Tech & Society
Bot Therapy and Informed Consent: Discord's Kokobot triggers an ethics controversy.
An experiment in using chatbots to dispense mental-health counseling raised questions about ethics.
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Tech & Society
Autonomous Drone Carrier: Meet Zhuhaiyun, the Chinese Navy's new autonomous ship.
A Chinese naval ship navigates autonomously and controls a swarm of onboard drones. The Zhuhaiyun, billed as the first autonomous drone carrier, officially entered service after 12 hours of trials on open water, the South China Morning Post reported.
Tech & Society
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.
Tools that automatically write computer code may make their human users overconfident that the programs are bug-free. Stanford University researchers found that programmers who used OpenAI’s Codex, a model that generates computer code, were more likely...
Machine Learning Research
Segmented Images, No Labeled Data: Improved unsupervised learning for semantic segmentation
Training a model to separate the objects in a picture typically requires labeled images for best results. Recent work upped the ante for training without labels.
Culture
Looking for Enemies: Concert venues use face recognition to block enemies.
A major company is using face recognition to settle scores. MSG Entertainment, which operates large entertainment venues in several cities in the United States, used face recognition to block its perceived enemies from attending events...
Business
Your Personal Deepfaked Agent: This GPT-powered voice tool will talk to customer service for you.
Hate talking to customer service? An AI-powered tool may soon do it for you. Joshua Browder, chief executive of the consumer advocacy organization DoNotPay, demonstrated a system that autonomously navigates phone menus and converses...
Tech & Society
ChatGPT Backlash: ChatGPT faces backlash over plagiarism fears.
The Batch - AI News & Insights. The breakout text generator faces resistance — even within the AI community. Organizations including the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and the New York Department of Education banned OpenAI's ChatGPT...
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ChatGPT Backlash, Face Recognition to Settle Scores, Deepfakes Versus Customer Service, Segmented Images Without Labeled Data
The Batch - AI News & Insights: Will the future of large language models limit users to cutting-edge models from a handful of companies, or will users be able to choose among powerful models from a large number of developers?...
Letters
Who Will Control Cutting-Edge Language Models?: Why the future is likely to bring more large language models like ChatGPT
Will the future of large language models limit users to cutting-edge models from a handful of companies, or will users be able to choose among powerful models from a large number of developers?
Tech & Society
Transparency for AI as a Service: Amazon introduces service cards to enhance responsible AI.
Amazon published a series of web pages designed to help people use AI responsibly. Amazon Web Services introduced so-called AI service cards that describe the uses and limitations of some models it serves.
Business
AI as Officemate: Workers benefit from AI-powered assistance and tools.
Many workers benefit from AI in the office without knowing it, a new study found. MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group surveyed employees on their use of AI in their day-to-day work. Their findings...
Machine Learning Research
Precision-Guided Image Generation: Better text-to-image results with latent diffusion
Typical text-to-image generators can generate pictures of a cat, but not your cat. That’s because it’s hard to describe in a text prompt precisely all the things that distinguish your pet from other members of the same species.