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In today’s email:

  • 🔬 Research highlights: Policing the Future: AI and the Thin Blue Line

  • 🚨 Industry news: Chatting Beyond Borders: Duolingo and GPT-4 Join Forces

  • ⏰ AI startup idea of the day: EU's Spring Awakening: Tightening Lender Rules Amid US Banking Crisis

  • 🌐 AI and society: Connected Kids, Exposed Lives: The Datafication Dilemma in Today's Homes

🚨 Policing the Future: AI and the Thin Blue Line

A recent study emphasizes the relevance of including law enforcement agencies in creating public policy concerning artificial intelligence (AI) and the need for officers to comprehend AI's limitations and ethical challenges. Researchers from North Carolina State University conducted in-depth interviews with 20 law enforcement professionals, indicating that despite their use in law enforcement, many officers needed to familiarize themselves with AI technologies such as facial recognition and gunshot detection.

The study also discovered that individuals appreciated attributes in officers such as integrity, honesty, and empathy, which could help drive responsible AI design requirements. These recommendations would make it easier for law enforcement officials to engage with AI tools by ensuring that AI decision-making corresponds with the ideals of its end users.

Participants voiced worry about the issues that driverless vehicles may offer to law enforcement in the future. However, they applaud the potential reduction in car accidents that public usage of driverless vehicles could bring, allowing authorities to focus more on crime prevention.

The researchers stressed the necessity of training law enforcement officers in the ethical dimensions of AI technology use, pointing out that AI tools are imperfect and can pose ethical issues if their limitations are not understood. The findings have been published in the journal Applied Sciences.

🤝 Chatting Beyond Borders: Duolingo and GPT-4 Join Forces

Duolingo, a popular language learning platform with over 50 million monthly users, has incorporated OpenAI's GPT-4 to improve its product offerings with two new features: Role Play, an AI conversation partner, and Explain My Answer, which delivers contextual feedback on errors. These features are part of the new Duolingo Max subscription tier.

Duolingo's strategy has always included artificial intelligence, and GPT-4 allows for deeper integration and the gamified experience that learners appreciate. GPT-3 had previously been employed by the organization, but its capabilities needed to be improved to match their requirements for complicated, automated chat features.

GPT-4 enables immersive, free-flowing interactions with learners in specific contexts, and its improved accuracy in teaching grammatical rules improves the learning experience significantly. The simplicity with which GPT-4 may have experimented has also streamlined the engineering process, allowing Duolingo to concentrate more on testing and honing data sets.

Duolingo Max is now available to users, initially in Spanish and French, with ambitions to extend to more languages and introduce new features to remain at the cutting edge of language learning.

Disclaimer: This startup does not exist; any match to an existing entity is entirely coincidental.

💲 EU's Spring Awakening: Tightening Lender Rules Amid US Banking Crisis 📉

The American banking crisis has heightened EU attempts to strengthen legislation governing the handling of failing lenders, with senior Brussels politicians seeking to present ideas this spring. In light of the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse, Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe stressed the necessity of furthering Europe's financial union.

Speaking in the wake of Credit Suisse’s shares falling by 30%, Donohoe proclaimed, “none of us can ever be absolutely sure about where the next risk can come from.” Well, Mr. Donohoe, this underscores the incredible importance of deploying AI to augment regulatory oversight.

Enhanced Regulatory Compliance and Supervision: AI can help regulators monitor banks' compliance with prudential rules and other regulatory obligations more effectively. AI can enable regulators to focus their attention on higher-risk regions and intervene preemptively to safeguard the overall stability of the banking system by automating data analysis and spotting possible difficulties.

Introducing, ReguLens: AI-enhanced regulatory compliance for a safer banking system.

👦👧 Connected Kids, Exposed Lives: The Datafication Dilemma in Today's Homes⚠️

According to a Deakin University assessment, the rise of smart devices poses an increasing danger to household privacy. While families increasingly rely on technology for daily activities, researchers are concerned about the exposure of personal data, particularly for children aged eight and under. This "datafication of childhood" allows apps to collect and analyze data, and popular children's apps frequently sell personal information for advertising. Advertisers will have acquired over 72 million data points about a child by age 13, highlighting the need for more research into privacy issues and digital rights protection for children and families.

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