Jan van den Berg stares out at the sea where his father vanished seven decades ago — lost in a storm just days before his birth. Now aged 70, he clings to the hope of finding even the smallest fragment of his father’s remains. In Urk, a fishing village in the northern Netherlands, the sea … Read more
Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes – CBS News Watch CBS News Digital workers in Kenya had to sift through horrific online content to train AI, but say they were underpaid, overworked, and got inadequate mental health support. So they’re fighting back. Be the first to … Read more
Robots on verge of outnumbering humans at Amazon warehouses, Wall Street Journal reports – CBS News Watch CBS News Amazon could soon have more robots than humans working at its warehouses, according to The Wall Street Journal. Technology journalist Jacob Ward joins CBS News to discuss. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for … Read more
Four-day workweek advocates lean into the use of AI – CBS News Watch CBS News Advocates of the four-day workweek are using artificial intelligence as a way to achieve their goal of shortening the workweek without pay cuts. Roger Kirkness, CEO of Convictional, joins to discuss how implementing a four-day workweek has impacted his employees. … Read more
Microsoft says new AI tool can diagnose patients 4 times more accurately than human doctors – CBS News Watch CBS News Microsoft says its new artificial intelligence tool can diagnose patients four times more accurately than human doctors for a fraction of the cost. Will Knight, senior writer for Wired, joined CBS News to discuss. … Read more
AI-generated videos about Iran-Israel conflict spread online – CBS News Watch CBS News AI-generated videos depicting dramatic scenes from the Iran-Israel conflict have circulated online. CBS News Confirmed producer Erielle Delzer explains what people should know about these videos and who’s behind some of them. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking … Read more
In recent days, videos generated by artificial intelligence have surfaced online purporting to show dramatic scenes from the Iran-Israel conflict, including an AI-generated woman reporting from a burning prison in Tehran and fake footage of high-rise buildings reduced to rubble in Tel Aviv. Other fabricated visuals depict a downed Israeli military aircraft. These clips, some … Read more
Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 not only wiped out Pompeii, but also the nearby town of Herculaneum. Deep beneath the surface where a villa previously existed, archaeologists in … Read more
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating Tesla after incidents involving the electric car maker’s robotaxis were caught on camera this weekend during a pilot in Austin, Texas. NHTSA, which operates under the Department of Transportation and regulates automobile safety, said it contacted Tesla after videos surfaced showing instances of the company’s self-driving taxi … Read more
Anthropic has won a major legal victory in a case over whether the artificial intelligence company was justified in hoovering up millions of copyrighted books to train its chatbot. In a ruling that could set an important precedent for similar disputes, Judge William Alsup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of … Read more