Shutterstock/Bits And Splits RECENTLY I was at a conference full of tech nerds and policy wonks, when I saw an old colleague wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a unicorn and a dinosaur. A banner beneath the two beasts read “Trust & Safety”, as if these basic values were mythological and extinct. It was the kind … Read more
Artificial intelligence can work out what someone is privately typing in VR meetings in Meta Horizon Workrooms by looking at the way their avatar’s hands move Source link
We may reveal more of ourselves on the internet than we realise Brain light / Alamy Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 can identify a person’s age, location, gender and income with up to 85 per cent accuracy simply by analysing their posts on social media. Robin Staab and Mark Vero at ETH Zurich in … Read more
I HAVE been writing on the internet for more than two decades. As a teenager, I left a trail of blogs and social media posts in my wake, ranging from the mundane to the embarrassing. More recently, as a journalist, I have published many stories about social media, privacy and artificial intelligence, among other things. … Read more
Tech-enhanced toilets could reveal details about your health – to you and to others myboys.me/Shutterstock Toilets with built-in gadgets that monitor your health are poised to make a splash in the world of wellness tech – but these devices come with risks, warn security experts. Some argue that selling them as consumer devices leaves people … Read more
ONE Friday in 2021, I walked into a hotel in Exeter, UK, at 17:57:35. The next morning, I drove 9 minutes to the nearby hospital. I stayed for three days. The drive home, normally 1 hour 15 minutes, took 1 hour 40 minutes. The reason for the slow speed, my brand-new baby, dozed in the … Read more