#aiassisted — Public Fediverse posts

Ars Technica: Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he’s a prolific liar. “Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI’s future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its boldest new technologies.”

Ars Technica: Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he’s a prolific liar. “Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI’s future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its boldest new technologies.”

Ars Technica: Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he’s a prolific liar. “Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI’s future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its boldest new technologies.”

Ars Technica: Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he’s a prolific liar. “Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI’s future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its boldest new technologies.”

Ars Technica: Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he’s a prolific liar. “Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI’s future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its boldest new technologies.”

Block Club Chicago: Blue Island Data Center Planners Get Booed By Residents. “Blue Island residents said they were concerned about potential noise coming from the center as well as water and electricity usage, and how the center could affect housing in the city. One resident, a recent college graduate, told the council that while studying she took courses focused on the ethics and societal […]

MIT Technology Review: AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers. “In March, a software developer in Israel was contacted on WhatsApp after Google’s chatbot Gemini provided incorrect customer service instructions that included his number. And in April, a PhD candidate at the University of Washington was messing around on Gemini and got it to cough up her colleague’s personal […]

Reuters: Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis over risk of entering flooded roads. “The Alphabet unit said the recall followed an ​incident on April 20 in which a Waymo vehicle ​drove into a flooded lane in San Antonio ⁠during extreme weather. Waymo said the vehicle was unoccupied ​and there were no injuries but the incident prompted the ​company to review similar scenarios involving high […]

Reuters: Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis over risk of entering flooded roads. “The Alphabet unit said the recall followed an ​incident on April 20 in which a Waymo vehicle ​drove into a flooded lane in San Antonio ⁠during extreme weather. Waymo said the vehicle was unoccupied ​and there were no injuries but the incident prompted the ​company to review similar scenarios involving high […]

Reuters: Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis over risk of entering flooded roads. “The Alphabet unit said the recall followed an ​incident on April 20 in which a Waymo vehicle ​drove into a flooded lane in San Antonio ⁠during extreme weather. Waymo said the vehicle was unoccupied ​and there were no injuries but the incident prompted the ​company to review similar scenarios involving high […]

Reuters: Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis over risk of entering flooded roads. “The Alphabet unit said the recall followed an ​incident on April 20 in which a Waymo vehicle ​drove into a flooded lane in San Antonio ⁠during extreme weather. Waymo said the vehicle was unoccupied ​and there were no injuries but the incident prompted the ​company to review similar scenarios involving high […]

Reuters: Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis over risk of entering flooded roads. “The Alphabet unit said the recall followed an ​incident on April 20 in which a Waymo vehicle ​drove into a flooded lane in San Antonio ⁠during extreme weather. Waymo said the vehicle was unoccupied ​and there were no injuries but the incident prompted the ​company to review similar scenarios involving high […]

The Verge: Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs. “Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot questions about what’s in your tabs, compare the products you’re looking at, summarize your open […]

The Verge: Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs. “Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot questions about what’s in your tabs, compare the products you’re looking at, summarize your open […]

The Verge: Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs. “Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot questions about what’s in your tabs, compare the products you’re looking at, summarize your open […]

The Verge: Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs. “Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot questions about what’s in your tabs, compare the products you’re looking at, summarize your open […]

The Verge: Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs. “Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot questions about what’s in your tabs, compare the products you’re looking at, summarize your open […]

Associated Press: Google disrupts hackers using AI to exploit an unknown weakness in a company’s digital defense. “Google said Monday that it had disrupted a criminal group’s attempt to use artificial intelligence to exploit another company’s previously unknown digital vulnerability, adding to heightened worries across government and private industry about AI’s risks for cybersecurity.”

Futurism: Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business. “Some of its questionable business decisions include ordering thousands of rubber gloves, despite the café only having a handful of employees. The AI’s handlers, nonetheless, are holding out hope that this is just a blip from expensive setup costs. How well it […]

Futurism: Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business. “Some of its questionable business decisions include ordering thousands of rubber gloves, despite the café only having a handful of employees. The AI’s handlers, nonetheless, are holding out hope that this is just a blip from expensive setup costs. How well it […]

Futurism: Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business. “Some of its questionable business decisions include ordering thousands of rubber gloves, despite the café only having a handful of employees. The AI’s handlers, nonetheless, are holding out hope that this is just a blip from expensive setup costs. How well it […]

Futurism: Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business. “Some of its questionable business decisions include ordering thousands of rubber gloves, despite the café only having a handful of employees. The AI’s handlers, nonetheless, are holding out hope that this is just a blip from expensive setup costs. How well it […]

Futurism: Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business. “Some of its questionable business decisions include ordering thousands of rubber gloves, despite the café only having a handful of employees. The AI’s handlers, nonetheless, are holding out hope that this is just a blip from expensive setup costs. How well it […]

The Register: Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can’t handle long-running tasks. “Companies exploring automated workflows would be well advised to keep their AI agents on a short leash. Microsoft researchers have found that even the priciest frontier models introduce errors in long workflows, the very thing for which AI software has been pitched.”

Carnegie Mellon University: CMU Researchers Develop AI System to Help Prevent Airport Collisions. “Near misses like the one at New York’s John F. Kennedy International airport inspired a group from the AirLab in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) to create World2Rules, an AI system that learns interpretable safety rules from data to analyze, verify and explain potential […]

New York Times: All Those A.I. Note Takers? They’re Making Lawyers Very Nervous.. This link goes to a gift article. “A.I.-generated transcripts, which some video call apps allow users to turn on by default, preserve all sorts of things — offhand comments, quickly corrected statements, jokes — that humans would rarely write in the meeting minutes. And they show up in meetings that would […]

New York Times: All Those A.I. Note Takers? They’re Making Lawyers Very Nervous.. This link goes to a gift article. “A.I.-generated transcripts, which some video call apps allow users to turn on by default, preserve all sorts of things — offhand comments, quickly corrected statements, jokes — that humans would rarely write in the meeting minutes. And they show up in meetings that would […]

New York Times: All Those A.I. Note Takers? They’re Making Lawyers Very Nervous.. This link goes to a gift article. “A.I.-generated transcripts, which some video call apps allow users to turn on by default, preserve all sorts of things — offhand comments, quickly corrected statements, jokes — that humans would rarely write in the meeting minutes. And they show up in meetings that would […]

New York Times: All Those A.I. Note Takers? They’re Making Lawyers Very Nervous.. This link goes to a gift article. “A.I.-generated transcripts, which some video call apps allow users to turn on by default, preserve all sorts of things — offhand comments, quickly corrected statements, jokes — that humans would rarely write in the meeting minutes. And they show up in meetings that would […]

New York Times: All Those A.I. Note Takers? They’re Making Lawyers Very Nervous.. This link goes to a gift article. “A.I.-generated transcripts, which some video call apps allow users to turn on by default, preserve all sorts of things — offhand comments, quickly corrected statements, jokes — that humans would rarely write in the meeting minutes. And they show up in meetings that would […]

TechSpot: Microsoft’s $1 billion Kenya AI data center could require switching off “half the country”. “It would bring foreign investment, a new Azure cloud region, and a facility powered by geothermal energy, but there’s a problem. According to Kenyan officials, the project would require a massive amount of electricity in a country where the grid is nowhere near ready for AI-era demands.”

NC Newsline: NC bills target data center boom, seeking tax changes, consumer protections. “The measures come about amid an anticipated data center boom in the state. At the moment, North Carolina offers sales tax exemptions on data center purchases of electricity and equipment. These tax breaks were initially enacted in 2006 and expanded in 2015 as a way to attract more data centers as economic […]

Tom’s Hardware: Denmark presses pause on new data center grid connections as total requests hit 60 GW — Nordic nation is the latest to put the brakes on AI buildouts. “After a sudden inrush of a total of 60 GW of grid connection requests, 14 GW of those for datacenters, Denmark’s Energinet was forced to issue a moratorium on new large-scale installations, according to a CNBC report. For […]

Ars Technica: The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home. “Data centers may be coming to your neighborhood as side installations associated with new homes—and in exchange would offer subsidized electricity and Internet access along with backup batteries to homeowners. The company behind the plan has already begun pilot testing in preparation for a 100-home trial run this […]

Bloomberg: Korea roils market by floating ‘citizen dividend’ from AI. “A top South Korean policymaker said the nation should pay citizens a ‘dividend’ using taxes on AI profits, underscoring growing pressure to redistribute gains from a boom that’s enriched chipmakers like Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc.”

TechCrunch: Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator. “In an email to beta testers, the company said the site’s goal is to ‘track the most influential voices in a space’ and to surface the news that’s actually worth ‘paying attention to.’ AI is the area it’s testing this idea with, but if successful, Digg will expand to include other topics. The email warned that the site was […]

International Business Times: ‘OpenAI Is Coke, Grok Is RC Cola’: Experts Slam Elon Musk’s AI Adoption Rates. “The slowdown is stark in the numbers. According to analysis firm AppMagic, downloads of Grok’s app fell to about 8.3 million in April, a steep decline from a peak of more than 20 million in January. In other words, in less than four months, more than half of that download momentum […]

PsyPost: Perpetrators of AI sexual abuse often view their actions as a joke, new research shows. “26% of people who shared images and 22% of those who created them said they wanted to destroy the target’s reputation. 12% of creators and 20% of sharers reported doing it for financial gain. Most often, the perpetrators targeted current or former sexual partners. Interestingly, participants more […]

PsyPost: Perpetrators of AI sexual abuse often view their actions as a joke, new research shows. “26% of people who shared images and 22% of those who created them said they wanted to destroy the target’s reputation. 12% of creators and 20% of sharers reported doing it for financial gain. Most often, the perpetrators targeted current or former sexual partners. Interestingly, participants more […]

Florida Phoenix: Florida has a new law regulating AI data centers. “AI data centers will be required to pay for their own utilities and not shift the costs to customers now that SB 484 is law. Appearing Thursday in Lakeland with Florida Secretary of Commerce Alex Kelly, Gov. Ron DeSantis thanked the Legislature for passing the bill, even though it was less expansive than what the governor […]

Northeastern University: ChatGPT has a goblin problem. An expert says it’s bigger than an AI quirk.. “OpenAI’s popular AI model exhibited a strange behavior: It used the word ‘goblin’ to an unusual degree. The company has since clamped down on the quirk, but an expert says it reveals a systemic issue with AI.”

Mississippi Today: xAI now has 46 gas turbines without air permits. State officials are ‘evaluating the situation’. “The company uses the turbines to power its two data centers just across the state line in Memphis, and is also planning to build another large center in Southaven. XAI now has 46 ‘temporary-mobile’ turbines at its Mississippi facility, according to the Mississippi Department […]

Reuters: Microsoft, Google, xAI security test details deleted from US government website. “The U.S. Commerce Department removed details from its website ‌about its agreement with Google, xAI and ‌Microsoft to test their artificial intelligence models for security vulnerabilities, ​according to a Reuters review of the agency’s site.”

Reuters: Microsoft, Google, xAI security test details deleted from US government website. “The U.S. Commerce Department removed details from its website ‌about its agreement with Google, xAI and ‌Microsoft to test their artificial intelligence models for security vulnerabilities, ​according to a Reuters review of the agency’s site.”

Reuters: Microsoft, Google, xAI security test details deleted from US government website. “The U.S. Commerce Department removed details from its website ‌about its agreement with Google, xAI and ‌Microsoft to test their artificial intelligence models for security vulnerabilities, ​according to a Reuters review of the agency’s site.”

Reuters: Microsoft, Google, xAI security test details deleted from US government website. “The U.S. Commerce Department removed details from its website ‌about its agreement with Google, xAI and ‌Microsoft to test their artificial intelligence models for security vulnerabilities, ​according to a Reuters review of the agency’s site.”

Reuters: Microsoft, Google, xAI security test details deleted from US government website. “The U.S. Commerce Department removed details from its website ‌about its agreement with Google, xAI and ‌Microsoft to test their artificial intelligence models for security vulnerabilities, ​according to a Reuters review of the agency’s site.”

Search Engine Land: Why Facebook account lockouts are rising and what’s driving them. “Over the past few months, a growing number of users have reported being locked out of their Facebook accounts — often suddenly, and sometimes permanently. What used to feel like a rare inconvenience has become a widespread frustration, affecting everyday users, creators, and business owners alike. So […]

Search Engine Land: Why Facebook account lockouts are rising and what’s driving them. “Over the past few months, a growing number of users have reported being locked out of their Facebook accounts — often suddenly, and sometimes permanently. What used to feel like a rare inconvenience has become a widespread frustration, affecting everyday users, creators, and business owners alike. So […]

Search Engine Land: Why Facebook account lockouts are rising and what’s driving them. “Over the past few months, a growing number of users have reported being locked out of their Facebook accounts — often suddenly, and sometimes permanently. What used to feel like a rare inconvenience has become a widespread frustration, affecting everyday users, creators, and business owners alike. So […]