Canadian privacy czars release principles for responsible development of AI
On the heels of cybersecurity guidance for generative AI systems issued by the federal government, Canada’s federal, provincial, and territorial privacy regulators have issued their own set of privacy-related principles to be followed. Announced Thursday, the principles are aimed at advancing the responsible, trustworthy and privacy-protective development and use of generative
Read moreAnalytics Unleashed keynoter Scheibenreif examines how ‘we shape AI, AI shapes us’
In a presentation at IT World Canada’s Analytics Unleashed on Tuesday, Gartner Distinguished VP analyst Don Scheibenreif discussed what organizations need to do in order to handle the generative artificial intelligence (GenAi) juggernaut and artificial intelligence (AI) in general. The content he delivered was originally seen by a packed house
Read moreAnthropic’s latest tactic to stop racist AI: Asking it ‘really really really really’ nicely
The problem of alignment is an important one when you’re setting AI models up to make decisions in matters of finance and health. But how can you reduce biases if they’re baked into a model from biases in its training data? Anthropic suggests asking it nicely to please, please not
Read moreX begins rolling out Grok, its ‘rebellious’ chatbot, to subscribers
Grok, a ChatGPT competitor developed by xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, has officially launched on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. Grok began rolling out late this afternoon to X Premium Plus subscribers in the U.S., “Premium Plus” being X’s plan that costs $16 per month for ad-free access
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Read moreGoogle’s best Gemini demo was faked
Google’s new Gemini AI model is getting a mixed reception after its big debut yesterday, but users may have less confidence in the company’s tech or integrity after finding out that the most impressive demo of Gemini was pretty much faked. A video called “Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal
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Read moreNova Scotia privacy commissioner investigating provincial MOVEit hack
Why were thousands of organizations seemingly defenceless against the zero-day vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit file transfer service, a hole that so far has seen the personal data of tens of millions of people copied by the Clop/Cl0p ransomware gang? That question may be at least partly answered by an
Read moreAmazon is piloting a new $9.99 monthly grocery subscription for Prime members in three cities
Amazon is piloting a new grocery subscription offering for Prime members in three cities, the company revealed on Thursday. The new $9.99 per month subscription gives Prime members access to unlimited free grocery delivery on orders over $35 from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh. The subscription also offers unlimited
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