Instagram’s recommendation algorithms have been promoting and connecting accounts that facilitate and sell child sexual abuse content, a study by Stanford University’s Internet Observatory Cyber Policy Center, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and The Wall Street Journal has revealed. The researchers found that Instagram has a “particularly severe problem” with accounts that show self-generated child
Contextual AI, a new AI startup founded by veterans of Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Hugging Face, has raised $20 million in a seed round. The company will focus on developing specialized artificial intelligence (ASI) that can solve problems faced by businesses. The funding was led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), with participation from Lightspeed,
Computer vision, a field of artificial intelligence, allows computers to acquire, process, and analyze digital images to make recommendations or decisions based on that analysis. The market for computer vision is growing rapidly, and researchers are looking for ways to improve the technology. USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and the Ming Hsieh Department of
Recent research conducted by the Durham Energy Institute (DEI) has found that the UK could potentially utilize underground heat to provide sustainable and carbon-neutral heating and cooling for large areas of the country. The study highlights the opportunity to diversify and strengthen the UK’s heat supply, as well as bringing economic growth to regions across
San Francisco-based startup Weights & Biases is launching two new capabilities aimed at helping organizations build and monitor machine learning (ML) models. These new features are designed to make it easier for enterprises to get AI models running effectively for production workloads. Weights & Biases is a platform that provides tools for AI/ML development visualization
Chris Licht, who led CNN for a little over a year, is no longer with the news network, according to an announcement made by parent company Warner Bros. Discovery on Wednesday morning. The company’s shares rose 7% following the announcement. In the interim, executives Amy Entelis, Virginia Moseley, Eric Sherling, and David Leavy will lead
Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) is a space-set massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that has been running for almost 12 years. It was launched in 2011 as a competitor to Blizzard’s World of Warcraft and was praised for its unique world-building and hundreds of hours of content. However, it struggled to maintain a
Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown its potential in the medical field and has proven to be useful in reading medical images and even passing doctors’ licensing exams. A team at NYU Grossman School of Medicine has designed a new AI tool that can read physician notes and accurately predict patients’ risk of death, readmission to
A new survey conducted by GE Healthcare has revealed that there is a significant level of distrust and skepticism surrounding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medical settings. The Reimagining Better Health poll surveyed 5,500 patients and patient advocates and 2,000 clinicians, and found that while the majority of doctors believe that AI has
McKinsey and Company, a global consulting firm with more than 30,000 employees across 67 countries, has embraced new generative AI tools in a major way. Almost 50% of the firm’s workforce is using ChatGPT and similar technology. AI Guidelines During a media event at McKinsey’s New York Experience Studio, Ben Ellencweig, senior partner, and global