Artificial Intelligence
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A report released Wednesday reveals insight from government leaders about their data and AI programs. It finds that the demand for the technologies is high, but actual implementation levels are lower. -
The Alabama city has deployed software with artificial intelligence to interface with several types of systems, according to CIO Stephen Dawe. Resident safety and avoiding liability are two key goals.
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The investment would help a proposed applied artificial intelligence center in Hartford outfit itself with crucial, rapidly evolving tech that could give the city a boost in its efforts to win state funding.
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The idea of a government licensing system co-developed by AI heavyweights sets the stage for a potential clash with startups and open-source developers who may see it as an attempt to make it more difficult to break into the space.
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Washoe County, Nev., CIO Behzad Zamanian outlines how public-sector agencies can take what they learned from the rise of the Internet and apply it to artificial intelligence as a tool to deliver better services.
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Nearly 70 percent of 300 survey respondents said they were more interested in the quality of educational content than whether or not it was created by AI, a possible sign that skepticism about AI is waning.
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It’s difficult to see how artificial intelligence systems work, and to see whose interests they work for. Regulation could make AI more trustworthy. Until then, user beware.
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Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, has released the latest iteration of its large language model, dubbed Llama 2. But how does the new tool differ from OpenAI’s wildly popular ChatGPT?
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While states like New York, Illinois and Maryland have forged new legislative roads to regulate AI use in hiring and review processes, more than 20 states have no proposed or enacted AI-related hiring bills.
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Multiple Minnesota law enforcement agencies face a civil rights lawsuit over the use of facial recognition technology in an arrest. However, the government denies facial recognition led to the arrest.
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The history of artificial intelligence is rife with grandiose predictions, and while ChatGPT can help students organize large quantities of data or produce creative insights, it's still quite limited and prone to error.
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As with any powerful new technology, the potential for artificial intelligence to analyze large volumes of data and automate processes comes with a risk that it will be used for nefarious purposes.
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It’s hard to say how many, but the business of politics is full of the sorts of roles that researchers believe are most vulnerable to disruption by generative AI, such as legal professionals and administrative workers.
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NYC’s Automated Employment Decision Tool law, which came into force on Wednesday, says that employers who use AI in hiring are required to tell the relevant candidates they are doing so.
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Louisiana has earmarked $20 million for school security upgrades, at least some of which will go toward artificial intelligence software that monitors camera feeds to detect weapons and sends alerts to officials.
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Like the Internet and remote learning before it, artificial intelligence is part of a long history of technological upheavals in teaching and learning, and education leaders might benefit from lessons of the past.
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says researchers at MIT, Caltech and McMaster University have begun using AI to run advanced simulations, model hypotheses, conduct experiments and predict outcomes of complex systems.
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From open letters to congressional testimony, some AI leaders have stoked fears that the technology is a direct threat to humanity. The reality is less dramatic but perhaps more insidious.
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Tech interests, especially OpenAI, the nonprofit that created ChatGPT, have gone on the offensive in Washington, arguing for regulations that will prevent the technology from posing an existential threat to humanity.
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As part of a plan to manage the complexities of regulating use of the AI chatbot, a private Methodist university in South Dakota is asking educators to document the ways ChatGPT affects their classes throughout the fall.
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Artificial intelligence helps create user formats for some virtual-reality education programs such as those created by VictoryXR, which allow teachers to safely transport students beyond the walls of their classrooms.
