Category: Artificial Intelligence
The Risks of AI for Our Devices and How to Protect Them
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging technology that aims to utilize machines to improve daily lives and transform various industries. Artificial intelligence plays an important role in voice assistants, self-driving cars, improvements in healthcare, and many other fields. So, what is AI? AI refers to computer programs created by humans to enable machines to learn…
Half of Brits duped by scam message in last year thanks to AI, study reveals
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is bombarding Brits with an onslaught of scam messages, a new study by antivirus company McAfee reveals. As cybercriminals capitalise on AI to generate increasingly realistic cons, Brits are now wasting over a week every year deciphering scam messages from real, according to McAfee’s Global Scam Message Study. The research reveals that people…
Countries agree to responsible AI development in Bletchley Declaration
For the first time, 28 countries convened by the UK and including the US, EU and China agree opportunities, risks and need for international action on frontier AI – systems where we face the most urgent and dangerous risks. Driving forward key summit objectives on understanding of the risks and establishing further global collaboration, crucial…
ChatGPT and Bard risk ‘new wave of scams’, Which? warns
ChatGPT and Bard lack effective defences to prevent fraudsters from unleashing a new wave of convincing scams by exploiting their AI tools, a Which? investigation has found. A key way for consumers to identify scam emails and texts is that they are often in badly-written English, but the consumer watchdog's latest research found it could…
Top 10 Most Popular AI tools of 2023 – ChatGPT tops list
1. ChatGPT: Launched in November 2022, it quickly dominated with 14.6 billion visits over 10 months, averaging 1.5 billion monthly. 2. Character AI: Introduced in September 2022, it captivated users, accumulating 3.8 billion visits and surging by 463.4 million within a year. 3. Google Bard: Google's March 2023 entry saw a remarkable 241.6 million visits in just 6…
Rishi Sunak sets out pros and cons of AI ahead of next week’s summit
Artificial intelligence could help make it easier to build chemical and biological weapons, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned. What's more, in the worst-case scenario, society could lose all control over AI, preventing it from being switched off. And while the potential for harm is disputed, we must not "put our heads in the…
Majority of developers identify AI as main security challenge, claims report
78% of developers see generative AI as a challenge to data security. However, 83% of respondents note their organizations have already invested in AI technology to manage and/or analyze data. 68% of developers have used passkeys for work applications, yet only 36% believe FIDO2 and passkeys could replace passwords. Over half (54%) of developers spend…
AI scams: Only 1.5% of Brits can identify all the real vs deepfake celebrity videos in this quiz
The majority of people thought the deep fake of Boris Johnson was real When shown a series of 8 short video clips featuring both real and deepfake celebrities, only 1.5% of Brits were able to correctly identify them all. This latest research from personal finance comparison site finder.com highlights the danger from…
Deepfakes could help in training videos, University of Bath study claims
Watching a training video featuring a deepfake version of yourself, rather than a clip featuring somebody else, makes learning faster, easier and more fun, according to new research led by the REVEAL research centre at the University of Bath. This finding was seen over two separate experiments, one exploring fitness training and another involving public speaking. Dr Christof…
Bristol set to host UK’s most powerful supercomputer
UK AI Research Resource dubbed Isambard-AI will be one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers New facility will serve as national resource for researchers and industry experts spearheading AI innovation and scientific discovery Plans for the supercomputer backed by £900 million investment announced in March to transform UK’s computing capacity A new supercomputer set to be…
