As Artificial Intelligence becomes more omnipresent across industries, actors and public figures are beginning to call for more legislation to control its use.
There’s a downside to the spread of these tools, however. Humans have a knack for using technology for ill, as well as good. This is certainly true of AI. Using open source AI tools, anyone can make “deepfakes”—highly realistic fake images and videos—with a few mouse cl...
In general, here's how AI does it. Hinton and his collaborators created software in layers, with each layer handling part of the problem. That's the so-called neural network. But this is thekey: when, for example, the robot scores, a message is sent back down through all of the laye...
Hinton, alongside two others, won the Turing Award in 2018 for laying the foundations of AI. He had been working at Google since 2013 but resigned to speak out about the fast pace of AI development and the risks it poses. Inan interviewwith The New York Times, Hinton warned that the ra...
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Editor, Health Impact News AI chat programs have become such a huge part of the online culture so quickly, that many people are still fooled by its infancy and limitations, even though the owners of these AI programs have been very clear to warn the public that th...
Google's chief executive had admitted the potential dangers of AI development "keep me up at night". Sundar Pichai said the technology "can be very harmful if deployed wrongly" and backed growing calls for regulation amid concern about its impact on jobs, privacy, and how information is shar...
Artificial intelligence industry leaders testified on Capitol Hill calling on Congress to regulate the emerging technology. They warn of significant harm to the world if Washington does not set standards. Congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane repo
Geoffrey Hinton, the man widely considered as the “godfather” of artificial intelligence, has left Google — with a message sharing his concerns about potential dangers stemming from the same technology he helped build. Hinton has said he left Google s
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division also said they would use their legal authorities to fight AI-related harm. Tech giants have vowed many times to combat propaganda around elections, fake news about the COVID-19 vaccines, pornography and...