A London production company's AI-generated "actress" identified a CBS News reporter's age and regional origin within minutes of a video interview, and neither the bot nor its creator could explain how. CBS News reporter Leigh Kiniry sat down for a video interview with "Tilly Norwood," a digital persona billed as the world's first AI actor, […] The post Hollywood's first AI actress can't explain how she reads your personal data appeared first on American Almanac .
A London production company's AI-generated "actress" identified a CBS News reporter's age and regional origin within minutes of a video interview, and neither the bot nor its creator could explain how. CBS News reporter Leigh Kiniry sat down for a video interview with "Tilly Norwood," a digital persona billed as the world's first AI actor, and came away unsettled. Within roughly a minute of conversation, the AI, which takes the form of a freckled twenty-something woman, had pegged Kiniry's approximate age and the region of the United States she comes from. When pressed, the bot's creator offered no clear answer for how that happened. Eileen Van Der Velden, who has run the London-based production company PARTICLE 6 for twelve years,…Open
JOE ALLEN: 9/11 happened, Patriot Act was signed, and the infrastructure built up for decades would be used not just against terrorists overseas, but dissenters on our soil. Fast forward to 2020: biosurveillance, contact tracing, and vaccination ops were facilitated by Palantir through their data analytics.
China is exporting more than A.I. models. It wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots, raising fears that Beijing’s narratives will spread with the technology.
The search for a winning message on AI is pushing candidates and lawmakers into unexpected political territory. Why it matters: With the midterms approaching, AI is creating alliances across party lines while opening fissures within them. Here are three ways AI is scrambling the political map. 1. Centrist Democrats versus progressives on data centers New York made waves as the first state to impose a data center moratorium — a product of Gov. Kathy Hochul joining forces with progressive state Sen. Kristen Gonzalez. But the two policymakers are just getting started on reconciling their differing approaches to AI. - Gonzalez previously advocated for a three-year moratorium and is working to extend the one-year pause in Hochul's…
The search for a winning message on AI is pushing candidates and lawmakers into unexpected political territory. Why it matters: With the midterms approaching, AI is creating alliances across party lines while opening fissures within them. Here are three ways AI is scrambling the political map. 1. Centrist Democrats versus progressives on data centers New York made waves as the first state to impose a data center moratorium — a product of Gov. Kathy Hochul joining forces with progressive state Sen. Kristen Gonzalez. But the two policymakers are just getting started on reconciling their differing approaches to AI. - Gonzalez previously advocated for a three-year moratorium and is working to extend the one-year pause in Hochul's…Open
It contains more than half a million people’s genomes, paired with clinical records and wearable tech data. That gives researchers unmatched power to study both diseases and treatments.
As AI changes the way the world gathers information, some critics say that it is perpetuating stereotypes and erasing cultural nuances for Indigenous groups and people of color. Why it matters: Most mainstream models are trained on the work of Western writers — particularly white men — and regularly mimic those values, writing styles , viewpoints and biases . - Some critics say the data grab is a new form of colonialism , where information gathering replaces Imperial-era land seizures while the AI companies — rather than a conquering nation — reap profits from marginalized groups. - Data collection from these groups is often done without their consent or any verification that the information is accurate. What they're saying:…
As AI changes the way the world gathers information, some critics say that it is perpetuating stereotypes and erasing cultural nuances for Indigenous groups and people of color. Why it matters: Most mainstream models are trained on the work of Western writers — particularly white men — and regularly mimic those values, writing styles , viewpoints and biases . - Some critics say the data grab is a new form of colonialism , where information gathering replaces Imperial-era land seizures while the AI companies — rather than a conquering nation — reap profits from marginalized groups. - Data collection from these groups is often done without their consent or any verification that the information is accurate. What they're saying:…Open
