The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will examine the rise of AI technology across all fronts, said FTC Chair Lina Khan, speaking at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
In fact, it’s already seeing an uptick in consumer complaint cases in some areas, like voice cloning fraud, Khan said.
Asked what areas of AI the FTC was watching, Khan explained that it was everything.
Of course, policing AI comes with its challenges, despite the number of technologists the FTC has hired to help in this area.
Another area of focus for the FTC is the focus on what openness really means in the AI context, Khan explained.
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Marissa Mayer’s startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn’t sure what to thinkWhen Marissa Mayer co-founded a startup six years ago in Palo Alto, Ca., expectations were sky high for the former Yahoo CEO and early Google employee.
When that startup, Sunshine, revealed that its first app centered around subscription software for contact management, people wondered if something more ambitious might be around the corner.
Today, after Sunshine released two equally mundane features – event organizing and photo sharing – internet commenters were decidedly mystified.
I was also baffled last week, when Mayer walked me through Sunshine’s new offerings.
The core thesis has always been to take the mundane and make it magical.”The team “thought about naming it Mundane AI,” she continued.
It looks like X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has a Verified bot problem.
It does appear that at least some of the bot accounts are older, according to the “join date” that’s displayed on their X profile.
While a few were from real people joking about the bot problem, the majority were AI responses.
It appears that the Verified bots are largely X accounts created in the November 24-26, 2023 timeframe.
The company admitted last summer it had a Verified spammer problem when it announced new DM settings.
The in-car tech used by the likes of Ford and GM to make sure drivers pay attention to the road has come a long way.
NHTSA says it evaluated 331 driver monitoring systems and found none that are commercially available that can properly handle identifying alcohol impairment.
Driver monitoring isn’t the only option NHTSA has at its disposal, though.
Accuracy is key, and according to NHTSA’s findings, blood alcohol detection tech is a more viable near-term answer.
But this tech is considered “active,” meaning the driver has to proactively engage with the tech — which flies in the face of the law’s passive requirement.
