Interesting failure of their Terms of Service. “You must allow us to ignore the GDPR if you want to use this service…: How many others will also fail?
https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/whatsapp-hit-with-55-million-fine-for.html
WhatsApp Hit with €5.5 Million Fine for Violating Data Protection Laws
… At the heart of the ruling is an update to the messaging platform's Terms of Service that was imposed in the days leading to the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018, requiring that users agree to the revised terms in order to continue using the service or risk losing access.
The complaint, filed by privacy non-profit NOYB, alleged that WhatsApp breached the regulation by compelling its users to "consent to the processing of their personal data for service improvement and security" by "making the accessibility of its services conditional on users accepting the updated Terms of Service."
"WhatsApp Ireland is not entitled to rely on the contract legal basis for the delivery of service improvement and security," the DPC said in a statement, adding the data collected so far amounts to a contravention of GDPR.
Are the cars smart enough to know what they’ve been asked to do is not right?
Self-driving cars create new opportunities for terrorist attacks, says FBI Director Chris Wray
The expanding use of self-driving cars opens up new ways for terrorists to harm Americans, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Speaking on a panel on national security, Wray said the FBI views autonomous vehicles as both a possible tool to cause physical harm and a potentially valuable source of personal data that could become a target.
Apparently, China wants to be the first “totally lawyer free” country.
https://www.dw.com/en/how-chinas-ai-is-automating-the-legal-system/a-64465988
How China's AI is automating the legal system
… A court in the city of Hangzhou located south of Shanghai started employing AI in 2019. The judge's assistant program called Xiao Zhi 3.0, or "Little Wisdom," first assisted in a trial of 10 people who had failed to repay bank loans.
Previously, it would have taken 10 separate trials to settle the issue, but with Xiao Zhi 3.0, all the cases were resolved in one hearing with one judge and a decision was available in just 30 minutes.
At first, Xiao Zhi 3.0 took over repetitive tasks such as announcing court procedures during hearings.
Now, the technology is used to record testimony with voice recognition, analyze case materials, and verify information from databases in real time.
I thought we had concluded that AI would start reading works created by AI, thus reinforcing a pro-AI bias…
https://www.bespacific.com/what-happens-when-ai-has-read-everything/
What Happens When AI Has Read Everything?
The Atlantic – The dream of an artificial mind may never become a reality if AI runs out of quality prose to ingest—and there isn’t much left. What Happens When AI Has Read Everything? “Artificial intelligence has in recent years proved itself to be a quick study, although it is being educated in a manner that would shame the most brutal headmaster. Locked into airtight Borgesian libraries for months with no bathroom breaks or sleep, AIs are told not to emerge until they’ve finished a self-paced speed course in human culture. On the syllabus: a decent fraction of all the surviving text that we have ever produced.”..
The trouble is that, like other high-end human cultural products, good prose ranks among the most difficult things to produce in the known universe. It is not in infinite supply, and for AI, not any old text will do: Large language models trained on books are much better writers than those trained on huge batches of social-media posts. (It’s best not to think about one’s Twitter habit in this context.) When we calculate how many well-constructed sentences remain for AI to ingest, the numbers aren’t encouraging. A team of researchers led by Pablo Villalobos at Epoch AI recently predicted that programs such as the eerily impressive ChatGPT will run out of high-quality reading material by 2027. Without new text to train on, AI’s recent hot streak could come to a premature end…”
Tools & Techniques.
Here's How Your Business Can Use 3 Popular AI Content Creation Tools
… Artificial intelligence is not only altering the course of the internet but also impacting the future of business. While some fear that it will have harmful economic repercussions by replacing people in jobs, AI can also serve as a game-changing tool to grow a business and increase its efficiency — help with everything from lead generation to content creation.
Here are a few popular new platforms and how you can apply them:
Another way to use ChatGPT…
https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-01-17
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