TechThe realism of the conversation is sparking a new debate about the implications of AI technology.
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The Swedish government launches AI inquiry
TechWill examine "the need for national adaptations" to the new EU AI regulation.
Meta confirms use of 16 years of user data in training new AI model
TechHowever, the EU and Brazil are exempt from data scraping.
xAI releases Grok-2 with image generation on X
TechThe next generation of chat-based AI from Musk's company seriously competes with ChatGPT, but also opens up to the wild west of AI-generated images.
Olympic stars to be ‘protected from cyber hate’ by AI
WorldHateful comments will be removed from social media in real time to "try to make the Olympics a safe place".
TikTok launches verification tool for AI
TechThe social media platform has created a tool to automatically identify AI-generated content.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Power of Language
ColumnsThorsteinn Siglaugsson: How the mastery of language may be driving emergent abilities in Large Language Models, and what this means.
Finnish coffee roastery creates ‘AI coffee blend’
FinlandKaffa Roastery in Helsinki has launched a coffee blend developed with the help of artificial intelligence.
Digital love: Artist marries AI-generated hologram
Culture"A new generation of love is emerging, in which humans will marry and maintain relationships with holograms, avatars, robots and so on", says the artist.
New study exposes bias, misinformation, and censorship in artificial intelligence
ScienceGoogle's Gemini spreads significant disinformation, while X's Grok excels with minimal misinformation, study finds.
AI expected to boost Swedish economy – and leave many jobless
TechGenerative AI could increase Sweden's GDP by SEK 550 billion per year - but many jobs are at risk of disappearing.
Saudi robot Sara – programmed not to talk about politics
Tech– She should be nice, not talk about politics, not talk about sex, because we are in Saudi Arabia.
EU makes tech giants flag AI-generated content
TechExpresses concern that the EU elections are at risk of being manipulated by so-called "deepfakes".
Are we building a new Tower of Babel?
ColumnsThorsteinn Siglaugsson: Large language models may not only master our language, they may become its masters.
OpenAI’s new model ‘Sora’ creates ultra-realistic videos from text
TechThe new video-based AI impresses greatly - while raising deep concerns about video manipulation and artistic professions.
Big Brother watching: British police map citizens with AI technology
EuropeBritish police secretly conducted 300 facial recognition searches using a database of 46 million passport holders.
EU prepares AI regulation
EuropeThe use of facial recognition and other biometrics will be partially restricted.
Norwegian bank portrays AI-generated “Harald” as real in ad
NorwayPromise to use a "real customer" next time, says Sparebank 1 communications director Siv Stenseth
Do we want to get rid of human nature?
ColumnsThorsteinn Siglaugsson: With the increasing power of AI, we are now at the point where outsourcing our thinking is fast becoming a realistic option.
Police AI can get access to all Swedish passports
SwedenShould we have such a system that makes it possible to examine virtually every Swedish citizen? ask critics.
Stable Diffusion – an insight into how an AI model reshapes our images
CultureThe Nordic Times has taken a look at the latest technology for AI-generated images.
James Cameron on AI: “I warned you back in 1984”
CultureBelieves the technology could have catastrophic consequences for humanity.
AI – a threat to life itself
CulturePer Shapiro: In our time, technology has taken on an almost religious status, with AI playing the role of God Almighty.
UN chief calls for new global supervisory authority on AI
TechAntonio Guterres believes that it should be inspired by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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