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AI Scams in China: The New Face of Fraud

On May 22, Chinese state media’s China Fund Report revealed that AI fraud is becoming rampant across the nation. A typical case of telecom fraud leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) was reported by the Baotou City police. In this instance, Mr. Guo, the legal representative of a tech company in Fuzhou City, was swindled out of ...

Mikel Davis

Artificial intelligence deepfakes.

China’s AI Regulation: Chatbots Must Stick to the Communist Party Line

China is taking steps to regulate all domestic artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to align them with the ruling Party’s socialist ideals. This initiative is designed to monitor and control the burgeoning chatbot industry in China, ensuring compliance with the party’s policies. Unveiling draft of new regulations In April, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) unveiled ...

Nathan Machoka

Man preparing to type on a laptop while the screen shows a chatbot asking: 'What can I help you with?'

Will AI Ever Reach Human-Level Intelligence? We Asked 5 Experts

Artificial intelligence has changed form in recent years. What started in the public eye as a burgeoning field with promising (yet largely benign) applications, has snowballed into a more than US$100 billion industry where the heavy hitters – Microsoft, Google and OpenAI, to name a few — seem intent on out-competing one another. The result ...

Troy Oakes

Woman's hands hovering over the keys of her laptop with a futuristic AI network superimposed on the image.

Apple Books Launches Revolutionary AI-Narrated Audiobooks

Apple’s Books service now offers audiobooks with text-to-speech artificial intelligence narration, a development that might profoundly affect the multibillion-dollar audiobook market, which includes industry leader Amazon’s Audible. On its website, Apple claims that the new “digital narration technology” would lower “the cost and complexity” of generating audiobooks for authors and publishers, therefore increasing “the creation ...

Ratul Saha

Apple's audiobooks.

The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence and Its Benefit to Humanity

Every human has an innate nature that always seeks something that can improve everyone’s life and contribute to the community. Well, who doesn’t want a better life? And as the search progressed, artificial intelligence, or AI, emerged. Machines that can learn from experience, adapt to new information, and execute human-like jobs, are what you call ...

Viena Abdon

Artificial intelligence.

What Is Cybernetics?

Cybernetics is not just about robots and artificial intelligence (AI), and whether humans will become cyborgs or if computers will come to dominate people. Despite its history dating back to the 1940s — when computing technology boomed in the post-Second World War period — the field of cybernetics remains widely misunderstood. In fact, it also includes the ...

Troy Oakes

Cybernetic machine in front of a screen full of computer code.

Brain Computer Interface That Translates Thoughts Into Text Messages

In a recent breakthrough development, researchers have succeeded in using brain-computer interfaces to convert thoughts into text messages. The study findings show how brain-computer interfaces can pave the way for converting thoughts into legible texts. The concept of creating a text using the mind sounds like science fiction, but it has already happened in reality.

Science Unmasked

Artificial Intelligence Explores the Moon’s Permanently Shadowed Regions

With the help of artificial intelligence, an international research team led by ETH Zurich has explored the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions. The information they have obtained about the area’s surface properties will help to identify suitable locations for future lunar missions. It was 1972 when the last humans landed on the Moon. The Apollo program ...

Troy Oakes

The dark side of the Moon.