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2024-03-07 22:39:17     AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation – report | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-energy-disinformation-report

Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, with the technology instead likely cause rising energy use and turbocharge the spread of climate disinformation, a coalition of environmental groups has w...

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2024-02-10 13:31:40     Sketch of The Analytical Engine

https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html

the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

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2024-01-18 08:24:37    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67993056

It has happened to most people waiting for a specific bus in a busy city - you stand around for ages only for three to turn up at once.
This phenomenon is known as "bus bunching", and it can be annoying.
To try to alleviate the problem, UK ...

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2024-01-17 07:31:14     Welcome to AirSpace - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/...inimalism-startup-gentrification

We could call this strange geography created by technology “AirSpace.” It’s the realm of coffee shops, bars, startup offices, and co-live / work spaces that share the same hallmarks everywhere you go:

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2024-01-17 07:30:26     The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same | | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ry-coffee-shop-looks-the-same

My theory was that all the physical places interconnected by apps had a way of resembling one another. In the case of the cafes, the growth of Instagram gave international cafe owners and baristas a way to follow one another in real time an...

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2024-01-05 06:23:47    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67872693

Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin.

These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai - a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on ...

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2023-12-18 12:09:49     Imran Khan deploys AI clone to campaign from behind bars in Pakistan | Imran Khan | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-from-behind-bars-in-pakistan

Artificial intelligence allowed Pakistan’s former prim... Khan to campaign from behind bars on Monday, with a voic... opposition leader giving an impassioned speech on his be...

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2023-12-09 08:56:46     EU agrees ‘historic’ deal with world’s first laws to regulate AI | European Union | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...lds-first-laws-to-regulate-ai

The world’s first comprehensive laws to regulate artif... have been agreed in a landmark deal after a marathon 37-... between the European Parliament and EU member states.

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2023-12-06 15:28:32     English High Court Decision: AI Inventions are Patentable, David Knight

https://briefings.brownrudnick.com/...entions-are-patentable

the court held that the exclusion was not invoked — s... not “a program for a computer … as such.” The UKIP... issued guidance (available here) confirming that:
“Patent examiners should not object to inventions invo ...

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2023-05-08 09:49:26     AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...nes-hallucinating-naomi-klein

The more our media channels are flooded with deep fakes ... various kinds, the more we have the feeling of sinking i... quicksand.

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2023-05-05 07:32:38     US aims to tackle risk of uncontrolled race to develop AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ficial-intelligence-arms-race

“At this point, Big Tech companies need to be saved fr... companies and their top AI developers are well aware of ... generative AI. But they are in a competitive arms race a... themselves unable to slow down,”

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2022-09-29 13:31:33     An Interactive Introduction to Attractor Landscapes

https://ncase.me/attractors/

A peaceful movement fights against violence and oppressi... nothing much changes. Then, everything changes.
Why do many complex systems – cultures, environments, ...
There's a tool that can help us understand this: attract ...

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2022-07-17 13:23:23     Chinese courts allow AI to make rulings, charge people and carry out punishments | Daily Mail Online

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/...people-carry-punishments.html

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2022-06-13 06:38:34     Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient | Google | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine

The engineer compiled a transcript of the conversations,... point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of.

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2022-01-09 13:56:29     Israel used world's first AI-guided combat drone swarm in Gaza attacks | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/...drone-swarm-in-gaza-attacks/

During operations in Gaza in mid-May, the Israel Defense... a swarm of small drones to locate, identify and attack H... This is thought to be the first time a drone swarm has b...

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2020-06-27 10:06:19    

https://www.nytimes.com/20.../facial-recognition-arrest.html

Mr. Williams knew that he had not committed the crime in question. What he could not have known, as he sat in the interrogation room, is that his case may be the first known account of an American being wrongfully arrested based on a flawed...

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2018-06-17 20:29:33     Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control? | Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...olved-beyond-our-control-?...

Technology is starting to behave in intelligent and unpr... even its creators don’t understand. As machines increa... events, how can we regain control?

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2017-04-15 07:24:44     AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals | Technology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...t-biases-research-reveals?...

An artificial intelligence tool that has revolutionised ... computers to interpret everyday language has been shown ... gender and racial biases.
The findings raise the spectre of existing social inequa ...

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2017-01-09 21:58:36     The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain

https://hbr.org/.../the-humans-working-behind-the-ai-curtain

Our team learned from two years of researching the world... where content moderation is a steady stream of gig work,... practices of both the largest and the smallest companies... involve literally thousands of decisions about what cont... delete.

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2016-12-04 12:39:44     Google's DeepMind AI gives robots the ability to dream - ExtremeTech

https://www.extremetech.com/...ai-gives-robots-ability-dream

Rather than pointlessly rehearsing entire sections of th... little bearing on the player’s overall score, “dream... to highlight certain sections of the game that are espec... and repeat them ad nauseam until expertise is achieved. ... technique,

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2016-10-23 17:00:35     Data — Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

http://allenai.org/data.html

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2016-02-07 13:27:06    

https://medium.com/swlh/no-ui-is-the-new-ui-ab3f7ecec6b3#...

No UI is the New UI
On the rise of UI-less apps and why you should
care about them as a designer.

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2015-12-19 12:54:15     Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw - Bloomberg Business

http://www.bloomberg.com/...ess-cars-and-exposing-a-key-flaw

The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ...
The glitch?
They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...

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2014-11-05 11:53:10     Automatic Statistician

http://www.automaticstatistician.com/about.html

Making sense of data is one of the great challenges of t... we live in. While it is becoming easier to collect and s... data, from personal medical data, to scientific data, to... commercial data, there are relatively few people trained... and machine

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2014-06-09 13:08:49     Turing Test breakthrough as super-computer becomes first to convince us it's human - Gadgets and Tech - Life & Style - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/...angerous-future-9508370.html

A programme that convinced humans that it was a 13-year-... the first computer ever to pass the Turing Test. The tes... requires that computers are indistinguishable from human... a landmark in the development of artificial intelligence... have warned

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2014-05-27 21:19:54     Microsoft Cortana EULA contains the Greatest Disclaimer of ALL TIME • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/...test_disclaimer_of_all_time/

"Like a real-world personal assistant, sometimes Cortana... inaccurate conclusion about what is important to you, (i... information that accurately reflects you but that you ar... sharing with others, or (iii) remember some information ... no longer t

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2014-05-24 14:39:36     BBC News - Victorian strangeness: The man killed by an automaton

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27527035

There was no need for Sherlock. The killer didn't flee t... his ground over the lifeless body of his victim, his han... the bloody weapon, his face betraying no emotion.
At the feet of the mechanised figure of a person - which ...

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2013-03-24 07:15:23     BBC News - A Point of View: Chess and 18th Century artificial intelligence

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21876120

The Turk, engraving from 1789
Continue reading the main story
Crowd-sourcing comets (LJ)
Mary queen of maths (Lisa Jardine)
... rate hoax had its own sense of genius, says Adam Gopnik.

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2013-03-11 09:57:19     Robot & Frank: vision of the future? | Film | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/f.../robot-and-frank-vision-future

Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which e...
Frank Langella on Robot & Frank: 'I'd rather make love i ...
Share 14
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... Robot & Frank

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2013-03-10 07:21:05     BBC News - Web-based 'brain' for robots goes live

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21714191

Continue reading the main story
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Robots to get their own internet
Arm lifts BigDog robot to new level
... f standardising the way robots perceive the human world.

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