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Education

NC public schools advised to train staff and students on responsible AI use

1:15pm January 30, 2024

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction released guidelines this month on the use of artificial intelligence in schools. Officials say students and teachers stand to benefit from the use of AI in the classroom.

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Michael Cohen arrives at New York Supreme Court for former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial on Oct. 25, 2023 in New York. Cohen says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a New York judge.

Politics & Government

Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney

8:20am December 30, 2023

by The Associated Press

Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer and fixer says he passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge.

The PIGEON algorithm was able to geolocate this 2012 photo of the author on a backcountry trail in Yellowstone National Park to within roughly 35 miles of where it was taken.

Artificial intelligence can find your location in photos, worrying privacy experts

4:43pm December 19, 2023

by Geoff Brumfiel

Three Stanford graduate students built an AI tool that can find a location by looking at pictures. Civil rights advocates warn more advanced versions will further erode online privacy.

Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on north Gaza on November 22, 2023. Israel says it is using artificial intelligence to find targets.

Israel is using an AI system to find targets in Gaza. Experts say it's just the start

7:36am December 14, 2023

by Geoff Brumfiel

Israel's military says the system makes it more efficient and reduces collateral damage. Critics see a host of problems with the nation's use of AI, but other militaries will likely follow suit.

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Text from the ChatGPT page of the OpenAI website is shown in this photo, in New York, Feb. 2, 2023.

Arts

Here are the 25 most-viewed articles on Wikipedia in 2023

6:55am December 06, 2023

by The Associated Press

English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, left, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrive to the White House for a meeting in May.

How OpenAI's origins explain the Sam Altman drama

5:00am November 24, 2023

by Bobby Allyn

The company's non-profit board and for-profit arm have long been at odds. CEO Sam Altman's week-long ouster represents the culmination of that long-simmering tension.

Sam Altman is shown at a panel discussion on artificial intelligence at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco on Thursday.

National

Ousted OpenAI leader Sam Altman joins Microsoft

11:11am November 20, 2023

by Bobby Allyn

The surprise development follows Altman's abrupt ouster from OpenAI by its board of directors over an apparent rift over balancing AI safety with the push to publicly release new powerful AI tools.

Google's latest AI music tool creates tracks using famous singers' voice clones

6:39am November 17, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

Nine artists including T-Pain, Demi Lovato and Charlie Puth have granted Google permission to use their singing voices for the new tool, Dream Track.

Arts

Worried about AI hijacking your voice for a deepfake? This tool could help

12:04pm November 13, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

Emerging tools may make it easier for the public to detect fake online videos, and more difficult for generative AI systems to create them.

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Artist Kelly McKernan in her studio in Nashville, Tenn. 2023.

Arts

New tools help artists fight AI by directly disrupting the systems

4:43pm November 03, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

Visual artists are fighting back against unauthorized uses of AI on their work by using tools that contaminate and confuse the AI systems. One tool, for example, can make AI think a dog is a cat.