... "Jensen Huang showed me what [animation] could look like, with better shading, with better dimensions. These look like the original steamboat Mickey Mouse," Cramer said. "I don't think people are willing to accept that anymore." ...
... Zimmermann and Hudson’s presentation probed how AR documentary has become a way to engage viewers on site as well as online. Their argument expands beyond conventional conceptions of AR as a mobile app to consider other ways that material and perceptual reality can be augmented by virtual and machine-generated layers through projection mapping of digital images onto physical objects such as buildings, alongside individual private AR on an app or laptop. They analyze how machine vision can visualize invisible histories, such as extinct natural and built environments as well as invisible realities such as air pollution. ...
... The company’s defence platform, Skyral, is based on the same technology as its metaverse technology, M2, and allows for the creation of complex synthetic environments. Improbable says: “Skyral is field tested and can be hosted and deployed wherever it’s needed, from hyper-scale cloud on sovereign soil to the bandwidth-denied environments of the battlefield.”
Peter Lipka, COO of Improbable, said: “We are very confident that with the support of NOIA, the business is on a great path moving forward to being one of the first new prime contractors in decades in the UK market. Improbable continues to transform to deepen its focus on the metaverse.” ...
... Biden is meeting on Tuesday at the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco with Tristan Harris, executive director of the Center for Human Technology; Jim Steyer, the CEO of Common Sense Media; and Joy Buolamwin, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, among others. ...
The AI era promises a flood of disinformation, deepfakes, and hallucinated “facts.” Psychologists are only beginning to grapple with the implications.
... “I would like to see people collect actual data on people’s psychological state, personalities, their mental health as a function of their engagement with AI,” Graziano says. “What does that do? Does it actually improve things in some ways and harm things in other ways? Is it dependent on the particular personality or particular socio-economic status of a person? There’s this giant area that isn’t studied.”
Kosinki says people are just starting to see how quickly these AI systems are advancing, and they’re just going to keep becoming more complex and capable of more things. The world might look a lot different in just a year, and there’s no saying what it will look like further down the road.
“We are sliding, very quickly, towards an AI-controlled and AI-dominated world,” Kosinki says.
... When students step into a classroom, read assigned books, or meet with a professor during office hours, those students are engaged in knowledge transfer. It is not just the knowledge gained in the transferring of knowledge, but also bringing disparate pieces of knowledge together to form cohesive and sometimes innovative output.
Students who become too dependent upon AI in college and who are not gaining knowledge and learning how to solve problems may find themselves facing difficulty within their future careers. If you find yourself using AI and producing output such as papers and other academic work that you do not understand or cannot validate, that may be a sign that you are depending upon AI output that you cannot defend. ...
... Some applications of AI will be banned entirely if lawmakers consider the risk “unacceptable,” while technologies deemed “high risk” will have new limitations on their use and requirements around transparency.
Here are some of the major implications:
Ban on emotion-recognition AI. The European Parliament’s draft text bans the use of AI that attempts to recognize people’s emotions in policing, schools, and workplaces. Makers of emotion-recognition software claim that AI is able to determine when a student is not understanding certain material, or when a driver of a car might be falling asleep. The use of AI to conduct facial detection and analysis has been criticized for inaccuracy and bias, but it has not been banned in the draft text from the other two institutions, suggesting there’s a political fight to come.
Ban on real-time biometrics and predictive policing in public spaces. This will be a major legislative battle, because the various EU bodies will have to sort out whether, and how, the ban is enforced in law. Policing groups are not in favor of a ban on real-time biometric technologies, which they say are necessary for modern policing. Some countries, like France, are actually planning to increase their use of facial recognition.
Ban on social scoring. Social scoring by public agencies, or the practice of using data about people's social behavior to make generalizations and profiles, would be outlawed. That said, the outlook on social scoring, commonly associated with China and other authoritarian governments, isn’t really as simple as it may seem. The practice of using social behavior data to evaluate people is common in doling out mortgages and setting insurance rates, as well as in hiring and advertising.
New restrictions for gen AI. This draft is the first to propose ways to regulate generative AI, and ban the use of any copyrighted material in the training set of large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4. OpenAI has already come under the scrutiny of European lawmakers for concerns about data privacy and copyright. The draft bill also requires that AI generated content be labeled as such. That said, the European Parliament now has to sell its policy to the European Commission and individual countries, which are likely to face lobbying pressure from the tech industry.
New restrictions on recommendation algorithms on social media. The new draft assigns recommender systems to a “high risk” category, which is an escalation from the other proposed bills. This means that if it passes, recommender systems on social media platforms will be subject to much more scrutiny about how they work, and tech companies could be more liable for the impact of user-generated content.
The risks of AI as described by Margrethe Vestager, executive vice president of the EU Commission, are widespread. She has emphasized concerns about the future of trust in information, vulnerability to social manipulation by bad actors, and mass surveillance.
“If we end up in a situation where we believe nothing, then we have undermined our society completely,” Vestager told reporters on Wednesday.
