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Large AI models, such as large language models, have shown expert-level performance in specific medical domains. Concerns about medical bias are growing, but related research is fragmented and shaped by discipline-specific assumptions, terminology and evaluation criteria. A general understanding of medical bias in large AI models is still lacking.
Read the original →U.S. consumers are frustrated with high prices and are angry and confused about the high-tech ways restaurant chains and major retailers set them. Digital price tags are rapidly replacing paper ones in grocery aisles. AI tools help businesses decide what to charge by predicting how customers might respond.
Read the original →At the G20 Interfaith Forum in Salt Lake City, Elder Gerrit W. Gong said faith, moral compass and human flourishing can help ensure artificial intelligence serves the common good.
Read the original →ICMP says Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave songs sit in a 12-million-track AI dataset. It accuses tech firms of pressuring Canberra on copyright rules.
Read the original →Meta has withdrawn a controversial provision from its upcoming October 30 commercial terms update. The provision would have allowed the automated scraping of business content.
Read the original →Artificial intelligence chatbots could help people better understand and manage their mental health. They could also reinforce harmful thoughts.
Read the original →David Lan Thackray, 29, allegedly referenced the Bondi Beach terror attack as he discussed shooting several children at a childcare centre near his home, a court has heard.
Read the original →Korea Airports Corporation (President Kim Won-jun) said on the 19th that it had been designated an "AI Ethics-Compliant Organization" by the National Information Society Agency (NIA) on the 8th.
Read the original →A deterministic ethics layer is proposed to make the reasoning behind AI's moral decisions auditable and reproducible. This engineering solution aims to bridge the gap between ethical principles and actual ethical behaviour in AI systems.
Read the original →Nearly 300 schoolgirls participated in an AI foundations training programme jointly organised by IIT Delhi and Lithuania. The programme focused on ethical AI use.
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