Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research

Fei-Fei Li, the “godmother of artificial intelligence,” delivered an urgent plea to President Biden in the glittering ballroom of San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel in June.

The Stanford professor asked Biden to fund a national warehouse of computing power and data sets — part of a “moonshot investment” allowing the country’s top AI researchers to keep up with tech giants.

She raised the ask Thursday at Biden’s State of the Union address, which Li attended as a guest of Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) to promote a bill to fund a national AI repository.

Li is at the forefront of a

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Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2024

DOI: 10.60625/risj-0s9w-z770

Executive summary

The disruptive power of artificial intelligence (AI) will sweep through the information space this year at a time of intense political and economic volatility around the world. The implications for the reliability of information, and the sustainability of the mainstream media are likely to be profound in a year that sees critical elections due in more than 40 democracies, with wars continuing to rage in Europe and the Middle East. Against that background – and with one forecast suggesting that the vast majority of all internet content will be synthetically produced by 2026 – journalists and

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EU adopts landmark AI law: Everything you need to know | Technology News

After years of discussion and debate, the European Union has finally unveiled its comprehensive rulebook for governing the use of AI technologies. As the first of its kind globally, these regulations are set to have far-reaching implications not just within the EU, but potentially setting a precedent for other countries grappling with the challenges posed by the rapid advancement of AI.

Let’s break the AI ​​Act down and see what its rules entail.

What’s the AI ​​Act about?

At its core, the AI ​​Act aims to strike a delicate balance between fostering innovation in the field while simultaneously safeguarding fundamental

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