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First, it was an image of the Pope. Shortly followed by a photo of former US President Donald Trump physically resisting arrest by half a dozen police officers. Two examples of images that went viral around the world of events that never happened. Sanjana Hattotuwa is one of New Zealand's leading experts on disinformation online and is part of the Disinformation Project research group. He and his colleagues are increasingly concerned about the lack of checks and balances around this ever-evolving technology that allows millions of people around the world free and open access to tools that can create hyper-realistic images from a few lines of text.

Streamlined Ventures, led by Ullas Naik, secured $140 million in new capital commitments for its two newest funds. This brings the total funds managed to eight with the assets under management reaching about $325 million. Institutional investors, family offices and high net worth individuals pumped $102 million into the firm's fifth seed fund, which targets startups focused on data science, AI, software automation, APIs and Web 2.5. The second is $36 million into a third opportunity fund that invests in mid-stage financings of seed-stage companies from prior seed funds. Naik is a solo general partner who started Streamlined Ventures in 2011, but prior to starting his own firm, had been in both angel investing and venture capital for more than 25 years.

It happens when Google Speech-To-Text and Amazon Transcribe, both popular automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, erroneously give such age-inappropriate subtitles on YouTube videos for children. This is the key finding of a study titled'Beach to bitch: Inadvertent Unsafe Transcription of Kids Content on YouTube' which covered 7,013 videos from 24 YouTube channels. Ten per cent of these videos contained at least one "highly inappropriate taboo word" for children, says US-based Ashique KhudaBukhsh, an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology's software engineering department. KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor Sumeet Kumar of Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and Krithika Ramesh of Manipal University, who conducted the study, have termed the phenomenon "inappropriate content hallucination". "We were mind-boggled because we knew that these channels were watched by millions of children. We understand this is an important problem because it is telling us that the inappropriate content may not be present in the source but it can be introduced by a downstream AI (Artificial Intelligence) application. So on the broader philosophical level, people generally have checks and balances for the source, but now we have to be more vigilant about having checks and balances if an AI application modifies the source. It can inadvertently introduce inappropriate content," KhudaBukhsh, who has a PhD in machine learning and is from Kalyani in West Bengal, told The Sunday Express.

Government and private-sector organizations want to update data privacy and management approaches. Dense privacy policies and misleading website cookie notices are legacies of a bygone era. Today, data collection is becoming more ambient, often happening in places where there's no ability to post a notice at all. Instead, digital experiences have expanded beyond our phones and web interactions, and data is collected in virtually augmented environments, whether through IoT devices on city streets or in our homes. These third parties would serve as links between people and entities collecting their data, or between businesses and their partners.

A year ago I found out, from one of my direct reports, that I had apparently resigned. I had just been fired from Google in one of the most disrespectful ways I could imagine. Thanks to organizing done by former and current Google employees and many others, Google did not succeed in smearing my work or reputation, although they tried. My firing made headlines because of the worker organizing that has been building up in the tech world, often due to the labor of people who are already marginalized, many of whose names we do not know. Since I was fired last December, there have been many developments in tech worker organizing and whistleblowing.

When it comes to national and international defense, drone warfare has placed itself firmly as one of the prime options these days. To understand the challenge at hand, let's first take a step back, and look at defense as a whole in general. The development of technologies such as artificial intelligence and advanced computing have made defense only more complicated. These complications have made military divisions more potent. But all this progress comes with a catch: this has largely evened-up the playing field as far as lower-mid-tier weaponry is concerned.

When it comes to generating 3D computer graphics, there's no shortage of software options available. How you decide which software to use is generally priority calculus -- creating meshes for an industrial use case? You may want CAD-specific software like AutoCAD. But what if you want to do everything? And what if you'd prefer to do everything under an open source license (aka free)?

AI adoption is critical for business success in the changing, competitive market. A HIMMS and IBM study found that 64% of respondents said their organizations placed a “critical” or “high” strategic priority on AI. However, many organizations are still reluctant to fully adopt AI into their processes and decision-making for fear of the unknown. “To many who aren’t data scientists, AI is still a black box and that scares us,” says Kelly Combs, Director of Emerging Technologies Risk Services at KPMG. So how do organizations go about establishing trust in their AI? The answer lies in leadership buy-in, automated checks and balances, and access to clean and complete data. Here are three ways organizations can work to establish trust in their AI: 1. Unite your people and processes around strategic AI through education and information architecture Culture and strategy often trickle from the top of an organization down. This is why it is important to rally leaders and…

Ethics of AI: While artificial intelligence promises significant benefits, there are concerns it could make unethical decisions. Prefer to listen to this story? Here it is in audio format. Artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming important for accountants and businesses, and how it is used raises several ethical issues and questions. While autonomous AI algorithms teach themselves, concerns have been raised that some machine learning techniques are essentially "black boxes" that make it technically impossible to fully understand how the machine arrived at a result. It will become increasingly important to develop AI algorithms that are transparent to inspection, auditable, secure and robust against manipulation and misuse.