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My question is about reliance on facial recognition software, and more generally about reliance on AI. Here are two links to stories about a recent incident. A website covering truckers: "Trucker wrongly detained through casino’s AI identification software now suing officer after settling suit with casino", and second, the bodycam footage (on YouTube) which captures the arresting officer talking about his (in my opinion) extreme reliance on AI. Here are the important details: A man was detained and then arrested based on a facial recognition system. There was a large amount of evidence available to the arresting officer that the man was falsely identified. For example, he had multiple pieces of documentation indicating his correct identity, and multiple pieces of evidence that would point...

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It's a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life Having done my PhD on AI language generation (long considered niche), I was thrilled we had come this far. But the awe I felt was rivaled by my growing rage at the flood of media takes and self-appointed experts insisting that generative AI could do things it simply can’t, and warning that anyone who didn’t adopt it would be left behind. This kind of hype has contributed to a frenzy of misunderstandings about what AI actually is and what it can and cannot do. Crucially, generative AI is a seductive distraction from the type of AI that is most likely to make your life better, or even save it: Predictive AI. In contrast to AI designed for generative tasks, predictive AI involves ...

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