San Francisco is preparing to host the annual Asia Pacific Economic Conference next weekend.
WASHINGTON — Can you tell the difference between an authentic video and one that uses artificial intelligence to alter the images or audio? The evolution of AI is making it harder for everyday users to spot the difference. With the 2024 presidential election now about a year away, more deepfake election-related videos are popping up.
President Joe Biden signed an artificial intelligence executive order on Monday, marking the nation's largest attempt to rein in a technology that has sparked fear and hype as it finds its way into a sprawling number of real world applications.
We are fast approaching the time when we move our clocks back an hour, commonly described as “falling back,” and say goodbye to daylight saving time. Perhaps members of Congress could get their acts together and make this unnecessary.
Citigroup recently issued a sort of ultimatum to its credit card customers: Opt in to paperless statements or get kicked off their online accounts. That’s according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal this week. In fact, the proportion of credit card customers who have enrolled in paperless billing has grown from roughly one-third to two-thirds since 2015 as companies increasingly pressured customers to go paperless.
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Can we really trust AI to make better decisions than humans? A new study says … not always. Researchers have discovered that OpenAI’s ChatGPT, one of the most advanced and popular AI models, makes the same kinds of decision-making mistakes as humans in some situations—showing biases like overconfidence of hot-hand (gambler’s) fallacy—yet acting inhuman in others (e.g., not suffering from base-rate neglect or sunk cost fallacies).
The genetic testing company 23andMe, which holds the genetic data of 15 million people, declared bankruptcy on Sunday night after years of financial struggles. This means that all of the extremely personal user data could be up for sale—and that vast trove of genetic data could draw interest from AI companies looking to train their data sets, experts say.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the new secretary of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s de facto healthcare czar. He will have influence over numerous highly visible agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, among others. Given that healthcare is something that touches everyone’s life, his footprint of influence will be expansive.
Health insurance has become necessary, with large and unpredictable health care costs always looming before each of us. Unfortunately, the majority of people have experienced problems when using their health insurance to pay for their medical care. Health insurance serves as the buffer between patients and the medical care system, using population pooling to mitigate the risk exposure on any one individual.
From Tesla to SpaceX to xAI, Elon Musk’s sprawling global business empire will be slammed by Trump’s tariffs regime. Here’s how.
A bipartisan push in Congress would return the power to impose tariffs to the legislature.
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban's question to Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, on energy costs took off on social media on Saturday.
Florida lawmakers have banned wind turbines off its shores and near the coast, saying the bill is meant to protect wildlife and prevent noise.