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China Looking to Regulate Artificial Intelligence Usage
The new regulations, known as the Internet Information Service Algorithmic Recommendation Management Provisions, have been drafted by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the body that enforces cybersecurity, internet censorship, and e-commerce rules. Terming the new rules as regulations for deep synthesis technology, GAC is implementing them to protect people's legitimate rights and interests. These significant policies are being implemented to ensure more effective services (e.g., ride-hailing, social media) for the country's over 1.4 billion people and manage tech companies and services providers. Artificial Intelligence issues are of concern to China. President Xi Jinping alluded to such challenges in his speech last October, "Some unhealthy and disorderly signals and trends have occurred in the rapid development of our country's digital economy."
'Elden Ring' review in progress: No one is prepared for how colossal this game is
The opening area of the game will suggest that you head north to Stormveil Castle, a decrepit estate shrouded in tempest. Instead, I rode my spectral horse East. I was shocked to see how far I could ride without stopping. Suddenly, I was in a war-torn battlefield, with AI-controlled soldiers fighting massive creatures in never-ending combat. I snuck my way into a nearby castle, where I found its remaining denizens fighting among each other, a confusing and frightening spectacle, particularly for my level 12 knight.
Woman swindled out of $390,000 in crypto scam by man she met on dating app Hinge
A woman said she lost $390,000 after falling for an online crypto dating scam and wants to warn others. Nicole Hutchinson, of Tennessee, told CBS News not only did she lose her own money, but her father's, too while attempting to make friends before moving to California. Hutchinson inherited her mother's house after she died and decided to sell the property. She split the profit with her father and inherited $280,000 that was supposed to be used to help her family build a life in California. The 24-year-old decided to try the online dating site Hinge and matched with a man named "Hao" while visiting a friend in the state, the New York Times reported.
UAE invests in drones, robots as unmanned warfare takes off
Large, black drones with the orange logo of EDGE, the UAE's arms consortium, were on display at this week's Unmanned Systems Exhibition (UMEX), along with remote-controlled machineguns and other "smart" weapons. The exhibition comes at a time of growing unmanned attacks around the region, including the January 17 drone-and-missile assault by Yemen rebels that killed three oil workers in Abu Dhabi, the first in a series of similar incidents. "Autonomous systems are becoming ever more prevalent around the world," Miles Chambers, EDGE's director of international business development, told AFP. "We are really heavily investing in developing our autonomous capability... as well as in electronic warfare and in our smart munitions. These are our three pillars." EDGE, an Abu Dhabi-based defence consortium that groups 25 Emirati firms, was formed three years ago but reached an estimated $4.8 billion in arms sales in 2020 -- nearly all of them to the UAE government.
Russia, Ukraine 'deepfake' video, audio are concerns for US intelligence
Fox News correspondent David Spunt joins'Special Report with Bret Baier' to discuss fake videos that could'stir up trouble' with national security As tensions continue to rise in Ukraine and Russia, U.S. intelligence officials are on the watch for manipulated video and audio that could result in multiple cases of misinformation. The FBI continues to wage a campaign against illegal deepfakes, as the technology continues to improve. "Audio, video, text and images that are created to show something that didn't necessarily happen, or never occurred," FBI Cyber Division Unit Chief Pranav Shah said of deepfakes. Shah tells FOX News the technology, once reserved for cyber wizards, is becoming more user-friendly. He says it is getting easier to make these digital deceptions, and they aren't always illegal.
OECD Framework for Classification of AI Systems: a tool for effective AI policies - OECD.AI
This user-friendly framework that will allow policy makers to classify different types of applied AI systems. It helps distinguish AI applications according to their potential impact on individuals, society and the planet. This report is the product of the work undertaken by the OECD Network of Experts on AI working group on the Classification of AI. AI is changing how we learn, work, play, interact and live. Policy makers and others need smart tools to differentiate between the types of AI systems and the impact that they can have on people's lives, whether good or bad.
Self-Driving Cars: An Epidemic Of Questionable Assertions
Questionable assertions are rapidly multiplying in the self-driving car space. Self-driving vehicles require relentless scrutiny. However, some fundamental misunderstandings cause industry observers to make broad definitive statements with very little to back up their conclusions. To respond each time would be one long game of Whack-A-Mole and there's only so much time in the day. But I'm motivated to push back after seeing the highly influential Washington Post devote a recent front page of their Outlook Section to an article titled "Companies Are Still Racing To Make Self-Driving Cars: But Why," with the subtitle "They may not be safer than human drivers.
Paving the way for AI and Machine Learning success - Intelligent CIO APAC
Simith Nambiar, Practice Lead, Emerging Tech, APJ, Rackspace Technology, tells us how businesses can overcome the challenges they experience with their Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning efforts. As businesses continue to leverage cloud-based compute technologies, attention is on the explosion of new data, AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML). Through the powerful combination of new data and AI/ML technologies, organizations can deliver superior customer-centric experiences, allowing them to understand their business environment like never before, resulting in the ability to drive new levels of efficiency. In Singapore, the government has continued to invest in ambitious projects in key sectors to accelerate AI/ML adoption. For instance, through the National AI Program in Finance, financial institutions will soon leverage an AI platform to assess the environmental impact, identify emerging risks and enable financial institutions to make green investments.
Spotify's Joe Rogan saga higlights the challenges of moderating podcasts
At an ad-industry conference in New York this month, one of the key architects of Spotify's podcasting strategy outlined what she saw as the biggest challenge facing platforms: how to moderate content. Chief Content and Advertising Business Officer Dawn Ostroff, the television veteran who had helped bring U.S. podcaster Joe Rogan and other top talent to Spotify, had been asked about the backlash to COVID-19 misinformation spread on his podcast as Neil Young and other artists withdrew their music in protest. She said companies faced a "dilemma of moderation versus censorship" and that there was "no silver bullet." Content moderation has been a thorny challenge for online platforms. While social media companies like Meta's Facebook and Twitter have faced pressure to be more transparent over moderation and ramp up investment in human and artificial-intelligence review systems, podcasting has often flown under the radar.