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Hollywood turns to AI tools to rewire movie magic

FOX News

Fox News anchor and executive editor Bret Baier has the latest on fears over the'darker side' of artificial intelligence on'Special Report.' Generative Artificial Intelligence can create lifelike imaging and audio, which is likely why an increasing number of film studios are incorporating A.I. into special effects. It comes just two years after Hollywood's largest union went on strike, in part over the impact A.I. would bring. "Popular culture movies like The Terminator have created a very dark dystopian version of what this could look like," White House A.I. and Crypto Czar David Sacks said. "The version of the future of A.I. that I think is probably most accurate if you want to pop cultural references is Star Trek Enterprise. Think about the ship computer in that. It can perform tasks for you. But it doesn't have a will of its own, it doesn't' have a mind of its' own. It's there to help the crew, and it needs to be supervised by humans."


Exact and approximate error bounds for physics-informed neural networks

Chantada, Augusto T., Protopapas, Pavlos, Bachar, Luca Gomez, Landau, Susana J., Scóccola, Claudia G.

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The use of neural networks to solve differential equations, as an alternative to traditional numerical solvers, has increased recently. However, error bounds for the obtained solutions have only been developed for certain equations. In this work, we report important progress in calculating error bounds of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) solutions of nonlinear first-order ODEs. We give a general expression that describes the error of the solution that the PINN-based method provides for a nonlinear first-order ODE. In addition, we propose a technique to calculate an approximate bound for the general case and an exact bound for a particular case. The error bounds are computed using only the residual information and the equation structure. We apply the proposed methods to particular cases and show that they can successfully provide error bounds without relying on the numerical solution.


Real-life Minority Report: Argentina will use AI to 'predict future crimes'

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Argentinian security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to'predict future crimes' but experts warn the move could threaten citizens' rights. Far-right president Javier Milei has created the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit which will use algorithms to analyse historical crime data. The data produced will then be used to predict future crimes, The Guardian has reported. The security unit is also expected to be able to use facial recognition software to track down wanted persons and detect suspicious activity. However, the Minority Report-esque resolution has concerned human rights campaigners who fear certain groups in society may be over-scrutinised by the AI technology.


NeuraChip: Accelerating GNN Computations with a Hash-based Decoupled Spatial Accelerator

Shivdikar, Kaustubh, Agostini, Nicolas Bohm, Jayaweera, Malith, Jonatan, Gilbert, Abellan, Jose L., Joshi, Ajay, Kim, John, Kaeli, David

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are emerging as a formidable tool for processing non-euclidean data across various domains, ranging from social network analysis to bioinformatics. Despite their effectiveness, their adoption has not been pervasive because of scalability challenges associated with large-scale graph datasets, particularly when leveraging message passing. To tackle these challenges, we introduce NeuraChip, a novel GNN spatial accelerator based on Gustavson's algorithm. NeuraChip decouples the multiplication and addition computations in sparse matrix multiplication. This separation allows for independent exploitation of their unique data dependencies, facilitating efficient resource allocation. We introduce a rolling eviction strategy to mitigate data idling in on-chip memory as well as address the prevalent issue of memory bloat in sparse graph computations. Furthermore, the compute resource load balancing is achieved through a dynamic reseeding hash-based mapping, ensuring uniform utilization of computing resources agnostic of sparsity patterns. Finally, we present NeuraSim, an open-source, cycle-accurate, multi-threaded, modular simulator for comprehensive performance analysis. Overall, NeuraChip presents a significant improvement, yielding an average speedup of 22.1x over Intel's MKL, 17.1x over NVIDIA's cuSPARSE, 16.7x over AMD's hipSPARSE, and 1.5x over prior state-of-the-art SpGEMM accelerator and 1.3x over GNN accelerator. The source code for our open-sourced simulator and performance visualizer is publicly accessible on GitHub https://neurachip.us


Reboot of Buenos Aires facial recognition plan fuels privacy fears

The Japan Times

After a relaxing weekend away, Guillermo Ibarrola was walking out of a train station in Argentina's capital when police arrested him and accused him of a robbery committed hundreds of miles away in a place he had never visited. "It was a nightmare," Ibarrola told local media after the 2019 incident, which rights campaigners say highlights the risks of using facial recognition systems to survey populations. The system of 300 cameras linked to a national crime database -- dubbed Buenos Aires' Big Brother -- was suspended two years ago after a court found it may have been used to collect data on journalists, politicians and human rights activists, and ruled it unconstitutional.


You Need to Update Google Chrome or Whatever Browser You Use

WIRED

China-linked hackers are increasingly moving beyond espionage and into the disturbing world of power grid attacks. Threat researchers at security software firm Symantec this week released new evidence that the Chinese hacking group known as APT41 infiltrated the power grid of an Asian nation. Some details of the latest intrusion echo a 2021 attack on India's power grid, suggesting the same hackers are responsible. In Argentina, a scandal is playing out over the use of facial recognition software in Buenos Aires. Despite laws that require authorities to limit searches to known fugitives, an investigation by a judge found that the system was used to look up people not wanted for any crimes.


The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires

WIRED

This story was made possible with support from the Pulitzer Center's AI Accountability Network. "And then the nightmare began," says Guillermo Ibarrola, recalling his arrest at the crowded train station in the city center of Buenos Aires where we stand. He points to the cameras at the end of the tracks, then his finger pans to a door at the edge of the large station hall of the heritage-listed building. "That's where they kept me for six days." He slept on bare concrete, in a small cell.


ML Research Engineer at Intuition Machines - Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Intuition Machines uses AI/ML to build enterprise security products. We apply our research to systems that serve hundreds of millions of people, with a team distributed around the world. If you enjoy working at scale on both architecture and data, engineering our backend systems may be your ideal job. Our approach is simple: light specs, small teams, and rapid iteration. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse global workforce.


Equilivest: A Robotic Vest to aid in Post-Stroke Dynamic Balance Rehabilitation

Paviotti, Franco, Buniak, Esteban, Ramele, Rodrigo, Freixes, Orestes, Santos, Juan Miguel

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Stroke is a medical condition that can affect motor function, particularly dynamic balance. Biofeedback can aid in rehabilitation procedures which help patients to regain lost motor activity and recover functionality. In this work, we are presenting a robotic smart-vest device that can analyze Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data and assist in rehabilitation procedures by providing timed feedback in the form of vibrotactile stimulation. Information provided by principal caregivers and patients in the form of surveys and interviews, is used to hypothesize potential clinical causes and to derive alternative three alternative clinical modalities: Artificial Vestibular Feedback, Gait Pacemaker and Risk-Predictor.


Argentine judge demands answers on how police got irregular biometrics access

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Argentine national security agencies have acquired irregular access to the biometric records of seven million people, including the president, and footage from Buenos Aires for identifying demonstrators via facial recognition cameras when authorized to access a list of fewer than 50,000 persons of interest, reports Página 12 via Público. The Buenos Aires judge who discovered the scandal has now demanded explanations from the city's Minister of Security and Justice as to how biometric data of a set of 62 cases relating to the capital, including those of the Argentine president and vice president, were transferred from the national ID database – the Registro Nacional de las Personas (ReNaPer) – to the city's authorities, namely the police, reports Página 12/Público. A massive breach of ReNaPer's digital ID database was reported last year. Judge Roberto Andrés Gallardo has suspended the use of the facial recognition system in question and has given Marcel D'Alessandro, Minister of Security and Justice for the City of Buenos Aires Government, two days to explain how the biometrics of persons such as former president and current vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and fellow former president Alberto Fernández were used. D'Alessandro had previously said that the system had been deactivated during the pandemic.