The scramble to archive Capitol insurrection footage before it disappears. A global effort to save incriminating evidence raises ethical quandaries.

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

How an internet lie about the Capitol invasion turned into an instant conspiracy theory across social media

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

How an internet lie about the Capitol invasion turned into an instant conspiracy theory

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

OpenAI introduces two new GPT-3 models: CLIP, which classifies images into categories from arbitrary text, and DALL·E, which can generate images from text

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

40 more states have targeted Google with its third antitrust lawsuit in two months

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

How Russian hackers infiltrated the US government for months without being spotted

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

AI can now train on tiny 4-bit computers – soon as those become a thing

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

A growing number of civil lawyers in the US are developing litigation strategies to push back against automated systems that deny the poor basic services

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says – The company’s star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google’s business.

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google

  Hacker News   ·   2 months ago

A look at crowdsourced public safety apps growing amid rising violence in Brazil; Fogo Cruzado, which warns of shootings in Río and Recife, has 250K+ downloads

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Some prominent exposure apps are slowly rolling back freedoms – Singapore was the first country to launch a digital contact tracing app. The government now says it’s going to be mandatory.

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

The race to get Georgia’s 23,000 17-year-olds registered to vote. Progressives are hoping Twitch streams, mobile gaming spots, and algorithms will tip the scales in their favor.

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Scientists criticize a lack of transparency in AI research, citing issues of replication in research and unequal access to code, proprietary data, and hardware

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Ransomware did not kill a German hospital patient

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

EU tightens rules on surveillance tech, forcing companies selling spyware, facial recognition, and tech with military uses to get a license, be more transparent

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Researchers want to infuse common sense into AI by merging language models trained via unsupervised learning, like GPT-3, with labeled computer vision datasets

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Vote count livestreams are here to stay

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything”

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

How claims of voter fraud were supercharged by bad science

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

A deepfake bot is being used to “undress” underage girls

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

How to make a chatbot that isn’t racist or sexist

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Facebook’s new Polyglot AI can translate between 100 languages. The model, a culmination of various automated and machine learning techniques, is being open-sourced to the research community.

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Twitter’s ban almost doubled attention for Biden misinformation

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

“Less than one”-shot learning

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

As deepfakes make their way into broadcast-quality productions, filmmakers and artists are facing new questions like how to cast the right actors for a deepfake

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

Trump’s antibody treatment was tested using cells originally derived from an abortion

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

We’re not ready for AI, says the winner of a new $1m AI prize

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

SpaceX’s Starlink satellites could make US Army navigation hard to jam – New research shows Elon Musk’s broadband network could work as an alternative to GPS

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Deepfake Putin is here to warn Americans about their self-inflicted doom. AI-generated synthetic media is being used in a political ad campaign—not to disrupt the election, but to save it.

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

CIA announces CIA Labs, a skunkworks operation that will let its officers profit from their inventions in fields like AI, data analytics, and quantum computing

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

A patient died after ransomware attackers hit a German hospital

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

The long, complicated history of “people analytics” – Silicon Valley’s belief that it can optimize society goes back a long way, as Jill Lepore argues in her new book “If Then.”

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

Analysis of 63 statements released by tech firms amid BLM protests finds their language repeatedly placed responsibility for racial injustice on Black people

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

Q&A with AI Now Institute's Amba Kak on the organization's new report detailing eight case studies of how biometric ID systems are regulated around the world

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

Explainer: What do political databases know about you? – If you live in the US, you’re almost certainly being tracked by political organizations. They know a lot about you—but some data is just guesswork.

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

MIT Technology Review: Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

Online creators are creating deepfake memes as the technology grows more accessible, and publishing YouTube instructions so others can learn how

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

IBM has built a new drug-making lab entirely in the cloud

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

Human rights advocates filed a court petition against Israeli phone hacking firm Cellebrite to stop exports to Hong Kong, says tools are used against dissidents

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

OpenAI's GPT-3 language generator has no idea what it’s talking about

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

The EU is launching a market for personal data. Here’s what that means for privacy.: In a radical shift for the EU’s data governance strategy, the Trusts Project promotes data sharing as a civic duty.

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

The hack that could make face recognition think someone else is you

  Reddit   ·   6 months ago

The quest for quantum-proof encryption just made a leap forward

  Reddit   ·   6 months ago

It’s too late to stop QAnon with fact checks and account bans

  Reddit   ·   6 months ago