I was not prepared for what we came across when treating gaming disorders
Henrietta Bowden-Jones 14 Jul 2023 The National Centre for Gaming Disorders, the first NHS clinic designated to treat gaming disorder, saw its first patient in early 2020 but I had been aware of the need for this type of treatment for several years prior to its opening. The clinic was part of the […]
Elon Musk’s Unmatched Power in the Stars
By New York Times Published July 08, 2023 The tech billionaire has become the dominant power in satellite internet technology. The ways he is wielding that influence are raising global alarms. Read More
How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools?
By New York Times Published June 28, 2023 The pope did not wear Balenciaga. And filmmakers did not fake the moon landing. In recent months, however, startlingly lifelike images of these scenes created by artificial intelligence have spread virally online, threatening society’s ability to separate fact from fiction. Read More
AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
By James Vincent Jun 27, 2023 In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job […]
Wimbledon teams up with IBM to introduce generative AI video commentary and highlight clips
By Chantz Martin June 27, 2023 The prestigious Wimbledon tournament is set to introduce artificial intelligence-powered commentary in July. All England Club has tapped tech giant IBM’s Watsonx AI platform to create audio commentary and captions for its video highlight packages. Watsonx is the company’s enterprise AI and data platform. According to IBM’s […]
Spy Tool Helped FBI Solve Pipeline Hack, Other Major Crimes, U.S. Officials Say
By Dustin Volz Published June 13, 2023 WASHINGTON—Intelligence gleaned through a surveillance program due to lapse at the end of the year helped U.S. investigators solve a 2021 cyberattack that prompted the shutdown of the largest conduit of fuel on the East Coast, and claw back millions of dollars in ransom the pipeline’s operator paid to the perpetrators, senior […]
As the AI industry booms, what toll will it take on the environment?
Maanvi Singh 8 Jun 2023 One question that ChatGPT can’t quite answer: how much energy do you consume? “As an AI language model, I don’t have a physical presence or directly consume energy,” it’ll say, or: “The energy consumption associated with my operations is primarily related to the servers and infrastructure used to host and […]
US air force denies running simulation in which AI drone ‘killed’ operator
By Guardian staff Published on 2 Jun 2023 The US air force has denied it has conducted an AI simulation in which a drone decided to “kill” its operator to prevent it from interfering with its efforts to achieve its mission. An official said last month that in a virtual test staged by […]
NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent
Shanti Das Published 27 May 2023 NHS trusts are sharing intimate details about patients’ medical conditions, appointments and treatments with Facebook without consent and despite promising never to do so. An Observer investigation has uncovered a covert tracking tool in the websites of 20 NHS trusts which has for years collected browsing information and shared it with the tech […]