According to a joint investigation from The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Instagram’s algorithms are actively promoting networks of pedophiles who commission and sell child sexual abuse content on the app. Accounts found by the researchers are advertised using blatant and Read more…
US healthcare chain Carbon Health has implemented an AI tool named Carby, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model, to automatically generate medical records from conversations between physicians and patients. If a patient consents to having their meeting recorded and transcribed, the audio recording is passed to Amazon’s AWS Transcribe Medical Read more…
Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that “seamlessly” blends the real and digital world. “It’s the first Apple product you look through, and not at,” CEO Tim Cook said of the device, which looks like a pair of ski goggles. From a report: As rumored, Read more…
When whistleblower Frances Haugen pulled back the curtain on Facebook in the fall of 2021, thousands of pages of internal documents showed troubling signs that the social media giant knew its platforms could be negatively impacting youth, and were doing little to effectively change it. With around 21 million American Read more…
Online retailers that host third-party sellers, like Amazon and Walmart, have extensive, competitively priced electronics selections. But for years, they have also served as playgrounds for fraudulent sellers, who list products with inflated or deceptive performance claims. Worse, some of these products pose a physical threat to customers. ArsTechnica: The Read more…
A year ago, the mood in Silicon Valley was dour. Big Tech stocks were falling, the cryptocurrency bubble had popped, and a wave of layoffs was beginning to sweep through the industry. Then the artificial intelligence boom hit. Since then, venture capitalists have been throwing money at AI start-ups, investing Read more…
Security guru Bruce Schneier and CS professor Jim Waldo think big tech has underestimated the impact of open source principles on AI research: In February, Meta released its large language model: LLaMA. Unlike OpenAI and its ChatGPT, Meta didn’t just give the world a chat window to play with. Instead, Read more…