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How AI Could Write Our Laws
2023-03-14 16:01

The unavoidable conclusion is that AI will make lobbying more guileful, and perhaps more successful. While the idea of monied interests incorporating AI assistive technologies into their lobbying remains hypothetical, specific machine-learning technologies exist today that would enable them to do so.

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The rise of AI threats: Is your business prepared to face ChatGPT?
2023-03-14 04:30

Skyhigh Security has seen firsthand how 33,000 enterprise users have accessed ChatGPT through corporate infrastructures. Almost 7 TB of data has been transacted with ChatGPT through corporate web and cloud assets between Nov 2022 - Feb 2023.

Warning: AI-generated YouTube Video Tutorials Spreading Infostealer Malware
2023-03-13 11:47

Threat actors have been increasingly observed using AI-generated YouTube Videos to spread a variety of stealer malware such as Raccoon, RedLine, and Vidar. "The videos lure users by pretending to be tutorials on how to download cracked versions of software such as Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Autodesk 3ds Max, AutoCAD, and other products that are licensed products available only to paid users," CloudSEK researcher Pavan Karthick M said.

DuckDuckGo launches AI-powered search query answering tool
2023-03-08 15:22

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has launched the first beta version of DuckAssist, an AI-assisted feature that writes accurate summaries to answer users' search queries. DuckAssist uses OpenAI's natural language technology to generate answers to user's search queries at the top of the search results page, making responses more direct than traditional search results.

AI is taking phishing attacks to a whole new level of sophistication
2023-03-08 04:00

92% of organizations have fallen victim to successful phishing attacks in the last 12 months, while 91% of organizations have admitted to experiencing email data loss, according to Egress. "The growing sophistication of phishing emails is a major threat to organizations and needs to be urgently addressed," said Jack Chapman, VP of Threat Intelligence, Egress.

Brave Search launches AI-powered summarizer in search results
2023-03-03 16:46

Brave Search has incorporated a new AI-powered tool named Summarizer, which gives a summarized answer to an inputted question before the rest of the search results. Brave Search is a fast-growing privacy-centric internet search engine allowing users to search the web anonymously without being tracked.

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The role of human insight in AI-based cybersecurity
2023-03-03 03:45

If AI-based cybersecurity tools leveraged RLHF, they would be immensely powerful, intuitive, and effective and could improve detection and response times to even the most sophisticated threats. RLHF can be used to train AI-based models to detect and respond to potential threats more effectively by using human feedback to learn from real-world examples.

ML practitioners push for mandatory AI Bill of Rights
2023-03-03 03:00

The AI Bill of Rights, bias, and operational challenges amid tightening budgets are pressing issues affecting the adoption of ML as well as project and initiative success, according to Comet. "Our latest survey comes as ML practitioners are facing a new reality, with its own unique set of challenges ahead," said Gideon Mendels, CEO of Comet.

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Fooling a Voice Authentication System with an AI-Generated Voice
2023-03-01 12:06

A reporter used an AI synthesis of his own voice to fool the voice authentication system for Lloyd’s Bank.

Microsoft adds AI-powered Bing Chat to Windows 11 taskbar
2023-02-28 14:00

Microsoft announced today that it's integrating the new AI-powered Bing Chat into the Windows 11 search box with the latest Windows feature update. "Today, we take the next major step forward and combine the incredible breadth and ease of use of the Windows PC with the amazing power of the new AI-enhanced Bing to provide hundreds of millions of Windows 11 users the next era of computing," said Microsoft EVP & Chief Product Officer Panos Panay on Tuesday.