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How AI shaped the 2024 election: From ad strategy to voter sentiment analysis

How AI shaped the 2024 election: From ad strategy to voter sentiment analysis

Technology
By Marty Swant  •  November 5, 2024  • Generative AI hasn’t had an outsized impact on 2024 presidential campaigns, but it still played a pivotal role in many aspects of political campaigns. With Election Day finally here, it’s worth looking at some of the ways ad-tech firms, political startups and political agencies have used large language models and machine learning. While AI has posed new dangers for election misinformation — something companies and governments have been all sought to detect and prevent — LLMs and ML were put to use helping political campaigns with content creation, audience analysis, voter targeting, and ad-buying.  Generative AI arrives for its first political season Predictive models have been used for years, but 2024 is...
AI a force multiplier for the bad guys, say cyber pros

AI a force multiplier for the bad guys, say cyber pros

Technology
CIISec’s annual report on the security profession finds evidence of growing concern that artificial intelligence will ultimately prove more useful to threat actors than defenders By Alex Scroxton, Security Editor Published: 07 Nov 2024 14:59 A slender 54% majority of UK cyber security professionals believe threat actors stand to benefit more from artificial intelligence (AI) than they do, according to a report on sector attitudes compiled by the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec). All told, 89% of those who took part in the organisation’s latest State of the security profession report said they thought AI would benefit attackers, compared wit...
This AI system makes human tutors much better at teaching kids mathematics

This AI system makes human tutors much better at teaching kids mathematics

Artificial Intelligence
The tool, called Tutor CoPilot, shows how AI might boost, instead of change, teachers' work.Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review|Getty The United States has a significant issue with education inequality. Kids from low-income households are less most likely to get premium education, partially since poorer districts battle to keep skilled instructors. Expert system might assist, by enhancing the individually tutoring in some cases utilized to supplement class guideline in these schools. With aid from an AI tool, tutors might use more knowledgeable instructors' knowledge throughout virtual tutoring sessions. Scientists from Stanford University established an AI system calledTutor CoPilot on top of OpenAI's GPT-4 and incorporated it into a platform called FEV Tutor, which links trainees wi...