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An HSBC-backed startup is using AI to help banks fight financial crime and eyeing a Nasdaq IPO – CNBC
The co-founders of Silent Eight, from left to right: Michael Wilkowski, Julia Markiewicz and Martin Markiewicz.
EEOC Settles Over Recruiting Software in Possible First Ever AI … – JD Supra
On September 8, 2023, federal court approved a consent decree from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) with iTutorGroup Inc. and its affiliates (iTutor) over alleged age discrimination in hiring, stemming from automated systems in recruiting software. Arriving on the heels of the EEOC announcing its artificial intelligence (AI) guidance initiative, many are calling this case the agencys first ever AI-based antidiscrimination settlement.1 Whileit is not clear what, if any, AI tools iTutor used for recruiting, one thing is certain: We will soon see many more lawsuits involving employers use of algorithms and automated systems, including AI, in recruitment and hiring.2 In the lawsuit, the EEOC claimed that the Shanghai China-based English language tutor provider used software programmed to automatically reject both female candidates over the age of 55 and male candidates over 60 for tutoring roles, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
Can AI help us speak to animals? Part one – Financial Times
A hardware revolution in recording devices and a software revolution in artificial intelligence is enabling researchers to listen in to all kinds of conversations outside the human hearing range, a field known as bioacoustics. Some scientists now believe these developments will also allow us to translate animal sounds into human language
World must prepare for ‘profound implications’ of AI and distribute its … – CNA
SINGAPORE: In the midst of the digital revolution and the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), the world must prepare for the associated risks and distribute the benefits fairly, said Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday (Sep 22).
Meta Stock Has Room to Soar. How Ads and AI Can Drive Growth. – Barron’s
Meta Platforms stock could gain significantly in the next three months, driven by advertising and artificial intelligence, according to a Citi analyst.
Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed terabytes of internal sensitive data – TechCrunch
Image Credits: Getty Images Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords, while publishing a storage bucket of open source training data on GitHub. In research shared with TechCrunch, cloud security startup Wiz said it discovered a GitHub repository belonging to Microsofts AI research division as part of its ongoing work into the accidental exposure of cloud-hosted data
Google DeepMind Claims Its AI Can Pinpoint Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease – Futurism
Researchers at Google DeepMind claim to have built an AI model that can pinpoint which genetic mutations are likely to cause disease, according to a new study in the journal Science. The new model, dubbed AlphaMissense, is an adaptation of AlphaFold, the DeepMind breakthrough that, back in 2020, finally cracked the protein folding problem, which had baffled the scientific community for years
Google DeepMind AI Tool Predicts Whether Genetic Mutations Are Likely to Cause Harm – Gadgets 360
Researchers at Google DeepMind, the tech giant's artificial intelligence arm, on Tuesday introduced a tool that predicts whether genetic mutations are likely to cause harm, a breakthrough that could help research into rare diseases.
What’s AlphaMissense? This new Google DeepMind tool analyses genetic mutations – Euronews
AlphaMissense promises to predict how dangerous a genetic mutation is.
Google researchers: Tell AI to ‘take a deep breath’ to improve accuracy – Business Insider
DeepMind is headquartered in London Getty Images Asking Google's PaLM 2 artificial intelligence to "take a deep breath and work on this problem step by step" was the most effective prompt tested by Google DeepMind researchersto improve AI's accuracy,according to a study published on September 7.