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Tesla found partly to blame for fatal Autopilot crash

BBC News

Shares of Tesla dipped following the news and were nearly 2% lower when US markets closed. Following the verdict, plaintiffs attorneys said Mr Musk had misrepresented the capabilities of the company's Autopilot driver assistance software. "Tesla designed Autopilot only for controlled-access highways yet deliberately chose not to restrict drivers from using it elsewhere, alongside Elon Musk telling the world Autopilot drove better than humans," said attorney Brett Schreiber in a statement to the BBC. Mr Schreiber said Tesla and Mr Musk had long propped up the company's valuation with "self-driving hype at the expense of human lives." "Tesla's lies turned our roads into test tracks for their fundamentally flawed technology," he added.


Is Chat Gpt Biased Against Conservatives? An Empirical Study by Robert W. McGee :: SSRN

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This paper used Chat GPT to create Irish Limericks. During the creation process, a pattern was observed that seemed to create positive Limericks for liberal politicians and negative Limericks for conservative politicians. Upon identifying this pattern, the sample size was expanded to 80 and some mathematical calculations were made to determine whether the actual results were different from what probability theory would suggest. It was found that, at least in some cases, the AI was biased to favor liberal politicians and disfavor conservatives.


'It happened so fast': inside a fatal Tesla autopilot accident

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Neither he nor Autopilot noticed that the road was ending and the Model S drove past a stop sign and a flashing red light. The car smashed into a parked Chevrolet Tahoe, killing a 22-year-old college student, Naibel Benavides. One of a growing number of fatal accidents involving Tesla cars operating on Autopilot, McGee's case is unusual because he survived and told investigators what had happened: He got distracted and put his trust in a system that did not see and brake for a parked car in front of it. Tesla drivers using Autopilot in other fatal accidents have often been killed, leaving investigators to piece together the details from data stored and videos recorded by the cars. "I was driving and dropped my phone," McGee told an officer who responded to the accident, according to a recording from a police body camera.


"Emily in Paris" and the Rise of Ambient TV

The New Yorker

By the end of its second episode, I knew that Netflix's new series "Emily in Paris" was not a lighthearted romantic travelogue but an artifact of contemporary dystopia. At that point, Emily had already gone jogging, and the multicolored wheels of her Apple-esque step-counter appeared on my television screen. The circles filled; Emily had pleased the robots monitoring her health. During her next run, a small square popped up: a visualization of Emily's Instagram account, to which she posted a photo of Paris, accruing onscreen likes. Later, Emily talked, via video call, with her old marketing-agency boss back in Chicago, whom she had replaced on the Paris sojourn when the boss found herself pregnant.


AI, Cloud Aim to Enhance the U.S. Open Fan Experience

WSJ.com: WSJD - Technology

The decision led to sweeping changes to almost every aspect of the competition, from playing matches with electronic line calling to having athletes use food-ordering apps for meal deliveries to their hospitality suites at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. However, the absence of fans immediately presented a problem for some of the USTA's recent AI projects. Last year, for instance, the USTA worked with International Business Machines Corp. to introduce a number of AI-powered additions to the tournament, including machine learning algorithms that rapidly compose broadcast highlight reels based on crowd reaction. "June 17th was really a pivotal moment, a lot of the solutions that we had in the pipeline were no longer going to be viable," said Kristi Kolski, marketing program director for IBM's sports and entertainment partnerships unit. "No crowd, no roar, no AI highlights."


Will our robot pets spy on us?

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At $2,900, Sony's robot dog Aibo sits at the fringe of technology, but it might not stay there. Whether you find it cute or creepy, the tech that makes Aibo tick is continuing to evolve, and it isn't hard to imagine a whole litter of less expensive Aibo competitors aimed at consumers -- and even at children -- in the not-so-distant future. To be clear, Aibo's tech already includes artificial intelligence, sensors and microphones that help it interact with people, and cameras that can recognize faces and help it navigate your home like a Roomba. A reasonable consumer might rightly wonder just how much data this dog gathers as it wanders their home scanning faces and learning about its owners. Perhaps more important -- what exactly does Sony do with that data?


Meet the Trailblazers Fighting to Change the Face of Politics

Mother Jones

One candidate fled the violence of Colombia with her mom at age nine. Another fled the Taliban at age six. A third says his parents were almost deported from the United States. Catalina Cruz and Safiya Wazir won their primary elections in New York and New Hampshire respectively last week, while William Tong is campaigning to become Connecticut's first Asian American attorney general. They're representative of a surge of minority candidates in this year's midterm elections, in which more women and people of color are not only running for office--but also winning votes and unseating entrenched politicians.


Google Rival Bing Gets Skype-Powered Chatbot To Answer Restaurant Queries

International Business Times

Microsoft-owned search engine Bing now has a special assistant to help users with their queries. The site appears to have been upgraded with a Skype-powered chatbot that is considered helpful to users located in the Seattle area. On Wednesday, Search Engine Land's Matt McGee reported that Bing has been given a special chatbot that shows up to assist users who are asking about local restaurants in Seattle area. The chatbot is reportedly available in the desktop version of the search engine, but it has yet to surface on the mobile version of the site or in the Bing iOS app. Aside from Seattle, users located in Redmond, where Microsoft is based, and Bellevue, Washington will also find this new feature useful.


If Machines Can Think, Do They Deserve Civil Rights?

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Over the past century, we have made massive strides in the rights revolution. These include rights for women, children, the LGBT community, animals, and so much more. Exploring the future, we must ask ourselves: what next? Will we ever fight for the rights of artificial intelligence? If so, when will this AI rights revolution occur, and what will it look like?


If Machines Can Think, Do They Deserve Civil Rights?

#artificialintelligence

Over the past century, we have made massive strides in the rights revolution. These include rights for women, children, the LGBT community, animals, and so much more. Exploring the future, we must ask ourselves: what next? Will we ever fight for the rights of artificial intelligence? If so, when will this AI rights revolution occur, and what will it look like?