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‘Mind-reading’ AI: Japan study sparks ethical debate | TechnologyNews
Tokyo, Japan – Yu Takagi could not believe his eyes. Sitting alone at his desk on a Saturday afternoon in September, he watched in awe as artificial intelligence decoded a subject’s brain activity to create images of what he was seeing on a screen. “I still remember when I saw the first [AI-generated] images,” Takagi,…
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In Sudden Alarm, Tech Doyens Call for a Pause on ChatGPT
An open letter signed by hundreds of prominent artificial intelligence experts, tech entrepreneurs, and scientists calling for a pause on the development and testing of AI technologies more powerful than OpenAI’s language model GPT-4 so that the risks it may pose can be properly studied. It warns that language models like GPT-4 can already compete…
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Digital technology new source of discrimination against women: Guterres
The town hall with representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) was held as part of the annual session of the UN Committee on the Status of Women (CSW), which meets in New York every March. Its latest two-week session – known as CSW67, which runs through Friday – is focused on the theme of innovation, technological…
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CSIS: ‘Smart city’ technology can open door to foreign interference
OTTAWA – Canada’s intelligence service warns that technological innovations adopted by municipalities could be exploited by adversaries such as the Chinese government to harvest sensitive data, target diaspora communities and interfere in elections. A newly released report by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service urges policy-makers and the technology industry to consider steps that can be…
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Nvidia grew from gaming to AI giant and now powering ChatGPT
For about a quarter century, Nvidia has been leading the revolution in computer graphics, becoming a beloved brand by gamers along the way. Nvidia dominated the market for graphics processing units (GPUs), which it entered in 1999 with the GeForce 256. Gaming brought in over $9 billion in revenue for Nvidia last year despite a…
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