Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is making it hard to tell truth from fiction
Experts worry that by making it harder to tell what’s true, AI can threaten people’s reputations, health, fair elections and more.
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Experts worry that by making it harder to tell what’s true, AI can threaten people’s reputations, health, fair elections and more.
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Your digital footprint contains both what you post online — and information about your online activity collected by others.
Today’s bots can’t turn against us, but they can cause harm. “AI safety” aims to train this tech so it will always be honest, harmless and helpful.
Researchers break chatbots in order to fix them. This so-called red-teaming is an important way to improve AI’s behavior.
Scammers can use AI to create deepfake mimics of people’s voices. AntiFake could make that type of trick much harder to pull off.
New research used the game Overcooked to show how AI can learn to collaborate with — or manipulate — us.
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In the movies, mechas come equipped with all kinds of abilities. But real giant robots would first have to master simpler actions, like walking and jumping.