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Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of a thinktank that does not exist has published more than half a million words in nine days, built on a commercial platform that promises to optimize content so that AI chatbots will cite it. The site gives Israel's position on subjects including the torture of Palestinian prisoners, Israeli war crimes and whether Israel has deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza, all presented as neutral research. The site publishes in the name of the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, which apparently does not exist as a legal entity in any jurisdiction, has no physical address, and carries no named staff and no bylines on any of its reports. Its own terms of use are governed by the laws of "the state in which the Institute is established", which they decline to name. The existence of the site was first reported on 14 August.
Inside OpenAI's Reboot
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Bill Gates calls for 'human reserved' jobs in face of AI takeover
Bill Gates wrote'it is fair to wonder whether the world's institutions are up to the task of designing and implementing this new architecture'. Bill Gates wrote'it is fair to wonder whether the world's institutions are up to the task of designing and implementing this new architecture'. Bill Gates calls for'human reserved' jobs in face of AI takeover In 6,000-word essay Microsoft co-founder also expresses concern governments not prepared for technology's impact Bill Gates has called for "human reserved" jobs in certain sectors to prevent AI replacing them, and expressed concern that governments are not prepared for the impact the technology will have. In a 6,000 word essay titled The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make are critical, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder likened the need to spare roles from digital encroachment to how nature reserves operate to protect the environment.
Uber adds live video streaming so parents can watch their kids rides
A investigation also found that Uber had received reports of sexual abuse or misconduct every eight minutes between 2017 to 2022. In response, Uber stated that 75 percent of these reports were less serious. A Phoenix court subsequently found Uber partially liable for rape and violence its drivers committed against passengers . Uber has since expanded its safety measures, and now runs background checks on the past 99 years of a driver's life rather than just seven.
Dad of woman who took her own life says Treasury failed in its duty of care
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, Chloe Moffat's father David says there'was no safeguarding' from the Treasury before Chloe took her own life The father of a civil service employee who took her own life the day after a meeting with her managers has said the lack of support given to her by the Treasury beggars belief. Chloe Moffat, 26, a personal assistant to a Treasury director, died on 20 May last year, after she was told of allegations she had shared sensitive confidential information about colleagues, which she denied. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, David Moffat said he did not feel the Treasury had taken responsibility for its part in her death. He added that her loss was devastating, and had torn such a big hole in our lives.
Founders once linked to Bezos project pitch AI that models physics, not language
Their new type of artificial intelligence model has learned to predict physical phenomena in space and time. SAN FRANCISCO - A research duo, once pitched to lead the Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus, on Tuesday unveiled what they've built on their own: an artificial intelligence model that can take in and produce information so vast that a lone computer might not handle it. Their company, Accelerated Understanding, says it has developed a different type of AI model that in tests handled 5 trillion pieces of data in a single prompt. That is some 5 million times the size of what Anthropic and Google's flagship models can typically consume -- like reading Tolstoy's "War and Peace" not once but 5 million times in one sitting. The difference is that this new system is not built for understanding language. It is built for physics, said co-founders Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, in an exclusive interview ahead of Tuesday's corporate launch.
Dolly Parton Loved Us All, Darlin'
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