Hackers Claim They Can Brick Every Rabbit R1 And Access All Users’ Responses - Artificial Intelligence news - NewsLocker (2024)

That $200, blazing orange, minimalist AI doohickey called the Rabbit R1 promised it would become your go-to AI companion. Instead, it proved it was a malformed and half-baked machine that couldn’t match up to any of its lofty promises. Now, according to a group of white hat hackers, it’s even worse than that. The team…Read more...

Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centresGoogle’s goal of reducing its climate footprint is in jeopardy as it relies on more and more energy-hungry data centres to power its new artificial intelligence products. The tech giant revealed Tuesday that its greenhouse gas emissions have climbed 48% over the past five years.Google said electricity consumption by data centres and supply chain emissions were the pri

Photos of Australian children used in dataset to train AI, human rights group says

Human Rights Watch found links to 190 photos of kids that were scraped off internet without families’ consentGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPhotos of Australian children have been included in the dataset used by several AI image-generating tools without the knowledge or consent of them or their families, research by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found.An analysis of less than 0.0001% of the 5.85bn images contained in the Laion-5B dataset, used by se

You Can Ask YouTube to Take Down AI-Generated Content That Looks or Sounds Like You

Remember in May when Scarlett Johansson threatened OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with legal action for using an AI-generated version of her voice for ChatGPT 4.0? The CEO and the actress went back and forth about the accusation, with Altman completely denying it. Scarlett would be happy to see YouTubebecome the first…Read more...

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Private sector lobbyists embedded into Labour’s shadow cabinet teams

Party appealed to engineering firms and management consultancies, requesting help with policy workMore than a dozen private sector lobbyists and consultants have been embedded in the shadow cabinet teams, after Labour approached businesses for help with shaping its policies.The party is understood to have sent out an appeal to private companies to send staff to assist it with policy work, particularly in complex areas such as artificial intelligence (AI). Continue reading...

Can AI boom drive Nvidia to a $4tn valuation despite investor doubt?

Powerful new chips are on the way but there are questions over whether tech firm’s growth can be sustainedWhen Jensen Huang spoke at the Nvidia annual general meeting last week, he made no mention of a share price slide.The US chipmaker, buoyed up by its key role in the artificial intelligence boom, had briefly become the world’s most valuable company on 18 June but the crown slipped quickly. Nvidia shed about $550bn (£434bn) from the $3.4tn (£2.68tn) peak market value it

AI writer served by Wimbledon and IBM commits double fault

Catch Me Up online service muddles facts about players amid All England Club push to embrace technologyWimbledon staff perhaps need not fear losing their jobs to the artificial intelligence revolution just yet, after the club’s latest experiment with generative technology got off to a shaky start.Wimbledon’s new online feature, Catch Me Up, which publishes pre- and post-match player profiles with AI-generated stories and analysis, has made errors on the first day of the championships

Pranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse

Patriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z-poetry’The patriotic poetry of Gennady Rakitin has won him quite a following in Russia over the past year. His odes to Vladimir Putin and emotive verses in support of Russia’s war in Ukraine drew appreciation on social media and even the occasional honourable mention in Russian poetry prizes.But Rakitin’s admirers did not realise one thing – the 18 poems published under

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Smudgy chins, weird hands, dodgy numbers: seven signs you’re watching a deepfake

Look out for surplus fingers, compare mannerisms with real recordings and apply good old-fashioned common sense and scepticism, experts adviseIn a crucial election year for the world, with the UK, US and France among the countries going to the polls, disinformation is swirling around social media.There is much concern about deepfakes, or artificial intelligence-generated images or audio of leading political figures designed to mislead voters, and whether they will affect results. Continue readin

Eternal You review – thought-provoking look at new AI product for the grieving

A disturbing documentary explores tech’s questionable ability to bring digital ‘comfort’ to the bereavedDeath is a booming business. For one thing, it’s inevitable. For another, it brings a uniquely vulnerable and receptive market for any product that promises to numb the grief. Enter artificial intelligence. This thought-provoking and bang-up-to-the-minute documentary explores a morally questionable use of AI: the digital afterlife business, tech that recreates the perso

Cheap AI voice clones may wipe out jobs of 5,000 Australian actors

Industry group says rise of vocal technology could upend many creative fields, including audiobooks – the canary in the coalmine for voice actorsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVoice actors say they’re on the precipice of their work being replaced completely by artificial intelligence, with corporate and radio roles already beginning to be replaced by cheap generative AI clones.While a high-profile actor like Scarlett Johansson can make the mo

Closing the Stanford Internet Observatory will edge the US towards the end of democracy | John Naughton

The organisation responsible for monitoring digital falsehoods is reportedly being wound down after pressure from Republicans and conspiracy theoristsFor most of us, the word “medium” means “a channel or system of communication, information, or entertainment”. For a biologist, though, the term means something rather different: “the nutrient solution in which cells or organs are grown”. But there are times when the two conceptions fuse, and we’re living i

AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’

The Google futurist talks nanobots and avatars, deepfakes and elections – and why he is so optimistic about a future where we merge with computersThe American computer scientist and techno-optimist Ray Kurzweil is a long-serving authority on artificial intelligence (AI). His bestselling 2005 book, The Singularity Is Near, sparked imaginations with sci-fi like predictions that computers would reach human-level intelligence by 2029 and that we would merge with computers and become superhuman

AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London

Tech firm’s bid to remove more CO2 than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new energy-hungry datacentresBill Gates: AI will help rather than hinder climate targetsIf you want evidence of Microsoft’s progress towards its environmental “moonshot” goal, then look closer to earth: at a building site on a west London industrial estate.The company’s Park Royal datacentre is part of its commitment to drive the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), but that ambit

YouTube Wants to Pay Record Labels to Create Soulless Versions of Your Favorite Artists

The largest AI chatbot companies are sprinting around, trying to make multi-million dollar deals with news networks and Reddit to train their AI models with human-made content—legally. Now, Google-owned YouTube wants to ink similar deals for its existing AI music replication software—a new report details how the …Read more...

AI will be help rather than hindrance in hitting climate targets, Bill Gates says

Microsoft co-founder says efficiencies for technology and electricity grids will outweigh energy use by data centresBill Gates has claimed that artificial intelligence will be more of a help than a hindrance in achieving climate goals, despite growing concern that a surge in new datacentres could drain green energy supplies.The philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder told journalists that AI would enable countries to use less energy, even as they require more data centres, by making technology a

Currys looks to AI tech to drive growth as profits climb

Retailer says AI-enabled phones and computers helped pre-tax profits rise by 10% despite UK sales slideBusiness live – latest updatesThe boss of the UK electrical chain Currys has said it stands to gain from the rise of artificial intelligence, with AI-enabled mobile phones and computers selling well, as the company battles to get back on track.Samsung’s Galaxy S24 mobile phone, which uses AI tools to offer better photography and instant translation, is one of its bestsellers, alongs

Researchers fool university markers with AI-generated exam papers

University of Reading project poses questions for integrity of coursework and take-home student assignmentsResearchers at the University of Reading fooled their own professors by secretly submitting AI-generated exam answers that went undetected and got better grades than real students.The project created fake student identities to submit unedited answers generated by ChatGPT-4 in take-home online assessments for undergraduate courses. Continue reading...

UK needs system for recording AI misuse and malfunctions, thinktank says

Centre for Long-Term Resilience calls on next government to log incidents to mitigate risksThe UK needs a system for recording misuse and malfunctions in artificial intelligence or ministers risk being unaware of alarming incidents involving the technology, according to a report.The next government should create a system for logging incidents involving AI in public services and should consider building a central hub for collating AI-related episodes across the UK, said the Centre for Long-Term R

Claude 3.5 suggests AI’s looming ubiquity could be a good thing

If you don’t like chatbots popping up everywhere, then get ready to be peeved. But the latest version of Anthropic’s shows AI is becoming more useful – and, crucially, affordableThe frontier of AI just got pushed a little further forward. On Friday, Anthropic, the AI lab set up by a team of disgruntled OpenAI staffers, released the latest version of its Claude LLM. From Bloomberg:The company said Thursday that the new model – the technology that underpins its popular chat

Eternal You review – death, download and digital afterlife in the age of the AI griefbot

Unsettling documentary considers whether the increasingly popularsimulations of lost loved ones are really helping the bereavedIn the future, it’s possible that you won’t have to die. You’ll simply upload yourself. Or download a deceased loved one. In fact, some of this stuff isn’t even in the future; AI griefbots are already imitating the dead. Canadian writer Joshua Barbeau, devastated after the death of girlfriend Jessica, brought her back virtually using the website P

Music labels sue AI song generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement

Software steals songs to ‘spit out’ similar tunes, lawsuit says, asking for $150,000 a work in compensationThe world’s biggest record companies are suing the artificial intelligence song generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement, alleging that the AI music startups are exploiting the recorded works of artists from Chuck Berry to Mariah Carey.The Recording Industry Association of America announced the lawsuits on Monday, brought by labels including Sony Music Entertain

Doom vs Boom: The Battle to Enshrine AI's Future Into California Law

A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into “accel” and “decel”. The accels want AI to progress rapidly – move fast and break things – while the decels want AI development to slow down for the sake of…Read more...

AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law

A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into “accel” and “decel”. The accels want AI to progress rapidly – move fast and break things – while the decels want AI development to slow down for the sake of…Read more...

Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot

GeoGPT developed as part of Chinese-funded earth sciences programme aimed at researchers in global southGeologists have raised concerns about potential Chinese censorship and bias in a chatbot being developed with the backing of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), one of the world’s largest scientific organisations and a Unesco partner.The GeoGPT chatbot is aimed at geoscientists and researchers, particularly in the global south, to help them develop their understanding

Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems

AI that purports to read our feelings may enhance user experience but concerns over misuse and bias mean the field is fraught with potential dangersIt’s Wednesday evening and I’m at my kitchen table, scowling into my laptop as I pour all the bile I can muster into three little words: “I love you.”My neighbours might assume I’m engaged in a melodramatic call to an ex-partner, or perhaps some kind of acting exercise, but I’m actually testing the limits of a new

Would You Pay Amazon $10 a Month for an AI-Infused Alexa?

A major revamp of the Alexa platform is on the horizon, and it looks as if it’s going to cost you. Eight current and former anonymous employees who worked on Alexa told Reuters that the project is known internally as “Banyan,” referring to a type of fig tree with propagation roots that grow upwards and outwards. It…Read more...

Apple delays launch of AI-powered features in Europe, blaming EU rules

Apple says competition rules that require functionality with rival products would compromise privacy and securityApple will delay launching three new artificial intelligence features in Europe because European Union competition rules require the company ensure that rival products and services can function with its devices. The features will launch in the fall in the US but will not arrive in Europe until 2025.The company said on Friday three features – Phone Mirroring, SharePlay Screen Sha

New Security System Uses AI to Shoot Criminals With Paintballs

A new home security system that uses AI-driven smart tracking to shoot potential intruders with paintballs might sound like something out of a Home Alone reboot set in the future. But it could be a reality soon if folks on Kickstarter get their way. The big question that’s still unanswered is whether it’s legal.
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Perplexity Is Reportedly Letting Its AI Break a Basic Rule of the Internet

Perplexity wants to change how we use the internet, but the AI search startup backed by Jeff Bezos might be breaking its rules to do so. The company appears to be ignoring a widely accepted web standard, the Robots Exclusion Protocol, to scrape parts of the web that operators don’t want to be accessed by bots,…Read more...