🎞️ Material Witness: AI Discerns Similar Substances in Images and Videos

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• 🧪 Research highlights: Pattern Recognition: AI Develops an Eye for Material Similarities

• 🚨 Industry news: ChatGPT Welcomes Bing Onboard

• ⚖️ Policy and regulation: Bridging the AI Gap: EU and US Unite for Interim Standards

• 🌐 AI and society: AI in Wrong Hands: Child Predators Twist Tech for Dark Deeds

• 🧰 Tool of the day: Norby.io: Your Website’s Secret Weapon for Customer Engagement

• 🧠 Let’s get smart with AI: Digital Defense Mechanism: What Is the Artificial Immune System?

👁️ Pattern Recognition: AI Develops an Eye for Material Similarities

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Adobe Research have developed a machine-learning technique that can identify similar materials in images and videos.

This method, helpful for robotics and image manipulation applications, identifies all pixels in an image representing a given material. This decision is unaffected by differences in object size, shape, or illumination conditions.

The team trained their model with synthetic data generated by modifying 3D scenes to generate diverse images, proving effective even in unseen indoor and outdoor settings.

To overcome the difficulty of distribution shift (when a model trained on synthetic data fails on real-world data), the team constructed their model on top of a computer vision model that had been pre-trained.

The innovative method converts pre-trained visual features into material-specific features, yielding a material similarity score for each pixel.

During testing, their model predicted regions of identical material with a 92 per cent degree of precision.

🌐 ChatGPT Welcomes Bing Onboard

Microsoft Corporation is incorporating its Bing search engine with OpenAI Inc.'s ChatGPT to compete with Google. This update will be included in the premium ChatGPT Plus service as of Tuesday, with plans to roll it out to the standard version of the chatbot soon.

Incorporating Bing is anticipated to provide users with real-time information, a notable improvement given that ChatGPT has only been trained on data through September 20, 2021.

🤝 Bridging the AI Gap: EU and US Unite for Interim Standards

According to Margrethe Vestager, the EU's head of technology, the European Union and the United States plan to enhance their cooperation on artificial intelligence (AI) to establish interim standards before legislation goes into effect.

This action is taken in anticipation of the EU's AI Act, which may become the world's first comprehensive AI legislation, including new facial recognition and biometric surveillance rules.

A textual agreement between EU governments and legislators is still forthcoming. Vestager anticipates that this process will be concluded by the end of the year. Still, she acknowledges the need for a transitional period of one to two years before the legislation takes effect.

This urgency derives from the consensus that safeguards are required to maximize the benefits of this technology. Before enacting the law, she proposes a discussion on the minimum requirements for companies.

Following the G7's call for developing technical standards to ensure "trustworthy" AI, Vestager will meet with Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai to discuss AI-related issues.

She suggests that these discussions within the Trade and Technology Council (TTC) may help to concretize the G7 process.s

🚨 AI in Wrong Hands: Child Predators Twist Tech for Dark Deeds

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has issued warnings regarding child predators' use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with generative capabilities.

These technologies are being used to create and distribute fake child sexual abuse content online, along with information on how to avoid detection.

Recently, a forum on child predation observed increased AI-generated images of child abuse sharing during the first few months of the year.

Even though these images do not depict actual victims, they reveal a disquieting pattern. The NCMEC processes approximately 80,000 reports of traditional photographs and content depicting child abuse daily.

Alongside this, there has been a rise in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools by predators to construct scripts for fake personas and identify vulnerable targets.

It is anticipated that the misuse of these tools will increase despite the efforts of some companies to implement filters and block unsafe and inappropriate content.

The NCMEC is discussing with legislators and platforms to determine how to combat the anticipated influx of such content.

Despite the complexity of this issue, it is not unlawful to create fake child abuse images in the United States, unlike in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada.

💻 Norby.io: Your Website’s Secret Weapon for Customer Engagement

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🦠 Digital Defense Mechanism: What Is the Artificial Immune System?

The artificial immune system refers to a computational model inspired by the human immune system that aims to enhance the adaptability and robustness of AI systems.

It involves creating algorithms and techniques that mimic the m's behaviour immune system's behaviour, such as pattern recognition, learning, and response to threats.

The artificial immune system helps AI systems detect and respond to anomalies, identify and eliminate malicious activities, and improve their overall performance and resilience.

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