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A recent scroll through social media got me thinking about trust. About half my feed was filled with AI slop that astute users would call out as being machine-generated, often to the embarrassment of the rube who unknowingly spread it and sometimes to the delight of the poster who shared it deliberately because they found it amusing or useful for sowing confusion.
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A polygraph tracks body signals such as heart rate and breathing, on the theory that lying changes them. The Pentagon's proposed Polygraph+ program would score those signals with machine learning and add standoff sensing, which reads those signals without touching the person. Experts are skeptical, since a racing pulse can signal nerves as easily as a lie, and tech-based lie detection has a long record of failure.
MIT Technology Review
In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision.
TechCrunch
Data centers are deeply unpopular. Axios reports that OpenAI is preparing a “PR blitz” for after the midterm elections on Tuesday, as Democrats seem likely to win back the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate, too.
TechCrunch
On Equity, we discuss why tech CEO statements can seem so tone deaf. Dazzle AI CEO Marissa Mayer recently became the latest tech CEO to face criticism over seemingly out-of-touch comments extolling the usefulness of AI.
semiconductor-today.com
WICOP 3 targeted at AR glasses and AI datacoms applications Seoul Viosys begins mass production of rare-earth-free white light emitter, with chips as small as 10µm. For three decades, white LEDs have depended on rare-earth materials such as yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG) layered onto a blue LED chip (Figure 1).
