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Artificial Intelligence Is Now Part Of Our Everyday Lives – And Its Growing Power Is A Double-Edged Sword
A major new report on the state of artificial intelligence (AI) has just been released. Think of it as the AI equivalent of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, in that it identifies where AI is at today, and the promise and perils in view. From language generation and molecular medicine to disinformation and …
The Image Similarity Challenge And Data Set For Detecting Image Manipulation
We’ve built and are now sharing the largest available data set designed to help AI researchers develop new systems that can identify image manipulation at scale. The first-of-its-kind Image Similarity data set provides a global benchmark for combating harmful image manipulation and abuses online. The Image Similarity data set contains over 1 million images including …
The Implications Of Open-Source AI: Should You Release Your AI Source Code Publicly?
As humanity continues to implement new AI-solutions into many industries, the question of these projects’ usefulness and ethics is still often debated. Experts emphasize that developers of any new AI-tool must check its for goodness’, be responsible for its safety and consider its potential risk of harm. Still, the question of who should control the …
Tech’s Ever-growing Deepfake Problem
The run-up to the U.S. presidential election is also speeding up the arrival of a tipping point for digital fakery in politics, Axios’ Ashley Gold reports. What’s happening: As the election, a pandemic and a national protest movement collide with new media technology, this political moment is accelerating the proliferation and evolution of deliberately deceptive media, …
Microsoft’s New Deepfake Detector Puts Reality To The Test
The upcoming US presidential election seems set to be something of a mess—to put it lightly. Covid-19 will likely deter millions from voting in person, and mail-in voting isn’t shaping up to be much more promising. This all comes at a time when political tensions are running higher than they have in decades, issues that …
Microsoft Announces Tool To Help News Orgs Detect Deepfakes Ahead Of The Election
As the United States heads into a presidential election at a time when it’s harder than ever to root out fake news online, Microsoft is releasing a new tool aimed at better detecting AI-generated deepfakes. The software, which is the product of a partnership between the tech giant and the hybrid nonprofit-commercial enterprise AI Foundation, can …
Rewriting History To Show The Danger Of Deepfakes
Can you recognize a digitally manipulated video when you see one? It’s harder than most people realize. As the technology to produce realistic “deepfakes” becomes more easily available, distinguishing fact from fiction will only get more challenging. A new digital storytelling project from CSAIL researcher D. Fox Harrell aims to educate the public about the world …
Using The Power Of Blockchain To Combat Deepfake Videos
Besides “fake news”, there’s been another term which has caused many debates around it: deepfake. These seemingly realistic videos that are, in fact, manipulated have become more problematic lately, casting a shadow on the trust people have in media. Can blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) be used to combat deepfake, to restore the public confidence …
Detecting ‘Deepfake’ Videos In The Blink Of An Eye
A new form of misinformation is poised to spread through online communities as the 2018 midterm election campaigns heat up. Called “deepfakes” after the pseudonymous online account that popularized the technique – which may have chosen its name because the process uses a technical method called “deep learning” – these fake videos look very realistic. …