Quantum computing companies brought in new funding this month via two very different sources: a small business innovation grant and a special purpose acquisition company. The European Commission also recently…
I haven’t written much about AI recently. But a recent discussion of Google’s new Large Language Models (LLMs), and its claim that one of these models (named Gopher) has demonstrated…
Forrester finds AI can be used in a variety of ways, assisting with collaboration and ingenuity in enterprise spaces.Image: iStockphoto/NicoElNinoAs artificial intelligence and its capabilities continue to expand, AI may…
Johns Hopkins engineers built the chatbot to respond to common questions about COVID-19 shots.This chat is with VIRA, the Vaccine Information Resource Assistant, which was built by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg…
Communal devices in our homes and offices aren’t quite right. In previous articles, we discussed the history of communal computing and the origin of the single user model. Then we…
In the first article of this series, we discussed communal computing devices and the problems they create–or, more precisely, the problems that arise because we don’t really understand what “communal”…
We are traveling through the era of Software 2.0, in which the key components of modern software are increasingly determined by the parameters of machine learning models, rather than hard-coded…
Home assistants and smart displays are being sold in record numbers, but they are built wrong. They are designed with one person in mind: the owner. These technologies need to…
Back in 2019, Ben Lorica and I wrote about deepfakes. Ben and I argued (in agreement with The Grugq and others in the infosec community) that the real danger wasn’t…
“[T]he threats to consumers arising from data abuse, including those posed by algorithmic harms, are mounting and urgent.”FTC Commissioner Rebecca K. Slaughter Variants of artificial intelligence (AI), such as predictive…
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