My 13 favorite AI stories of 2022 | The Rhythm of AI
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The past week has been relatively quiet in the world of artificial intelligence (AI). I was grateful - honestly, a brief respite from the relentless flow of news was more than welcome.
As I prepare for all things AI in 2023, I wanted to quickly revisit some of my favorite stories, big and small, that I covered in 2022 — starting with my first weeks at VentureBeat in April .< /p>
In April 2022, emotions were running high around the evolution and use of emotional artificial intelligence (AI), which includes technologies such as voice-based emotion analysis and motion detection. facial expressions based on computer vision.
For example, Uniphore, a conversational AI company enjoying unicorn status after announcing $400 million in new funding and a $2.5 billion valuation, introduced its Q for Sales solution in March. , which “leverages computer vision, tonal analysis, automatic speech recognition and natural language processing to capture and make recommendations across the emotional spectrum of sales conversations to increase close rates and sales team performance."
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look hereBut computer scientist and famous graduate, former Google employee Timnit Gebru, who founded an independent AI ethics research institute in December 2021, criticized Uniphore's claims on Twitter . "The trend of integrating pseudoscience into 'AI systems' is so important," she said.
This story looked at what this type of rejection means for the business? How can companies calculate the risks and rewards of investing in Emotional AI?
In early May 2022, Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer of Microsoft, testified before the Cybersecurity Subcommittee of the US Senate Armed Services Committee. He pointed out that organizations will certainly face new challenges as cybersecurity attacks become increasingly sophisticated, including through the use of AI.
As AI improves the ability to detect cybersecurity threats, he explained, threat actors are also upping the ante.
“Although there is little information to date on the active use of AI in cyberattacks, it is widely accepted that AI technologies can be used to intensify cyberattacks through various forms of probing and automation...called offensive AI," he said. .
However, the military is not alone in being one step ahead of threat actors who are using AI to escalate their attacks and evade detection. As companies battle a growing number of major security breaches, they must prepare for increasingly sophisticated AI-based cybercrimes, experts say.
In June, thousands of experts in artificial intelligence and machine l...
Check out all the Smart Security Summit on-demand sessions here.
The past week has been relatively quiet in the world of artificial intelligence (AI). I was grateful - honestly, a brief respite from the relentless flow of news was more than welcome.
As I prepare for all things AI in 2023, I wanted to quickly revisit some of my favorite stories, big and small, that I covered in 2022 — starting with my first weeks at VentureBeat in April .< /p>
In April 2022, emotions were running high around the evolution and use of emotional artificial intelligence (AI), which includes technologies such as voice-based emotion analysis and motion detection. facial expressions based on computer vision.
For example, Uniphore, a conversational AI company enjoying unicorn status after announcing $400 million in new funding and a $2.5 billion valuation, introduced its Q for Sales solution in March. , which “leverages computer vision, tonal analysis, automatic speech recognition and natural language processing to capture and make recommendations across the emotional spectrum of sales conversations to increase close rates and sales team performance."
EventOn-Demand Smart Security Summit
Learn about the essential role of AI and ML in cybersecurity and industry-specific case studies. Watch the on-demand sessions today.
look hereBut computer scientist and famous graduate, former Google employee Timnit Gebru, who founded an independent AI ethics research institute in December 2021, criticized Uniphore's claims on Twitter . "The trend of integrating pseudoscience into 'AI systems' is so important," she said.
This story looked at what this type of rejection means for the business? How can companies calculate the risks and rewards of investing in Emotional AI?
In early May 2022, Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer of Microsoft, testified before the Cybersecurity Subcommittee of the US Senate Armed Services Committee. He pointed out that organizations will certainly face new challenges as cybersecurity attacks become increasingly sophisticated, including through the use of AI.
As AI improves the ability to detect cybersecurity threats, he explained, threat actors are also upping the ante.
“Although there is little information to date on the active use of AI in cyberattacks, it is widely accepted that AI technologies can be used to intensify cyberattacks through various forms of probing and automation...called offensive AI," he said. .
However, the military is not alone in being one step ahead of threat actors who are using AI to escalate their attacks and evade detection. As companies battle a growing number of major security breaches, they must prepare for increasingly sophisticated AI-based cybercrimes, experts say.
In June, thousands of experts in artificial intelligence and machine l...
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