The “Godfather of AI”, 75-year old Geoffrey Hinton, has sensationally quit Google around two weeks before Google’s major yearly developer conference where major AI announcements are expected – so what is he now afraid of? Here’s the source article from the New York Times, and if you find you can’t read it because it is paywalled, here is ABC Australia’s article.
WWF (the World Wildlife Fund) and its local partners have deployed over 1,100 camera sensors across Australia to monitor bushfire-affected wildlife, and have used Google’s AI to sort through 7 million images and found really positive signs of hope for wildlife recovery. Here’s Google’s brilliant blog post about it! Meanwhile, you can see nearly 50 images of the various animals that the WWF cameras were able to capture over here – some wonderful photos are to be found!
Certain 65 and 77-inch LG Smart TVs manufactured between 2016 and 2019 are being recalled due to a fire risk, what are the details? Here is the official recall notice.
Apple and Google have announced an initiative for an industry specification to address unwanted tracking – more details here.
Apple releases new “Rapid Security Response” fixes for its devices – releasing new updates for iOS, iPadOS and MacOS – to fix security problems as quickly as possible – so once again, it’s time to update – with Android and WIndows users also needing to check for updates. Apple’s notice about them is here.
A new AI system can turn thoughts into text, and while this has huge implications for stroke patients or others with medical issues, is this how thought crimes will be detected in the future, or the way advertisers will detect what you’re really thinking? Here is the article from the University of Texas newsroom.
Last Sunday, 30 April, was the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, invented by Sir Tim Berners Lee as a way for CERN scientists to share information with each other – what incredible changes the web has seen in 30 years! CERN is the European Centre for Nuclear Research, and their news release is here.
Samsung has now banned staff from using AI chatbots and specifically ChatGPT – at least “temporarily” – after discovering a “data leak”. Details at this CNBC article here.
Next Thursday, 11 May, at 3am Australian time, which is 10am Wednesday in California, Google will be holding its I/O 2023 developer conference. We’ll have all the important details next week, but what is expected to launch across phones, tablets and AI? The Google I/O 2023 page is here, you can tune in live, or watch replays after the event.
Alex Zaharov-Reutt is the creator and editor of TechAdvice.Life, and is one of Australia’s best-known technology journalists and consumer tech experts, while also writing on business tech issues for more than two decades.
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