While some have tried to reduce this moment to just a competitive AI race, we see it as so much more than that. At Google, we’ve been bringing AI into our products and services for over a decade and making them available to our users. We care deeply about this. Read more…
Spain has advocated banning encryption for hundreds of millions of people within the European Union, according to a leaked document obtained by WIRED that reveals strong support among EU member states for proposals to scan private messages for illegal content. The document, a European Council survey of member countries’ views Read more…
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being tapped to address the impacts of climate change. From a report: Google’s latest announcement is one example. Countries across Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and South and Central America can now use its AI-enabled platform that displays flood forecasts. Starting Monday, governments, aid organizations and Read more…
Meta has built AI models that can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages — a tenfold increase on what’s currently available. It’s a significant step toward preserving languages that are at risk of disappearing, the company says. Meta is releasing its models to the public via the Read more…
Google Colab hosts free cloud-based “executable documents” that, among other things, let you write and run code in your browser (in dozens of languages, including Python). Over 7 million people, including students, already use Colab, according to a recent post on Google’s blog, “and now it’s getting even better with Read more…
“Formerly fringe beliefs that machines could suddenly surpass human-level intelligence and decide to destroy mankind are gaining traction,” acknowledges the Washington Post. “And some of the most well-respected scientists in the field are speeding up their own timelines for when they think computers could learn to outthink humans and become Read more…
Facebook owner Meta was hit by a record $1.3 billion European Union privacy fine and given a deadline to stop shipping users’ data to the US after regulators said it failed to protect personal information from the prying eyes of American security services. The social network giant’s continued data transfers Read more…