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☆ Britain aims for global leadership role with AI safety summit
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Martin Coulter | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Britain will host the world's first global artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit next month, aiming to carve out a role following Brexit as an arbiter between the United States, China, and the European Union in a key tech sector. The Nov. 1-2 summit will focus heavily on the existential threat some lawmakers, including Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, fear AI poses. Sunak, who wants the UK to become a hub for AI safety, has warned the technology could be used by criminals and terrorists to create weapons of mass destruction. Critics question why Britain has appointed itself the centre of AI safety. "We are now reflecting on potential EU participation," a spokesperson told Reuters.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Rishi Sunak, Sunak, Alan Turing, Kamala Harris, Demis, Matt Clifford, Clifford, we're, Stephanie Hare, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, Britain, OpenAI, Marc Warner, it's, Vera Jourova, Brando Benifei, Dragos Tudorache, Benifei, Jeremy Hunt, Martin Coulter, Matt Scuffham, Mark Potter Organizations: REUTERS, European Union, Britain's, EU, Bletchley, Google, San, Reuters, China . Finance, Politico, Thomson Locations: Britain, United States, China, England, British, France, Germany, London, U.S, San Francisco, Beijing, Europe

☆ Men are getting rich from AI. Women, not so much.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

New research finds that female-led AI companies are missing out on the global rush to invest in AI. AI startups founded by women in the UK raised six times less than those founded by men in the past decade. This occurs even as the number of female-founded AI companies that are launching, rises. "One of our biggest priorities is ensuring AI models are fair and unbiased," she said. "While AI is heavily male-dominated and we still see a big gender disparity at AI events in San Francisco, we're hopeful this will change as more women become involved in AI companies.

Persons: —, Alan Turing Institute's, it's, Erin Young, Rebecca Gorman, they've, OpenAI's DALL, Angela Hoover, Andi, Dr Young Organizations: Service, Data Science, Turing Institute, Funds, Amazon Locations: California, San Francisco

☆ AI for cars: An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Walter Isaacson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The "neural network planner" that Shroff and others were working on took a different approach. Faced with a situation, the neural network chooses a path based on what humans have done in thousands of similar situations. By early 2023, the neural network planner project had analyzed 10 million clips of video collected from the cars of Tesla customers. By mid-April 2023, it was time for Musk to try the new neural network planner. "Oh, wow," he said, "even my human neural network failed here, but the car did the right thing."

Persons: Elon Musk, Mozart, Mark Zuckerberg, Dhaval Shroff, OpenAI, Musk, Shroff, Alan Turing, Uber, James Bond, Ashok Elluswamy Organizations: Tesla, Computing Machinery, Intelligence, Palo Locations: Palo Alto, Buffalo , New York

☆ Britain to host world's first AI safety summit at home of World War II codebreakers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Bletchley Park is the home of the World War Two Codebreakers, who in 1941 helped break the secret code used by the German government to direct ground-to-air operations on the Eastern front. The U.K. government will host the world's first artificial intelligence safety summit in Bletchley Park, the home of the codebreakers who cracked the code that ended World War II. The renowned Bletchley Park building was the home of the World War II Codebreakers, who in 1941 helped break the secret Enigma Code used by the German government to direct ground-to-air operations on the Eastern front. The U.K. tech sector has been flagging of late, following drops in venture capital investment. The U.S. is by far the world leader when it comes to AI, with massive firms ploughing resources into the technology.

Persons: —, Rishi Sunak, OpenAI, Bard, Alan Turing, Turing, Sunak, Bejiing Organizations: Microsoft, Google, Baidu Locations: Bletchley, Bletchley Park, Britain, China, The U.S, EU

☆ Britain will host AI summit at World War Two code-breaking centre
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A piece of paper sits on the Colossus machine at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Britain, September 15, 2016. REUTERS/Darren Staples/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Britain will host a global summit on artificial intelligence at the old home of Britain's World War Two codebreakers in November as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pitches Britain as global leader in guarding the safety of the fast-developing technology. The summit will take place on Nov. 1 and 2 at Bletchley Park, the site in Milton Keynes where mathematician Alan Turing cracked Nazi Germany's Enigma code, the government said on Thursday. "The UK has long been home to the transformative technologies of the future, so there is no better place to host the first ever global AI safety summit than at Bletchley Park," Sunak said. Governments around the world are wrestling with how to control the potential negative consequences of AI without stifling innovation.

Persons: Darren Staples, Rishi Sunak, Alan Turing, Sunak, Joe Biden, Matt Clifford, Jonathan Black, Andrew MacAskill, Tomasz Janowski Organizations: REUTERS, Bletchley, Tech, European Union, Thomson Locations: Milton Keynes, Britain, Washington, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United States, Hiroshima

☆ These are the 3 biggest fears about AI — and here's how worried you should be about them
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Some AI experts say we're barreling headfirst toward the destruction of humanity. Current AI systems are not sentient but they are created to be humanlike. "We need to look at the lack of purpose that people would feel at the loss of jobs en masse," he told Insider. AI biasIf AI systems are used to help make wider societal decisions, systematic bias can become a serious risk, experts told Insider. There have already been several examples of bias in generative AI systems, including early versions of ChatGPT.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, we're, David Krueger, it's, I'm, Alan Turing, Janis Wong, Aaron Mok, Krueger, Abhishek Gupta, Arvind Krishna, Gupta, Wong Organizations: Center, AI Safety, Cambridge University, Montreal AI, IBM Locations: Montreal

☆ Stanley Tucci says he thinks straight actors should be able to play gay characters
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Stanley Tucci weighed in on the debate about straight actors portraying gay characters in a new interview with BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs on Saturday. Tucci, who is married to literary agent Felicity Blunt, said he believes that as an actor, “you’re supposed to play different people.”“You just are. Tucci has portrayed gay characters in 2006’s “The Devil Wears Prada” and in the 2020 film “Supernova” alongside Oscar-winner Colin Firth. “Because often, it’s not done the right way.”For decades, Hollywood has cast actors in heterosexual relationships for gay roles. Conversations around inclusivity in casting transgender actors in transgender roles have also become pertinent, and casting cisgender actors for those roles has recently fallen out of popular practice.

Persons: CNN — Stanley Tucci, Tucci, Felicity Blunt, “ you’re, ”, Oscar, Colin Firth, ’ ”, Heath, Jake Gyllenhaal, Cate Blanchett, “ Carol, ” Benedict Cumberbatch, “, Alan Turing, Gyllenhaal, Blanchett, Cumberbatch, James Corden, isn’t, it’s, Guy Lodge, Firth, Felicity Organizations: CNN, BBC Radio, Hollywood, Awards, GLAAD, Guardian Locations: ”, “, Hollywood, Felicity Blunt's

☆ DeepMind's co-founder suggested testing an AI chatbot's ability to turn $100,000 into $1 million to measure human-like intelligence
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

DeepMind's co-founder believes the Turing test is an outdated method to test AI intelligence. In his book, he suggests a new idea in which AI chatbots have to turn $100,000 into $1 million. A co-founder of Google's AI research lab DeepMind thinks AI chatbots like ChatGPT should be tested on their ability to turn $100,000 into $1 million in a "modern Turing test" that measures human-like intelligence. The Turing test was introduced by Alan Turing in the 1950s to examine whether a machine has human-level intelligence. During the test, human evaluators determine whether they're speaking to a human or a machine.

Persons: DeepMind's, Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, Turing, Alan Turing, OpenAI's ChatGPT, ChatGPT Organizations: Power, Bloomberg, ACI, McKinsey

☆ These are the 3 biggest fears about AI. Do they really stack up?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

An AI takeoverOne of the most commonly cited risks is that AI will get out of its creator's control. Current AI systems are not sentient but they are created to be humanlike. "We need to look at the lack of purpose that people would feel at the loss of jobs en masse," he told Insider. AI biasIf AI systems are used to help make wider societal decisions, systematic bias can become a serious risk, experts told Insider. There have already been several examples of bias in generative AI systems, including early versions of ChatGPT.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, we're, David Krueger, it's, I'm, Janis Wong, Alan Turing, Aaron Mok, Krueger, Abhishek Gupta, Arvind Krishna, Gupta, Wong Organizations: Center, AI Safety, Cambridge University, Alan Turing Institute, Montreal AI, IBM Locations: Montreal

☆ Factbox: Governments race to regulate AI tools
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

CHINA* Planning regulationsThe Chinese government will seek to initiate AI regulations in its country, billionaire Elon Musk said on June 5 after meeting with officials during his recent trip to China. ITALY* Investigating possible breachesItaly's data protection authority plans to review other artificial intelligence platforms and hire AI experts, a top official said in May. ChatGPT became available again to users in Italy in April after being temporarily banned over concerns by the national data protection authority in March. SPAIN* Investigating possible breachesSpain's data protection agency said in April it was launching a preliminary investigation into potential data breaches by ChatGPT. The Biden administration earlier in April said it was seeking public comments on potential accountability measures for AI systems.

Persons: Alan Turing, Elon Musk, Margrethe Vestager, Vestager, CNIL, Dado Ruvic, Ziv Katzir, Israel, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Antonio Guterres, Guterres, Michael Bennet, Biden, Alessandro Parodi, Amir Orusov, Jason Neely, Kirsten Donovan, Milla Nissi Organizations: Microsoft, Authority, Reuters, EU, Key, European Consumer Organisation, Seven, REUTERS, Israel Innovation Authority, UNITED, International Atomic Energy Agency, United Nations, U.S . Federal Trade Commission's, Thomson Locations: AUSTRALIA, BRITAIN, Britain, CHINA, China, Beijing, U.S, FRANCE, Italy, Hiroshima, Japan, IRELAND, ISRAEL, Israel, ITALY, JAPAN, SPAIN, Gdansk

☆ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman finally watched 'Ex Machina,' a movie in which a rich tech billionaire creates dangerously smart AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted that he finally watched the movie "Ex Machina." Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, spent Wednesday night watching the 2015 movie "Ex Machina" for the first time. The movie details the story of a rich tech billionaire, Nathan, who creates an AI-powered humanoid robot named Ava. Ava the humanoid from "Ex Machina" ultimately merges into human society. But in a tweet Thursday morning, Altman said that while he thought "Ex Machina" was a "pretty good movie," he still wasn't sure why "everyone" told him to watch it.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Nathan, Ava, Caleb, Alan Turing, OpenAI's ChatGPT, ChatGPT, hasn't, OpenAI Organizations: Stanford, Philosophy

☆ Queer people in history: Figures to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Leah Asmelash | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

To commemorate the month, CNN is highlighting five major LGBTQ elders – some who have passed on, and some who haven’t – highlighting their achievements. From a drag king who fought discrimination on the streets of New York to a famous mathematician who stood up to adversity despite legal limitations, here are five LGBTQ figures to know. Miss Major Griffin-GracyMiss Major in the film "Major," a documentary about her life and campaigns. But a year after Stonewall, Miss Major was arrested for robbery, landing her with a five-year prison sentence. Decades after her release, Miss Major spent time as the executive director of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project.

Persons: Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr, Patrick A, Burns, Rustin wasn’t, Rustin, King, Sen, Strom Thurmond, Gavin Newsom, Larry Kramer Larry Kramer, Catherine McGann, Larry Kramer, “, ”, Kramer, Anthony Fauci, Miss Major Griffin, Major, Marsha P, Johnson, Miss Major, Mama, Michelle V, Stormé DeLarverie, DeLarverie, White, “ That’s, Alan Turing, Alan Turing’s, Turing, it’s Organizations: CNN, New York Times Co, Getty, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, California Gov, Village Voice, AIDS, Centers for Disease Control, ACT UP, AIDS Coalition, National Institute of Allergy, Miss, Stonewall, New York Times, Physical Laboratory Locations: New York, India, Montgomery, Washington, Chicago, Greenwich, New Orleans, England

The European Union is at the forefront of drafting new AI rules that could set the global benchmark to address privacy and safety concerns that have arisen with the rapid advances in the generative AI technology behind OpenAI's ChatGPT. "If it's about protecting personal data, they apply data protection laws, if it's a threat to safety of people, there are regulations that have not been specifically defined for AI, but they are still applicable." Data protection authorities in France and Spain also launched in April probes into OpenAI's compliance with privacy laws. 'THINKING CREATIVELY'French data regulator CNIL has started "thinking creatively" about how existing laws might apply to AI, according to Bertrand Pailhes, its technology lead. "We are looking at the full range of effects, although our focus remains on data protection and privacy," he told Reuters.

☆ ‘Proximity’ and ‘The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing’ Reviews: A Weekend of World Premieres
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Heidi Waleson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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The AI industry is vast, encompassing not only buzzy chatbots and conversational search engines but also things like self-driving vehicles. Big technology companies have laid off tens of thousands of workers in recent months, but workers with AI skills are still in demand. Highly educated data scientists and core AI specialists with technical know-how are still highly in demand despite recent layoffs, Forshaw said. Natural language processing is really hot right now, but data science and data analytics skills are still in high demand." Still, Kimmel— who recently launched a bootcamp for AI startups— suggests that it's best to jump in and learn alongside early builders.

☆ The new Bing is acting all weird and creepy — but the human response is way scarier
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

It's a profit-making move designed to leverage our very human tendency to see human traits in nonhuman things. Look, I don't think we don't need to treat chatbots with respect because they ask us to. Making chatbots seem as if they're human isn't just incidental. So the real issue involving the current incarnation of chatbots isn't whether we treat them as people — it's how we decide to treat them as property. The robots don't care."

☆ UK markets watchdog says 'synthetic data' can aid choice, innovation
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Britain's financial watchdog said on Thursday it will push ahead with plans to make available "synthetic data" to help increase innovation and choice in financial services following a consultation last year. Data privacy laws make it harder for third-party companies to access data on customers held by long-established banks and insurers. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) last year published a consultation paper on synthetic data. "Based on the feedback to the Call for Input and previous research, our current position is that synthetic data can potentially make a significant contribution to beneficial innovation in UK financial markets," the FCA said in a statement on Thursday. "We will continue to engage loosely with the ICO to explore opportunities for data sharing in financial services within he bounds of UK data protection regulation," the FCA said.

☆ Web search as you know it is dead: Microsoft's and Google's new AIs are about to transform how you look for information online
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | James Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AI-boosted search engines from Microsoft and Google are set to change the way we search the web. New versions of Google Search and Bing are meant to give conversational answers to complex queries. It's "more like just asking a personal assistant to do something," an AI expert told Insider. Nadella said in media interviews Tuesday that the AI-powered overhaul of web search represented "a new paradigm" for the industry. The new search AIs draw their answers from the web at large, and information on the web isn't always accurate, to say the least.

☆ Sex, art theft, and privacy: Lensa exploded overnight — and now the avatar app is dealing with public backlash. Here's what you should know.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Lensa is facing criticism since the AI app exploded in popularity at the end of 2022. The Lensa app is behind those avatars. LensaAllegations of stealing from artistsJust as quickly as Lensa avatars became ubiquitous online, allegations of theft and warnings from artists also emerged. The law community "would welcome additional guidance from policymakers and courts when it comes to protecting consumers in connection with AI," Torres said. "The flood of Lensa avatars feel cheap and overwhelming," Pilat said in a statement shared with Insider.

☆ King Charles III banknote images revealed for first time
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Lauren Kent | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

London CNN Business —The first images of banknotes featuring Britain’s King Charles III were unveiled on Tuesday by the Bank of England. Charles’ portrait will appear on English notes of £5, £10, £20 and £50. Image of King Charles III on the English £50 note. “This is a significant moment, as The King is only the second monarch to feature on our banknotes,” Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said ahead of the release. Earlier this month, the first coins bearing the official effigy of King Charles III entered circulation.

☆ Queen Elizabeth II ruled through decades of change on gay rights, but her LGBTQ legacy is complicated
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Jo Yurcaba | Jo Yurcaba Is A Reporter For Nbc Out. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

In 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II took the throne after the death of her father, same-sex sexual relations were criminalized in Britain. That support has led some to argue that she was a “quiet” supporter of LGBTQ rights, but to others she was just doing her job. Queen Elizabeth II waves to the crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London following her coronation, on June 3, 1953. Queen Elizabeth II gave both of the measures her royal assent and went on to continue to approve pro-LGBTQ policies. Queen Elizabeth II during a visit to HMS Queen Elizabeth at HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, ahead of the ship's maiden deployment, on May 22, 2021.

☆ Marea Britanie caută în mod special spioni dislexici; Cum îi ajută această tulburare pe agenți
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-01 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: ProfimediaMarea Britanie caută în mod special spioni dislexici; Cum îi ajută această tulburare pe agențiO agenție de informații din Marea Britanie caută în mod special recruți dislexici. Sunt de patru ori mai mulți stagiari cu această tulburare în cadrul serviciului care se ocupă cu analiză de date, decât la alte agenții de informații. Asta le permite să identifice tipare într-o cantitate mare de informații pe care alții nu le pot sesiza. Louise, agent dislexic al GCHQ: Ca analist tehnic, îmi folosesc abilitățile de informatică și cunoștințele ca să combat amenințările la adresa Regatului Unit. Sunt și foarte hotărâtă.

Persons: Alan Turing, Louise Locations: Regatului Unit

☆ Banca Angliei a dezvăluit designul viitoarei bancnote de 50 de lire. Aceasta îl omagiază pe matematicianul Alan Turing, condamnat anterior pentru homosexualitate
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-25 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

Banca Angliei a dezvăluit designul viitoarei bancnote de 50 de lire. Povestea a fost stat la baza peliculei „The Imitation Game” (2014), în care Turing este interpretat de actorul Benedict Cumberbatch. Turing a fost condamnat pentru homosexualitate în 1952 şi a fost supus castrării chimice prin injecţii cu hormoni feminini pentru a evita pedeapsa cu închisoarea. „A fost de asemenea gay, iar din acest motiv a fost tratat groaznic”, a spus Bailey. „Turing a fost acceptat pentru genialitatea sa, dar persecutat pentru că era gay.

Persons: Alan Turing, Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, El, Lorenz, Elisabeta a II, Bailey, Jeremy Fleming, Fleming, Va Organizations: Angliei, Reuters, Atlanticului, gay, Banca Angliei Locations: Angliei

Urmează o serie de schimbări pentru cetățenii UE care intenționează să lucreze, să învețe și să studieze în Marea Britanie, inclusiv pentru moldovenii cu pașapoarte românești. Ce presupune noul sistem de migrare bazat pe puncteÎncepând cu 1 ianuarie 2021, Marea Britanie aplică un sistem de migrare bazat pe puncte. Persoanele vor oferi date personale, detalii despre situația lor, educația, backgroundul, perspectivele profesionale și despre ce își doresc să facă în Marea Britanie. Dacă vor acumula suficiente puncte, atunci pot obține dreptul să emigreze în Marea Britanie. Va susține Marea Britanie parcursul european al Moldovei în continuare?

Persons: Aureliu Ciocoi, Steven Fisher, Erasmus, britanic Boris Johnson, ., Boris Johnson, Alan Turing Organizations: Uniunea Europeană, UE Locations: Republica Moldova, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii, Irlandei de Nord, britanice, Regatului Unit, UE, australian, Britanie, Britanii, Regatul Unit, Europa, Marii Britanii, UK, Moldovei, Moldova, Chișinău, britanic

☆ Marea Britanie nu va mai continua programul Erasmus. Premierul britanic a anunțat un alt program în schimb
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-27 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Marea Britanie nu va mai continua programul Erasmus. Premierul britanic a anunțat un alt program în schimbSchimbări importante pentru tinerii care vor să studieze în UK. Premierul britanic Boris Johnson a inclus în cadrul acordului post-Brexit, încheiat în ajunul Crăciunului, excluderea programului Erasmus din Marea Britanie. Totodată, în locul acestuia a fost anunțat un alt program britanic, relatează AFP. Programul Erasmus, la care Regatul Unit participă din 1987, urmează să fie înlocuit cu Programul Alan Turing.

Persons: Erasmus, Boris Johnson, ., Alan Turing, Michel Barnier, El, Johnson Locations: UK, Regatul Unit, Europa, UE, britanică

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