There are harms to online misinformation
Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and YouTube face the threat of “disinformation”, reported The Washington Post. “We’ve been facing a challenge…from social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr, who are making it harder for Americans to get information through their platforms,” said Washington Post. Facebook has removed over 300 accounts from its platform in the last few months.
We don’t know how misinformation spreads online
A new study by Stanford University and the US’ New York University has found that companies are ten times more likely toadvertise on misinformation sites if they advertise using exchanges. Researchers used a dataset of over 1 million content posted on WhatsApp to discover that the content was “forwarded many times”. It was the first study to use GenAI to understand misinformation.
It curbed misinformation after the Capitol riots
Scientists at Columbia University, US and University of Chicago, US have found that it is possible to make molecular entanglements in polar molecules. Molecules can rotate and vibrate in ways that are impossible for atoms and polar molecules, which have positively or negatively charged end, can interact over long ranges through electromagnetic forces, they added. This would allow physicists to simulate and understand much wider array of phenomena.
There is still room for Chinese science to grow
South Korea and Singapore, which are part of China-backed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), have emerged as the most active countries in collaboration between China and BRI countries, a US-based researcher said. “It’s not like…Chinese Communist Party is saying to Chinese researchers that they must collaborate with these countries,” Jenny Lee, a science policy researcher at the University of Arizona in Tucson, said.
There is still room for Chinese science to grow
A Chinese researcher has said that it requires an “ambitious plan for improvement and to be indexed in the Web of Science within three years” to be included in the CJEAP. Shu Fei, who studies scholarly communication at Hangzhou Dianzi University in China, added, “Being selected for support under the CJEAP isn’t easy…it requires an ambitious plan for improvement.”
Search results Copied my original work
Google has responded to journalist Anthropic’s allegation that its artificial intelligence-powered summaries used one of his articles without his permission. “We see that links included in the AI Overviews get more clicks than if the page had appeared as a traditional web listing for that query,” Google said. Anthropic’s article was often a featured link in the top of search results.
Before its pizza glue, the technology was cut back in its search
Microsoft has reportedly been asked to provide information about the safety of its AI-generated answers to search queries called AI Overviews. The feature was criticised after it produced incorrect answers to several queries. Google had recently made adjustments to its new search feature, AI Overviews, after screenshots of bizarre and misleading answers to queries went viral.
There is not enough protection for whistle blowers on artificial intelligence safety, say former Openai employees
Several employees of AI startup OpenAI wrote an open letter saying they “reasonably fear various forms of retaliation” as they report violations of regulations. They added that current protections for whistle blowers aren’t sufficient because they focus on “illegal activity” rather than concerns that are “mostly unregulated”. They further said AI’s potential to benefit society is being “fettered” by companies.
Is the review worth it?
Sonos unveiled its first pair of headphones, the Sonos Ace, at the CES 2020 in Las Vegas. The headphones feature two active noise cancelling and transparency modes, allowing the user to enjoy music, gaming, etc. The headphones can play audio that would ordinarily come through your soundbar and can also play video games. They are priced at $450 (around 34,000).
The search feature has been screwed up
After Google’s AI-based search engine AI Overviews advised people to eat rocks, put glue on pizza and jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, it admitted it needed to make adjustments. “We’ll continue to monitor users’ feedback and adjust the feature as necessary,” Google said in a post. Google added it’ll continue to rely on Reddit’s user-generated content for AI-based searches.