TuesdayDec 17, 2024 10:00 am

Lawsuit Filed as AI Chatbot Goes Rogue, Advises Kid to Kill His Parents

A court in Texas has received a lawsuit that claims that an AI chatbot told a teenager that murdering his parents was a ‘reasonable response’ to them restricting his screen time. The lawsuit was filed by the boy’s family against Character.ai, with Google, whose parent company is Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG), being named as another defendant. In the suit, the family accused those technology platforms of promoting violence which negatively impacts the parent-child relationship while exacerbating health issues like anxiety and depression among teenagers. The conversation between the AI chatbot and the boy, aged seventeen, took a turn…

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MondayDec 16, 2024 9:30 am

US Defense Department Unveils Initiatives to Expedite Adoption of AI Technologies

The Chief Digital and AI office at the Pentagon has launched a rapid fielding effort to pave the way for different initiatives geared at expediting the DoD’s adoption of AI capabilities. Different units within the Pentagon will work together on an initial four AI pilot projects looking into how generative AI can be integrated into DoD enterprise management and warfighting use cases. These four pilot projects form part of the Pentagon’s wider plan to leverage emerging technologies, so that major enablers in the Department of Defense and those who fight wars can benefit from the advantages that these technologies are…

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FridayDec 13, 2024 10:00 am

The Construction Sector is Embracing AI, Survey Shows

Experts believe that the use of artificial intelligence in the construction sector may have many benefits, including improving site safety and monitoring, decreasing thefts from construction sites, and streamlining project management. Now a new survey by Dentons has found that the most popular uses of artificial intelligence by construction firms and real estate developers include cybersecurity and IT, with 75% of respondents from the sector admitting to using this technology for this. 71% also revealed that they used artificial intelligence for accounting and customer service. The results also show that 52% of sector respondents feared that a failure to increase…

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ThursdayDec 12, 2024 10:00 am

Study Says Readers Distrust AI News

A new study has determined that readers have less trust in news credibility when they find out that artificial intelligence has been used in some way to generate an article. Researchers from the University of Kansas posit that understanding how and what technology contributed to news as well as how this could be revealed to readers in a way they understood needed to be resolved. The study was led by Associate professor Alyssa Appelman and Assistant Professor Steve Bien-Aimé who conducted an experiment where they showed readers a news story about aspartame and how safe it was for human consumption.…

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WednesdayDec 11, 2024 8:45 am

Adageis is Ramping Up Patient Care for All Healthcare Providers and Systems via a Powerful Patented AI-Centric Software

Adageis, with its virtual quality care manager and productivity suite, aims to improve healthcare delivery by helping providers streamline operations and increase revenue through value-based care metrics by implementing its patented ProActive Care Platform. Easily scalable and adaptable, the platform is designed to fit with the electronic medical record systems of any healthcare provider, regardless of size, locations or number of patients. A unique offering in the healthcare technology space, the ProActive Care Platform offers flexible integration, proactive efficiency and advanced predictive analysis capabilities. Adageis is targeting a share of the fast-growing healthcare AI market, which was valued at 19.27…

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TuesdayDec 10, 2024 10:00 am

Google Announces Weather-Forecasting AI Tool That Outperforms Available Systems

Google recently unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that can forecast weather conditions as early as fifteen days ahead. The model, christened GenCast, can offer better forecasts of both extreme weather events and day-to-day weather than currently available systems. This signifies an important advancement in weather prediction based on AI. The model improves upon the firm’s previous weather model, which offered one estimate for future weather. In comparison, the new model consists of a collection of fifty or more forecasts, each standing for a potential weather trajectory. The multinational tech company, which reported its findings in Nature, stated that their…

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TuesdayDec 10, 2024 8:45 am

Former PayPal COO to Head White House Crypto and AI Desk

On Thursday, the incoming U.S. President Donald Trump revealed that David Sacks, a former Chief Operations Officer at PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL), had been chosen to be the “White House AI and Crypto Czar.” This announcement marks the latest step that the President-elect has taken in his bid to overhaul American policy on various industries and sectors. Using Truth Social, a social media platform owned by Trump, the President-elect explained that Sacks would be tasked to formulate a framework through which the cryptocurrency industry would get the regulatory clarity it had been yearning for. Such a framework, Trump added,…

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FridayDec 06, 2024 10:00 am

IBM, Janes Partner to Enable Defense Organizations Leverage AI Capabilities

IBM, an American multinational technology firm and Janes, a defense intelligence firm, are collaborating to bridge the gap between trustworthy artificial intelligence and defense operations. By pairing artificial intelligence with high-quality data, the companies hope to usher in a new era of defense operations that’ll enable commanders to make better informed decisions based on AI-generated data in real time. This partnership will see the companies integrate open-source security and defense intelligence data into watsonx, a trusted artificial intelligence and data platform. In detail, the firms will integrate the watsonx AI with a retrieval-augmented generation pattern containing Janes data. This pattern…

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FridayDec 06, 2024 8:00 am

Sam Altman Expresses Confidence in the US Leading the AI Race

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has voiced his confidence in President-elect Donald Trump supporting the AI sector and ensuring that America, together with its allies, retain pole position in this nascent industry. Altman was speaking during a recent interview with Fox News. During the interview, Sam Altman highlighted the fact that support in the form of massive infrastructure needed to be directed to the artificial intelligence industry. Altman added that he was certain that the incoming administration would provide this needed support. He reiterated that the massive infrastructure was necessary to enable the U.S. to stamp its leadership on AI technology and AI…

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ThursdayDec 05, 2024 10:00 am

Couchbase Announces New Services to Facilitate AI Developers

Earlier this week, Couchbase launched a set of new services focused on making it faster and easier for customers to develop generative artificial intelligence applications. The services, dubbed Capella AI Services, are currently in private preview. Couchbase is focused on allowing its consumers and in particular, developers, to use unstructured data to build artificial intelligence tools. Unstructured data like audio files, images and text currently make up over 80% of data. Its nature makes it hard to apply it in a database that houses vast amounts of data. To structure this data and make it useful, complex processes like retrieval-augmented…

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