Alpha India

Most recent stories in Alpha India

• 

  Didi Chadran

  

  23 hours ago

  The End of the World, According to AI

  Esquire - Ilana Masad

  In Debbie Urbanski's After World, an artificial intelligence narrates the end of humanity. The author tells Esquire how ChatGPT helped her write the novel—and how it changed her views on AI. On the day of the 2017 solar eclipse, Debbie Urbanski was hiking in the Adirondacks, as she often did, when, …

• 

  Didi Chadran

  

  6 days ago

  ChatGPT is winning the future — but what future is that?

  The Verge - David Pierce

  OpenAI didn’t mean to kickstart a generational shift in the technology industry. But it did. Now all we have to decide is where to go from here. There have been a handful of before-and-after moments in the modern technology era. Everything was one way, and then just like that, it was suddenly …

• 

  Didi Chadran

  

  Nov 29

  A year after launching, ChatGPT is already changing medicine

  Axios - Tina Reed

  It's passed medical licensing exams. It's advanced how researchers develop new medicines and cut down on doctors' hefty paperwork. And it's nudged …

• 

  Didi Chadran

  

  Nov 29

  How AI could reveal secrets of thousands of handwritten documents – from medieval manuscripts to hieroglyphics

  The Conversation UK - Mark Faulkner

  Have you ever struggled to read what that scrawl between “carrots” and “potatoes” is on your shopping list? Soon, artificial intelligence (AI) may be …

• 

  Didi Chadran

  

  2:54

  6 days ago

  AI is being used to create deepfake images of the war in Gaza

  Scripps News

  Since Oct. 7, the date of Hamas' surprise attack on Israel, manipulated images have been surfacing ranging from fake images of paratroopers and helicopters being shot down, to tanks rolling into neighborhoods and fake AI-generated victims.The misinformation goes beyond images of war: There was even a deepfake of Palestinian-American model Bella Hadid expressing her support for Israel.Jean-Claude Goldenstein is the CEO of CREOpoint, a business intelligence group that monitors disinformation."What's new in this war is that our brains are being used as the next battlefield," said Goldenstein. He said that his research found viral disinformation claims increased 100-fold in the first two weeks after Oct. 7 compared to the previous eight months this year."AI is being used to not only generate the fake media, but also it's being used to propagate them. So there's an algorithmic amplification, the content is spread. It's personalized to trigger emotions," he said. SEE MORE: Meta updates political ad rules to cover AI-generated images, videosHeading into a presidential election year, Goldenstein says it's only going to get worse before it gets better. While lots of disinformation gets debunked eventually like last year's deepfake video of Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky the speed in which it initially spreads could influence election results. He wants to see incentives for social media websites to help slow down the spread of disinformation so that more accurate sources can catch up."Sometimes, a very small percentage could make a difference and that small percentage could spring one way or another based on a deepfake that is not pre-bunked and debunked fast enough," he said.Michelle Ciulla Lipkin is the executive director of the National Association for Media Literacy."There is always mis- and disinformation out there in the world. There always has been, right? But we're so much more susceptible to believing it, because of our emotional attachment to conflict, to crisis," said Lipkin.She says to beat mis- and disinformation, we first need to accept that it's now a fact of life and there's nothing we can do to prevent it.In the meantime, as we wait for better safeguards and incentives, we need to be questioning everything she said."We're not going to get rid of it. It's not possible. And so, what are the tools that we need as citizens to navigate to understand? Where do we find reliable information? What are the questions that we ask when information comes …

• 

  Didi Chadran

  

  6 days ago

  AI Reveals What Ancient Languages, Including Greek, Sounded Like

  greekreporter.com - Maria Rybachuk

  Artificial intelligence (AI) has resurrected ancient languages that were once spoken but have only survived in written form. Through video, AI made …