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AI’s impact on elections is being overblown

This year, close to half the world’s population has the opportunity to participate in an election. And according to a steady stream of pundits, institutions, academics, and news organizations, there’s a major new threat to the integrity of those elections: artificial intelligence.

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Elon Musk’s attacks on Kamala Harris become more unhinged, with help from AI

Elon Musk’s disdain for the Democratic Party was never subtle, but in recent weeks his commentary on the upcoming US presidential election and his attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris have intensified, aided by a crude use of burgeoning artificial intelligence technology.

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UK clears Microsoft's partnership with Inflection AI

Britain’s competition regulator, on Wednesday, cleared Microsoft’s (MSFT.O), opens new tab hiring of some former staff of Inflection AI and its partnership with the startup and said the deal did not required a deeper investigation.

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OpenAI co-founder Sutskever's new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in cash to help develop safe artificial intelligence systems that far surpass human capabilities, company executives told Reuters.

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Applied use cases

Artificial intelligence to increase efficiency in dams

In dams, both the building heights and the water level of the dam after construction will be adjusted with artificial intelligence and water will be used efficiently.

azernews.az

ChatWTO: An Analysis of Generative Artificial Intelligence and International Trade

Generative artificial intelligence could contribute an estimated $4.4 trillion annually to the global economy, reshaping industries and international trade.

weforum.org

How AI can dramatically reduce the time it takes to make VAR offside calls in Premier League football matches

The start of the new English Premier League (EPL) football season is seeing further changes to the way VAR (the video assistant referee) is operated. VAR was introduced to the EPL in 2019 in an attempt to reduce the number of incorrect refereeing decisions, including offsides – but its use is still much criticised.

theconversation.com

Ethics

US, Britain, EU to sign first international AI treaty

The first legally binding international AI treaty will be open for signing on Thursday by the countries that negotiated it, including European Union members, the United States and Britain, the Council of Europe human rights organisation said.

reuters.com

Council of Europe opens first ever global treaty on AI for signature

The Framework Convention was signed by Andorra, Georgia, Iceland, Norway, the Republic of Moldova, San Marino, the United Kingdom as well as Israel, the United States of America and the European Union.

coe.int

OpenAI and Anthropic agree to let U.S. AI Safety Institute test and evaluate new models

OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the most richly valued artificial intelligence startups, have agreed to let the U.S. AI Safety Institute test their new models before releasing them to the public, following increased concerns in the industry about safety and ethics in AI.

cnbc.com

Robotics

Top 10 robotics developments of August 2024

As we enter the third quarter of the year, the frenzy around humanoid robots has continued. In August 2024, five of our top 10 stories were about such robots or humanoid alternatives. Company shutdowns and rebrands also grabbed our readers’ attention this past month.

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If robots could lie, would we be okay with it? A new study throws up intriguing results

Do you think a robot should be allowed to lie? A new study published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI investigates what people think of robots that deceive their users.

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Robotics firm wins multi-million pound Spain deal

A Coventry robotics firm has won a “multi-million pound” contract in Spain to deliver automated assembly lines for electric vehicles.

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Research

Research team proposes solution to AI's continual learning problem

A team of Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) researchers has revealed more about a mysterious problem in machine learning—a discovery that might be a major step towards building advanced AI that can function effectively in the real world.

techxplore.com

A survey on large language model (LLM) security and privacy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

This paper explores the intersection of LLMs with security and privacy. Specifically, we investigate how LLMs positively impact security and privacy, potential risks and threats associated with their use, and inherent vulnerabilities within LLMs.

sciencedirect.com

A review of convolutional neural networks in computer vision

This paper gives a comprehensive overview of the past and current research status of the applications of CNN models in computer vision fields, e.g., image classification, object detection, and video prediction.

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