Sunday, 30 October 2022

Social media use and poor wellbeing feed into each other in a vicious cycle. Here are 3 ways to avoid getting stuck

Shutterstock/The Conversation Hannah Jarman, Deakin University We often hear about the negative impacts of social media on our wellbeing, but we don’t usually think of it the other way round – whereby how we feel may impact how we use social media. In a recent...

‘Killer robots’ will be nothing like the movies show – here’s where the real threats lie

Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Q-UGV. US Space Force photo by Senior Airman Samuel Becker Toby Walsh, UNSW Sydney You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent...

Is the metaverse really the future of work?

Meta Ben Egliston, Queensland University of Technology; Kate Euphemia Clark, Monash University, and Luke Heemsbergen, Deakin University According to Mark Zuckerberg, the “metaverse” – which the Meta founder describes as “an embodied internet, where instead...

The danger of advanced artificial intelligence controlling its own feedback

DALL-E Michael K. Cohen, University of Oxford and Marcus Hutter, Australian National University How would an artificial intelligence (AI) decide what to do? One common approach in AI research is called “reinforcement learning”. Reinforcement learning gives...

TikTok is teaching the world about autism – but is it empowering autistic people or pigeonholing them?

Screenshot / Tiktok.com Sandra Jones, Australian Catholic University A quick look at some TikTok stats shows more than 38,000 posts under the hashtag #Autism, with more than 200 million views. The hashtag #ActuallyAutistic (which is used in the autism community...

Did Twitter ignore basic security measures? A cybersecurity expert explains a whistleblower’s claims

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko was Twitter’s security chief. What he claims he found there is a security nightmare. Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Twitter’s former security chief, Peiter...

Why household robot servants are a lot harder to build than robotic vacuums and automated warehouse workers

Who wouldn’t want a robot to handle all the household drudgery? Skathi/iStock via Getty Images Ayonga Hereid, The Ohio State University With recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics technology, there is growing interest in developing and marketing household...

Deepfake audio has a tell – researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices

With deepfake audio, that familiar voice on the other end of the line might not even be human let alone the person you think it is. Knk Phl Prasan Kha Phibuly/EyeEm via Getty Images Logan Blue, University of Florida and Patrick Traynor, University of Florida Imagine...

The same app can pose a bigger security and privacy threat depending on the country where you download it, study finds

Same app, same app store, different risks if you download it in, say, Tunisia rather than in Germany. NurPhoto via Getty Images Renuka Kumar, University of Michigan Google and Apple have removed hundreds of apps from their app stores at the request of governments...

Nobel-winning quantum weirdness undergirds an emerging high-tech industry, promising better ways of encrypting communications and imaging your body

Devices like this experimental apparatus can produce pairs of photons that are linked, or ‘entangled’. Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Nicholas Peters, University of Tennessee Unhackable communications devices, high-precision GPS and high-resolution...
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