AI Could Finally Help Crack Down on Hate Speech

A startup calledSpectrum Labsprovides artificial intelligence technology to platform providers to detect and shut down toxic exchanges in real-time. But experts say that AI monitoring also raises privacy issues. More Hate Speech Spectrum Labs promises a high-tech solution to the age-old problem of hate speech. Christine Hume / Unsplash “There are about 500 million tweets a day on Twitter alone,” he added. Instead, we use smart tools like AI to automate the process....

April 15, 2025 · 2 min · 246 words · Samantha Morse

AI Could Help You Understand Animal Speech

A Silicon Dr. Doolittle? The emotionally negative situations included separation, fights between piglets, castration, and slaughter, among others. These included an arena with toys or food and a corresponding arena without any stimuli. Jetta Productions / Walter Hodges / Getty Images In negative cases, the researchers collected more high-frequency calls (such as screams and squeals). But Mandel-Briefer said the same research could apply to other animals as well. Dont plan on having conversations with your pets just yet....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 140 words · Shane Costa

AI Could Stop Snooping By Predicting What You’ll Say

But is it a good idea to add another listening machine? The way this bang out of technology counters eavesdropping reminds Everette of noise-canceling headphones. Currently, the method works for the majority of the English language. BraunS / Getty Images In contrast, Neural Voice Camouflage works after conditioning itself on just two seconds of input speech. Wrong Tree? Maude is concerned since AI technologies can learn quickly to differentiate between noise and real audio....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 81 words · Michelle Doyle

AI Deepfake Ads: Tom Hanks, Gayle King Sound Warning

But should you see a dental insurance ad with his picture, look twice. It’s not really the Oscar-winning actor. Hankswrote on Instagramthis weekend. “There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it.” The Times reported being unable to find the ad online. Hanks isn’t the only celebrity complaining about doctored footage of themselves being used in ads....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 182 words · Kyle Robinson

AI Expert Exits Google and Joins Others in Voicing the Tech's Dangers

“But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.” “I’ve deeply enjoyed our many conversations over the years. I’ll miss him, and I wish him well!” From writing poems to resumes, generative AI can return unique and novel responses each time. Generative AI does this by combing through massive datasets and putting together sentences that make the most sense....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 137 words · Haley Robles

AI Gets Smarter, Safer, More Visual With GPT-4 Update, OpenAI Says

Human overseers rate results to steer GPT in the right direction, and GPT-4 has more of this feedback. That yielded an explosion of interest, experimentation and worry about the downsides of the technology. It can do everything from generating programming code and answering exam questions to writing poetry and supplying basic facts. It’s remarkable if not always reliable. ChatGPT is free, but it can falter when demand is high. Developers can sign up on awaiting list to get their own access to GPT-4....

April 15, 2025 · 2 min · 350 words · Kristina Sanchez

AI in Bing: 5 Things to Try With Microsoft's New Search Services

“It’s a new day in search,” Nadella said during the event on Tuesday. Last month, Microsoft said it would be investing billions of dollars into OpenAI. On Monday, Google, the dominant search engine on the web, announcedBard, its ChatGPT challenger. The technology will have to overcome concerns about accuracy and safety. Previous chatbots have been taken offline forspewing hateful language, for example. For now, Microsoft says its technology makes Bing your co-pilot on the web....

April 15, 2025 · 2 min · 263 words · Mark Morales

AI Is Writing Books Faster Than Humans—Here's Why That's a Problem

AI authors are sweeping into online booksellers. “We still need humans for that.” AI software makes writing and publishing a book on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing store easy. AndreyPopov / Getty Images Reuters reports that dozens of tutorials are available online on how to use AI to get published. Watching videos, he said, is becoming a more common pastime than reading books. “The art of writing is becoming obsolete, and video is accelerating that,” he added....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 164 words · Philip Munoz

AI May Be Catching up With Human Reasoning

Artificial Smarts AI often produces results without explaining why those decisions are correct. And these insights could allow the user to decide whether a model is ready to be deployed. Shared Interest works by comparing saliency methods to human-generated annotations. KanawatTH / Getty Images Shared Interest enabled the dermatologist to quickly see examples of the models correct and incorrect predictions. The reasoning behind a models decision is important to both machine learning researcher and the decision-maker....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 110 words · Ethan Richards

AI May Be Dangerous, but Here's Why Experts Say You Shouldn't Freak Out Too Much Yet

A growing number of experts haveexpressed their alarmover the increasing capabilities of AI. Meanwhile, anew paperfuels the notion that some concerns about AI abilities may be overblown. The AI Doom Squad Anton Petrus / Getty Images Alarm about AI is becoming eschatological. Yuichiro Chino / Getty Images Public figures have said they are worried super-smart AI could bringthe end of the human race. AI for Good? For example, Microsoft researchers said that the GPT-4 language modelshowed sparks of artificial general intelligence....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 159 words · Joseph Burke

AI Might Be Writing Websites Just for You

Mutiny is among a growing number of startups thatuse AI to customize sites for specific readers. The company claims its technology learns from user activity and can even rewrite website copy. “This gives them the ability to scale thats only possible with AI.” alengo / Getty Images Mutinys software plugs into a companys website, using AI to serve many possible site versions to different users. Among the companies that use the platform is Notion, which makes project management software....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 171 words · Victoria Williams

AI Might Not Be Your Best Source for Advice Just Yet

Who would have thought? The next level of difficulty is conversations about subjective opinions and feelings about certain matters. “Human conversation is not such a task.” B4lls / Getty Images Carter however thinks looking to have meaningful conversations with AI is the wrong approach, entirely. Carol Yepes / Getty Images

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 50 words · John Armstrong

AI Misinformation: How It Works and Ways to Spot It

This time around, however, the committee did something different. It’s unclear what prompts the RNC used to generate this video. The committee didn’t respond to requests for more information. Political ads aren’t the only place we’re seeingmisinformationpop up via AI-generated images and writing. And they won’t always carry a warning label. The technology is being used forsocial media posts, majorTV showsandbook writing. Companies such as Microsoft are investingbillions in AI....

April 15, 2025 · 3 min · 429 words · Danny Ritter