#AI #ChatGPT
Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak sign letter calling for pause in AI development
An open letter signed by hundreds of prominent artificial intelligence experts, tech entrepreneurs, and scientists calls for a pause on the development and testing of AI technologies more powerful than OpenAI’s language model GPT-4 so that the risks it may pose can be properly studied.
Link: https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-pause-ai-experiments-open-letter/
#DataBreach #CyberSecurity
Property giant Meriton suffers sensitive data breach
Guests and staff of Australian hotel and property giant Meriton have been caught up in a significant cyber attack, with personal information such as birth certificates, employment details and health information potentially exposed to hackers.
Link: https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2023/property-giant-meriton-suffers-sensitive-data-breach.html
#AI
300 million jobs around the world to be displaced by AI
18% of work globally could be computerized, with the effects felt more deeply in advanced economies than emerging markets.
Link: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/29/tech/chatgpt-ai-automation-jobs-impact-intl-hnk/index.html
#Scams
CommBank and Telstra to detect in-progress phone-based scams
It matches two pieces of data: an attempt by a customer to transfer a large amount of money, coinciding with them also being on the phone, which could be indicative of a scam call in-progress.
Link: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/cba-and-telstra-to-detect-in-progress-phone-based-scams-592597
#Terrorism
Journalists Targeted by USB Drives That Explode When Inserted Into PCs
The RDX was contained inside a capsule within the USB drive, and only half of the explosive substance went off. “If it had fully activated, the damage could have been higher than what we found,” a police officer told Ecuavisa.
