Amba Kak creates policy recommendations to address AI concerns

Amba Kak creates policy recommendations to address AI concerns

Image Credits: Amba Kak To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. …

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‘Embarrassing and wrong’: Google admits it lost control of image-generating AI

‘Embarrassing and wrong’: Google admits it lost control of image-generating AI

Image Credits: Adobe Firefly generative AI / composite by TechCrunch Google has apologized (or come very close to apologizing) for another embarrassing AI blunder this week, an image-generating model that injected diversity into pictures with a farcical disregard for historical context. While the underlying issue is perfectly understandable, Google blames the model for “becoming” oversensitive. …

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Bipartisan bills on artificial intelligence and sex trafficking pass Assembly

Bipartisan bills on artificial intelligence and sex trafficking pass Assembly

Assembly lawmakers passed several bills on Thursday regulating how artificial intelligence is used in political campaigns and in state agencies and to limit sex trafficking in the state. Several of the bills, which are the result of work done by bipartisan task forces that were organized by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) last year, passed …

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The Scientist’s Perspective on Affirmative Action: Understanding the Color Spectrum in a Rainbow

The Scientist’s Perspective on Affirmative Action: Understanding the Color Spectrum in a Rainbow

ZAMBIA – 2014/06/15: A captivating rainbow over Victoria Falls seen from the shore of the Zambezi River at the section above the falls near Livingston in Zambia. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)LightRocket via Getty Images When I write for Forbes, I like to focus on weather, climate, and other related scientific topics. As …

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