Science and Technology

Elon Musk and experts call to stop the advances of artificial intelligence

Elon Musk and experts call to stop the advances of artificial intelligence

In the midst of the furor over ChatGPT 4 and the power of artificial intelligence around the world, a group of experts from different branches called to cease progress for at least six months, alerted to the risks it could generate. through the site futureoflife.orgthe signatories ask that security systems be established with new regulatory authorities, techniques that help distinguish between the real and the artificial, institutions capable of dealing with the "dramatic economic and political disruption (especially for democracy) that AI will cause" and surveillance of the systems that comprise it. Even the creator of ChatGPT, sam altmanHe expressed…
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A local CEO explains why the tech monotribute is a bad measure

A local CEO explains why the tech monotribute is a bad measure

Less than a day ago, Deputies gave half a sanction to the official project of "Mono tech", the monotribute designed so that those who work in the freelance modality of the Knowledge Economy sector can enter their dollars in a legal and traceable way. From the official point of view the goal is clear: integrate this multiplicity of workers who provide services abroad on a freelance basis, to the tax regime, so that You will be able to declare your income, although it must not exceed $30,000 per year. However, for Gustavo Guaragna, a businessman/entrepreneur from the Tech world with…
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Europol warned about the use of ChatGPT to “facilitate criminal activities”

Europol warned about the use of ChatGPT to “facilitate criminal activities”

In the midst of the frenzy that ChatGPT 4 is causing, the Europol alerted to a "wide range of criminal use cases" with the artificial intelligence (AI) tool. In this sense, the agency warned especially about fraud, identity theft, social engineering, misinformation and cybercrime. In this regard, they explained that the system "facilitates criminal activities"so he conducted "workshops" to study the "dark side" of this type of AI. "Workshops involving subject matter experts from across the range of Europol expertise identified a wide range of criminal use cases in GPT-3.5. In some cases, harmful GPT-4 responses were even more advanced,"…
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Half a Century of Cell Phones: Their Inventor Thinks We’re Obsessed With Them

Half a Century of Cell Phones: Their Inventor Thinks We’re Obsessed With Them

On April 3, 1973, with a prototype of the Motorola DynaTac 8000X, Martin Cooper, made the first phone call from a mobile phone. Half a century after that milestone that would change the history of communications forever, the inventor of mobile telephony complains that people spend so much time looking at the screens of modern devices, to which they never got used to shying away. Cooper, a 94-year-old American engineer who earned the nickname "cell phone dad", he says that the device in our pockets now has virtually unlimited potential and could one day help in the battle against some…
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Supermarket chain joins the fintech world

Supermarket chain joins the fintech world

supermarket chain Carrefour joins the world financial technology with the launch of its new virtual prepaid card. In this way, the company seeks to financially include 1 million people. Mariana Lope, president and general manager of the Financial Services Bank (BSF)said that "with the Mi Carrefour prepaid card, We seek to provide an alternative to all people who cannot access a credit product. We promote financial inclusion within a loyalty program that will also have benefits both inside and outside Carrefour branches." "It is designed as a scalable system, where based on the use of the prepaid card, we assume…
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Elon Musk shot up the price of his favorite cryptocurrency

Elon Musk shot up the price of his favorite cryptocurrency

The price of dogecoin increased a 26.05% in the last 24 hours up to 0.10 dollars. In the last week, DOGE had a rebound of more than 35.00%, going from $0.07 to its current value. And Elon Musk had a lot to do with this. In the last few days, he woke up a significant increase in the volume of operations dogecoin. Specifically, during the last week, this volume experienced an increase of 1,941.00%. This increase in trading volume coincided with the 0.65% rise in the total circulating supply of the currency, raising said supply to US$ 138.80 billion. What…
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How to avoid scams and fraud online

How to avoid scams and fraud online

Online scams are a growing concern for everyone and take many forms: online advertising It is one of the many ways for these frauds to happen. Parachute GoogleGuaranteeing safer experiences for all users in the world is essential, for this reason, he shares some tips that help to incorporate more layers of protection when being connected. If someone sees an online ad that they think might be misleading or violates a Google security policy, it's essential to report it. Everyone can do it, in this way, they favor that the content can be reviewed and verified that it complies with…
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The danger of misinformation: how to identify hyper-realistic images created with AI

The danger of misinformation: how to identify hyper-realistic images created with AI

The development of the artificial intelligence (AI) allowed the ultra-realistic image creation from scratch, from easy-to-use tools that are available to everyone. This favored the propagators of false news ("fake news"), a dangerous and widespread practice in the information age, as well as Internet users who use it to make memes. In cyberspace you can see a version of the Pope Francisco with a white jacket or a black suit dancing in a bowling alley. TO donald trump detained by police officers or serving time in prison with the typical orange suit of American prisons (according to Hollywood). also to…
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