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 AI trial to spot heart condition before symptoms.

AI trial to spot heart condition before symptoms.

2025-01-24 BBC News
The use of artificial intelligence within the medical-scientific sphere is a topic we have investigated over and over again in the past, with the technology in question being particularly suited to tasks involving precision analysis, such as checking a patient's data for "red flags" - obviously always accompanied by hu...
 I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies.

I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies.

2025-01-23 404 Media
Very soon, the average audience will watch artificially generated films because they will be ‘too lazy to change the channel’. This is the plan of the Chinese entertainment and electronics sales giantTLC, which is currently embarking on the production, if you can call it that, of artificially generated films to be ...
 An AI started 'tasting' colours and shapes. That is more human than you might think.

An AI started 'tasting' colours and shapes. That is more human than you might think.

2025-01-22 BBC News
"Synaesthesia" is a sensory and perceptual phenomenon that indicates a kind of contamination of the senses in perception, mixing the realm of the five senses, merging the subject's different sensory experiences. To be more precise, an individual capable of distinguishing this phenomenon might associate a colour with a ...
 AI is trained to spot warning signs in blood tests.

AI is trained to spot warning signs in blood tests.

2025-01-21 BBC News
As mentioned several times in past articles, the usefulness of artificial intelligence in the medical field is undeniable; the potential of this tool is boundless, and proper development of its performance could make a huge difference. Indeed, within the medical sector, various tasks are entrusted to this technology on...
 ChatGPT search tool vulnerable to manipulation and deception, tests show.

ChatGPT search tool vulnerable to manipulation and deception, tests show.

2025-01-20 The Guardian
OpenAI has recently launched the ChatGPT search tool, a product that has been described as ‘revolutionary’ over and over again since its release in November 2022 - exclusively for its own paying customers, of course. However, according to today's reference article, the recently added search tool does not seem parti...
 APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI.

APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI.

2025-01-17 404 Media
In recent years, a particular Spongebob meme has reached the peak of online fame, laying the foundation for a new method of typing messages, usually with a certain tone of mockery. The meme shows the protagonist of the cartoon of the same name mocking his interlocutor, and is usually accompanied by a script whose text ...
 Cellebrite Unlocked This Journalist’s Phone. Cops Then Infected it With Malware.

Cellebrite Unlocked This Journalist’s Phone. Cops Then Infected it With Malware.

2025-01-16 404 Media
Nowadays, any electronic device is potentially subject to ‘invisible’ tampering. According to today's reference article, law enforcement officers in Serbia repeatedly unlocked several mobile phones and then infected them with malware. According to a new report by Amnesty International, a human rights organisation, ...
 ‘It’s beyond human scale’: AFP defends use of artificial intelligence to search seized phones and emails.

‘It’s beyond human scale’: AFP defends use of artificial intelligence to search seized phones and emails.

2025-01-15 The Guardian
Law enforcement agencies from all over the world are increasingly approaching the use of artificial intelligence within their personnel, implementing it as a tool to speed up investigations and to be able to achieve summarily satisfactory results within a short period of time. The Australian Federal Police has recentl...
 Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness.

Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness.

2025-01-14 Wired
Artificial intelligence seems to have taken over the world in just under two years. The great ‘revolution’ began with the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, making OpenAI and Sam Altman, its CEO, unprecedented celebrities within a few months. From that moment on, every company in the tech sector has been trying t...
 Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach.

Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach.

2025-01-13 TroyHunt
Nowadays, the most fascinating resource in the world, especially for the big tech companies that command the online landscape, is the invaluable data of every single user in the vast world of the Internet. Possessing the information needed to understand the habits, preferences and contacts of potential future customers...
 Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26.

Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26.

2025-01-10 CNBC
The tech giant OpenAI always seems to be the centre of attention, for better or worse. During August 2024, a researcher had left the company, expressing a certain level of concern regarding some unethical decisions implemented by the company. Suchir Balaji's departure from OpenAI caused more movement than desired: the...
 From X to Bluesky: why are people fleeing Elon Musk’s ‘digital town square’?

From X to Bluesky: why are people fleeing Elon Musk’s ‘digital town square’?

2025-01-09 The Guardian
As mentioned in other reference articles published in recent weeks, the exodus of X users has not gone unnoticed. For months, if not years now, US entrepreneur Elon Musk's platform had been losing prestige: the quality of content and the app's satisfaction index had been declining since the name change in summer 2023. ...
 Caught by Google Maps: Photo of man putting suspicious bundle in his trunk, key to solving a murder.

Caught by Google Maps: Photo of man putting suspicious bundle in his trunk, key to solving a murder.

2025-01-08 El País English
In Tajueco, a small village located in the autonomous community of Castile and León, live approximately 115 inhabitants, accustomed to a simple and quiet life, rather rural in comparison with new habits. Consequently, when faced with the passage of the famous Google machine, used to provide the images needed for ‘st...
 Traffic Camera 'Selfie' Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic Cam.

Traffic Camera 'Selfie' Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic Cam.

2025-01-07 404 Media
While Italy grapples with new laws implemented in the traffic code, the state of New York seems to be struggling with excessive surveillance on its streets. The city in question is plastered with traffic cameras, placed in plain sight on every corner, intersection or lamppost. To make the general public aware of this ...
 Nothing Is Sacred: AI Generated Slop Has Come for Christmas Music.

Nothing Is Sacred: AI Generated Slop Has Come for Christmas Music.

2025-01-06 404 Media
Artificial intelligence is now part of everyday life for most users of the vast world of the Internet, and its eternal and devious presence is unfortunately undeniable. Despite being a tool with amazing potential, its misuse reduces it to a generator of cheap contentwith which to further fill the online landscape. The...
 Hospitals to use AI to cut patient visits.

Hospitals to use AI to cut patient visits.

2024-12-20 BBC News
The East Yorkshire area in England seems to be a perfect example of how the implementation of artificial intelligence in the medical field can benefit the industry. The city of Hull, in March 2023, proposed the use of an application aimed at symptom control for patients suffering from chronic respiratory diseases, run ...