Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Imagine you decide to write a short story about a protagonist who creates an artificial human and then falls in love with it. What gender is…
Tag: Machine learning & AI
How AI still divides actors and studios
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A bruising months-long Hollywood strike helped secure actors and writers some protection from AI, but a year after those ructions studios and creatives are still divided…
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Assistant professor of information science Allison Koenecke, an author of a recent study that found hallucinations in a speech-to-text transcription tool, works in her office at Cornell University in Ithaca,…
Study shows that LLMs could maliciously be used to poison biomedical knowledge graphs
Scorpius generates a malicious paper and mixes it with real papers. This poisoned knowledge graph will contain a malicious link. As a result, the relevance between a promoted drug and…
An ethical and legal matter that demands discussion
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The new European legal framework on artificial intelligence, the EU AI Act, came into force on August 1, aimed at preventing rights violations through the use…
New tool makes songs unlearnable to generative AI
llustration of the threat model where the attacker scrapes music posted online by victim musicians to train their music generative models. Credit: Jian Liu et al Nearly 200 years after…
Robots learn to perceive objects using acoustic vibrations
Credit: Duke University Imagine sitting in a dark movie theater wondering just how much soda is left in your oversized cup. Rather than prying off the cap and looking, you…
AI video generation expert discusses the technology’s rapid advances—and its current limitations
Credit: AI-generated image This presidential cycle has already seen several high-profile examples of people using deepfakes to try to influence voters. Deepfakes are images, audio recordings, or videos generated or…
Wall Street Journal sues Perplexity AI for copyright infringement
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post filed a lawsuit in a US court on Monday against AI company Perplexity AI, alleging massive copyright…
Microsoft introduces autonomous AI agents
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Microsoft on Monday said it was enhancing its AI offerings with new autonomous agent capabilities as the tech titan aims to accelerate business adoption of artificial…
