116. Katya Sedova - AI-powered disinformation, present and future

Towards Data Science by The TDS team

Mar 23, 202200:54:24Technology

Until recently, very few people were paying attention to the potential malicious applications of AI. And that made some sense: in an era where AIs were narrow and had to be purpose-built for every application, you’d need...

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