#aiassisted — Public Fediverse posts

Invisible Parade: Learning Mahjong with AI help. “A number of my dad friends play Mahjong, so I figured this would be a good time to finally take the time to learn to play. I’ve been able to use AI tools in a way that makes learning extremely efficient (at least I think so).”

Tubefilter: OnlyFans investor says it will “never use AI in any capacity to disrupt creators”. “OnlyFans‘ newest investor is talking up his future plans for the platform–including promising that it will ‘never use AI in any capacity to disrupt creators.'”

The Register: Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too. “Our cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons spent last week in Las Vegas for the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences, and at both events there was only one thing on everyone’s mind: AI agents and their growing threat to cybersecurity defenders.”

University of Exeter: Scientists increasingly depend on ‘black-box’ tools they cannot control or fully understand . “As AI becomes more capable and autonomous, this lack of transparency will make scientific findings harder to interpret and verify. This issue extends beyond AI. Many remote sensing products rely on proprietary processing that researchers cannot fully access and verify, while […]

Gizmodo: Anthropic Explains Its Watermark System as Some Claude Users Loudly Revolt. “In a blog post on Friday, Anthropic elaborated on its controversial watermarking system, announced earlier this week as an effort to comply with the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act. Watermarking will make it harder for users to get away with pretending they wrote AI-generated text.”

NiemanLab: Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes. “Every day the fact-checking team for one of India’s largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media. For the six-person team at India Today, that might include addressing an AI-generated archival photograph of a politician, a clip of deadly flooding […]

TechCrunch: Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users. “Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange with more than 300 million registered users, on Thursday launched a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users’ behalf, bringing autonomous AI directly into the business of managing real money.” Today in “what could […]

Tom’s Hardware: Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on its lands, won’t support projects without consultation — energy and water consumption, air quality, noise, and cultural resource protection among concerns. “Cherokee Nation, the largest tribe in the U.S. with more than 475,000 citizens, has banned hyperscale data center development on its tribally owned and trust lands, after a […]

Poynter: Opinion | An FT column was condensed with AI. It crossed a novel ethical line.. “Every week seems to bring a new scandal at the crossroads of journalism and artificial intelligence: plagiarism, outright fabrication, em dashes and ‘not this but that’ galore. Using AI to condense a writer’s work, though, is a somewhat novel addition to the genre.”

Cornell University: Cornell Tech’s New Faculty Are Changing How AI Learns, Reasons, and Solves Problems. “Six new faculty members will join Cornell Tech during the coming year, bringing expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, programming languages, and operations research at a pivotal moment for the future of computing. Their work tackles some of the field’s most pressing […]

Pew (PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW!): Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs. “Today, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021. Another 9% are more excited than concerned and 37% say they’re equally excited and concerned, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted […]

New York Times: Chatbots Are Pushing Us Toward a Post-Human Internet. This link goes to a gift article. “Depending on whom you ask, bot loops might be banal, dystopian or genuinely useful. No matter how people feel about them, researchers say we’re going to see bot loops much more often as we deputize A.I. systems to do our bidding.”

State of Arizona: Governor Katie Hobbs Launches AI Tool to Make Government Work Better for Arizonans. “Today Governor Katie Hobbs launched FindServices.az.gov, a centralized, artificial intelligence-powered search tool that simplifies how Arizonans find and learn about government resources. In Arizona, there are over 60 Departments, Agencies, Boards, and Commissions offering more than 300 […]

How-To Geek: I automated my research workflow with open-source AI, and I finally own my data. “Online AI services are a great way to search through and parse long documents, but they come with some drawbacks. Your data is held by someone else, you use up tokens or require a subscription to get access, and you need internet access for it to work. By switching to a local-only approach, I can […]

Yale School of Medicine: Yale School of Medicine Launches New Online Master of Health Science in Medical AI. “Yale School of Medicine is launching a new Master of Health Science in Medical Artificial Intelligence, a graduate degree combining flexible online learning with in-person sessions at Yale, designed to train professionals to develop and implement AI tools across clinical and healthcare […]

Associated Press: OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens, promising a more age-appropriate chatbot. “The San Francisco-based company says ChatGPT for Teens, which launches Tuesday, is tailored for kids aged 13 to 17 with stronger protections including content restrictions around things like suicide, self-harm and romantic or sexual chats. It also provides homework and study support designed to help […]

Forward Kentucky: Kentucky counties struggle with how to regulate data centers. “In rural Bell County, Kentucky, residents’ activism led to a two-year moratorium on data center construction, while other counties continue to grapple with how to zone and regulate the massive, energy-intensive facilities.”

NASA: NASA’s COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions on Sun . “As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever. Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists with NASA’s COFFIES (Consequence Of Fields and Flows in the Interior and Exterior of the […]

New York Times: Google Turns On Gemini A.I. for Students Using Its Classroom App. This link goes to a gift article. “Google enabled A.I. features for K-12 schools that have allowed student access to Gemini. Until this week, Google automatically enabled Gemini in Classroom only for students 18 or older.”

The Guardian: ‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech. “Near the collonaded entrance to Sony Pictures’ historic Culver City film studio, a tech-powered rival has sprung up this summer. The artists at Promise, a new studio feeding off the potential of AI, can glimpse the lots where Singin’ in the Rain and Men in Black were […]

Mother Jones: The Tate Brothers’ Lawyer Is on an Aggressive, AI-Riddled Quest to Win Their Release. “[Joseph] McBride, a New York attorney representing both brothers, has launched an aggressive, quixotic, and highly public quest to free the Tates and promote a positive image of the two men. He’s using several tools to do so, including podcasting (both on his own, entitled Judgment Day, and […]

San Francisco Standard: This BlackRock analyst wants to fix journalism. Step one? Skip the journalists. “In one example of The Dissent’s parasitic approach, [Dakota] Carrasco’s site regurgitated and reduced a 7,000-word investigation of a complex real-estate battle by The Standard’s Sam Mondros into a 400-word summary(opens in new tab) without mentioning the original work at all.”

Gowers’s Weblog: What sort of maths are LLMs good at?. “A first remark here is that LLMs are not just good at finding counterexamples: they can find proofs of difficult statements as well. However, it is notable that the most famous problems they have solved have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs. That is true of the two problems mentioned above, and also of the Jacobian […]

Sun-Journal: Is the Maine news on your social media feed AI-generated? How you can tell.. “Paywall-free, editorially derelict and tuned for social media engagement, AI local news is exploding online in Maine in the age of the attention-grabbing algorithm and declining trust in legacy media. While some avid news readers are skeptical of these sites, others engage unknowingly, with the sometimes […]

Alabama Reflector: The data center industry’s PR blitz is backfiring. “The public relations push isn’t working, said Jeremy Solomon, president and founder of Learnewable. His company uses AI to analyze government ordinances, moratoria and public comments about data centers, renewable energy and electric transmission projects in each of the nation’s 3,144 counties. Nationwide, […]

Arizona Republic: Data centers guzzle Arizona’s water and power. We calculated how much. “The Republic found that data centers already operating in the region have a combined capacity of at least 2.3 gigawatts. That’s enough power to serve a medium-sized city composed of 300,000 to 500,000 homes. Planned data centers could bring at least 8.5 additional gigawatts onto the local grid. That’s […]

Washington Post: Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight. “Across the Capitol, lawmakers and staffers are using artificial intelligence to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, prepare questions for congressional hearings and draft amendments. Even as politicians are debating how to govern AI for the rest of America, Congress has already settled how it […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google AI Overviews With AI-Generated Images In The Wild. “A month ago, we reported that Google said it would be rolling out AI-generated images within AI Overviews in Google Search. Well, it seems Google is starting to roll out those AI-generated images in AI Overviews this week.”

The Register: Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine. “The Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported this week that it spotted an Nvidia Jetson Orin module in the remains of a Russian S-71 Monochrome cruise missile. The S-71M is an air-launched weapon with autonomous capabilities that can reportedly search for and engage targets using optical sensors and […]

NASA: Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Rare Clouds. “Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes (e.g. shifts in Earth’s long-term weather patterns), scientists have asked people around the world with cameras to submit fresh images of these clouds as a part […]