New AI technology is transforming scientific research, drug discovery, education, software development, weather forecasting, robotics, energy, agriculture, transportation, manufacturing, accessibility, translation and communication, astronomy, and elder care. Those are important! Keep them in mind when you read the next couple of sections so you don’t think I’m just a Debbie Downer. AI and the economy –…
Here’s your human-generated summary of the latest AI news. Mankind has never lived through a period of technological change like this. It arrived overnight, it is constantly changing and evolving, and its impact is so multifold that we literally can’t comprehend it all. Both of these things are true: AI has the power to advance…
Don’t worry, be happy! I was just trying to scare you with all that doom and gloom. The same AI systems that can find vulnerabilities can also fix them. The same AI tools that can write exploits can write patches. The same machine intelligence that helps attackers break into systems can help defenders seal the doors faster…
Last week Google said a criminal hacking group launched a zero day cyberattack created by AI. It’s the first known example of a zero day bug being put to malicious use by hackers enabled chiefly by AI, according to Google and researchers contacted by The New York Times: “Security experts have feared for years that malicious hackers could…