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149 This is today's variation of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a regular dose of what's going connected successful the satellite of technology.
Catching atrocious contented successful the property of AI
Big Tech is amazingly atrocious astatine catching, labeling, and removing harmful content. In theory, caller advances successful AI should amended our quality to bash that. In practice, AI isn’t precise bully astatine interpreting nuance and context. And astir automated contented moderation systems were trained with English data, meaning they don’t relation good with different languages.
The caller emergence of generative AI and ample connection models similar ChatGPT means that contented moderation is apt to go adjacent harder.
Whether generative AI ends up being much harmful oregon adjuvant to the online accusation sphere mostly hinges connected 1 thing: AI-generated contented detection and labeling. Read the afloat story.
—Tate Ryan-Mosley
Tate’s communicative is from The Technocrat, her play newsletter giving you the wrong way connected each things powerfulness successful Silicon Valley. Sign up to person it successful your inbox each Friday.
If you’re funny successful generative AI, wherefore not cheque out:
+ How to spot AI-generated text. The net is progressively awash with substance written by AI software. We request caller tools to observe it. Read the afloat story.
+ The wrong communicative of however ChatGPT was built from the radical who made it. Read our exclusive conversations with the cardinal players down the AI taste phenomenon.
+ Google is throwing generative AI astatine everything. But experts accidental that releasing these models into the chaotic earlier fixing their flaws could beryllium highly risky for the company. Read the afloat story.
Podcast: Harvesting the aboriginal with AI and satellites
In the latest occurrence of our award-winning podcast, In Machines We Trust, the squad travels from trial farms to labs to larn however AI is utilized successful farming successful immoderate ways you mightiness not expect, similar for tracking the wellness of crops—from space. Listen connected Apple Podcasts oregon wherever you get your podcasts, and cheque retired the first installment of this mini bid if you haven’t already.
The must-reads
I’ve combed the net to find you today’s astir fun/important/scary/fascinating stories astir technology.
1 Chatbots are much influential than you realize
They’re capable to subtly change our opinions successful a akin mode to different humans. (WSJ $)+ Today’s chatbots are conscionable the extremity of the AI iceberg. (Wired $)+ ChatGPT is going to alteration education, not destruct it. (MIT Technology Review)
2 Russia’s craft are afloat of US technology
Even though sanctions are expected to forestall US goods from entering the country. (NYT $)
3 Gory quality footage is lone ever a fewer clicks distant connected societal media
But it’s up for statement whether seeing it serves immoderate existent purpose. (WP $)
4 Sam Altman’s Worldcoin is nearing $100 cardinal of funding
Despite immoderate beauteous large privateness and ethical issues. (FT $)
+ Learn astir the dodgy methods Worldcoin utilized to enlistee its archetypal fractional a cardinal trial users. (MIT Technology Review)
5 Students are the US semiconductor industry’s concealed weapon
Companies request highly skilled engineers, and universities are blessed to oblige. (IEEE Spectrum)
6 Why it’s truthful hard to cleanable up aviation’s c footprint
Demand for flights is lone rising. (Economist $)
+ How caller technologies could cleanable up aerial travel. (MIT Technology Review)
7 What’s happening with Google Assistant, exactly?
The once-ubiquitous AI helper was noticeably absent from its I/O conference. (Wired $)
+ Google is prompting america however to punctual its ain AI models. (The Verge)
+ That wasn’t Google I/O — it was Google AI. (MIT Technology Review)
8 Fire-suppressing chemicals are toxic to wildlife
A milestone suit could halt exigency services from utilizing it successful the future. (The Atlantic $)
+ The quest to physique wildfire-resistant homes. (MIT Technology Review)
9 Meet the internet’s favourite metallic detectorists
The thrill of unearthing buried treasure is rife among online communities. (The Guardian)
10 Amazon is trying to physique a smarter location robot 🤖
If it works, it’ll beryllium a souped-up mentation of its Astro robot with ChatGPT-style smarts. (Insider $)
Quote of the day
“If you tin past present you tin marque it anywhere.”
—Tech entrepreneur Rosie Zhang tells the Financial Times however China’s intensely competitory situation helps its autochthonal companies to onslaught it large overseas.
The large story
This is however AI bias truly happens—and wherefore it’s truthful hard to fix
February 2019
If we privation to beryllium capable to hole bias successful AI, we request to recognize the mechanics of however it arises successful the archetypal place.
We often shorthand our mentation of AI bias by blaming it connected biased grooming data, but the world is much nuanced. Bias tin creep successful agelong earlier the information is collected arsenic good arsenic astatine galore different stages of the deep-learning process—and tin beryllium incredibly hard to fix. Read the afloat story.
—Karen Hao
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+ If you’re enjoying The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, here’s a list of magical movies that compliment its vibe perfectly.
+ Be inactive my beating heart: Dolly Parton is getting into rock.
+ California’s superbloom is truly precise beautiful.
+ These adorable babe goats aren’t conscionable cute—they’re besides accomplished firefighters (thanks Anna!)
+ A small reminder of the value of the ‘third’ places we walk clip successful extracurricular of enactment and home.
