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China's Olympics app is pure spyware; preparing for cyber spillover; and simulating tom... - 0 views

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"Cybersecurity researchers say the My2022 mobile app - the official app of the Beijing Winter Olympics - has serious security vulnerabilities and that "all Olympian audio is being collected, analyzed and saved on Chinese servers." Why This Matters: The Chinese government is mandating all Olympic athletes, coaches, and attendees use the My2022 app and, as of Thursday morning, the app is still available in the Apple and Android U.S. app stores where Americans can download it too."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Cybersecurity researchers say the My2022 mobile app - the official app of the Beijing Winter Olympics - has serious security vulnerabilities and that "all Olympian audio is being collected, analyzed and saved on Chinese servers." Why This Matters: The Chinese government is mandating all Olympic athletes, coaches, and attendees use the My2022 app and, as of Thursday morning, the app is still available in the Apple and Android U.S. app stores where Americans can download it too."</div>

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AI image of Pope Francis in a puffer jacket fooled the internet and experts fear there'... - 0 views

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ITGS DS synthetic digital media generative ai deepfake photoshop

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dr tech on 29 Mar 23

"A fake, AI-generated image of Pope Francis stepping out in a stylish white puffer jacket and bejewelled crucifix racked up millions of views over the weekend - with many mistaking it for a real image. Experts fear the rapidly developing technology behind the image could soon undermine our ability to distinguish fake photos, which can be generated in seconds, from reality."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A fake, AI-generated image of Pope Francis stepping out in a stylish white puffer jacket and bejewelled crucifix racked up millions of views over the weekend - with many mistaking it for a real image. Experts fear the rapidly developing technology behind the image could soon undermine our ability to distinguish fake photos, which can be generated in seconds, from reality."</div>

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TechScape: Can AI really help fix a healthcare system in crisis? | Technology | The Gua... - 0 views

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ITGS DS healthcare change values and ethics systems ai inequality

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dr tech on 10 Jul 24

"In a sharply worded warning, the cancer experts say that 'novel solutions' such as new diagnostic tests have been wrongly hyped as 'magic bullets' for the cancer crisis, but 'none address the fundamental issues of cancer as a systems problem'. A 'common fallacy' of NHS leaders is the assumption that new technologies can reverse inequalities, the authors add. The reality is that tools such as AI can create 'additional barriers for those with poor digital or health literacy'. 'We caution against technocentric approaches without robust evaluation from an equity perspective,' the paper concludes."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"In a sharply worded warning, the cancer experts say that 'novel solutions' such as new diagnostic tests have been wrongly hyped as 'magic bullets' for the cancer crisis, but 'none address the fundamental issues of cancer as a systems problem'. A 'common fallacy' of NHS leaders is the assumption that new technologies can reverse inequalities, the authors add. The reality is that tools such as AI can create 'additional barriers for those with poor digital or health literacy'. 'We caution against technocentric approaches without robust evaluation from an equity perspective,' the paper concludes."</div>

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"AI Won't Take Your Job, a Person Using AI Will"-Yes, You Using AI Will Replace You Not... - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 31 Dec 24 - No Cached

dr tech on 31 Dec 24

"I. Neither AI nor other people will take your job: While fears have shifted from AI taking jobs to people using AI replacing others, the reality is that you will most likely replace your non-AI-using self by adopting AI tools."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"I. Neither AI nor other people will take your job: While fears have shifted from AI taking jobs to people using AI replacing others, the reality is that you will most likely replace your non-AI-using self by adopting AI tools."</div>

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Deep love or deepfake? Dating in the time of AI | Context by TRF - 0 views

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dr tech on 18 May 25

"Beth Hyland thought she had met the love of her life on Tinder. In reality, the Michigan-based administrative assistant had been manipulated by an online scam artist who posed as a French man named 'Richard', used deepfake video on Skype calls and posted photos of another man to pull off his con. A 'deepfake' is manipulated video or audio made using artificial intelligence (AI) to look and sound real. They are often difficult to detect without specialised tools. In a matter of months, Hyland, 53, had taken out loans totalling $26,000, sent 'Richard' the money, and fallen prey to a classic case of romance baiting or pig butchering, named for the exploitative way in which scammers cultivate their victims."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Beth Hyland thought she had met the love of her life on Tinder. In reality, the Michigan-based administrative assistant had been manipulated by an online scam artist who posed as a French man named 'Richard', used deepfake video on Skype calls and posted photos of another man to pull off his con. A 'deepfake' is manipulated video or audio made using artificial intelligence (AI) to look and sound real. They are often difficult to detect without specialised tools. In a matter of months, Hyland, 53, had taken out loans totalling $26,000, sent 'Richard' the money, and fallen prey to a classic case of romance baiting or pig butchering, named for the exploitative way in which scammers cultivate their victims."</div>

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Beyond Games: Why VR Will Soon Be Vitally Important to Healthcare - Singularity HUB - 0 views

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dr tech on 07 Sep 15

"The ability to understand an individual's unique anatomic configuration from skin to bone can be a significant benefit to a surgeon, especially prior to a complex operation. Immersive VR will enable surgeons to explore their patient's virtual body-reconstructed from their CT or MRI data-and plan or even practice difficult surgeries prior to the actual procedure. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The ability to understand an individual's unique anatomic configuration from skin to bone can be a significant benefit to a surgeon, especially prior to a complex operation. Immersive VR will enable surgeons to explore their patient's virtual body-reconstructed from their CT or MRI data-and plan or even practice difficult surgeries prior to the actual procedure. "</div>

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Project Tango: hands-on with Google's virtual reality experiment (Wired UK) - 0 views

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jamandham on 20 Sep 15

Project Tango is a prototype tablet that British developers made so that people can easily 3D map areas. I could see this as a privacy issue, do you?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Project Tango is a prototype tablet that British developers made so that people can easily 3D map areas. I could see this as a privacy issue, do you?</div>

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Imagining an augmented reality future that's not an advertising hell - Boing Boing - 0 views

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Magical thinking about machine learning won't bring the reality of AI any closer | John... - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 06 Aug 18 - No Cached

dr tech on 06 Aug 18

" Critics have pointed out that the old computing adage "garbage in, garbage out" also applies to ML. If the data from which a machine "learns" is biased, then the outputs will reflect those biases. And this could become generalised: we may have created a technology that - however good it is at recommending films you might like - may actually morph into a powerful amplifier of social, economic and cultural inequalities."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">" Critics have pointed out that the old computing adage "garbage in, garbage out" also applies to ML. If the data from which a machine "learns" is biased, then the outputs will reflect those biases. And this could become generalised: we may have created a technology that - however good it is at recommending films you might like - may actually morph into a powerful amplifier of social, economic and cultural inequalities."</div>

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Touring the haunting ruins of abandoned Second Life university campuses / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS SecondLife VirtualWorld virtual reality legacy people and machines

shared by dr tech on 22 Aug 18 - No Cached

dr tech on 22 Aug 18

"In the meantime, I actually like how most of these islands represent an attempt by education institutions to embrace the weirdness of the web. The current crop of education startups seem bland and antiseptic in comparison to these virtual worlds. I can't take a Coursera class on a pirate ship, or attend office hours in front of an edX campfire. And honestly, that's probably a good thing. But it makes the web slightly less interesting."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"In the meantime, I actually like how most of these islands represent an attempt by education institutions to embrace the weirdness of the web. The current crop of education startups seem bland and antiseptic in comparison to these virtual worlds. I can't take a Coursera class on a pirate ship, or attend office hours in front of an edX campfire. And honestly, that's probably a good thing. But it makes the web slightly less interesting."</div>

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The terrifying, hidden reality of Ridiculously Complicated Algorithms - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 16 Sep 18 - No Cached

dr tech on 16 Sep 18

""Weapons of math destruction" is how the writer Cathy O'Neil describes the nasty and pernicious kinds of algorithms that are not subject to the same challenges that human decision-makers are. Parole algorithms (not Jure's) can bias decisions on the basis of income or (indirectly) ethnicity. Recruitment algorithms can reject candidates on the basis of mistaken identity. In some circumstances, such as policing, they might create feedback loops, sending police into areas with more crime, which causes more crime to be detected."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""Weapons of math destruction" is how the writer Cathy O'Neil describes the nasty and pernicious kinds of algorithms that are not subject to the same challenges that human decision-makers are. Parole algorithms (not Jure's) can bias decisions on the basis of income or (indirectly) ethnicity. Recruitment algorithms can reject candidates on the basis of mistaken identity. In some circumstances, such as policing, they might create feedback loops, sending police into areas with more crime, which causes more crime to be detected."</div>

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'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth | Technology... - 0 views

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ITGS algorithm youtube bias politics and government

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How beauty filters took over social media - 0 views

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ITGS filter photoshop identity people and machines technology

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dr tech on 04 Apr 21

"They are subjects in an experiment that will show how the technology changes the way we form our identities, represent ourselves, and relate to others."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"They are subjects in an experiment that will show how the technology changes the way we form our identities, represent ourselves, and relate to others."</div>

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Police VR Training being used in the UK - 0 views

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multiplecabbages on 16 Sep 20

"Virtual reality company, AVRT, has been collaborating with the force to create realistic computer generated scenarios officers might be in, such as dealing with a person in an alleyway or a rooftop"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Virtual reality company, AVRT, has been collaborating with the force to create realistic computer generated scenarios officers might be in, such as dealing with a person in an alleyway or a rooftop"</div>

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The future is … sending AI avatars to meetings for us, says Zoom boss | Artif... - 0 views

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“five or six years” away, Eric Yuan told The Verge magazine, but he added that the company was working on nearer-term technologies that could bring it closer to reality.“Let’s assume, fast-forward five or six years, that AI is ready,” Yuan said. “AI probably can help for maybe 90% of the work, but in terms of real-time interaction, today, you and I are talking online. So, I can send my digital version, you can send your digital version.”Using AI avatars in this way could free up time for less career-focused choices, Yuan, who also founded Zoom, added. “You and I can have more time to have more in-person interactions, but maybe not for work. Maybe for something else. Why do we need to work five days a week? Down the road, four days or three days. Why not spend more time with your fam
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dr tech on 07 Jun 24

"Ultimately, he suggests, each user would have their own "large language model" (LLM), the underlying technology of services such as ChatGPT, which would be trained on their own speech and behaviour patterns, to let them generate extremely personalised responses to queries and requests. Such systems could be a natural progression from AI tools that already exist today. Services such as Gmail can summarise and suggest replies to emails based on previous messages, while Microsoft Teams will transcribe and summarise video conferences, automatically generating a to-do list from the contents."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Ultimately, he suggests, each user would have their own "large language model" (LLM), the underlying technology of services such as ChatGPT, which would be trained on their own speech and behaviour patterns, to let them generate extremely personalised responses to queries and requests. Such systems could be a natural progression from AI tools that already exist today. Services such as Gmail can summarise and suggest replies to emails based on previous messages, while Microsoft Teams will transcribe and summarise video conferences, automatically generating a to-do list from the contents."</div>

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Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder t... - 0 views

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ITGS DS doomscrolling social media brain rot intelligence cultural human knowledge