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Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search AI Discussion

Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web …

Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summa...

1 month, 3 weeks ago Artificial …
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Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine Canada’s digital health defences AI Discussion

Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine Canada’…

Shadow AI is the unsanctioned use of AI systems without formal institutional oversight. In health care, it means pasting patient details into public c...

1 month, 3 weeks ago Artificial …
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Are animals and AI conscious? We’ve devised new theories for how to test this AI Discussion

Are animals and AI conscious? We’ve devised new theories fo…

What matters for consciousness is not what you do, but how you do it....

1 month, 3 weeks ago Artificial …
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Is the AI bubble about to burst? What to watch for as the markets wobble AI Discussion

Is the AI bubble about to burst? What to watch for as the m…

The sector has so far proved itself resilient to external economic forces....

1 month, 3 weeks ago Artificial …
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Ex Machina: could “superintelligence” challenge the idea of creativity as a uniquely human activity? AI Discussion

Ex Machina: could “superintelligence” challenge the idea of…

More than a decade after its release, the film Ex Machina has proven a insightful forerunner to current debates about AI....

1 month, 3 weeks ago Artificial …
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When fake data is a good thing – how synthetic data trains AI to solve real problems AI Discussion

When fake data is a good thing – how synthetic data trains …

To overcome two challenges in training AI – scarce or hard-to-get data and data privacy – researchers have come up with a counterintuitive technique:...

1 month, 3 weeks ago Artificial …
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A global publishing scam assisted by AI has targeted Australia. Here are 5 tips to avoid scammers AI Discussion

A global publishing scam assisted by AI has targeted Austra…

Aspiring authors in Australia are among those who have been scammed by a network of publishing houses using cloned websites and AI tools....

1 month, 3 weeks ago Artificial …
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Vince Gilligan’s sci-fi series Plur1bus taps into our greatest fears about AI AI Discussion

Vince Gilligan’s sci-fi series Plur1bus taps into our great…

Vince Gilligan, who also made Breaking Bad, says he didn’t intend to make Plur1bus ahout AI – yet the links are undeniable....

1 month, 3 weeks ago Artificial …
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Australian businesses have actually been slow to adopt AI, survey finds AI Discussion

Australian businesses have actually been slow to adopt AI, …

We’ve been warned of a looming AI ‘jobpocalypse’ for years. But many Australian businesses are still figuring out how to make the technology useful......

1 month, 3 weeks ago Artificial …
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Federal budget 2025: Is Canada Strong actually weak on AI? AI Discussion

Federal budget 2025: Is Canada Strong actually weak on AI?

Promoting AI as an economic driver within an unregulated environment risks disrupting key sectors and services that sustain Canadian democracy....

1 month, 3 weeks ago Artificial …
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Will AI automation really kill jobs? A new survey finds Canadian workers are split on the answer AI Discussion

Will AI automation really kill jobs? A new survey finds Can…

A new survey by sociologists assessed public attitudes and perceptions about the AI-related threat of job displacement....

1 month, 3 weeks ago Artificial …
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