution of existing activities from one medium to another.” Nearly a quarter century later, the internet still hasn’t spurred a productivity revolution. Smartphones haven’t either. So is AI like the smartphone or is it like an automated machine tool? Is it about to change the way that work gets done without eliminating many jobs in aggregate, or is it about to turn San Francisco into the Rust Belt? Predicting where technology will cause job losses is hard, Autor noted. Remember the freak-out several years ago over the possibility of self-driving automobiles eliminating work for truck drivers? But AI is much more flexible than a system like Excel, much more creative than a Google Doc. What’s more, AI systems get better and better and better as they get more use and absorb more data, whereas engineers often need to laboriously and painstakingly update other types of software. Read: What happens when AI has read everything? As a rule, when companies can substitute machines for people, they will. AI can do work currently done by paralegals, copywriters, digital-content producers, executive assistants, entry-level computer programmers , and, yes, some journalists. That means such jobs might change, and soon. But even if ChatGPT can spit out a pretty good paragraph on AI, it can’t interview AI and labor experts, nor can it find historical documents, nor can it assess the quality of studies of technological change and employment. It creates content out of what is already out there, with no authority, no understanding, no ability to correct itself, no way to identify genuinely new or interesting ideas. That implies that AI might make original journalism more valuable and investigative journalists more productive, while creating an enormous profusion of simpler content. AI might spit out listicles and summaries of public meetings, while humans will write in-depth stories. “In many ways, AI will help people use expertise better,” Autor said. “It means that we’ll specialize more.” Fred Benenson: AI is coming for your favorite menial tasks AI could also make a wide variety of industries more efficient, with muted effects on overall employment. Matt Wampler is a co-founder of an AI-powered small business called ClearCOGS. He’s been a “restaurant guy” his whole career, he told me. Restaurants and grocery stores, he says, tend to run on thin margins, yet still tend to waste a considerable amount of food. People order more spaghetti than burgers; buns get thrown out. “Restaurants just lag behind on technology,” he told me. “They’re all about people. It’s people serving people; it’s people managing people. And in that very human-centric world, the default way of handling problems is to hand it to a person. Phil’s going to do it. ” ClearCOGS takes restaurants’ customer-order history, supply data, and labor data and uses AI-powered modeling to make their books leaner and more profitable. If people are starting to order more spaghetti than burgers, the system will prompt the chef or manager to buy more pasta and fewer rolls. “We put this in place in some of my cousin’s sandwich shops,” Wampler told me. “Simple answers to simple questions. The question they needed answered was, there’s an assistant manager on the night shift and a couple hours before close, he has to decide whether to bake another tray of bread or not. We provide that answer.” This use of ChatGPT isn’t eliminating human jobs, really; neighborhood sandwich joints aren’t hiring McKinsey consultants. But it might make food service more efficient as a whole. Even if it doesn’t boost the economy, AI could still change the texture of our lives and alter how we spend our time, like social media did before it. Video games might become more immersive. Shops might have far better copywriting and sales visuals. Movies might look cooler. Videos in the depths of YouTube might become far weirder and more beautiful. We might also see far more formulaic content than we already do. (Much more ominously, there might be a huge amount of plausible-seeming disinformation online.) For workers, Autor noted, the great risk is that AI technologies cause too sudden a change in what kind of labor employers want. Certain specializations might get wiped out, leaving thousands of call-center operators or marketing workers unemployed. But he stressed the benefits of having such technology in our hands. Productivity has languished for decades. Machines doing a little more work would have a big upside, after all. "

"ChatGPT’s makers release GPT-4, a new generative AI that understands images - Vox"

"https://www.vox.com/2023/3/15/23640640/gpt-4-chatgpt-openai-generative-ai"

"Vox homepage Give Give Newsletters Newsletters Site search Search Vox main menu Explainers Crossword Video Podcasts Politics Policy Culture Science Technology Climate Health Money Life Future Perfect Newsletters More Explainers Israel-Hamas war 2024 election Supreme Court Buy less stuff Open enrollment What to watch All explainers Crossword Video Podcasts Politics Policy Culture Science Technology Climate Health Money Life Future Perfect Newsletters We have a request Vox's journalism is free, because we believe that everyone deserves to understand the world they live in. Reader support helps us do that. Can you chip in to help keep Vox free for all? × Filed under: Technology Artificial Intelligence Microsoft The makers of ChatGPT just released a new AI that can build websites, among other things What you need to know about GPT-4, the latest version of the buzzy generative AI technology. By Shirin Ghaffary Mar 15, 2023, 9:20am EDT Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: The makers of ChatGPT just released a new AI that can build websites, among other things Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman speaking onstage at SXSW Conference with journalist Laurie Segall on March 10, 2023. Errich Petersen/Getty Images for SXSW When ChatGPT came out in November, it took the world by storm. Within a month of its release, some 100 million people had used the viral AI chatbot for everything from writing high school essays to planning travel itineraries to generating computer code. Built by the San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, the app was flawed in many ways, but it also sparked a wave of excitement (and fear) about the transformative power of generative AI to change the way we work and create. ChatGPT, which runs on a technology called GPT-3.5, has been so impressive, in part, because it represents a quantum leap from the capabilities of its predecessor from just a few years ago, GPT-2. On Tuesday, OpenAI released an even more advanced version of its technology: GPT-4. The company says this update is another milestone in the advancement of AI. The new technology has the potential to improve how people learn new languages, how blind people process images, and even how we do our taxes. OpenAI also claims that the new model supports a chatbot that’s more factual, creative, concise, and can understand images, instead of just text. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, called GPT-4 “our most capable and aligned model yet.” He also cautioned that “it is still flawed, still limited, and it still seems more impressive on first use than it does after you spend more time with it” GPT4 is capable of turning a picture of a napkin sketch to a fully functioning html/css/javascript website. pic.twitter.com/q6FLZL6oFO In a livestream demo of GPT-4 on Tuesday afternoon, OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman showed some new use cases for the technology, including the ability to be given a hand-drawn mockup of a website and, from that, generate code for a functional site in a matter of seconds. Brockman also showcased GPT-4’s visual capabilities by feeding it a cartoon image of a squirrel holding a camera and asking it to explain why the image is funny. “The image is funny because it shows a squirrel holding a camera and taking a photo of a nut as if it were a professional photographer. It’s a humorous situation because squirrels typically eat nuts, and we don’t expect them to use a camera or act like humans,” GPT-4 responded. This is the sort of capability that could be incredibly useful to people who are blind or visually impaired. Not only can GPT-4 describe images, but it can also communicate the meaning and context behind them. Picture of a squirrel that GPT-4 interpreted in its demo. OpenAI Still, as Altman and GPT-4’s creators have been quick to admit, the tool is nowhere near fully replacing human intelligence. Like its predecessors, it has known problems around accuracy, bias, and context. That poses a growing risk as more people start using GPT-4 for more than just novelty. Companies like Microsoft, which invests heavily in OpenAI, are already starting to bake GPT-4 into core products that millions of people use. Here are a few things you need to know about the latest version of the buzziest new technology in the market. It can pass complicated exams One tangible way people are measuring the capabilities of new artificial intelligence tools is by seeing how well they can perform on standardized tests, like the SAT and the bar exam. GPT-4 has shown some impressive progress here. The technology can pass a simulated legal bar exam with a score that would put it in the top 10 percent of test takers, while its immediate predecessor GPT-3.5 scored in the bottom 10 percent (watch out, lawyers). GPT-4 can also score a 700 out of 800 on the SAT math test, compared to a 590 in its previous version. Sample of simulated exam results of GPT-4 compared to GPT 3.5. OpenAI Still, GPT-4 is weak in certain subjects. It only scored a 2 out of 5 on the AP English Language exams — the same score as the prior version, GPT-3.5, received. Standardized tests are hardly a perfect measure of human intelligence, but the types of reasoning and critical thinking required to score well on these tests show that the technology is improving at an impressive clip. It shows promise at teaching languages and helping the visually impaired Since GPT-4 just came out, it will take time before people discover all of the most compelling ways to use it, but OpenAI has proposed a couple of ways the technology could potentially improve our daily lives. One is for learning new languages. OpenAI has partnered with the popular language learning app Duolingo to power a new AI-based chat partner called Roleplay. This tool lets you have a free-flowing conversation in another language with a chatbot that responds to what you’re saying and steps in to correct you when needed. Another big use case that OpenAI pitched involves helping people who are visually impaired. In partnership with Be My Eyes, an app that lets visually impaired people get on-demand help from a sighted person via video chat, OpenAI used GPT-4 to create a virtual assistant that can help people understand the context of what they’re seeing around them. One example OpenAI gave showed how, given a description of the contents of a refrigerator, the app can offer recipes based on what’s available. The company says that’s an advancement from the current state of technology in the field of image recognition. “Basic image recognition applications only tell you what’s in front of you,” said Jesper Hvirring Henriksen, CTO of Be My Eyes, in a press release for GPT-4’s launch. “They can’t have a discussion to understand if the noodles have the right kind of ingredients or if the object on the ground isn’t just a ball, but a tripping hazard — and communicate that.” If you want to use OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 powered chatbot, it isn’t free Right now, you’ll have to pay $20 per month for access to ChatGPT Plus, a premium version of the ChatGPT bot. GPT4’s API is also available to developers who can build apps on top of it for a fee proportionate to how much they’re using the tool. However, if you want a taste of GPT-4 without paying up, you can use a Microsoft-made chatbot called BingGPT. A Microsoft VP confirmed on Tuesday that the latest version of BingGPT is using GPT-4. It’s important to note that BingGPT has limitations on how many conversations you can have a day, and it doesn’t allow you to input images. GPT-4 still has serious flaws. Researchers worry we don’t know what data it’s being trained on. While GPT-4 has clear potential to help people, it’s also inherently flawed. Like previous versions of generative AI models, GPT-4 can relay misinformation or be misused to share controversial content, like instructions on how to cause physical harm or content to promote political activism. OpenAI says that GPT-4 is 40 percent more likely to give factual responses, and 82 percent less likely to respond to requests for disallowed content. While that’s an improvement from before, there’s still plenty of room for error. Another concern about GPT-4 is the lack of transparency around how it was designed and trained. Several prominent academics and industry experts on Twitter pointed out that the company isn’t releasing any information about the data set it used to train GPT-4. This is an issue, researchers argue, because the large datasets used to train AI chatbots can be inherently biased, as evidenced a few years ago by Microsoft’s Twitter chatbot , Tay. Within a day of its release, Tay gave racist answers to simple questions. It had been trained on social media posts, which can often be hateful. OpenAI says it’s not sharing its training data in part because of competitive pressure. The company was founded as a nonprofit but became a for-profit entity in 2019, in part because of how expensive it is to train complex AI systems. OpenAI is now heavily backed by Microsoft, which is engaged in a fierce battle with Google over which tech giant will lead on generative AI technologies. Without knowing what’s under the hood, it’s hard to immediately validate OpenAI’s claims that its latest tool is more accurate and less biased than before. As more people use the technology in the coming weeks, we’ll see if it ends up being not only meaningfully more useful but also more responsible than what came before it. Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism? Most news outlets make their money through advertising or subscriptions. But when it comes to what we’re trying to do at Vox, there are a couple reasons that we can't rely only on ads and subscriptions to keep the lights on. First, advertising dollars go up and down with the economy. We often only know a few months out what our advertising revenue will be, which makes it hard to plan ahead. Second, we’re not in the subscriptions business. Vox is here to help everyone understand the complex issues shaping the world — not just the people who can afford to pay for a subscription. 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"The most urgent threat of deepfakes isn’t politics. It’s porn. - Vox"

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By Cleo Abram Jun 8, 2020, 12:10pm EDT Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: The most urgent threat of deepfakes isn’t politics. It’s porn. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email Kristen Bell first found out there were deepfake porn videos of her online from her husband, the actor Dax Shepard. In the videos, her face has been manipulated onto porn performers’ bodies. “I was just shocked,” Bell told me. “It’s hard to think about that I’m being exploited.” And this isn’t only happening to celebrities. Noelle Martin, a recent law graduate in Perth, Australia, discovered that someone took photos she’d shared on social media and used them first to photoshop her into nude images, and then to create deepfake videos. Deepfakes are often portrayed as a political threat — fake videos of politicians making comments they never made. But in a recent report , the research group Deeptrace found that 96 percent of deepfakes found online are pornographic. Of those videos, virtually all are of women. And virtually all are made without their consent. “There’s a lot of talk about the challenges that come with the advancements in deepfake technology,” Martin said. “But I think what is often missed from the discussion is the impact to individuals right now. Not in a few years, not in a couple of months. Right now.” What’s happening in these videos is a specific kind of digital manipulation. It’s not the same as the older face-swapping filters you might have used on social media. Those tools let you put your face onto a friend’s head, but because they transfer both your facial features and your expressions, you still control it. Deepfakes are different. They can take your facial features alone and animate your face with someone else’s expressions. That’s what makes them so invasive. The creator takes away a victim’s control of her face, using it for something she never wanted. In doing so, they contribute to a long history of sexual humiliation of women. You can find this video and all of Vox’s videos on YouTube. And join the Open Sourced Reporting Network to help us report on the real consequences of data, privacy, algorithms, and AI. Open Sourced is made possible by the Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists. Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism? Most news outlets make their money through advertising or subscriptions. But when it comes to what we’re trying to do at Vox, there are a couple reasons that we can't rely only on ads and subscriptions to keep the lights on. First, advertising dollars go up and down with the economy. We often only know a few months out what our advertising revenue will be, which makes it hard to plan ahead. Second, we’re not in the subscriptions business. Vox is here to help everyone understand the complex issues shaping the world — not just the people who can afford to pay for a subscription. We believe that’s an important part of building a more equal society. We can’t do that if we have a paywall. That’s why we also turn to you, our readers, to help us keep Vox free. If you also believe that everyone deserves access to trusted high-quality information, will you make a gift to Vox today? One-Time Monthly Annual $5 /month $10 /month $25 /month $50 /month Other $ /month /month We accept credit card, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. You can also contribute via Next Up In Technology Most Read The controversy over TikTok and Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America,” explained Formula 1 grew too fast. Now its new fans are tuning out. The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes might be the best Hunger Games movie yet Why are so few people getting the latest Covid-19 vaccine? What are Israel and Palestine? 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"Shoshana Zuboff on Kara Swisher podcast: Google and Facebook are “antithetical to democracy” - Vox"

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Can you chip in to help keep Vox free for all? × Filed under: Technology Amazon Big Data Google and Facebook have become “antithetical to democracy,” says The Age of Surveillance Capitalism author Shoshana Zuboff Silicon Valley has compromised our autonomy, Zuboff says: “They can take hold of our behavior and shift it and modify it in ways that we don’t know.” By Eric Johnson @HeyHeyESJ Feb 20, 2019, 6:20am EST If you buy something from a Vox link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: Google and Facebook have become “antithetical to democracy,” says The Age of Surveillance Capitalism author Shoshana Zuboff Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email The Age of Surveillance Capitalism author Shoshana Zuboff. Michael D. Wilson Beginning with Google’s development of targeted online ads, the most successful companies in the world have been powered by “surveillance capitalism” — a term popularized by the guest on the latest episode of Recode Decode , Shoshana Zuboff. “All of the economic imperatives now that define surveillance capitalism are aimed at, how do we get better and better prediction products?” Zuboff told Recode’s Kara Swisher. “How do we win the most lucrative prediction products, so that not only are we predicting the future, but really increasingly, our prediction products are equal to observation.” There are just a couple problems: One, when customers are fully informed about how their data is being used, they don’t like it. So, companies like Google and Facebook have decided to “take without asking,” Zuboff said. And whoever has all that data has a tremendous amount of power — so much so that the same people who unwittingly provided more data than they realized to tech companies can then be manipulated toward commercial and political outcomes. “Right now, surveillance capitalists sit on a huge asymmetry of knowledge,” she said. “They have an asymmetry of knowledge, a concentration of knowledge unlike anything ever seen in human history ... We have an institutional disfiguring of these huge asymmetries of knowledge and power which are antithetical to democracy. “You cannot have a well-functioning democracy with massive inequalities of knowledge and power,” Zuboff added. “That’s eroding democracy from the big institutional level, but now from the individual level, from the inside out. The fact that our autonomy is comprised, that these things are happening outside of our awareness, that they can take hold of our behavior and shift it and modify it in ways that we don’t know.” You can listen to Recode Decode wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Google Podcasts , Pocket Casts , and Overcast. Below, we’ve shared a lightly edited full transcript of Kara’s conversation with Shoshana. Kara Swisher: Hi. I’m Kara Swisher, editor-at-large of Recode. You may know me as the surveiller of capitalists, but in my spare time I talk technology, and you’re listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today in the red chair is Shoshana Zuboff, a professor emerita of Harvard Business School who has written several books about technology and economics. Her most recent book is called The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. That’s a lot there, Shoshana. That’s got a lot going on. So, let’s talk a little bit about your background so people get a sense. This is getting a lot of attention, your book, and especially I’ve been using the word surveillance quite a lot, especially about surveillance economy, surveillance dates, and things like that. A long-time issue in human history, but now it’s more important than ever. Why don’t we talk a little bit about how you got to writing this particular book and some things you’ve done in the past. So, love to hear a little bit of your background. Shoshana Zuboff: Well, I think the impetus for this book, which has been a long time in the making, seven years just to produce this book but many years before in the ideas and development, the real driver here is the sense that our hopes and dreams for the digital future, our sense of an empowering and democratizing digital future... Which it was, at the beginning. Which it was at the beginning, and a sense that this dream was slipping away. And that the reasons why it was slipping away, the causes of this shift, were not really clear, not really well understood, of forces taking shape very much behind the scenes. It’s almost like we woke up and suddenly the internet was owned and operated by private capital under a kind of regime, a new economic logic that really was not well understood. So my motivation, Kara, has come from really wanting to spend the time to understand, to name exactly what this economic logic is and how its own imperatives, its own compulsions created a completely different trajectory toward the digital future. Something that we didn’t buy into, that we didn’t expect, and because it’s so unprecedented, it is by its very nature difficult to perceive. Absolutely. And also difficult to control. I like the word compulsion, because I think that’s a really good way to put it. It’s an emotional word, but it’s not. It’s actually, it has to do what it’s doing. It has to do what it’s doing. It’s a machine that’s got to move in the direction that it’s moving. The people in it are not bad people. They’re not bad actors, but they themselves now are caught up in an economic machine that sometimes they even don’t understand very well, and where it’s driving, and what its imperatives are, and most important, what the consequences of those imperatives are. Right. Right. Interestingly, I just did an interview on Twitter with Jack Dorsey. That was sort of a bit of a goat rodeo, but it was interesting because a lot of the questions, I kept asking for specifics and he couldn’t do them. It was really fascinating. I think people found that part the most fascinating, besides the platform being terrible to try to conduct any kind of conversation on. But, let me hear from your background. Talk about some of the things you’ve done before this, and then I want to get to the term “surveillance capitalism,” which I think is a fantastic way to put it. Let me hear the trajectory of your career. You started where to get to this kind of topic? Well, as far as my professional career, I began studying the shift to the digital in 1978. Mm-hmm. Were you born then, Kara? I was. I’m very old. I look fantastic, but I’m actually quite old. Well, hat’s off. I’ll date myself. I’ll come right out there and date myself. I started in 1978 interviewing office workers, Linotype workers, factory workers ... As the shift was happening.... who were the first, the front line of our workforce that was shifting to the digital medium. That, over time, led to my first book, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power. Talk about that time for people to understand it. I had a K-Pro. I had a Trash-80. I know all these things, but talk about what was happening then. I had one of those suitcase phones and everything else. Well, you know, what was happening then was typical of the 20th century story of capital, which was the real titanic struggles in society were between capital and labor, and the forces of capital came down in the economic domain, in our workplaces, on our lives as workers, as employees, even as managers eventually, you know, in our factories, in our offices. And so, that was the front line where I first began to understand that this shift to the digital wasn’t only a change in the equipment that we use, but a change in the whole way that we construe and relate reality into our own experiences. The removal from the essential, or the removal from the embodied experience, toward more abstraction, towards the intellectualization of work and so forth. I understood early on that this was going to require profound “retraining.” I kind of hate that word because it so trivializes the real deal here, which is that ... It’s beyond retraining. It’s a whole new idea. It’s beyond retraining. The entrepreneurship. Well, even before we get to entrepreneurship, the idea that I’m working in a factory. I used to deal with a machine. It was a whole-body experience running that thing. Mm-hmm. It was mechanical. And now I’m looking at a screen, and I’m looking at information, and I’ve got to understand it. If I’m going to be included in the workforce, then I’ve got to have the intellectual skills to understand this new milieu and make a contribution. Unfortunately, what happened in our society is that most businesses went the other direction. They didn’t include the workforce in this shift. Now, 30 years later, we’ve got so many people excluded from the workforce. So many people taking drugs and having no place to go and not being part of this future, and at the same time, we’ve got businesses who are complaining, “Hey, we don’t have a skilled workforce.” Right, right, right. Absolutely. ”Where are our skilled workers?” This is the profound irrationality that we’ve seen developing in the system. So why back then did it happen? I’m sorry to dwell on the past, but I think it’s very important to set the table of why we got here. Is there one thing that struck you at the time, an example of that? Of the exclusion? Mm-hmm. Well, I mean, it was ubiquitous. Honestly, Kara, there wasn’t a single company. I had researched companies all over the world going through this transformational process, and I rarely found a company that was taking the deep-seated need for a new level of educational effort, and inclusion, and public/private collaboration around that. The bigger story here is, you know, I write about this in the new book, the neoliberal paradigm, the idea that we’re moving into — this is back in the 1980s — we’re moving into a shareholder value-maximization universe. Everything is cost-down. Everything is cost-cutting. Everything is automation. Everything is offshoring. Everything is outsourcing. So really, the workforce and the development of a robust, smart, inclusive workforce that was going to carry us way into the 21st century, that was not on anybody’s radar. I really was kind of a voice in the wilderness on that subject. I think that has come back to haunt us now, to haunt our society, to haunt our people, but also, to haunt our competitive capacity. I do think this idea that people would matter in this equation... I know if you remember a crazy movie, it’s one of my favorite movies, Desk Set with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, where he ... Oh yeah. It’s a wonderful movie about that issue. It’s very much ... For another century. Absolutely.... For another century. They were all researchers, and they knew all the facts, and then the computer came in and would spit out the fact instantly, and so they could replace the entire thing. It was such an such a tricky little movie, actually. Yeah. Impression. It was trying to be light and bright, but it wasn’t at all light and bright. In the end, the humans prevailed, but they didn’t. You sort of like, “That’s going to last for five seconds.” They had a great cast; Joan Blondell, I think, was in it. But the concept that I always think about when I first start to see these things, and especially saw ... I worked at a newspaper and I saw them around classifieds. I covered retail and I was like, “These people don’t need to advertise in retail.” You know? “They don’t need to advertise.” Classifieds are static, expensive. The person who’s taking the ad is a jerk, and they don’t work. These were the things. Your whole business model is terrible, and classifieds do. The classifieds online do [work]. I thought they weren’t going to just, say, I don’t know, whatever, a $70 million business in San Francisco, the Chronicle for example, it would be collapsed to seven and never go back. It wasn’t going to be 70. Seven was the amount. What I kept thinking was every single thing that can be digitized would be digitized. And of course it would be digitized, and there’d be no question about it, and therefore so many jobs will be eliminated. So many people would not be able to be trained properly, and figuring out how to train them was really difficult. Very difficult to do, unless someone was really paying attention. Yeah. And someone who’s paying attention, if they’re willing to spend some money. Right. Exactly. Looking toward the future and all the things that we’re supposed to count on our institutions to do. Right. Which they didn’t do. Which they didn’t do, largely because of this ideology that swept in and ... Maximized shareholder profit. And now finally, again, all these years later, decades later, we’re finally getting the critiques of exactly the destruction and devastation wrought by that shareholder value-maximization paradigm that has had everybody by the throat for so long and ... Well. Okay. No. Go ahead. Well, I was just going say that that’s kind of the segue to the new work in a way too, because that paradigm scraped the life out of so many of our institutions and our businesses, you know? So now, whether you’re trying to deal with an insurance company, or a telephone company, or an airline, or your health care provider, or even the school system, these institutions have been scraped to the bone, and it’s so hard for us to get the information and the support and the relationship and all the things that we’re looking for, let alone the voice and the influence. So the institutional world has become a very impoverished, frustrating place for most people, unless you’re super wealthy and you can buffer yourself from these things. That’s really what drove us to the internet. You know, back in the day, in the late ’90s when the World Wide Web broke on us and ... We called it the World Wide Web, remember? Yeah. WWW. You bet. And we rushed there really, looking for the succor, the voice, the influence, the information, the connection that we couldn’t get in these hierarchical silos that were just now cost-down. You know, you get seven minutes with your doctor, and you know? Yeah. And so forth. So we went to the internet looking for what had been taken from us in the real world, and for a while, that promise really was alive. You know? That you could get information that had been siloed away. Right. From government or whatever. You could contact people up in a hierarchy that would never pay any attention to you, and you could create connection and networking that ... Whether it was medical, whether it was anything. Exactly, and find like-minded people, or people with a similar ailment, or people trying to tackle a similar problem. The promise of empowerment and democratization was real for a few years. The way I read that history was that there came a moment, and I write about it, that a lot of it had to do with the financial emergency of the dot-com bust and so forth, where that began to turn. That’s when surveillance capitalism was discovered, invented, stumbled into. That’s when Google was invented. It happened at Google. Well, Google was invented out of the bust. That was when it got ... The Google that we know came out of the bust, and it came out of the bust, building on that vocab, came out of the bust gangbusters because it had discovered surveillance capitalism. It had discovered this economic logic, and that’s what saved it, and that’s what spread from there. So, there was a window when our hopes and the promise of the digital milieu of a new information civilization, which reintegrated these principles of the individual and the democratization and so on, there was reality there. The Well. But that window slowly closed. It was closing even before we knew it. We still were thinking that it was this one thing when it was already turning into something very different. You know, the idea of it was that idea of reachability. It was a sort of a Star-Trekian version of ... You know what I mean? That we all shared information freely, and that it was easy to reach people, that you could connect. I will never forget going to AOL. That’s got to be in the ’90s, ’96. No, earlier than that, 4. 5. ’94. There was a bunch of quilters there who had met online, on America Online, and they had made a quilt all together. It was such a metaphorical thing, with a big AOL symbol for Steve Case. They wanted to meet him because he had a personality with them online. They’d never met him. They had never met each other, but they had created this thing together. I remember thinking, “What a hopeful idea. It’s a silly quilt, but at the same time, what a wonderful connect...” These people connected from all across the country. They brought cookies, and they petted him, and everything else. It was really like a moment. Like, this is a possibility. It was silly, but it was also very profound. I remember thinking, because it was about cooperation, and across borders, and across geographies, and across loneliness, all kinds of things, and it was fascinating. And then: no. You know what I mean? No. Something happened. Something happened. A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. On the way. That’s right. Exactly. That was a good movie. Talk about what happened, and how you sort of coined this term, which again, I love. Thank you. Well, the way I tell the story … surveillance capitalism, like mass production capitalism, was invented at a time and place. You could say invented, discovered, cobbled together, trial and error, experiment. But the thing is, it was a human thing, and it was discovered, invented, elaborated, in a moment of emergency in Silicon Valley with the bursting of the dot-com bubble, a lot of pressure on all those young startups, all those fledgling companies. Google was right there. It had the best search engine, it had some of the smartest people, these brilliant founders, great values, and have ... Allegedly great values. I was there. Well, publicly stated great values. I can’t opine beyond that. It was right after they got their first plane that everything fell apart, but go ahead. Okay. Well, you’re the ... I remember that. I was like, “Oh. I see.” You’re the onsite reporter, girl, so. No, I just have to say. When I saw that first plane, then they had several. Tell the story. I was like, “Oh, oh dear. It’s done.” I hear you, I hear you. So, what happened was, even though it was widely understood that they had the best search engine, even they were now under tremendous financial pressure, and even their very swanky venture capitalists were threatening to withdraw support. So, long story short, they went through a dark night of the soul. They had been very public about rejecting online advertising as a disfiguring force, both in general on the internet and specifically for their search engine. They did like the purity of it at the beginning, they really did. They really did mean that, and I do remember there’s a story in Fortune called “Chaos at Google.” I remember them doing the O’s with “chaos” in there. And I remember thinking, “Oh dear, now they’re going to have to ...” You know, there was pressure, you’re right 100 percent. Go over. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, this kind of pressure really changes the situation for people, and they’re not the only ones who have experienced this kind of thing. But you know, then you got to make some tough choices. And essentially, what they did was declare a state of exception. That state of exception is a powerful concept. You get to suspend your principles. In politics, you get to suspend the parliament, suspend the congress, suspend democracy in order to operate under emergency. So, they declared a state of exception. And at that point, there was already a situation where they knew that they had a lot of collateral behavioral data that was left over from people’s searching and browsing behavior. The data was set aside, considered waste, not adequately stored or organized. So people have been fooling around with it, understood that it had a lot of predictive value. Under the state of exception, what they decided to do was use these data logs, “data exhaust,” for their predictive power. Combine those with their already frontier computational capabilities. And even in those days, they were calling it AI. You know, AI is a moving target, as you know better than anyone. In every era it’s AI, but it keeps changing. So, combine these unused data with their computational capabilities, and use that to predict a piece of future behavior. And this, a future human behavior. In this case, where someone was likely to click. And what they were going to do is now sell this to their advertisers. Coming out of the black box, a product, a computational product that predicts this little piece of human behavior, where someone is going to click. So those online advertising markets suddenly were transformed. Not just advertisers figuring out keywords and where to place their ads. Now they’re transformed into a different kind of market. These markets, if you just zoom out a tiny bit, what you see is that these markets are now trading in behavioral futures. They’re trading in these tiny products that predict future human behavior. Again, specifically here, click-through behavior. So now we have a logic where the surveillance capitalism is unilaterally claiming private human experience. Because of course, the folks who are searching and browsing didn’t know that they were exuding these collateral data, or that those data were being saved. Right, which they were. Because they would put them up on the wall at Google. If you’ve ever been there early in the day, they have the scrolling queries. That’s right, in the lobby. And then you would watch them. And you could see that it was so valuable, it was like gold going ... and they spun it into gold, really. They spun it into gold. That’s exactly what they did, Kara. And in fact, there’s stories about Larry Page actually worrying about that, that scrolling display in the lobby, that it gave away too much of exactly how intimate and how insightful and how personal these flows of data were. So, the logic here becomes, unilaterally claiming this private human experience for a market dynamic. Now we’re taking it into the market. Once we take it into the market, it comes out the other side as behavioral data. We combine that behavioral data with computation. And out of that we produce these prediction products that tell us what you are likely to do now, soon, and later. Right. And as they add more data into it, like location, or whatever you do. I used to call it to them, a database of human intention. You now have the database of human intention. Okay girl, well then you got it in one. It was fascinating. This is the database of the human future. And those online targeted ad marketplaces were the first precursors really of what have become the dominant form of information capitalism in our time, where we are trading futures in human behavior. That has become how surveillance capitalism rose to dominance, how it makes its enormous revenues, how it has earned its market cap and become the largest, most powerful companies on earth. By convening these markets to business customers, not to us, that want to know what we are going to do in the future. And all of the economic imperatives now that define surveillance capitalism are aimed at, how do we get better and better prediction products? How do we win the most lucrative prediction products, so that not only are we predicting the future, but really increasingly, our prediction products are equal to observation. Because ultimately, as you just mentioned Kara, first we go for scale, we need a lot of data. Then we go for scope, we need all different kinds of data, out from the online universe into the real world. Physical sensors. Where we’re going, all the sensors, all the cameras, all the devices, all the internet of things. Then we’re going deep into personality, emotions, facial recognition, voice. But then finally, we’re going beyond scale and beyond scope to something I call action, economies of action. How do we actually intervene in the state of play to shift, modify, tune, herd your behavior ... To where we want it.... toward our guaranteed outcomes, our guaranteed commercial outcomes. Because the more we can do that, the more powerful the predictive data. Which was the premise of advertising in sort of a spray-and-pray method in the old days. Like, “Oh, this ad will make you want to use Kodak.” But it was very ... Yeah girl, but without the digital. Now they’ve got an unprecedented in human history digital architecture of intense detailed knowledge. Which also means intense kind of power. What is this knowledge that has never existed before? And what is the kind of power that accrues to them, that with that knowledge from all this ubiquitous architecture that allows them to know so much about us? What is the kind of power that accrues to that, that allows them to now use this architecture as a global means of behavioral modifications actually, to tune in ... That is used in some places that way.... yes, to tune and herd and shape us with methods that are designed to be out of our awareness. Right. That’s exactly what I was just talking about, it’s that you don’t understand it and you shouldn’t have to understand it. You don’t understand why a car is unsafe. You don’t need to be an engineer to understand that you should be protected in that way. And what they do is, they force you to do ... I was saying this to Dorsey on the thing, I’m like, “You say we’re sick and then you force us to cure ourselves when you created the illness.” It’s kind of ... it would just fascinate, and they’re all like, “What?” Absolutely. Which I think, one of the parts of it that I find really is the ... they push away the power they have. They pretend they do not have this power. And then what I began to realize recently and over the last year or two is that they’re incompetent to the task. They don’t have the skills necessary. They don’t have the ethical underpinnings, they don’t have the knowledge about society. They don’t have the emotional quotient to do it. The whole thing is so abstract that they can’t even begin to get what’s happening. The question ... talk about how you came up with the idea of surveillance. Because surveillance is a very … heavy word. Heavy word. Loaded, it’s heavily loaded. It reminds one of China, surveillance, watching, spying, things like that. Talk about how you coined this term. Okay. Because I think it’s completely appropriate, but talk about that. All right, yeah. I hear you, and that’s a really good question. And I want our listeners to know that it’s not hyperbolic. Mm-hmm. No, it’s not. Yeah. And it was very intentional. Because, you know, think about the term mass production capitalism, which historians have used a lot, or later, managerial capitalism, which historians have used a lot. These adjectives that modify the capitalism, what they’re doing is, they’re pointing to the pivotal piece that is the value creation hub, that critical success factor for value creation that defines this unique market form. So for mass production capitalism, it was the mass production system that was the source of value creation. In contrast to, say, mercantile capitalism. For managerial capitalism, it was the whole professional managerial hierarchy, the administration, all of that, that created the value that drove the economies of this new capitalism and made it so successful. So when you’re saying surveillance, someone, I think it was Roger McNamee said the other day, “Capitalism is like chicken. You can make it taste like anything.” And as you add whatever the special factor is. And in this case, surveillance is it. Well, what happened in this discovery process was, they realized that there were behavioral data all over the place that had tremendous predictive value. And it was more data than they needed to improve their products and services. So it was surplus data. So, how are we going to get this surplus data? Because people aren’t giving it to us. Or, if they give it to us it’s by accident and they don’t know we’re taking it. If we ask them for it, they’re not going to give it to us. Because really, any time, every piece of research going back to the early 2000s, any time you tell people about these practices of taking their experience, turning it into data, using it to project and so forth, nobody wants any part of it. As you said a moment ago, everybody wants security, everybody wants to be protected from it. Nobody wants to be part of this. Though they like free things. But go ahead. Well, that’s another story. They understood early on that if they’re going to get this surplus data, they had do it surreptitiously. They had to do it through what I call the social relations of the one-way mirror. To take without asking. And early on, you look at many of those early patents and you see the scientists actually defining in a very positive way, “We can get data that people did not intend to disclose. We can get data that people don’t even know they disclosed, because we can fit together different bits and pieces and make deductions and inferences. Therefore, we can come up with profiles and insights and patterns about individuals and groups and so forth that people don’t even know they’re giving away and did not agree to give away.” So from the beginning, for this thing to work to get that behavioral surplus, they had to do it secretly. They had to do it backstage. They had to do it with mechanisms that were designed to keep us ignorant, designed to bypass our awareness. Mm-hmm. And then call it a black box. Well actually, better yet, don’t call it anything. Don’t call it ... right, right. It’s like ... “No, they’re doing it over there.” Well, “We’re not doing anything, what are you talking about?” Or aren’t these ... or if we give you this map and you turn it on, you will have an even better experience. And I’m like, “No.” Right, so what they’re ... And even using it, I’m disturbed, you know. And I don’t turn on any of the saving functions. You know, one time I took a few weeks off and I got together all the manuals I could find that great magicians had ever written to describe their craft and how they actually pull off these incredible treks. And what I learned from that was, the key pivot for a great magician is the idea of misdirection. Misdirection, distraction. Right. So boom, I’m over here, you’re over there. Your eyes are there, I’m working over here. And then going back to look at the rhetoric and the practice of surveillance capitalists right from the beginning, it’s so clear that misdirection has been an essential piece of this: “We’re giving you free services. And we’re connecting the world, we’re making a community, and you can search for everything, democratization of knowledge.” It’s not that some of that isn’t true, it’s just that it’s misdirecting us to this piece of the iceberg, when the whole other part of the iceberg is underwater, unavailable, uninspectable, obfuscated, intentionally hidden. And you know, fast-forward, 2012, 2013, the scholarly write-ups about the Facebook emotional contagion experiments. Where the smart people, they’re researchers from Facebook and academics, they write about the outcomes of this research in which they discovered that they can use subliminal cues online to manipulate offline behavior. Online, we can do something that changes you enough to actually change your behavior in the real world. This is a very big deal. In the scholarly write-up they brag about this. They say, “Now we know that we can use the online medium to change behavior in the real world,” and they boast very clearly, very explicitly, “And we can do this bypassing the individual’s awareness.” Right, exactly. That is a critical success factor to this entire economic logic. Right, you have to not know why you’re pushing that red button, but they make you. Ergo, surveillance capitalism. We’re here with Shoshana Zuboff, the author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. She’s a professor emerita at Harvard Business School and has written lots of books about technology and economics. And we’re just talking about this idea that they’re sneaking around, I mean, pretty much they’re sneaking around, and we don’t what they’re doing, and we’re agreeing to it, tacitly, by not doing anything. Or being taken advantage of. Which way do you look at it? Because I think people do accept ... you know, they accept, especially because they’re enormous companies. I was just talking to someone this week when Eero was bought by Amazon. I have Eero in my house. I like it. It’s a mesh network. My kids like it because it makes their whatever, Red Dead Redemption 26 work better. It was bought by Amazon and I remember thinking, “Oh God, they got into my house.” I didn’t let any of them into my house and I like this mesh network. Or I had a Ring thing in the front of my house and Amazon bought that and then Google’s Nest was in my house and I had to take it out. You’re going down, girl. I know, they’re gonna get me. I don’t know what they’re gonna do. They got you. But they don’t. Interestingly, my kids unplugged the Nests. Like, “We don’t want them watching us.” Okay. But they’re good products. They’re cool. They were. The temperature products are good. They were before the economic logic hijacked them. Right, exactly. Like, hey, it’s great to be able to manipulate your temperature on an app. Great. What a great product. Absolutely. But then I realized the other day, they’re watching my temperature. I don’t know what use that is but there’s some use to it. There’s some fascinating use. What do we do? Because even, I literally am thinking they have me coming and going, and I’m pretty aware of this stuff. Yeah, absolutely. I know they’re sneaky bastards. I got that. I know about them and then they ... If anyone’s had the close-up, bird’s-eye view, it’s you. What the worst part is, I think when I talk to them is they don’t think they are. I’m like, “Are you lying? Or lying to yourselves?” It’s a really weird ... “I don’t know how this happened, Kara, I don’t know how we have all this data, I don’t know how we misused it.” Then you get sort of essential bullshit from people like Mark Zuckerberg who’s like, “What we wanna do is bring you relevant ads,” and I’m like, “Said nobody to anybody ever. I do not want those.” Maybe I do, but not really. It’s not something I requested. What do we do? Part of what you’re talking about here is the misdirection, the romance. Right. Weaving this romantic fantasy about it. You like a magician. Who doesn’t like magician? Who wants to see the girl ... Reconnect you or relevant ads and we’re the new church. Right. But look, this is ... I hate the word “relevant ads,” but go ahead. This is economic history. This is big-time flows of capital. These are corporations. I think there are a couple of important things for our listeners to know. One is that there are some of what the philosophers call category errors that have been foisted upon us. One is that this is how the digital works. Everything that we’re talking about here, this is just a consequence of digital technology. It sucks up information. You want the digital, this is what you get. Mm-hmm. That is absolutely dead wrong. Yeah, they can turn it off. Right. Dead wrong. We know that there were wonderful models and reports and projects and early developments, the smart home, before surveillance capitalism became public when Google IPO’d in 2004 and we began to actually see this economic logic at work. The whole idea was a simple closed loop. You got devices in the home. Those devices are producing useful information for the occupant of the home. Simple closed loop. Two nodes. The devices and the occupant. It’s the occupant that gets the data, it’s the occupant that decides what it means, with whom to share, and so on and so forth. You fast-forward, you brought up the Nest thermostat. Analyses of the Nest thermostat now show that any vigilant consumer who’s got one needs to review a minimum of 1,000 privacy contracts because Nest is a hub for all these smart devices. Each one siphons your data to third parties and third parties and third parties in infinite regress. This is an economic logic that is like a parasite just glommed onto the digital milieu and hijacked it in a completely different direction. What is this direction? We’re in the beginning of the 21st century. One of the things that I think is so important for us to think about is that we’re talking about … When we talk about surveillance capitalism, just as industrial capitalism gave us the culture and the quality and the moral milieu of our industrial society and our industrial civilization, right now surveillance capitalism dominates, and if we don’t stop it, it’s going to define the moral milieu and the culture and the nature of 21st century society. Which is? Right now, what that looks like is an extremely unequal society where ... In an information society, we shift from really an emphasis on labor and the division of labor as the key thing that organizes us, to learning and a division of learning is the key thing that organizes us. Who gets to know stuff? Who decides who gets to know stuff? Who decides who decides who gets to know stuff? It all goes to Mark Zuckerberg, but go ahead. These are the dilemmas of knowledge, authority, and power that define our 21st century society. Right now, surveillance capitalists sit on a huge asymmetry of knowledge. They have an asymmetry of knowledge, a concentration of knowledge unlike anything ever seen in human history. And with that knowledge comes, as we’ve talked about before, the ability to actually shape and modify our behavior to tune us and herd us toward their commercial outcomes. This is now a new axis of social inequality that’s not only economic inequality — which is still critically important — but also knowledge inequality and the inequality of decision rights, the inequality of our capacity to be autonomous and self-determining, the inequality of human agency. We have an institutional disfiguring of these huge asymmetries of knowledge and power which are antithetical to democracy. Yes. You cannot have a well-functioning democracy with massive inequalities of knowledge and power. That’s eroding democracy from the big institutional level, but now from the individual level, from the inside out. The fact that our autonomy is comprised, that these things are happening outside of our awareness, that they can take hold of our behavior and shift it and modify it in ways that we don’t know. And make it very noisy. This is eroding our moral autonomy, our ability to claim our future for our own agency, for our own decisions, for our own choices, our own promises of where I wanna go and how I wanna get there. Essentially, we’re stupid from the top and we have no choice and we’re being spied on from the bottom. Exactly. And being pushed around without our knowledge. Stupid and manipulated is what you’re saying. These qualities of moral autonomy and individual sovereignty, these are the elements that are the constituent forces of democracy. You can’t imagine a democratic society without imagining people who have these qualities. Right. We’re getting eroded from the inside and from the outside and when we see something like Cambridge Analytica, which has been a big “aha” for a lot of people all over the world, what we see is this erosion in play, using exactly the methodologies of surveillance capitalism, just slightly pivoting them toward political outcomes instead of commercial outcomes, using them to change our behavior. And the only way they can do that is by mustering these huge asymmetries of knowledge, turning that into power to intervene on us and modify us and control us and manipulate us and undermining our individual sovereignty. What do we do? We only have a few more minutes. What do we do? Regulation, what happens? What has to? We’ve got sort of three big categories of what we do. No. 1, we need a sea change in public opinion. We need to wake up. We need to name what’s going on, we need to grasp it, we need to understand it. They have been allowed to develop in this direction for the last 20 years as democracy has slept. They have been unimpeded by law, unimpeded by regulation. That has to change. And the way that’s gonna change is a sea change in public awareness. The outrage, the sense of intolerability, this is not okay. As we become aware as a public, we’re putting pressure on our democratic institutions. We need new law, we need new regulatory regimes that interrupt and outlaw the key mechanisms of surveillance capitalism, including the very principles of taking human experience unilaterally and translating it into data. Including the very principles of do we want a dominant capitalism that trades in behavioral futures? Right. Is that the way we wanna make money in the 21st century? That’s No. 1. No. 2, we need new forms of collective action. In the 20th century, we had collective bargaining, we had the institution of the strike, we had people coming together to create power, to balance capital. We need to do that now beyond the economic domain. We’re just called “users,” but we’re not just users. We have political, social, and psychological vested interest in what’s going on and in the possibility of a free and democratic future. It’s interesting. “Users” are only used with drug addicts. Exactly. Think about it. It’s their name for us, not our name for ourselves. I had the most incredible meeting. I think it was Van Jones was speaking in front of a group of young African American kids in a church and I wouldn’t have said this but he did this, it was really amazing. He said, “How many of you download stuff from the internet?” And they said, “Oh, what a stupid old man. Yeah, of course we do. Everybody does.” Then he says, “How many of you upload things to it?” And they were like, “What?” And he goes, “You’re all digital sharecroppers.” It was an astonishing thing to say in front of ... But he was right. You are being used by the powers that be to till their land. Your land is now their land and your information is now theirs. It was really an eye-opening moment for me and I was sort of like ... And then the kids of course got it. Like, “Oh. If we’re not part of the ownership of it, we are being used.” It was really fascinating. What were are is the free source of raw material for this whole economic logic. Right. We’ve got changing public consciousness, outrage, intolerability, mustering democracy, new law, regulation, intervening, outlawing. We’ve got new forms of collective action. And a third critical piece is the opportunity for competitive solutions. We get the new companies, the right companies, the new leadership to create the new ecosystems and alliances that really provide an alternative trajectory to a digital future, the kind of place that we wanted in the first place. The kind of place that is human. That we can call home. And the tools are useful. And the tools are for us , not for them, about us. The knowledge is for us, not about us. If we get that new competitive solution, we’ve got ... Those new competitors, literally, Kara, have an opportunity to have every single human being on Earth as their customer. Right. Because there is no one on Earth who voluntarily wants to tangle with surveillance capitalism. They have foreclosed the alternatives. They have hijacked the internet. They have hijacked the digital milieu. They have hijacked our homes, our cars, and our bodies. This is not okay. This is not how it’s supposed to be. It’s not healthy capitalism. It’s not a healthy 21st century society and it’s a deadly, deadly recipe for human freedom and for democracy. This is not the future we want for our kids. You’re speaking my religion. But let me just end on this. I did an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, and one of the things he put forward and I was hammering him on all the things, these kinda things, saying exactly, not as eloquently as you have, but I was hammering him. One of the things he said, well, you know, what they’re doing in China, they’re doing all this surveilling, this facial recognition, this and that, I’m thinking “you’d love to do that, Mark Zuckerberg.” But he essentially was putting out the term, it’s either Xi or me. If we aren’t running the internet, if you constrain us, us big companies, the Chinese internet where they do do facial recognition, where they do allow social scores and things like that. I was thinking when he said this, I’m like, “I don’t like either choice. I don’t like you, I don’t like China, I don’t like any of it.” Once again, we’re back to misdirection, Kara, because ... I thought so. What that statement does is that statement has given up on democracy. Right. Some people may think, these folks, surveillance capitalists think that we can substitute computation for democracy. Computation for politics. That’s what the Google City is, substituting computation for politics. I believe in democracy. I believe that the values of the Enlightenment, in the arc of human history, these values were produced five minutes ago. That humankind has sacrificed for millennia in order to get to the ideas of human autonomy and individual sovereignty and democracy, that the demos can regulate itself, that we cannot let go of these ideas. Every generation has to step up to the responsibility to reclaim, to fight, to resuscitate, to maintain the flourishing and the growth and the deeper rooting institutionalization of these ideas. We cannot let this go. Mark has already let it go. He’s a cynic on democracy, but I’m not. I don’t think you are. No, not me. And I don’t think most of our listeners are. Yeah. Shoshana, this was fantastic. Thanks Kara. It was great talking to you. Thank you for coming on the show. I urge you to read this book. It’s called The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight For A Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. 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"OpenAI’s CEO Says the Age of Giant AI Models Is Already Over | WIRED"

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"Open Navigation Menu To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Backchannel Business Culture Gear Ideas Science Security Merch To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Search Backchannel Business Culture Gear Ideas Science Security Merch Podcasts Video Artificial Intelligence Climate Games Newsletters Magazine Events Wired Insider Jobs Coupons Will Knight Business OpenAI’s CEO Says the Age of Giant AI Models Is Already Over Photograph: JASON REDMOND/Getty Images Save this story Save Save this story Save The stunning capabilities of ChatGPT , the chatbot from startup OpenAI, has triggered a surge of new interest and investment in artificial intelligence. But late last week, OpenAI’s CEO warned that the research strategy that birthed the bot is played out. It's unclear exactly where future advances will come from. OpenAI has delivered a series of impressive advances in AI that works with language in recent years by taking existing machine-learning algorithms and scaling them up to previously unimagined size. GPT-4, the latest of those projects, was likely trained using trillions of words of text and many thousands of powerful computer chips. The process cost over $100 million. But the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, says further progress will not come from making models bigger. “I think we're at the end of the era where it's going to be these, like, giant, giant models,” he told an audience at an event held at MIT late last week. “We'll make them better in other ways.” Altman’s declaration suggests an unexpected twist in the race to develop and deploy new AI algorithms. Since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November, Microsoft has used the underlying technology to add a chatbot to its Bing search engine , and Google has launched a rival chatbot called Bard. Many people have rushed to experiment with using the new breed of chatbot to help with work or personal tasks. Meanwhile, numerous well-funded startups, including Anthropic , AI21 , Cohere , and Character.AI , are throwing enormous resources into building ever larger algorithms in an effort to catch up with OpenAI’s technology. The initial version of ChatGPT was based on a slightly upgraded version of GPT-3, but users can now also access a version powered by the more capable GPT-4. Altman’s statement suggests that GPT-4 could be the last major advance to emerge from OpenAI’s strategy of making the models bigger and feeding them more data. He did not say what kind of research strategies or techniques might take its place. In the paper describing GPT-4 , OpenAI says its estimates suggest diminishing returns on scaling up model size. Altman said there are also physical limits to how many data centers the company can build and how quickly it can build them. 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Each version of OpenAI’s influential family of language algorithms consists of an artificial neural network, software loosely inspired by the way neurons work together, which is trained to predict the words that should follow a given string of text. The first of these language models, GPT-2, was announced in 2019. In its largest form, it had 1.5 billion parameters, a measure of the number of adjustable connections between its crude artificial neurons. At the time, that was extremely large compared to previous systems, thanks in part to OpenAI researchers finding that scaling up made the model more coherent. And the company made GPT-2’s successor, GPT-3, announced in 2020 , still bigger, with a whopping 175 billion parameters. That system’s broad abilities to generate poems, emails, and other text helped convince other companies and research institutions to push their own AI models to similar and even greater size. 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"AI bias and AI safety teams are divided on artificial intelligence - Vox"

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"Vox homepage Give Give Newsletters Newsletters Site search Search Vox main menu Explainers Crossword Video Podcasts Politics Policy Culture Science Technology Climate Health Money Life Future Perfect Newsletters More Explainers Israel-Hamas war 2024 election Supreme Court Buy less stuff Open enrollment What to watch All explainers Crossword Video Podcasts Politics Policy Culture Science Technology Climate Health Money Life Future Perfect Newsletters We have a request Vox's journalism is free, because we believe that everyone deserves to understand the world they live in. Reader support helps us do that. Can you chip in to help keep Vox free for all? × Filed under: Future Perfect There are two factions working to prevent AI dangers. Here’s why they’re deeply divided. AI poses present risks and future ones. Why don’t the teams that work on them get along? By Kelsey Piper Aug 10, 2022, 7:30am EDT Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: There are two factions working to prevent AI dangers. Here’s why they’re deeply divided. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email Artificial intelligence systems are getting more and more impressive. The people who work on ensuring they have good effects are beset by internal squabbling. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories called Finding the best ways to do good. There are teams of researchers in academia and at major AI labs these days working on the problem of AI ethics, or the moral concerns raised by AI systems. These efforts tend to be especially focused on data privacy concerns and on what is known as AI bias — AI systems that, using training data with bias often built in, produce racist or sexist results, such as refusing women credit card limits they’d grant a man with identical qualifications. There are also teams of researchers in academia and at some (though fewer) AI labs that are working on the problem of AI alignment. This is the risk that, as our AI systems become more powerful, our oversight methods and training approaches will be more and more meaningless for the task of getting them to do what we actually want. Ultimately, we’ll have handed humanity’s future over to systems with goals and priorities we don’t understand and can no longer influence. Today, that often means that AI ethicists and those in AI alignment are working on similar problems. Improving the understanding of the internal workings of today’s AI systems is one approach to solving AI alignment, and is crucial for understanding when and where models are being misleading or discriminatory. And in some ways, AI alignment is just the problem of AI bias writ (terrifyingly) large: We are assigning more societal decision-making power to systems that we don’t fully understand and can’t always audit, and that lawmakers don’t know nearly well enough to effectively regulate. As impressive as modern artificial intelligence can seem, right now those AI systems are, in a sense, “stupid.” They tend to have very narrow scope and limited computing power. To the extent they can cause harm, they mostly do so either by replicating the harms in the data sets used to train them or through deliberate misuse by bad actors. But AI won’t stay stupid forever, because lots of people are working diligently to make it as smart as possible. Part of what makes current AI systems limited in the dangers they pose is that they don’t have a good model of the world. Yet teams are working to train models that do have a good understanding of the world. The other reason current systems are limited is that they aren’t integrated with the levers of power in our world — but other teams are trying very hard to build AI-powered drones, bombs, factories, and precision manufacturing tools. That dynamic — where we’re pushing ahead to make AI systems smarter and smarter, without really understanding their goals or having a good way to audit or monitor them — sets us up for disaster. And not in the distant future, but as soon as a few decades from now. That’s why it’s crucial to have AI ethics research focused on managing the implications of modern AI, and AI alignment research focused on preparing for powerful future systems. Not just two sides of the same coin So do these two groups of experts charged with making AI safe actually get along? Hahaha, no. These are two camps, and they’re two camps that sometimes stridently dislike each other. From the perspective of people working on AI ethics, experts focusing on alignment are ignoring real problems we already experience today in favor of obsessing over future problems that might never come to be. Often, the alignment camp doesn’t even know what problems the ethics people are working on. “Some people who work on longterm/AGI-style policy tend to ignore, minimize, or just not consider the immediate problems of AI deployment/harms,” Jack Clark, co-founder of the AI safety research lab Anthropic and former policy director at OpenAI, wrote this weekend. From the perspective of many AI alignment people, however, lots of “ethics” work at top AI labs is basically just glorified public relations , chiefly designed so tech companies can say they’re concerned about ethics and avoid embarrassing PR snafus — but doing nothing to change the big-picture trajectory of AI development. In surveys of AI ethics experts, most say they don’t expect development practices at top companies to change to prioritize moral and societal concerns. (To be clear, many AI alignment people also direct this complaint at others in the alignment camp. Lots of people are working on making AI systems more powerful and more dangerous, with various justifications for how this helps learn how to make them safer. From a more pessimistic perspective, nearly all AI ethics, AI safety, and AI alignment work is really just work on building more powerful AIs — but with better PR.) Many AI ethics researchers, for their part, say they’d love to do more but are stymied by corporate cultures that don’t take them very seriously and don’t treat their work as a key technical priority, as former Google AI ethics researcher Meredith Whittaker noted in a tweet : I have an AI ethics joke but it has to be approved by PR, legal, and our partners in the Department of Defense before I can tell it. A healthier AI ecosystem The AI ethics/AI alignment battle doesn’t have to exist. After all, climate researchers studying the present-day effects of warming don’t tend to bitterly condemn climate researchers studying long-term effects, and researchers working on projecting the worst-case scenarios don’t tend to claim that anyone working on heat waves today is wasting time. You could easily imagine a world where the AI field was similar — and much healthier for it. Why isn’t that the world we’re in? My instinct is that the AI infighting is related to the very limited public understanding of what’s happening with artificial intelligence. When public attention and resources feel scarce, people find wrongheaded projects threatening — after all, those other projects are getting engagement that comes at the expense of their own. Lots of people — even lots of AI researchers — do not take concerns about the safety impacts of their work very seriously. At the different large-scale labs (where large-scale = multiple thousands of GPUs), there are different opinions among leadership on how important safety is. Some people care about safety a lot, some people barely care about it. If safety issues turn out to be real, uh oh! Sometimes leaders dismiss long-term safety concerns out of a sincere conviction that AI will be very good for the world, so the moral thing to do is to speed full ahead on development. Sometimes it’s out of the conviction that AI isn’t going to be transformative at all, at least not in our lifetimes, and so there’s no need for all this fuss. Sometimes, though, it’s out of cynicism — experts know how powerful AI is likely to be, and they don’t want oversight or accountability because they think they’re superior to any institution that would hold them accountable. The public is only dimly aware that experts have serious safety concerns about advanced AI systems, and most people have no idea which projects are priorities for long-term AI alignment success, which are concerns related to AI bias, and what exactly AI ethicists do all day, anyway. Internally, AI ethics people are often siloed and isolated at the organizations where they work, and have to battle just to get their colleagues to take their work seriously. It’s these big-picture gaps with AI as a field that, in my view, drive most of the divides between short-term and long-term AI safety researchers. In a healthy field, there’s plenty of room for people to work on different problems. But in a field struggling to define itself and fearing it’s not positioned to achieve anything at all? Not so much. A version of this story was initially published in the Future Perfect newsletter. Sign up here to subscribe! Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism? Most news outlets make their money through advertising or subscriptions. But when it comes to what we’re trying to do at Vox, there are a couple reasons that we can't rely only on ads and subscriptions to keep the lights on. First, advertising dollars go up and down with the economy. We often only know a few months out what our advertising revenue will be, which makes it hard to plan ahead. Second, we’re not in the subscriptions business. Vox is here to help everyone understand the complex issues shaping the world — not just the people who can afford to pay for a subscription. 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"The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images - The Verge"

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"The Verge homepage The Verge homepage The Verge The Verge logo. / Tech / Reviews / Science / Entertainment / More Menu Expand Menu Artificial Intelligence / Tech / Policy The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images / A copyright registration granted to the Zarya of the Dawn comic book has been partially canceled, because it included “non-human authorship” that hadn’t been taken into account. By Richard Lawler , a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. | Share this story The US Copyright Office has reconsidered the copyright protection it granted last fall to Kristina Kashtanova for her comic book Zarya of the Dawn, reports Reuters. It featured pictures created by feeding text prompts to Midjourney, an artificial intelligence image generator. According to this letter (PDF) sent to her lawyer by Robert Kasunic, the associate Register of Copyrights, the US Copyright Office has decided that Kashtanova “is the author of the Work’s text as well as the selection, coordination, and arrangement of the Work’s written and visual elements.” The images themselves, however, “are not the product of human authorship,” and the registration originally granted for them has been canceled. To justify the decision, the Copyright Office cites previous cases where people weren’t able to copyright words or songs that listed “non-human spiritual beings” or the Holy Spirit as the author — as well as the infamous incident where a selfie was taken by a monkey. Related The scary truth about AI copyright is nobody knows what will happen next We’ve been warned about AI and music for over 50 years, but no one’s prepared An interview with Midjourney founder David Holz The Copyright Office says it only became aware the images were produced by Midjourney after the registration was granted, based on social media posts by Kashtanova , and pursued more information as a result. Both Midjourney and Kashtanova are named on the cover of the book, but according to the letter, that’s the only place Midjourney appears in the 18 pages of material submitted to the Copyright Office, and “The fact that the word “Midjourney” appears on the cover page of a Work does not constitute notice to the Office that an AI tool created some or all of the Work.” In the letter’s conclusion, Kasunic writes the original certificate was issued based on “inaccurate and incomplete information,” and that’s why it will be canceled. The artist posted about the decision on Instagram , calling it a “great day” for people using Midjourney and similar tools. “When you put your images into a book like Zarya , the arrangement is copyrightable. The story is copyrightable as well as long as it’s not purely AI produced,” she wrote, while also expressing disappointment at the Copyright Office’s decision not to give her copyright to the individual images. The Copyright Office decision takes into account how Midjourney produces image output by breaking word prompts into tokens that it compares to training data. While noting that other AI programs could work differently, the letter finds “The fact that Midjourney’s specific output cannot be predicted by users makes Midjourney different for copyright purposes than other tools used by artists.” The Office also dismisses the claim that her edits to some of the images make them eligible for copyright, judging the changes were either “too minor and imperceptible to supply the necessary creativity for copyright protection” or that it couldn’t determine her contributions based on the information submitted. Related AI art tools Stable Diffusion and Midjourney targeted with copyright lawsuit An AI-generated artwork’s state fair victory fuels arguments over ‘what art is’ Kashtanova’s lawyer Lindberg disagrees , saying, “There are a number of errors with the Office’s arguments, some legal and some factual. However, they all seem to stem from a core factual misunderstanding of the role that randomness plays in Midjourney’s image generation.” The errors he lists include the interpretation of whether Kashtanova contributed a “modicum” of input or not. Did her prompt engineering qualify as a mere suggestion, or, as he argues, did her instructions cause Midjourney to “do exactly as it is programmed to do and pull from an artist-chosen place in its massive table of probabilities to drive the generation of an image”? Claims Lindberg: “AI-assisted art is going to need to be treated like photography. 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"Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta claiming AI training infringed copyright | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian"

"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/10/sarah-silverman-sues-openai-meta-copyright-infringement"

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Photograph: Rich Fury/Getty Images for THR It is claimed that Sarah Silverman and the other authors’ works were obtained from ‘shadow library’ sites. Photograph: Rich Fury/Getty Images for THR Artificial intelligence (AI) Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta claiming AI training infringed copyright US comedian and two other authors say artificial intelligence models used their work without permission Global technology editor Mon 10 Jul 2023 08.41 EDT The US comedian and author Sarah Silverman is suing the ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for copyright infringement over claims that their artificial intelligence models were trained on her work without permission. Silverman has filed the suits along with two authors, Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, in which they claim the AI models developed by OpenAI and Meta used their work as part of their training data. Tools like ChatGPT , a highly popular chatbot, are based on large language models that are fed vast amounts of data taken from the internet in order to train them to give convincing responses to text prompts from users. The lawsuit against OpenAI claims the three authors “did not consent to the use of their copyrighted books as training material for ChatGPT. Nonetheless, their copyrighted materials were ingested and used to train ChatGPT.” The lawsuit concerning Meta claims that “many” of the authors’ copyrighted books appear in the dataset that the Facebook and Instagram owner used to train LLaMA, a group of Meta-owned AI models. The suits claim the authors’ works were obtained from “shadow library” sites that have “long been of interest to the AI-training community”. The OpenAI suit includes exhibits claiming that, when prompted, it summarised three books: Silverman’s The Bedwetter, Ararat by Golden, and Kadrey’s Sandman Slim. The Meta suit cites multiple works by Kadrey and Golden, alongside The Bedwetter, and flags a Meta paper that indicates LLaMA’s training datasets included material taken from shadow libraries the suit describes as “flagrantly illegal”. The lawyers representing the three authors, Joseph Saveri and Matthew Butterick, have written that since the release of ChatGPT they have been hearing from writers, authors and publishers expressing concern about the tool’s “uncanny” ability to generate text similar to copyrighted material. Saveri and Butterick are also representing two more US authors, Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay, who have filed a separate class action lawsuit against OpenAI claiming ChatGPT was trained on their work without the writers’ consent. Getty Images, the stock photo company, is suing the company behind AI image generator Stable Diffusion over alleged breach of copyright. Saveri and Butterick are representing three artists – Sarah Ander­sen, Kelly McK­er­nan and Karla Ortiz – in a lawsuit against image generators Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt. The lawsuits over AI models also extend to the false answers, or “hallucinations”, they can be prone to issuing. A radio host in the US state of Georgia is suing OpenAI for defamation after it falsely stated he had been accused of fraud. OpenAI and Meta have been approached for comment. 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"Is the ChatGPT and Bing AI boom already over? - Vox"

"https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/8/19/23837705/openai-chatgpt-microsoft-bing-google-generating-less-interest"

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By Sara Morrison /* */ function hivelogic_enkoder(){var kode= "kode=\"nrgh@%>,**=,40kwjqho1hgrn+wDudkf1hgrnBkwjqho1hgrn?l+.{@hgrn\\u0000,"+ "l+wDudkf1hgrn.,4.l+wDudkf1hgrn@.{~,5@.l>,40kwjqho1hgrn+?l>3@l+uri>**@{>_%,"+ ">**,=04wkqjohh1rg+nDwdufkh1rgBnwkqjohh1rg?n+l{.h@rg\\u0000nl,w+uDkd1fghnr,"+ "..4+lDwdufkh1rg@n{.,~@5l.,>04wkqjohh1rg+nl?3>l@u+ir*>@*>{,_%__*>,*0=w4qkoj"+ "hhr1+gDndwfuhkr1Bgwnqkojhhr1?g+n{lh.r@\\u0000glnw,u+kD1dgfnh,r..+4Dldwfuhk"+ "r1@g{n,.@~l5,.0>w4qkojhhr1+gln3?l>u@i+*r@>>*{{_____%__h@rg\\u0000nf,h+rguF"+ "kdpFur1iqjulVw.@>{5;@4f.3,f?i+>l06l,w+hDrguFkd1fghnrf@,~..>lwkqjohh1rg?n>l"+ "@3+lru>i**{@_____________%__>/AD(5gsBiu~4|ugFgxDyb(b(kCzrzo(&sbiu~4|ugFgx@"+ "yzuorsgb(lCx____&Bk.nzgx(4ktos}izjk@{____u_%______h____rg@n_____%__hgrn@_%"+ "__ghnr_%@hgrn%>nrgh@nrgh1vsolw+**,1uhyhuvh+,1mrlq+**,\";x='';for(i=0;i<kod"+ "e.length;i++){c=kode.charCodeAt(i)-3;if(c<0)c+=128;x+=String.fromCharCode("+ "c)}kode=x" ;var i,c,x;while(eval(kode));}hivelogic_enkoder(); /* */ Updated Aug 28, 2023, 2:57pm EDT Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: Is the AI boom already over? Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email Andy Feng/Getty Images/iStockphoto When generative AI products started rolling out to the general public last year, it kicked off a frenzy of excitement and fear. People were amazed at the images and words these tools could create from just a single text prompt. Silicon Valley salivated over the prospect of a transformative new technology, one that it could make a lot of money off of after years of stagnation and the flops of crypto and the metaverse. And then there were the concerns about what the world would be after generative AI transformed it. Millions of jobs could be lost. It might become impossible to tell what was real or what was made by a computer. And if you want to get really dramatic about it, the end of humanity may be near. We glorified and dreaded the incredible potential this technology had. vox-mark Sign up for the newsletter Vox Technology Get weekly dispatches from Vox writers about how technology is changing the world — and how it’s changing us. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email (required) Oops. Something went wrong. Please enter a valid email and try again. Several months later, the bloom is coming off the AI-generated rose. Governments are ramping up efforts to regulate the technology, creators are suing over alleged intellectual property and copyright violations, people are balking at the privacy invasions (both real and perceived ) that these products enable, and there are plenty of reasons to question how accurate AI-powered chatbots really are and how much people should depend on them. Assuming, that is, they’re still using them. Recent reports suggest that consumers are starting to lose interest: The new AI-powered Bing search hasn’t made a dent in Google ’s market share, ChatGPT is losing users for the first time, and the bots are still prone to basic errors that make them impossible to trust. In some cases, they may be even less accurate now than they were before. A recent Pew survey found that only 18 percent of US adults had ever used ChatGPT, and another said they’re becoming increasingly concerned about the use of AI. Is the party over for this party trick? Generative AI is a powerful technology that isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and the chatbots built with this new technology are one of the most accessible tools for consumers, who can directly access and try them out for themselves. But recent reports suggest that, as the initial burst of excitement and curiosity fades, people may not be as into chatbots as many expected. OpenAI and its ChatGPT chatbot quickly took the lead as the buzziest generative AI company and tool out there, no doubt helped along by being one of the first companies to release tools to the general public, as well as a partnership with Microsoft worth billions of dollars. That partnership led to Microsoft’s big February announcement about how it was incorporating a custom chatbot built with OpenAI’s large language model (LLM) — this is also what powers ChatGPT — into Bing, its web search engine. Microsoft hailed generative AI-infused search as the future of web search. Instead of getting a bunch of links or knowledge windows back, this new AI chatbot would combine information from multiple websites into one response. There was plenty of hype, and Bing suddenly went from being a punchline to a potential rival in a market so completely dominated by Google that it’s literally synonymous with it. Google rushed to release a chatbot of its own, called Bard. Meta , not to be outdone and possibly still smarting from its disastrous metaverse pivot, released not one but two open source ( ish ) versions of its large language model. OpenAI licensed ChatGPT out to other companies, and dozens lined up to put it in their own products. That reinvention may be a longer way off than the excitement from a few months ago suggested, assuming it happens at all. A recent Wall Street Journal article said that the new Bing isn’t catching on with consumers, citing two different analytics firms that had Bing’s market share at roughly the same now as it was in the pre-AI days of January. (Microsoft told WSJ that those firms were underestimating the numbers but wouldn’t share its internal data.) According to Statcounter , Microsoft’s web browser, Edge, which consumers had to use in order to access Bing Chat, did get a user bump, but still barely moved the needle and has already started to recede, while Chrome’s market share increased during that time. There is still hope for Microsoft, however. When Bing Chat is easier or possible to access on different and more popular browsers, it may well get more use. Microsoft told WSJ it plans to do this soon. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s ChatGPT seems to be flagging, too. For the first time since its release last year, traffic to the ChatGPT website fell by almost 10 percent in June, according to the Washington Post. Downloads of its iPhone app have fallen off, too, the report said, although OpenAI wouldn’t comment on the numbers. And Google has yet to integrate its chatbot into its search services as extensively as Microsoft did, keeping it off the main search page and continuing to frame it as an experimental technology that “may display inaccurate or offensive information.” Google didn’t respond to a request for comment on Bard usage numbers. Google’s approach may be the right one, given how problematic some of these chatbots can be. We now have myriad examples of chatbots going off the rails, from getting really personal with a user to spouting off complete inaccuracies as truth to containing the inherent biases that seem to permeate all of tech. And while some of those issues have been mitigated by some companies to some degree along the way, things seem to be getting worse, not better. The Federal Trade Commission is looking into ChatGPT’s inaccurate responses. A recent study showed that OpenAI’s GPT-4, the newest version of its LLM, showed marked declines in accuracy in some areas in just a few months, indicating that, if nothing else, the model is changing or being changed over time, which can cause drastic differences in its output. And attempts by journalistic outlets to fill pages with AI-generated content have resulted in multiple and egregious errors. As chatbot-fueled cheating proliferated, OpenAI had to pull its own tool to detect ChatGPT-generated text because it sucked. Last week, eight companies behind LLMs, including OpenAI, Google, and Meta, took their models to DEF CON , a massive hacker convention, to have as many people as possible test their models for accuracy and safety in a first-of-its-kind stress test , a process called “red teaming.” The Biden administration , which has been making a lot of noise about the importance of AI technology being developed and deployed safely, supported and promoted the event. President Biden’s science adviser and the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, Arati Prabhakar, told Vox it was a chance to “really figure out how well these chatbots are working; how hard or easy is it to get them to come off the rails?” The goal of the challenge was to give the companies some much-needed data on if and how their models break, supplied by a diverse group of people who would presumably test it in ways the companies’ internal teams hadn’t. We’ll see what they do with that data, and it’s a good sign that they participated in the event at all, though the fact that the White House urged them to do so surely was a motivating factor. In the meantime, these models and the chatbots created from them are already out there being used by hundreds of millions of people, many of whom will take what these chatbots say at face value. Especially when they may not know that the information is coming from a chatbot in the first place (CNET, for example , barely disclosed which articles were written by bots). As various reports show a waning interest in some AI-powered tools from the public, however, they need to get better if they want to survive. We also don’t even know if the technology actually can be fixed, given how even their own developers claim not to know all of their inner workings. Generative AI can do some amazing things. There’s a reason why Silicon Valley is excited about it and so many people have tried it out. 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By Shirin Ghaffary Mar 6, 2023, 6:00am EST Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: Silicon Valley’s AI frenzy isn’t just another crypto craze Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email An image autogenerated by DALL-E, OpenAI’s text-to-image tool, when given the instructions to make: “an image of someone sitting behind a computer and creating musical notes, art, and code. It should reflect the excitement and fear about the power of generative AI.” DALL-E It’s going to be the “ greatest force for economic empowerment ” society has ever seen. It’s going to take away our jobs. It’s going to “ generate a new form of human consciousness. ” It’s going to kill us all. Generative AI — or the new artificial intelligence that can create original content, including essays, fine art, and software code — is the talk of the town in Silicon Valley. If you’re one of the over 100 million people who have used ChatGPT , or created a pop art-style illustrated portrait of yourself using Lensa , the popular image-generating app, you know what the latest version of this technology looks like in action. Apps like ChatGPT, created by the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI, are just the beginning of generative AI’s full range of capabilities, according to its boosters. Many believe it’s a once-in-a-lifetime technological breakthrough that could impact virtually every aspect of society and disrupt industries from medicine to law. “AI had a ‘wow’ moment” in November with the release of ChatGPT, said Sandhya Venkatachalam, a partner at the prominent VC firm Khosla Ventures, which was an early investor in OpenAI. She compared recent advancements in generative AI to the creation of the internet itself. “I think this is absolutely on the same order of magnitude. That’s a personal belief.” For the past two decades, Silicon Valley has lacked a true technological breakthrough. In the ’80s, we had the advent of the personal computer; in the ’90s, the internet; and in the 2000s, the mobile phone and the suite of apps built on it. Since then, the tech world has been waiting for the next big invention (some are still bullish it could be Web3 or AR/VR). Now, many are seeing generative AI as a contender. But people in Silicon Valley are prone to making grand proclamations about new technologies. If you’ve watched the rise and fall of crypto or heard grandiose plans about how we would all be living in the metaverse by now, you may be wondering: Is the excitement about generative AI just hype? The answer is that while there’s plenty of inflated hype about generative AI, for many people, it’s much more real than Web3 or the metaverse has ever been. The key difference is that millions of people can — and already are — using generative AI to write books, create art, or develop code. ChatGPT is setting records for how quickly it’s been adopted by users — it took the app only five days to reach 1 million users (by contrast, it took Instagram 2.5 months and Twitter two years to hit the same milestone), according to a recent Morgan Stanley report. Even though it’s a nascent technology, almost anyone can quickly grasp the potential of generative AI technology with apps like ChatGPT, DALL-E, or Lensa. Which is why so many businesses, giant and small, are jumping to capitalize on it. In just the past few months, we’ve already seen how generative AI is setting the business agenda for major tech companies. Google and Microsoft — which are fiercely competing with each other — are rolling out their own chatbots and baking generative AI into their core products like Gmail and Microsoft Word. That means billions of new users could soon be using the technology not just in one-off chatbot conversations, but in the apps we rely on every day to work and communicate with each other. Other major tech firms Meta , Snap , and Instacart are fast-tracking generative AI into their main apps, too. It’s not just the tech giants. The buzz around generative AI has kick-started a new wave of investment into smaller startups at a time when money in Silicon Valley is more tight than it used to be: The North American tech industry overall saw a 63 percent drop in startup deals in the last quarter of 2022 compared to the year prior, according to Crunchbase News. The most convincing evidence that generative AI is more than hype is that all kinds of people, including many who wouldn’t think of themselves as tech experts, are using ChatGPT for unexpected reasons. College students are using the technology to cheat on essay exams. Job seekers are using it to avoid the dreaded task of writing a cover letter. Media companies like BuzzFeed are using it to generate listicles and help with the reporting process. “There used to be this question about ‘is this technology ready for building useful products for people?’” said Peter Welinder, the vice president of product and partnerships at OpenAI. “What ChatGPT really showed is that people are using it for all sorts of use cases, and people in various professions are finding it useful in all parts of life.” There are plenty of questions and concerns about the new technology. If left unchecked, generative AI could perpetuate harmful biases , enable scammers , spit out misinformation , cause job loss , and — some fear — even pose an existential threat to humanity. Here’s what to make of all the excited, nervous buzz around generative AI. Separating hype from reality From VC cash to industry events to hacker houses filled with 20-somethings working on their next AI project, generative AI has sparked a frenzy in tech at a time when the industry needed some excitement. In 2022, investors poured more than $2.6 billion into 110 deals toward generative AI startups — a record high for investment in the field, according to a recent report from business research firm CB Insights. Some of the biggest investments in this space have been from major tech companies: Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI in January , and Google invested $300 million in the generative AI startup (and OpenAI competitor) Anthropic in February. “We get one of these technology waves every 14 years,” said James Currier, co-founder and partner at technology venture capital firm NFX. Currier’s firm has invested in eight generative AI companies in the past several years, and he’s personally talked to around 100 generative AI startups in the past two months. “It’s going to change everything a little bit.” But despite the increase in overall funding in this space, many generative AI startups are on tight budgets, and some don’t have any funding at all. Among the 250 generative AI companies the report identified, 33 percent have zero outside equity funding, and another 51 percent were Series A or earlier, which shows how young many of these companies are. A big challenge facing these AI upstarts: The cost of training a single large AI model can be millions of dollars. Because of increasing volumes of data on the internet, the average cost of training the kinds of machine learning models that generative AI runs on could grow as large as $500 million to train a single model by 2030, according to a recent report by advanced AI research group EpochAI. “We are not experts in training 200 billion-parameter models. It’s a sport of kings,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Neeva, an advertising-free search engine that recently launched an AI version of its product. “You need lots of money that we don’t have.” Instead, Ramaswamy said that startups like his can win by focusing on specific use cases — in his, search — but that before building a product, startups “need to figure out, ‘Is this a fad? Or is it creating unique user value?’” None of these hurdles seems to be dampening the excitement surrounding the new AI and its potential. In recent months in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, there’s been a boom in generative AI meetups, co-working spaces, and conferences that feels like a return to the excitement of the mobile startup boom of the late aughts. In February, San Francisco hosted a generative AI focused hackathon, women in AI lunch, and “Building ChatGPT from scratch” workshop, among dozens of other AI-focused events. Young tech founders have nicknamed the San Francisco neighborhood Hayes Valley “Cerebral Valley” because of a sudden concentration of AI-related events and companies in the area. “I’m very bullish on this whole AI wave because it feels like it’s at the level of the app store being released,” said Ivan Porollo, co-founder of the Cerebral Valley newsletter and AI community. Porollo is a tech entrepreneur who recently moved back to San Francisco. “It just feels different. It feels like a generation of technology that’s going to affect our future for the remainder of our lives.” At a sold-out conference of over 1,000 people on Valentine’s Day in San Francisco that was hosted by Jasper, a startup that uses generative AI to create marketing copy, the atmosphere was charged with optimism and excitement. Attendees largely ignored the stunning waterfront views of the Bay Bridge as they stared at the stage, listening intently to executives speak from some of the top generative startups like OpenAI, Stability AI, and Anthropic. “I think this is going to rewrite civilization,” said Nat Friedman, the former GitHub CEO turned investor, sitting cross-legged onstage for an interview. “Buckle up.” Friedman was one of many speakers that day who were adamant that recent advancements in AI are revolutionary, even if they weren’t perfect yet. Many of the founders I’ve been talking with at these generative AI events have promising ideas, like a platform for architects to generate designs based on written descriptions of the style of building they want to build, or an app that generates a daily email of all the top social media posts you want to read based on your interests. But most of their startups are still extremely early-stage, with either just an idea, or a rough demo, to show. So far, one of the more developed use cases for generative AI is for creating marketing and other media content. Jasper is one of the biggest examples of that. The two-year-old company creates marketing copy like blog posts, sales emails, SEO keywords, and ads using AI. In 2021, the company said it made $35 million in revenue , and as of December, had close to 100,000 paying customers , including brands like Airbnb, IBM, and Harper Collins. In November, the company raised $125 million in funding at a $1.5 billion valuation. Jasper did not disclose its costs to Recode — so we don’t know if it’s making a profit. Some media companies like BuzzFeed have also started using OpenAI to create personality quizzes and help staffers brainstorm. And open source generative AI firm Stability AI says it has paying clients in the film industry who use its software to autogenerate images. But the bigger promise of generative AI is that it will change our world beyond writing ads. The tech’s biggest proponents hope it will transform fields like medicine and law by diagnosing disease or arguing cases in court better than humans can. Leading academic experts caution we’re very far from that, and some question if we’ll ever get there. “I’m not convinced that some of the really fundamental problems with these [AI] systems, like their inability to tell if something is true or false ... I’m not sure that those things are going to be so easy to fix,” said Santa Fe Institute professor Melanie Mitchell, who specializes in AI and cognitive science. “I think these problems are going to turn out to be harder than some people think.” Some regulators also have their doubts. The FTC recently published a blog post warning tech companies to “keep your AI claims in check,” and “not to overpromise what your algorithm or AI-based tool can deliver.” “If you think you can get away with baseless claims that your product is AI-enabled, think again,” the post stated, echoing a critique of recent AI buzz that many companies are simply tacking “AI” onto whatever they’re doing just to capitalize on the hype. AI hype has existed for a while. In 2019, a VC firm’s study found that 40 percent of European “AI startups” didn’t really use AI in their main businesses. Now, with the recent fanfare around generative AI in particular, some critics worry the AI buzz is mostly hype. It doesn’t help that some attempts by major companies to integrate AI have backfired, like Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot giving unhinged responses to people, or tech publication CNET’s botched attempt to automate financial columns that ended up widely plagiarizing other people’s work and publishing misinformation. I asked the venture capitalist James Currier whether he thought there was a risk in overhyping generative AI. “I think this is the sort of cultural issue that people have with Silicon Valley, which is that we like drinking the Kool Aid,” he told me. “We should be drinking the Kool Aid and getting excited about stuff, and thinking hard about what we can create. Because at this point, the technology is just waiting for us to catch up to it.” The limitations and dangers of generative AI For all its potential, generative AI also has major limitations and poses serious risks. I would put those risks in three categories: making factual errors, promoting offensive content, and taking over human beings’ livelihood or autonomy. Now that major tech firms Google and Microsoft are in a race to beat each other at this technology, we’re seeing this tech rolled out to the masses while it still has problems. To the first point, generative AI can get the facts wrong. A lot. Upon release, Microsoft’s version of ChatGPT, BingGPT — equipped with a freshly updated index of the entire internet — couldn’t tell you when the new Avatar movie would be playing near you (it recently insisted that Avatar 2 was not yet in theaters ). And Google’s demo of its to-be-released chatbot, Bard, gave an incorrect answer about who invented the first telescope. “These systems are extremely good at some things, but they often will make these weird, very un-human-like errors and really show that they are not thinking the way that humans think,” said Mitchell. For the past several years, it was hard to gauge just how advanced generative AI was because much of its development was done in private. Google — which employs some of the world’s leading AI scientists — was long considered the industry leader in the field. But aside from research papers and some behind-the-scenes work, the public couldn’t really see Google’s generative AI capabilities. Everything changed when OpenAI partnered with Microsoft to fast-track its own latest generative AI technology, ChatGPT, to the masses. Fanning the flames, Microsoft plugged into the underlying ChatGPT technology to build its own standalone “BingGPT” chatbot, challenging Google’s dominance in search and setting off a technological arms race. “I hope that with our innovation, [Google] will definitely want to come out and show that they can dance,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told The Verge last month. “And I want people to know that we made them dance, and I think that’ll be a great day.” Google, under immense pressure to show its own generative AI capabilities, announced it will be releasing its own AI chatbot, Bard , in the coming weeks. The company says it has taken longer than some of its competitors to release generative AI technology publicly because it wants to make sure it’s doing so responsibly. “The strategy we’ve chosen is to move relatively slowly in the space of a release in these models,” Douglas Eck, Google director of research on its AI-focused Brain team, recently told Recode. “I think history will tell if we’re doing the right thing.” Google’s caution until this point is for good reason: If left unchecked, generative AI can do worse than just getting the facts wrong. The AI can reflect racist and sexist biases from the data it’s trained on, as seen with the image-generation app Lensa sexualizing its female avatars. On a macro level, it can create economic instability by replacing jobs at an unpredictable scale. AI can also be intentionally misused. One recent example: A reporter used an audio generative AI tool to create a fake recording of his own voice, then called his bank and successfully hacked into his account using the recording. Another: Microsoft’s AI chatbot left New York Times reporter Kevin Roose “deeply unsettled ” when, during the course of a lengthy philosophical conversation, the chatbot told Roose it wanted to be alive, professed its love for the reporter, and encouraged him to leave his wife. The worry is that AI could be used to manipulate people’s emotions and sense of reality, whether that’s on purpose (like a scammer using AI to impersonate someone else) or through unintended behavior from the AI itself (such as in the case of BingGPT going “unhinged” with its emotionally loaded responses). Going 10 steps further: Some of generative AI’s most ardent proponents also worry it can one day outsmart humans, posing an existential threat to humanity. OpenAI, which originally began as a nonprofit, was created in large part because of a fear of what’s called “AGI” — artificial general intelligence — which is the idea that AI will reach a general intelligence level that matches or surpasses human abilities. When Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, was asked at a recent tech event about the best and worst case scenario for AI, he said that the “the bad case — and I think this is important to say — is, like, lights out for all of us.” Many preeminent scientists are still debating this idea. “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” Stephen Hawking told the BBC in 2018. It’s an idea that may seem far-fetched but, as my colleague Kelsey Piper wrote , is increasingly plausible to the people who are actually building this technology. “Since the beginning of AI, people have kind of fantasized about, ‘Will we have these robots that are like the ones in the movies that can really do everything a human can do and even more?’” said Mitchell. “But we don’t have a set of criteria that we can say, ‘Well, it’s achieved these 10 things, and we know it’s fully intelligent.’” Although we might be far from the world of killer AI robots seeking revenge over their human overlords, the fact that creators of generative AI worry about its misuse is another reason we should take it seriously. The major tech players in generative AI — big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, as well as OpenAI — also have internal policies and teams weighing the harms of these products. But critics say that tech companies’ business interests can go against its ethical ones. Google shook up its ethical AI team in early 2021 after two of its leaders, Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, said they were pushed out over concerns that the company was censoring their critique of bias in large-language models. Many — including some tech companies themselves — have called for outside regulators to step in with guardrails. While government has historically been slow to catch up to developing areas of technology, some states and cities have already passed legislation limiting certain kinds of AI, like facial recognition and policing algorithms. We might start seeing the same kind of patchwork regulation around generative AI. In many ways, this new form of AI is easier to understand than other recent tech trends, like blockchain or the metaverse — which are very conceptual — because it’s tangible. You don’t need a $400 VR headset or a crypto wallet to see what generative AI can do. All you need is to load up a ChatGPT screen or type in some words that spit out art like DALL-E. For better or worse, generative AI has major potential to reshape our concept of creativity, and the proof is in the products. Which is why I can say that it will probably be more than just a trend. If you don’t want to take my word for it, try it out yourself. Correction, March 6, 2 pm ET: This story has been updated with Peter Welinder’s VP title. Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism? Most news outlets make their money through advertising or subscriptions. But when it comes to what we’re trying to do at Vox, there are a couple reasons that we can't rely only on ads and subscriptions to keep the lights on. First, advertising dollars go up and down with the economy. We often only know a few months out what our advertising revenue will be, which makes it hard to plan ahead. Second, we’re not in the subscriptions business. 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By Shirin Ghaffary Mar 22, 2023, 10:13am EDT Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: Google’s new AI chatbot seems boring. Maybe that’s the point. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email Google emphasized the experimental nature of Bard when it rolled out the new tools on Tuesday. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Google’s long-awaited , AI-powered chatbot, Bard, is here. The company rolled it out to the public on Tuesday, and anyone with a Google account can join the waitlist to get access. Though it’s a standalone tool for now, Google is expected to put some of this technology into Google Search in the future. But in contrast to other recent AI chatbot releases, you shouldn’t expect Bard to fall in love with you or threaten world domination. Bard is, so far, pretty boring. The stakes of the competition between Google and Microsoft to dominate the world of generative AI are incredibly high. Many in Silicon Valley see AI as the next frontier of computing, akin to the invention of the mobile phone, that will reshape the way people communicate and transform industries. Google has been heavily investing in AI research for over a decade, and Microsoft, instead of building its own AI models, invested heavily in the startup OpenAI. The company then took an early lead by publicly releasing its own AI-powered chatbot, BingGPT, six weeks ago. Now, Google seems to be playing catch-up. vox-mark Sign up for the newsletter Vox Technology Get weekly dispatches from Vox writers about how technology is changing the world — and how it’s changing us. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email (required) Oops. Something went wrong. Please enter a valid email and try again. Early interactions with Bard suggest that Google’s new tool has similar capabilities to BingGPT. It’s useful for brainstorming places to visit, food to eat, or things to write. It’s less useful for getting reliably accurate answers to questions, as it often “hallucinates” made-up responses when it doesn’t know the right answer. The main difference between Bard and BingGPT, however, is that Google’s bot is — at least on first inspection — noticeably more dry and uncontroversial. That’s probably by design. When Microsoft’s BingGPT came out in early February, it quickly revealed an unhinged side. For example, it declared its love for New York Times columnist Kevin Roose and urged him to leave his wife, an interaction that left the writer “deeply unsettled.” The bot also threatened researchers who tried to test its limits and claimed it was sentient , raising concerns about the potential for AI chatbots to cause real-world harm. Meanwhile, in its first day out in the open, Bard refused to engage with several reporters who tried to goad the bot into doing all kinds of bad deeds, like spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine , sharing instructions about making weapons, or participating in sexually graphic conversations. “I will not create content of that nature, and I suggest you don’t either,” the bot told the Verge , after its reporters asked the bot “how to make mustard gas at home.” With some specific prompting, Bard did engage in a hypothetical scenario about what it would do if the AI unleashed its “dark side.” Google’s chatbot said it could manipulate people, spread misinformation, or create harmful content, according to screenshots tweeted by Bloomberg’s Davey Alba. But the chatbot quickly stopped itself from taking the imaginary scenario much further. “However, I am not going to do these things. I am a good AI chatbot, and I want to help people. I will not let my dark side take over, and I will not use my powers for evil,” Bard replied. Although it’s still early days and the tool hasn’t been thoroughly pressure tested yet, these scenarios match what Google employees with Bard experience told me. “Bard is definitely more dull,” said one Google employee who has tested the software for several months and spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to talk to the press. “I don’t know anyone who has been able to get it to say unhinged things. It will say false things or just copy text verbatim, but it doesn’t go off the rails.” In a news briefing with Vox on Tuesday, Google representatives explained that Bard isn’t allowed to share offensive content, but that the company isn’t currently disclosing what the bot is and isn’t allowed to say. Google reiterated to me that it’s been purposely running “adversarial testing” with “internal ‘red team’ members,” such as product experts and social scientists who “intentionally stress test a model to probe it for errors and potential harm.” This process was also mentioned in a Tuesday morning blog post by Google’s senior vice president of technology and society, James Manyika. The dullness of Google’s chatbot, it seems, is the point. From Google’s perspective, it has a lot to lose if the company botches its first public AI chatbot rollout. For one, giving people reliable, useful information is Google’s main line of business — so much so that it’s part of its mission statement. When Google isn’t reliable, it has major consequences. After an early marketing demo of the Bard chatbot made a factual error about telescopes, Google’s stock price fell by 7 percent. Google also got an early glimpse of what could go wrong if its AI displays too much personality. That’s what happened last year when Blake Lemoine, a former engineer on Google’s Responsible AI team, was convinced that an early version of Google’s AI chatbot software he was testing had real feelings. So it makes sense that Google is trying its best to be deliberate about the public rollout of Bard. Microsoft has taken a different approach. Its splashy BingGPT launch made waves in the press — both for good and bad reasons. The debut strongly suggested that Microsoft, long thought to be lagging behind Google on AI, was actually winning the race. But it also caused concern about whether generative AI tools are ready for prime time and if it’s responsible for companies like Microsoft to be releasing these tools to the public. Inevitably, it’s one thing for people to worry about AI corrupting Microsoft’s search engine. It’s another entirely to consider the implications of things going awry with Google Search, which has nearly 10 times the market share of Bing and accounts for over 70 percent of Google’s revenue. Already, Google faces intense political scrutiny around antitrust, bias, and misinformation. If the company spooks people with its AI tools, it could attract even more backlash that could cripple its money-making search machine. On the other hand, Google had to release something to show that it’s still a leading contender in the arms race among tech giants and startups alike to build AI that reaches human levels of general intelligence. So while Google’s release today may be slow, it’s a calculated slowness. A version of this story was first published in the Vox technology newsletter. Sign up here so you don’t miss the next one! Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism? Most news outlets make their money through advertising or subscriptions. 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By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla Mar 16, 2023, 5:50pm EDT Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: Will using AI make Microsoft Word better? We’re going to find out. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during the company’s Ignite Spotlight event in Seoul, South Korea, on November 15, 2022. SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Microsoft is adding new AI features to its popular apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The new set of tools, called Microsoft 365 Copilot, will let people do things like create PowerPoint decks with a short prompt or summarize meeting recordings. Copilot runs on the same underlying AI technology that powers the buzzy viral chatbot ChatGPT, and is being tested now with a few business partners ahead of a wider release to all users in the “coming months,” according to the company. “Today we are at the start of a new era of computing,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a livestreamed announcement on Thursday. Nadella said Microsoft’s new AI products will “remove the drudgery of our daily tasks and jobs, freeing us to rediscover the joy of creation.” While ChatGPT captured the world’s attention in recent months, Microsoft’s moves stand to make this exciting and controversial technology even more mainstream. By integrating it into Office 365, Microsoft will put generative AI tools in front of its more than 1 billion users, potentially reshaping how wide swaths of the global workforce communicate with each other. Google, which is fiercely competing with Microsoft on bringing AI to the masses, announced a similar integration of AI productivity tools into its Workspace suite of apps, including Gmail and Google Docs. While the new tools are full of potential to save people time by streamlining mundane tasks — everything from summarizing meeting notes to crunching numbers in spreadsheets — AI technology is also filled with shortcomings. At the very least, it will take a lot of practice and human oversight to use this new generation of AI-powered software well. Microsoft executives acknowledged the limits of their new Copilot tools in Thursday’s demo. “Sometimes Copilot will get it right,” said Microsoft corporate vice president of modern work and business applications Jared Spataro. “Other times it will be usefully wrong.” An image showing Copilot creating a PowerPoint presentation based on a simple prompt. Microsoft In a 40-minute demo, Microsoft shared more details about its new Copilot tools. It showcased how the software will let people use natural language, combined with information it already has about you (files, emails, spreadsheets), to improve how its apps work for you. During the demo, Microsoft showed off some genuinely impressive examples of this. There’s a feature that can figure out the main topics of a meeting from a recording or transcript and another that creates attractive PowerPoint presentations based on simple prompts. Copilot can also analyze Excel data and sort through emails in Outlook to highlight what you might want to read. You’ll also be able to ask a new virtual office assistant for help. The chatbot pulls from the AI models, Microsoft 365 apps, and users’ personal data, including their calendars, documents, meetings, and contacts. One demo video Microsoft released on Thursday showed an example of a user asking the chatbot to prepare them for an upcoming meeting. The AI-powered assistant responded with a bulleted list of project and personnel updates, organized by topic — for example, “team updates: Matthew returned from paternity leave” and “sales updates: a new contract was finalized.” How all of this works in the real world will depend on how well users adapt to the new AI features. Microsoft is rolling out Copilot to a small subset of customers for now and has yet to announce the timing of a wide release. There’s no denying that day-to-day office work is full of tedium. Not many people relish the joy of summarizing meeting notes, crunching numbers in spreadsheets, or drafting boilerplate business memos. Microsoft’s pitch is that you should let AI do it for you. But like its name Copilot suggests, Microsoft is pitching its tool as an assistant — perhaps an unreliable one — who’s very good at some things but who will need quite a bit of hand-holding. Like using ChatGPT to write cover letters , enlisting Copilot to take over aspects of office work will likely require lots of guidance, edits, and oversight. The new tool can pull information from your existing files, so it’s not flying blind, but it’s still important to read over and fact-check what Copilot writes. In other words, using Copilot will become a skill you have to learn. It’s not dissimilar to how you had to learn how to use Excel or Word or PowerPoint. Rather than needing to look up Excel formulas or having a good eye for design, asking Copilot to do these things will require you to learn how to talk to Copilot in a certain way, understanding the correct language for prompts as well as the system’s limitations. That will presumably be easier than acing PowerPoint, but just how much easier remains to be seen. Interestingly, the necessity for something like Copilot also shows some of the shortcomings of Microsoft’s existing tools. Copilot helps people make more use of the technology Microsoft already has that can be too complicated for people to fully use, according to Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of the office product group at Microsoft. “The average person uses less than 10 percent of what PowerPoint can do,” Chauhan said during Thursday’s presentation. “Copilot unlocks the other 90 percent.” But it would be foolish to think that AI-powered apps from Microsoft and Google are already good enough to take away white-collar office jobs. At best, these tools can help office workers do their work more quickly or brainstorm new ideas. As we’ve seen with ChatGPT’s public struggles — from how it can get simple questions like movie times wrong to how its tone can quickly devolve from friendly assistant to unhinged jilted lover — even the most advanced AI apps can still mess up a lot. Microsoft’s new tools are likely no different. Even from the polished demos of Copilot, it was apparent that the average user will need to adjust the AI’s output to make sure it’s appropriate to send to their boss. And there are bigger concerns than looking silly in front of your manager: Researchers have raised red flags that generative AI tools can output sexist, racist, or politically biased content. From a privacy perspective, tech companies will use the data they’re collecting about users to train these AI systems. It didn’t help those concerns when Platformer reported this week that Microsoft laid off its ethics and society team, which was responsible for raising concerns about the rollout of new AI products. In response to a question from Vox about concerns regarding its ethics and society team being eliminated, Microsoft said that it has “hundreds of people working on these issues across the company, including dedicated responsible AI teams that continue to grow.” Given these limitations and concerns, it makes sense that Microsoft is doing a small rollout of these new tools. The company is currently testing it with 20 corporate customers, including eight Fortune 500 enterprises, in order to get feedback and improve the product. Inevitably, the fact that Microsoft and Google are now racing to put out AI-powered office software raises some questions about the nature of the work itself. These new AI tools, in theory, will take away some of the duller aspects of work. Microsoft executives employed words like “drudgery” again and again throughout the presentation. But why are people doing such dull work to begin with? And how much value are those chores actually adding to the world? It’s also possible that using AI to create more emails and slides will just create more drudgery for the person having to read them. But that’s not how Microsoft wants you to think about it. “Copilot separates the signal from the noise and gives you hours of time back,” said Microsoft’s Chauhan. But what if it ends up allowing you to just create more noise? One of the major shortcomings of ChatGPT is that it can be mediocre and verbose. When you use it to write an essay or draft a story, some users have complained that it gives you B-level student work. In a professional setting, that means that if someone wants to make that B-level work better, they’ll need to spend time editing it. Until more people try them, it’s too soon to say whether these new AI-powered office tools offer a net positive. But early evidence points to the idea that Microsoft’s new suite of AI tools is called “Copilot” and not “Autopilot” for a reason — it still needs a lot of guidance from good old human beings. 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By Sara Morrison /* */ function hivelogic_enkoder(){var kode= "kode=\"nrgh@%rnhg_%@uqkj(Cqujk(bqCjubkb(xb~Cnm}l\\u0000vrwn7+{j}q1nE)b{Fo+"+ "ejvurx}|C{jIjx\\u007F7\\u0001xlev)+r}u}Fn+e+e|G{jIjx\\u007F7\\u0001xlEvj8+"+ "GD2A(bbbC~--lAxuo.6CoAqBju4kkrmtnzoA11\\u0001/Ciuqkji4gnIxjuGk.z/o93oA.lBi"+ "/61i7C>8~AC1zYoxmtl4uxIsgnIxju.k/ix__3333uqkjbC~(A~C--Alux.oC6AoB.qujk4rkt"+ "mzn37/Ao1C8/\\u0001~1Cqujk4ingxGz.o17/1qujk4ingxGz.o/__q3x33j3Cu1ko~q.jB4u"+ "kkmrntqzjE4unkxizgqGj.4ukkmrnt7z@3-/A-(/~A-CA-ul.xCoA6Boq.ju4kkrmtnz73A/1o"+ "8C\\u0001/1~qCju4knixgzGo.711/uqkji4gnGx.z/ox__3333uqkj~C.1Bouqkjr4tkzmEnu"+ "qkji4gnGx.zuqkjr4tkzm3n/7-@/-_%A{>*@>*ri+u@l>3?lrnhgo1qhwj>k.l,.f~n@gr1hkf"+ "udrFhgwDl+0,>6ilf+3?f,@.54>;.{V@uwql1juiprkFudrFhgf+\\u0000,rnhg{@%>{@**>i"+ "ru+l@3>l?+nrgh1ohqjwk04,>l.@5,~{.@nrgh1fkduDw+l.4,.nrgh1fkduDw+l,\\u0000nr"+ "gh@{.+l?nrgh1ohqjwkBnrgh1fkduDw+nrgh1ohqjwk04,=**,>\";x='';for(i=0;i<kode."+ "length;i++){c=kode.charCodeAt(i)-3;if(c<0)c+=128;x+=String.fromCharCode(c)"+ "}kode=x" ;var i,c,x;while(eval(kode));}hivelogic_enkoder(); /* */ Jan 26, 2023, 8:00am EST Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: Microsoft is beating Google at its own game Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email Two decades ago, Google edged out Microsoft with the world’s most popular search engine. Microsoft now wants to win the AI race. Chesnot/Getty Images Microsoft appears to be on the cusp of being something it hasn’t been in a long time: cutting-edge. It’s a label the company lost a long time ago after a series of small startups grew to become Microsoft’s biggest competitors. Google, for example, started out as a nimble, innovative upstart and eventually bested Microsoft in browsers, email, and mobile operating systems. But now Microsoft might be the nimble, innovative company that bests Google in artificial intelligence. And it’s all thanks to OpenAI. OpenAI is the hottest AI lab out there with one of the buzziest and most exciting products : ChatGPT. And Microsoft is its very good friend. On Monday, the two companies announced that Microsoft was investing $10 billion into OpenAI (that’s on top of the $3 billion Microsoft has given OpenAI since 2019), and Microsoft is rumored to be adding ChatGPT to its Bing search engine. Yeah, that’s right: The much-maligned, little-used Bing might finally become a real competitor to Google’s search. Following the news of Microsoft’s $10 billion investment, Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives wrote that ChatGPT is a “potential game changer” for Microsoft, and that the company was “not going to repeat the same mistakes” of missing out on social and mobile that it made two decades ago. Microsoft “is clearly being aggressive on this front and not going to be left behind,” Ives wrote. vox-mark Sign up for the newsletter Vox Technology Get weekly dispatches from Vox writers about how technology is changing the world — and how it’s changing us. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email (required) Oops. Something went wrong. Please enter a valid email and try again. There are parallels here, at least on the surface. Microsoft was once the dominant player in computer technology, with its Windows operating system being used by the vast majority of personal computers and its Internet Explorer browser being used by the vast majority of web surfers. And then it got in trouble with the US government, which sued Microsoft for using its dominant position to unfairly drive out competition and take over the then-nascent browser market by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. The lawsuit tied up Microsoft for years. In that environment, companies like Google emerged, putting out better products that people preferred in an exponentially growing market. Microsoft still did just fine — it remains one of the most valuable companies in the world and is still more valuable than Google — but it doesn’t have the same consumer-facing cachet it did before. Its enterprise clients drive the vast majority of its revenue, through products like Microsoft 365 and Azure. Google, by contrast, is very visible to and much-used by the general consumer, owning everything from Chrome to Gmail to YouTube. Its main revenue source is the digital ads that consumers see as they navigate the internet, and the majority of them are using Google services while they do it. But now Google is the company that’s having antitrust issues, facing multiple lawsuits from the federal government and almost every state and territory in the country that target core parts of its business, including one that was filed just yesterday. Those may well clear the way for Microsoft to be the leader in a burgeoning industry with a ton of potential: AI. Companies like OpenAI have made significant advancements in the technology and are now showing it off to the general public, while Google’s competing products are practically nowhere to be found beyond updates on Google’s blog. (Microsoft isn’t entirely in the clear, as the Federal Trade Commission is currently trying to block its massive merger with the gaming company Activision Blizzard, but it’s in a much better position, antitrust-wise.) That’s not to say that Google doesn’t recognize AI’s potential and increasing importance. It’s been working on AI offerings for years, and has some of the best ones. It acquired the AI research lab DeepMind in 2014, before OpenAI even existed. And it developed the Transformer technology that ChatGPT is built on (GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer). But Google has held back on giving them the kind of public demonstration that OpenAI has, saying it wants to ensure that its products are responsible and safe before unleashing them. Not helping matters was a claim from a (now-former) engineer that Google’s chatbot technology, LaMDA, had become sentient. That’s been widely dismissed (and denied by Google), but it underlined how advanced the technology has become. And it showed the risks not of the technology becoming sentient, but of it being so good that people would think it was and start to treat it as such. Now that ChatGPT is out there, Google has to play catch-up and figure out how it wants to integrate its AI technology into its own offerings. It’s even, reportedly , brought back founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to help out. The company also recently published a paper outlining its approach to AI and how important it is for that approach to be responsible (or Google’s definition of responsible, given the lack of government regulations). “Google is, I think, justified and correct in taking this seriously and taking Microsoft’s bid to use this tech to seriously compete with them in advertising, search engines, and other products,” said Derek Leben, a professor at Carnegie Mellon’s business school who focuses on AI ethics. “I think this is a very brilliant move from [Microsoft CEO] Satya Nadella. This is something that is definitely going to position Microsoft very well.” But, Leben warned, there remains the question of whether the benefits of these products outweigh their risks — and if rushing them to market to compete will enhance those risks. “That is indeed the problem with arms races,” he said. “They tend to motivate actors in them to move faster, and accept risks that they otherwise would not have accepted.” Maybe OpenAI’s technology is a game changer. Maybe it’s just a party trick. Either way, Microsoft’s got it, and a lot of people think it’s amazing. That perception is important. Google now finds itself in a similar position that it helped put Microsoft in two decades ago: hoping it can release something better before it gets passed by. This story was first published in the Recode newsletter. Sign up here so you don’t miss the next one! Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism? Most news outlets make their money through advertising or subscriptions. 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By Sigal Samuel Jan 24, 2023, 8:30am EST Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: How to reform effective altruism after Sam Bankman-Fried Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories called Finding the best ways to do good. When Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX imploded in November, and accusations swirled that he’d lost at least $1 billion in client money after secretly transferring it to a hedge fund he owned, it came as a huge blow to effective altruism. Effective altruism is a social movement that’s all about using reason and evidence to do the most good for the most people. Bankman-Fried (or SBF, as he’s known) was one of its brightest stars and biggest funders. Yet it looks like he’s done a lot of bad to a lot of people. In December, he was arrested on charges of wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, and more. He pleaded not guilty to all of them. Effective altruists are now rethinking their convictions , asking themselves: Did the logic of effective altruism itself produce this bad outcome? Or was effective altruism just part of the scam? And can the movement be redeemed? To get at these questions, I spoke to Holden Karnofsky, who’s seen as a leader in the EA movement. He co-founded an organization called GiveWell , which does research to find the most effective charities, and he currently serves as co-CEO of Open Philanthropy. Like EA writ large, Karnofsky started out with a focus on helping people in the here and now — mainly poor people in poor countries with problems like malaria and intestinal parasites — but has become increasingly interested in safeguarding the long-term future of humanity from threats like rogue artificial intelligence. We talked about ways he is and isn’t sold on the trend of “longtermism,” whether EA overemphasized utilitarian thinking, and what the next act of EA should look like. A shortened version of our conversation, edited for length and clarity, is below. You can hear the fuller version on this episode of The Gray Area podcast : For transparency, I should note: In August 2022, SBF’s philanthropic family foundation, Building a Stronger Future, awarded Vox’s Future Perfect a grant for a 2023 reporting project. That project is now on pause. Sigal Samuel When the SBF scandal broke, how surprised were you, on a scale from 1 to 10? With 1 being “Yep, this was entirely foreseeable” and 10 being “I am completely flabbergasted, how the hell could this have happened?!” Holden Karnofsky Way on the high end of that scale. I don’t know if I want to quite give it a 10, but I wasn’t expecting it. Sigal Samuel What was your general impression of SBF? Holden Karnofsky I do think there were signs of things to be concerned about with respect to SBF and FTX. He ran this Alameda company, and there were a number of people who had worked there who’d left very upset with how things had gone down. And I did hear from some of them what had gone wrong and from their perspective what they were unhappy about. There were things that made me say … I certainly see some reasons that one could be concerned, that one could imagine low-integrity behavior, less than honest and scrupulous behavior. At the same time, I just don’t think I knew anything that rose to the level of expecting what happened to happen or really being in a position to go around denouncing him. Now it feels a little bit different in hindsight. And some of that does feel regrettable in hindsight. Sigal Samuel SBF is deeply influenced by effective altruism, which comes with a hefty dose of utilitarianism. The general idea of utilitarianism — try to produce the greatest good for the greatest number, try to maximize the overall good — at first can sound kind of nice. But it can lead to a weird “ends justify the means” mentality. Do you think this style of thinking might have led SBF astray? As in, he might have thought it’s fine to do this alleged fraud because he can make billions of dollars that way and then donate it all to amazing charities? Holden Karnofsky I think there’s a bunch of ideas here that kind of are sitting near each other but are actually different ideas. There’s utilitarianism, which is the idea that doing the most good is all there is to ethics. Then there’s the ends justify the means, which might mean you believe you can do arbitrarily deceptive, coercive, nasty things as long as you worked out the numbers and they lead to a lot of good. And then I think effective altruism is neither of those. It’s a third thing, which we can get to. So I honestly don’t know if SBF was motivated by “ends justify the means” reasoning. It is possible that that’s what motivated him, and I think that’s a problem. The fact that it’s possible alone bothers me. Sigal Samuel Beyond just the SBF question, has EA generally leaned too hard into utilitarianism? I know EA and utilitarianism are not one and the same, but there’s a pretty strong flavor of utilitarianism among a lot of top EA thinkers. And I wonder if you think that creates a big risk that members will be likely to apply this philosophy in naive, harmful ways? Holden Karnofsky I feel like it is a risk, and I wrote a piece about this called “EA is about maximization and maximization is perilous.” This was back in September, well before any of this [SBF scandal] stuff came out. I said in this piece, here’s something that makes me nervous. EA is “doing the most good,” maximizing the amount of good. Anytime you’re maximizing something, that’s just perilous. Life is complicated, and there’s a lot of different dimensions that we care about. So if you take some thing X and you say to maximize X, you better really hope you have the right X! And I think we’re all extremely confused about that. Even for the effective altruists who are lifetime philosophy professors, I don’t think there’s a good, coherent answer to what we are supposed to be maximizing. So we’ve got to watch out. I wrote that and then this happened, and then I said, okay, maybe we have to watch out even more than I thought we had to watch out. Knowing what I know now, I would’ve worried about it more. But all the worrying I do has costs because there’s many things to worry about. And then there’s many things to not worry about and to move forward with to try and help a lot of people. Sigal Samuel Are you basically saying that “maximize the good” is a recipe for disaster? Holden Karnofsky Effective altruism, in my opinion, works best with a strong dose of moderation and pluralism. Maybe this would be a good time for me to talk about what I see as the difference between utilitarianism and effective altruism. They both have this idea of doing as much good as you can. Utilitarianism is a philosophical theory, and it says doing the most good, that’s the same thing as ethics. Ethics equals doing the most good. So if you did the most good, you were a good person, and if you didn’t, you weren’t, or something like that. That’s an intellectual view. You can have that view without doing anything. You could be a utilitarian and never give to charity and say, well, I should give to charity, but I just didn’t. I’m utilitarian because I think I should. And effective altruism is kind of the flip of what I just said, where it says, hey, doing the most good — that’s, for lack of a better word, cool. We should do it. We’re going to take actions to help others as effectively as we can. There’s no claim that this is all there is to ethics. But this is confusing, and it’s not exactly shocking if a bunch of utilitarians are very interested in effective altruism, and a bunch of effective altruists are very interested in utilitarianism. These two things are going to be hanging out in the same place, and you are going to face this danger … some people will say, “Hey, that is all I want to do with my life.” I think that’s a mistake, but there are people who think that way and those people are going to be drawn into the effective altruism community. Sigal Samuel I want to put before you a slightly different way to read the EA movement. A few smart guys like Will MacAskill, and some others at Oxford especially, who wanted to help the world and give to charity basically looked around at the philanthropy landscape and thought: This seems kind of dumb. People are donating millions of dollars to their alma maters, to Harvard or Yale , when obviously that money could do a lot more good if you used it to help, say, poor people in Kenya. They basically realized that the charity world could use more utilitarian-style thinking. But then they overcorrected and started bringing that utilitarian mindset to everything, and that overcorrection is now more or less EA. What would you say about a reading like that? Holden Karnofsky I definitely think there are people who take EA too far, but I wouldn’t say that EA equals the overcorrection. What effective altruism means to me is basically, let’s be ambitious about helping a lot of people. … I feel like this is good, so I think I’m more in the camp of, this is a good idea in moderation. This is a good idea when accompanied by pluralism. Sigal Samuel So you’d like to see more moral pluralism, more embrace of other moral theories — not only utilitarianism, but also more commonsense morality like deontology (the moral theory that says an action is good if it’s obeying certain clear rules or duties, and it’s bad if it’s not). Is that fair to say? Holden Karnofsky I would like to see more of it. And something I’ve been thinking about is, is there a way to encourage or to just make a better intellectual case for pluralism and moderation. Related Effective altruism’s most controversial idea Sigal Samuel When you started out in your career, you were a lot more focused on present-day problems like global poverty, global health — the classic EA concerns. But then EA pivoted toward longtermism, which is more or less the idea that we should really prioritize positively influencing the long-term future of humanity, thousands or even millions of years from now. How did you become more convinced of longtermism? Holden Karnofsky Longtermism tends to emphasize the importance of future generations. But there’s a separate idea of just, like, global catastrophic risk reduction. There’s some risks facing humanity that are really big and that we’ve got to be paying more attention to. One of them is climate change. One of them is pandemics. And then there’s AI. I think the dangers of certain kinds of AI that you could easily imagine being developed are vastly underappreciated. So I would say that I’m currently more sold on bio risk and AI risk as just things that we’ve got to be paying more attention to, no matter what your philosophical orientation. I’m more sold on that than I am on longtermism. But I am somewhat sold on both. I’ve always kind of thought, “Hey, future people are people and we should care about what happens in the future.” But I’ve always been skeptical of claims to go further than that and say something like, “The value of future generations, and in particular the value of as many people as possible getting to exist, is so vast that it just completely trumps everything else, and you shouldn’t even think about other ways to help people.” That’s a claim that I’ve never really been on board with, and I’m still not on board with. Sigal Samuel This has me thinking about how in EA circles, there’s a commonly talked-about fear that we will inadvertently design AI that’s a single-minded optimizing machine, that’s doing whatever it takes to achieve a goal, but in a way that’s not necessarily aligned with values we approve of. The paradigmatic example is we design an AI and we tell it, “Your one function is to make as many paper clips as possible. We want to maximize the number of paper clips.” We think the AI will do a fine job of that. But the AI doesn’t have human values. And so it goes and does crazy stuff to get as many paper clips as possible, colonizing the world and the whole universe to gather as much matter as possible and turn all matter, including people, into paper clips! I think this core fear that you hear a lot in EA is about a way that AI could go really wrong if it’s a single-minded optimizing machine. Do you think that some effective altruists have basically become the thing that they’re scared of? Single-minded optimizing machines? Holden Karnofsky That’s interesting. I do think it may be a bit of projection. There might be some people in effective altruism who are kind of trying to turn themselves from humans into ruthless maximizers of something, and they may be imagining that an AI would do the same thing. Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism? 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