A round-up of some articles I’ve been working on this week and a handful of weekend AI experiments. I faff around with it, so you don’t have to. Artificial Intelligence Baidu’s ERNIE doesn’t want confrontation with United States March 17, 2023 More than 30,000 enterprise users applied for access to Baidu’s ERNIE Bot Enterprise Edition within two hours of its…

A round-up of some articles I’ve been working on this week and a handful of weekend AI experiments. I faff around with it, so you don’t have to. Artificial Intelligence Baidu’s ERNIE doesn’t want confrontation with United States March 17, 2023 More than 30,000 enterprise users applied for access to Baidu’s ERNIE Bot Enterprise Edition within two hours of its…

#artificialintelligence and #cybersecurity catch-up. AI Jurassic-2 and APIs offer write stuff for creatives using AI March 11, 2023 Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch receive support in Jurassic-2, the latest large language model release from Israel’s AI21 Labs https://aimagazine.com/articles/jurassic-2-and-apis-offer-write-stuff-for-creatives-using-ai Huge growth means AI has “800-pound gorilla” energy problem

AI Jurassic-2 and APIs offer write stuff for creatives using AI March 11, 2023 Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch receive support in Jurassic-2, the latest large language model release from Israel’s AI21 Labs https://aimagazine.com/articles/jurassic-2-and-apis-offer-write-stuff-for-creatives-using-ai Huge growth means AI has “800-pound gorilla” energy problem March 10, 2023 AI’s potential pitfalls are becoming clear, with worries growing over job losses and privacy concerns; the world can add environmental damage to…

Emerging threat vectors, including “cryptojacking”, are causing havoc across industries, including retail and financial services, with hospitals and schools warned they are seen as soft targets by cybercriminals and can expect to be attacked. The data emerged in SonicWall’s Cyber Threat Report, a bi-annual report that details an increasingly diversified…

Nothing less than the future of human agency is in question as more individuals embrace advanced technology to streamline their lives, according to a new study conducted by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. The study asked 540 technology experts, developers, business and policy leaders, researchers…

Facebook, Twitter and other social networks face being roped into EU laws on hate speech, after ministers agreed a controversial overhaul of the bloc’s rules for video content. Social media platforms where video forms an “essential” function will have to abide by some of the same rules that apply to the EU’s broadcasters, giving countries more leeway to crack down on internet companies on issues such as hate speech and incitement to terrorism.

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism will be unveiling its 2017 Digital News: Essential Data on the Future of News report at the GEN Summit in Vienna, on 22 June. We talked to Nic Newman, author of the report, to get an early glimpse of what we can expect from it and what is going to shape the media industry in the foreseeable future. Source: The future of journalism is not all doom and gloom. Here’s why

Improbable just became the UK’s latest $1billion tech startup. The inside story of its insanely ambitious plan to built virtual worlds, change the way we make decisions, and maybe one day build the Matrix. Source: Inside Improbable, the $1billion UK startup building the Matrix | WIRED UK