Chatbots reveal troubling ability to infer private data
The ability of chatbots to infer private details about users from otherwise innocuous texts is a cause for concern, say Swiss university researchers at ETH Zurich.
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A new way to let AI chatbots converse all day without crashing
When a human-AI conversation involves many rounds of continuous dialogue, the powerful large language machine-learning models that drive chatbots like ChatGPT sometimes start to collapse, causing the bots' performance to ...
Feb 13, 2024
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New candidate for universal memory is fast, low-power, stable and long-lasting
We are tasking our computers with processing ever-increasing amounts of data to speed up drug discovery, improve weather and climate predictions, train artificial intelligence, and much more. To keep up with this demand, ...
Jan 22, 2024
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AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes, study finds
What does a person look like? If you use the popular artificial intelligence image generator Stable Diffusion to conjure answers, too frequently you'll see images of light-skinned men.
Nov 30, 2023
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Alternate framework for distributed computing tames Big Data's ever growing costs
The sheer volume of 'Big Data' produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a new computational framework ...
Feb 23, 2023
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AI researchers improve method for removing gender bias in machines built to understand and respond to text or voice data
Researchers have found a better way to reduce gender bias in natural language processing models while preserving vital information about the meanings of words, according to a recent study that could be a key step toward addressing ...
Sep 8, 2022
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Researcher uses 'fuzzy' AI algorithms to aid people with memory loss
A new computer algorithm developed by the University of Toronto's Parham Aarabi can store and recall information strategically—just like our brains.
Jul 14, 2022
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Researchers psychoanalyse AI
We do not know exactly what is going on inside the "brain" of artificial intelligence (AI), and therefore we are not able to accurately predict its actions. We can run tests and experiments, but we cannot always predict and ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Mapping the mob: GIS technology reveals shape of America's mafia networks
At its height in the mid-20th century, American organized crime groups, often called the mafia, grossed approximately $40 billion each year, typically raising that money through illegal or untaxed activities, such as extortion ...
Apr 13, 2021
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Combining machine learning with smartphone tracking data to forecast the spread of the flu
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. including Google Inc. and the CDC has found that it is possible to combine machine learning technology with smartphone tracking data to create an application ...
