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What AI does it take to make a better world? An analysis by the Data Workers’ Inquiry (Netzpolitik.org | 10 min read)
The work that people do to make the world a better place is often hidden. She helps to expose the working conditions in the industry as principal investigator of the Data Workers’ Inquiry. (Netzpolitik.org | 10 min read)
“Beyond America’s west coast, there is little sign AI is having much of an effect on anything,” argues an Economist analysis. Few businesses use AI technologies and those that do stick to fairly unimpressive applications such as personalising offers for customers. There are no signs of workers being replaced by AI systems, nor is there evidence of a major increase in people’s productivity due to AI support. An analysis suggests that the growth of artificial intelligence is slow rather than revolutionary.
There seems to be a deep divide between those who think AI technology is purely complex maths and those who see in it something approaching human-level reasoning. Neural mechanisms are offensive to some people and could be used to create human intelligence. Some people have a little bit of a God complex. So it’s also offensive to them to suggest that they just can’t do it.”
What is a human? The chemistry world of whale codas and sperm whale alphabets reveals an algorithm to tell you what you are talking about
Each of these salt stains is a different compound — and a machine-learning algorithm can tell you which one. To train the system, researchers painstakingly photographed 7,500 dried drops of 42 salt solutions, including regular table salt (top centre). Oliver Steinbock, a chemist who co-authored the study, said they were amazed at how well their method was able to cut through the complicated structures and Salt stains of our society. The 4 min read is on chemistry world.
It is difficult for a nurse to determine how far along a pregnant woman is without the help of a specialist sonographer. And having the chance to get an early glimpse of their baby seems to encourage people to come in for scans early on. “People are very much willing to join the study without any apprehension,” says obstetrician Daniel Lukakamwa. He explained that an early medical checkup is necessary to reduce stillbirths and other pregnancy related problems.
This week, Lauren Goode tells us about her recent news story on a bot that was easily tricked into lying and saying it was a human. And WIRED senior writer Paresh Dave tells us how AI watchdogs and government regulators are trying to prevent natural-sounding chatbots from misrepresenting themselves.
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) structure their communication in ways similar to how humans form language: sound units combine into words and words combine into sentences. Researchers used an AI algorithm to sift through thousands of whale ‘codas’, sets of up to 40 rapid-fire clicks. They found more codas than before. The researchers constructed a whale phonetic alphabet that shows how sounds create codas and how subtle variations can carry additional information. I can say what in human language. The machine-learning researcher and study co-author is now dead. To comprehend the meaning of the word is to listen to the whole sound.
Complex maths or almost magic: scholars are divided on what AI really is and what it is capable of. sperm whales have an alphabet and an algorithm predicts the chemical composition of salt stains.
How Human Can You Trust in Vocabulary Chatbots? Lauren Auster’s Bee Sting is a Recommendation
Voice assistants have become a part of our lives. Do you speak to your voice assistant to perform a task or ask a question? Maybe you have to do a little back and forth with a voice bot whenever you call your pharmacy, or when you book a service appointment at your car dealership. You may even get frustrated and start pleading with the robot on the other end of the line to connect you with a real human.
That’s the catch, though: These voice bots are starting to sound a lot more like actual humans, with emotions in their voice, little ticks and giggles in between phrases, and the occasional flirty aside. Today, voice-powered chatbots are making the line between real and not real, which raises a complicated ethical question: Can you trust a bot that insists it’s actually human?
Lauren likes Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting. (Again.) Paresh wants you to subscribe to your great local journalism newsletter or Sub stack to stay informed about important local issues. A memoir by Paul Auster is recommended by Mike.
Source: The Blurred Reality of AI’s ‘Human-Washing’
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