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Too Long; Didn't ReadElon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, has received FDA approval to launch its first-in-human clinical study. The company has aimed to directly interface humans with computers, using a ‘brain chip’ This device uses neural lace - an ultra-thin mesh made of 1024 electrodes, distributed across 64 threads - to record neural activity. Too Long; Didn't ReadElon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, has received FDA approval to launch its first-in-human clinical study. The company has aimed to…

Now, a study has found that the use of these characters may perpetuate harmful stereotypes about women and promote heteronormative notions of masculinity. Credit: jsks from Wikimedia Commons ImageAccording to a recent study, utilizing anime “moe” characters in tourism promotion may have negative effects.In Japan, the use of anime characters in advertising is a common tactic to promote goods and services. This marketing approach leverages people’s emotional attachment to these characters, a sentiment that’s often described…

Anthropic, an Artificial Intelligence startup company funded by Alphabet Inc, recently revealed the ethical guidelines and principles used to train its AI chatbot “Claude” to make it safer than contenders. The AI startup, Anthropic launched Claude, a rival to OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT stating it to be a constitutional AI. The company recently revealed a list of its written moral guidelines and principles that it used to build and train Claude. The company claims that AI is much more ethical and safer and would provide…

Chris Stantis opening a cabinet where mummies are stored in the National Museum of Natural History, at the Maryland complex. Credit: Chris Stantis In 2022, the Penn Museum announced that it would rebury the skulls of dozens of Black Philadelphian individuals whose remains were unethically obtained in the mid-1800s. Some in the community of the individuals' descendants, who felt they were not consulted, filed a formal…

Geoffrey Hinton, nicknamed the Godfather of AI, told The New York Times he resigned as Google VP and engineering fellow in April to freely warn of the risks associated with the technology. The researcher is concerned Google is giving up its previous restraint on public AI releases to compete with ChatGPT, Bing Chat and similar models. In the near term, Hinton says he’s worried that generative AI could lead to a wave of misinformation. You might "not be able to know what is true anymore," he says. He's also concerned it…

Microsoft caught a lot of flak when it shut down its artificial intelligence (AI) Ethics & Society team in March 2023. It wasn’t a good look given the near-simultaneous scandals engulfing AI, but the company has just laid out how it intends to keep its future efforts responsible and in check going forward. In a post on Microsoft’s On the Issues blog, Natasha Crampton — the Redmond firm’s Chief Responsible AI Officer — explained that the ethics team was disbanded because “A single team or a single discipline…

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence has made a high-profile exit. Geoffrey Hinton, nicknamed the "godfather of AI," tells The New York Times he resigned as Google VP and engineering fellow in April to freely warn of the risks associated with the technology. The researcher is concerned that Google is giving up its previous restraint on public AI releases in a bid to compete with ChatGPT, Bing Chat and similar models, opening the door to multiple ethical problems. In the near term, Hinton is worried that…

If you're like me, you've spent a lot of time over the past few months trying to figure out what this AI thing is all about.Large-language models, generative AI, algorithmic bias – it's a lot for the less tech-savvy of us to sort out, trying to make sense of the myriad headlines about artificial intelligence swirling about. But understanding how AI works is just part of the dilemma. As a society, we're also confronting concerns about its social, psychological and ethical effects. Here we spotlight articles about the…

Unrecord, a photorealistic shooter told through the perspective of a police officer’s body camera, has launched a new trailer — and although many fans have praised the game’s graphics, others have questioned the ethics of Unrecord‘s portrayal of police. A new gameplay trailer for Unrecord was released yesterday (April 19) and showcases the first-person shooter (FPS) in action, with a player chasing down suspects and engaging in shootouts. However, the game’s photorealistic visuals have proven the biggest draw for many…

Google launched Bard, its ChatGPT rival, despite internal concerns that it was a “pathological liar” and produced “cringe-worthy” results, a new report has claimed. These worries were apparently ignored in a frantic attempt to catch up with ChatGPT and see off the threat it could pose to Google’s search business. The revelations come from a Bloomberg report that took a deep dive into Google Bard and the issues raised by employees who have worked on the project. It’s an eye-opening account of the ways the chatbot has…