Can we rid artificial intelligence of bias?Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating discrimination, but is t...
19 May, 2024, 06.07 PM IST
Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque exits startup ‘hollowed out’ by departures, mismanagementStability AI CEO Mostaque resigns, leaving a turbulent legacy. The startup grapples with leadership changes, financial strains, and operati...
27 Mar, 2024, 12.29 AM IST
Gemini's flawed AI racial images seen as warning of tech titans' powerFor people at the trend-setting tech festival here, the scandal that erupted after Google's Gemini chatbot cranked out images of Black and ...
17 Mar, 2024, 07.43 AM IST
Anthropic releases more powerful Claude 3 AI as tech race continuesAccording to the startup, the most capable in the family, Claude 3 Opus, outperforms rival models GPT-4 from OpenAI and Gemini 1.0 Ultra fr...
04 Mar, 2024, 08.34 PM IST
'Unacceptable, we were wrong": Under-fire Google CEO Pichai reacts to Gemini AI fall-outGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai addressed concerns over the company's AI model, Gemini, which faced backlash for displaying racial bias and proble...
28 Feb, 2024, 11.47 AM IST
Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for diversityGoogle's partial explanation for why its images put people of color in historical settings where they wouldn't normally be found came a day...
24 Feb, 2024, 12.03 PM IST
Gmail is here to stay: Google denies shutdown rumours, confirms continued serviceGoogle has clarified that Gmail is not shutting down, debunking rumors circulated on social media. A screenshot claimed Gmail would be "sun...
24 Feb, 2024, 08.41 AM IST
Why are so many robots white?Problems of racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train large language models like ChatGPT have...
28 Jan, 2024, 12.03 PM IST
Popular AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes: StudyThe generator tended to sexualise images of women from certain Latin American countries (Colombia, Venezuela, Peru) as well as those from M...
01 Dec, 2023, 12.26 PM IST
WhatsApp's AI-generated stickers spark outrage for depicting Palestinian children with guns; Meta says it'll 'continue to improve these features'The incident has raised concerns about AI perpetuating bias, impacting public opinion negatively.
06 Nov, 2023, 02.56 PM IST
China's new artificial intelligence regulations begin to take effectRapid advancements in generative AI have stoked global alarm over the technology's potential for disinformation and misuse, with deepfake i...
19 Aug, 2023, 12.16 AM IST
Advertising big shots are now relying on AI to market to the massesGenerative artificial intelligence (AI), which can be used to produce content based on past data, has become a buzzword over the past year,...
18 Aug, 2023, 07.16 PM IST
From Mad Men to machines? Big advertisers shift to AIGenerative artificial intelligence (AI), which can be used to produce content based on past data, has become a buzzword over the past year,...
18 Aug, 2023, 10.59 AM IST
Don't expect quick fixes in ‘red-teaming’ of AI models, security was an afterthoughtCurrent AI models are simply too unwieldy, brittle and malleable, academic and corporate research shows. Security was an afterthought in th...
13 Aug, 2023, 08.24 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: warnings aplenty against AI chatbot biases, ignore them at your own perilThe biases can have serious consequences. for individuals and communities, particularly those who have historically faced one or other type...
12 Feb, 2023, 06.33 PM IST
Facebook apologises after AI puts ‘primates’ label on video of Black menFacebook users who recently watched a video from a British tabloid featuring Black men saw an automated prompt from the social network that...
05 Sep, 2021, 10.10 AM IST
Microsoft to tighten screw after chatbot's loose talkThe company issues an apology and explanation for its rogue Twitter chatbot Tay's wildly inappropriate and reprehensible words and images.
28 Mar, 2016, 07.51 AM IST