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5 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Movies That Will Leave You Pondering the Ethics of AI

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AI has long been a topic of interest for filmmakers. From robots with a conscience to supercomputers gone rogue, there's no shortage of movies that explore the possibilities and pitfalls of AI. While classics like "Blade Runner" and "The Terminator" continue to capture our imagination, there are many other movies out there that are equally thought-provoking. Here are five AI movies that will get you thinking. This movie tells the story of a supercomputer named Colossus that is designed to prevent nuclear war by taking control of the world's weapons systems.



Neighborhood Watch

Communications of the ACM

Vinton G. Cerf wonders "whether there is any possibility of establishing'watcher networks'" in his October 2022 Communications "Cerf's Up" column. I must point out to all who have the same concern about "who will watch the watchers" that Philip K. Dick describes this problem in his story The Minority Report (see wikipedia https://bit.ly/2XlQcSA) It works often, but not always. So the question arises: How much authority are we willing to provide for AI and is the concept of three AIs working independently on the same problem a feasible solution. I agree with Cerf that we need to come up with a solution before the problem overwhelms us. In the December 2022 Communications, there is a compelling column by Vinton G. Cerf, "On Truth and Belief," which exemplifies the growing worry about agreement, polarization, and the nature of truth.


Microsoft's AI can clone your voice after analyzing a 3-second audio clip

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Microsoft has developed artificial intelligence that clones a person's voice perfectly after analyzing just three seconds of an audio clip of them speaking - but some fear it provides a tool for scammers to steal your voice. Called VALL-E, the system could be used by a telephone scammer to capture just three seconds of your voice and replicate it, which would also include your emotional range and acoustic environment. This would allow bad actors to bypass systems that use your voice as a password. VALL-E is not available to the public and Microsoft has not revealed plans for when or if it will be. While the AI sparks fear among some users, others see the technology as a way for people who lost their voice to throat disease ALS or another injury to regain their speech.


Noam Chomsky and GPT-3

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"You can't go to a physics conference and say: I've got a great theory. It accounts for everything and is so simple it can be captured in two words: "Anything goes."" Every now and then engineers make an advance, and scientists and lay people begin to ponder the question of whether that advance might yield important insight into the human mind. Descartes wondered whether the mind might work on hydraulic principles; throughout the second half of the 20th century, many wondered whether the digital computer would offer a natural metaphor for the mind. The latest hypothesis to attract notice, both within the scientific community, and in the world at large, is the notion that a technology that is popular today, known as large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT-3, might offer important insight into the mechanics of the human mind. Enthusiasm for such models has grown rapidly; OpenAI's Chief Science Officer Ilya Sutskever recently suggested that such systems could conceivably be "slightly conscious".


Privacy Enhancing Technologies and why they're vital for healthcare innovation

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The COVID-19 pandemic has supercharged the scope of the issues the global healthcare industry was already grappling with. When the pandemic arrived, healthcare organisations often struggled to find the basic information they needed to respond -- whether it was disease and death rates or the availability of hospital beds and critical supplies. Among other problems, the pandemic highlighted the desperate need for collaborative data analytics in healthcare. As McKinsey observed, healthcare's digital barriers are often decidedly non-technological. The technology is out there (or rapidly evolving) -- in October 2020, Pfizer and IBM researchers announced that they have developed a machine learning technique that can predict Alzheimer's disease years before symptoms develop.


7 Things to Think About Before Choosing a Conversational AI

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Choosing a Conversational AI: Conversational AI is a developing industry. According to a poll conducted by Accenture, 56 percent of businesses believe it is causing disruption in their industry. While 43% of these businesses claim that their competitors are already using this technology. It's no wonder that interest in chatbots has increased fivefold in the last five years (as per Google Trends). You're probably thinking about jumping on the bandwagon as well, which is why you've come here.


To buy or not to buy--evaluating commercial AI solutions in radiology (the ECLAIR guidelines)

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has certainly made impressive progress over the past few years. Consequently, many companies have entered the market bombarding radiologists with diagnostic AI tools aiming to help them in their clinical practice. Navigating through this plethora of AI product offerings can be quite challenging at times. How do you know if the marketing claims could hold up in clinical practice? And what are important questions to ask vendors?