via US and UK reject global AI declaration in Paris The AI Daily: The United States and United Kingdom just declined to sign a major declaration on “inclusive and sustainable” AI at the Paris summit, breaking ranks with 60 other nations including China, India, Japan, and key European allies. Key highlights: The declaration focused … Read more
This report is part of Data Narratives, a Civic Media Observatory project that aims to identify and understand the discourse on data used for governance, control, and policy in El Salvador, Brazil, Turkey, Sudan, and India. Read more about the project here and see our public dataset. Access the Artificial Intelligence Narratives report in PDF Turkey In Turkey, hype … Read more
Over the past two years, dozens of other copyright lawsuits against AI companies have been filed at a rapid clip. The plaintiffs include individual authors like Sarah Silverman and Ta Nehisi-Coates, visual artists, media companies like The New York Times, and music-industry giants like Universal Music Group. This wide variety of rights holders are alleging … Read more
I was in İzmir today and will fly back to İstanbul in an hour. -in fact, I already flew- It was an opportunity to think about AI-powered smart city cases and data politics in general. In the end, I summarize my presentation. İzmir Planning Office (an entity officially affiliated with İzmir municipality) organized the event. … Read more
Key Timestamps Linked to Significant Moments Here are the key timestamps from the video “The Race For AI Robots Just Got Real OpenAI, NVIDIA and more”: Fascinating and scary implications of AI robots: Introduction and framing of the AI robot advancements. Jetsons’ vision and modern robots: A look at the historical context and the futuristic … Read more
As our academic and civic initiatives continue, we also have a commercial entity. Sinem and I now set up a consulting agency: Saka & Saka Consulting. One of our first appearances was a workshop on AI and Marketing at this week’s Global Marketing Summit in İstanbul. Key Statistics to Share: 80% of marketers report increased ROI from … Read more
Mar 2, 2024 #CNBC #CNBCTV Instead of a comeback, Google’s Gemini AI chatbot and image generator have gone viral for all the wrong reasons – producing inaccurate and offensive responses. The missteps have put Google back on the defensive in the AI race. But the bigger question around Gemini’s roll out is whether it underscores … Read more
Artificial intelligence is changing how music gets made – and how musicians get paid. AI is letting people clone artists’ voices, create completely new songs as fake collaborations, generate lyrics in seconds, even produce full tracks just by typing in a few words. It’s all causing some to say AI will be “the death of … Read more
ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between man and machine, Eliza simulated conversation by using a ‘pattern matching’ and substitution methodology that gave users an illusion of understanding on the part … Read more
The Google AI ad titled “Dear Sydney” aired during the Olympics, faced significant backlash and was ultimately pulled due to several issues: Misuse of AI: The ad showed a father using Google’s Gemini AI to write a fan letter for his daughter to Olympic athlete Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone instead of encouraging the child to write it … Read more
We use Turnitin, which also offers AI similarity reports. There is nearly universal acceptance of Turnitin similarity reports in higher education, but AI similarity reports are a different case. I know a few students whom I trust had high similarity rates. This week, we discussed this with my colleagues. Some colleagues are very aggressive and … Read more
Bitcoin’s emergence as a global digital currency has been as revolutionary as it has been erratic. But while fledgling investors obsess over every fluctuation in the cryptocurrency market, nation-states are more interested in the underlying blockchain technology and its ability to revolutionize how business is done on the internet and beyond. VICE’s Michael Moynihan … Read more