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Mar 25 2024
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North Iowa travel planners use AI, but still rely on the human touch
North Iowa travel agents are incorporating a little bit of AI in their operations, but they are still retaining the human element that some customers are looking for. Carol Boehnke, owner of Destination Travel in Clear Lake, said she sometimes uses AI to generate effective wording for marketing emails or to find photos or memes to use on social media. “I don’t use it to research travel because
Globe GazetteMar 13 2024
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Extra Time: Westfield's Fulton Center exit; future of A.I.
In this edition of Eyewitness News Extra Time, we begin with concerns over crime at one of New York City's busiest transit hubs: Fulton Center. In this edition of Eyewitness News Extra Time, we begin with concerns over crime at one of New York City's busiest transit hubs: Fulton Center. In this edition of Eyewitness News Extra Time, we begin with concerns over crime at one of New York City's
ABC 7 New YorkApr 19 2024
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AI is shaking up how sports like rugby, soccer and cricket are played—and it could soon mint big money for sports clubs
Leicester Tigers, an English rugby team, finished at the bottom of the sport’s Premiership in 2019, just about missing relegation. That’s when the club turned to AI to rate player performance and model how different actions would impact the club’s win probability. There’s been no turning back since. The team won the 2022 Premiership, topping the table among 13 other teams, thanks to AI tools
FortuneMar 30 2024
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AI-aided virtual conversations with WWII vets are latest feature at New Orleans museum
By Kevin Mcgill and Stephen Smith, Associated Press, The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Olin Pickens sat in his wheelchair facing a life-sized image of himself on a screen, asking it questions about being taken prisoner by German soldiers during World War II. After a pause, his video-recorded twin recalled being given “sauerkraut soup” by his captors before a grueling march. “That was a
The Denver PostApr 09 2024
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AI companies would have to cough up most precious asset under proposal from California lawmaker
That is if Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. gets his way after introducing a bill Tuesday that would force AI companies to say where they got the reams of data needed to make their super smart chatbots and image generators. The bill faces an uphill battle in Congress. But if passed into law, it would wade into a developing area of the law and set rules for how AI systems can and can’t be trained.
San Francisco ChronicleMar 22 2024
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Tennessee becomes the first state to protect musicians and other artists against AI
Tennessee made history on Thursday, becoming the first U.S. state to sign off on legislation to protect musicians from unauthorized artificial intelligence impersonation.
"Tennessee (sic) is the music capital of the world, & we're leading the nation with historic protections for TN artists & songwriters against emerging AI technology," Gov. Bill Lee announced on social media.
NPR (Online News)Apr 04 2024
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IDF Allowed 100 Civilian Deaths for Every Hamas Official Targeted by Error-Prone AI System
As the Biden administration issued its latest assurance that officials are pushing Israel to be "precise" in its selection of targets in Gaza, an investigation into the Israel Defense Forces' use of a previously undisclosed artificial intelligence system found that the mechanism has replaced "human agency and precision" with "mass target creation and lethality."
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Common DreamsApr 04 2024
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Elon Musk Says He Will Boost Pay For Tesla A.I. Engineers Amid ‘Craziest Talent War’
Tesla (TSLA) is currently going through a down cycle in business, but CEO Elon Musk said he’s going to increase compensation for the electric carmaker’s artificial intelligence engineers amid what he calls the “craziest talent war.” In a series of X posts yesterday (April 3), Musk said companies like OpenAI “have been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with massive compensation offers and
The Observer (New York)Apr 19 2024
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Drake Uses A.I. Tupac and Snoop Dogg Vocals on ‘Taylor Made Freestyle,’ References Taylor Swift’s New Album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
The beef between Drake and what continues to be a strong sect of the hip-hop community grows deeper. On Friday night (April 19), the rapper released a song on his social media entitled “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which uses A.I. vocals from Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg on a stopgap between diss records as he awaits Kendrick Lamar’s reply to his freshly released “Push Ups.” On the track, an
VarietyMar 01 2024
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Google CEO Pledged to Use AI to Combat Trumpism
Google’s fiasco with its artificial intelligence program is emblematic of an issue simmering at the tech giant. It’s not a new story. It dates to—you guessed it—the 2016 election. The rollout of Gemini has been something of a trainwreck. Its image creator refused to generate any images of white people, whereas the AI prompt couldn’t say with certainty that Adolf Hitler was a worse individual
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