The AI Delusion: An Unbiased General Purpose Chatbot
"Can AI ever be unbiased?
As AI systems become more integrated into our daily lives, it's crucial that we understand the complexities of bias and how it impacts these technologies. From chatbots to hiring algorithms, the potential for AI to perpetuate and even amplify existing biases is a genuine concern.
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AI now surpasses humans in almost all performance benchmarks
"The new AI Index report notes that in 2023, AI still struggled with complex cognitive tasks like advanced math problem-solving and visual commonsense reasoning. However, ‘struggled’ here might be misleading; it certainly doesn't mean AI did badly.
Performance on MATH, a dataset of 12,500 challenging competition-level math problems, improved dramatically in the two years since its introduction. In 2021, AI systems could solve only 6.9% of problems. By contrast, in 2023, a GPT-4-based model solved 84.3%. The human baseline is 90%. "
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UK children bombarded by gambling ads and images online, charity warns | Gambling | The Guardian
"Children are “saturated” with betting promotions and gambling-like content while using the internet, despite restrictions on ad campaigns targeting young people, new research reveals.
GambleAware, the charity funded by donations from gambling firms, commissioned research that found the risks of online gambling were not understood by children because of the “blurred line” between betting ads and popular online casino-style games. It warns gambling ads with cartoon graphics are likely to be strongly appealing to children. Last week, one gambling firm was promoting a new online slots game on social media with three cartoon frogs, urging people to “take a dip” with the “ribbiting rascals”."
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Sex offender banned from using AI tools in landmark UK case | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
" sex offender convicted of making more than 1,000 indecent images of children has been banned from using any “AI creating tools” for the next five years in the first known case of its kind.
Anthony Dover, 48, was ordered by a UK court “not to use, visit or access” artificial intelligence generation tools without the prior permission of police as a condition of a sexual harm prevention order imposed in February.
The ban prohibits him from using tools such as text-to-image generators, which can make lifelike pictures based on a written command, and “nudifying” websites used to make explicit “deepfakes”."
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