À quoi va ressembler notre vie, dopée à l’intelligence artificielle, dans quelques années ? L’un des “parrains” de l’IA moderne, Yann Lecun, nous aide à répondre à cette question.

Stephane Jourdain #IA #Tech

Live facial recognition technology is fundamentally flawed and poorly deployed. This is security theatre, and does more damage than good.

'Since the 52-48% vote in favour of leaving the European Union in June 2016, the majority view among Britons has shifted, and especially so in the past two years, towards the conclusion that the decision was wrong.'
economist.com/britain/2024/0…

Great story, amazing visuals: In the Arctic, American commandos game out a great-power war. wapo.st/43T682w

From Alex Horton and Salwan Georges

War by algorithm raises new moral dangers

Israel’s use of an AI-enabled targeting system in Gaza has fed the debate about military technology

ft.com/content/f6c1b6…

Just 6 major tech cos are at the heart of the AI sector through an “interconnected web” of more than 90 investments + partnerships links, the UK’s competition regulator has warned, sparking increased concern about the anti-competitive nature of the tech.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

Job alert!

We’re hiring – AI Now is growing the team with new roles in policy and operations.

Help us find our next Associate Director and Operations Director: ainowinstitute.org/careers-2

Scoop: Adobe is paying around $3/minute for videos to build a new generative AI model. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: Apple nears production of first M4 chips with AI upgrades and plans to bring the new chips to all of its Macs, including new MacBook Pros and Airs, Mac Pro, Mac Studio, Mac mini and iMac across the end of this year and 2025. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I'm so thrilled to announce the launch of The AI Spotlight Series, a program I designed with the Pulitzer Center to train 1,000 journalists on AI reporting over the next two years. All trainings will be FREE & mostly virtual. Register now to join us! pulitzercenter.org/focus-areas/in…

So, Amazon’s ‘AI-powered’ cashier-free shops use a lot of … humans. Here’s why that shouldn’t surprise you | James Bridle theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

TOMORROW: Join Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
for a book talk event with Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK, in conversation with
Randall Munroe, about his new, highly anticipated book: 'Enshittification, Disenshittification and The Bezzle' and his theory of mass platform collapse.

cyber.harvard.edu/events/enshitt…

The scientists learning to speak whale bbc.com/future/article…

Big congratulations to Avi Wigderson of IAS Princeton for winning the Turing Award in CS. Truly an all-time great in theoretical computer science and discrete math. Also one of the nicest human beings I know --friend and mentor to so many (including me) tinyurl.com/fz5vxxaf

Is Starlink profitable?

Or do undisclosed costs undercut Musk's profitability claims?

Deepdive on Starlink with Loren Grush and Kiel Porter

bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is trying to show generative AI is ready for enterprise, despite recent embarrassments in the consumer market. Ahead of #GoogleCloudNext in Vegas today, he gave me & Davey Alba an exclusive rundown of how he plans to do it: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Do you want to join UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳’s efforts to secure an ethical future for #AI ? Are you interested in building effective AI governance frameworks worldwide? Use your relevant knowledge and skills to contribute to these aims with UNESCO’s #AI Ethics team!

Apply here! 👇

#HiringNOW

After months of strikes, is Germany's more collective approach to the workplace over? My latest offering Foreign Policy
foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/09/ger…

Join our live #AI Revolutions event to hear Gary Marcus of New York University discuss the challenges posed by the #AI boom. Live now: events.project-syndicate.org/event/now-or-n… #PSEvents 2040 World

Robots > chatbots. Latest in our GenAI funding report by Akash Pasricha

theinformation.com/articles/fundi…