The Santa Cruz Comedy Festival begins Tuesday with an intriguing premise: Can human stand-up comics out-roast artificial intelligence in a head-to-head matchup? Harmon Leon’s game-show-style throwdown seeks to find out.
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‘Steam engine’ or cautionary tale? Experts weigh in on AI role in California elections
At its 50th anniversary event, the state’s campaign finance watchdog looked to the future with a discussion on artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, Attorney General Rob Bonta warned AI companies about state laws against voter deception.
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California’s two biggest school districts botched AI deals. Here are lessons from their mistakes.
Educators can learn caution mistakes with artificial intelligence in Los Angeles and San Diego. But they also face pressure to adopt AI technology quickly.
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Losing his voice? Voice-over master Dean Compoginis sounds an alarm about AI
Aptos resident Dean Compoginis has made a handsome living as a voice-over narration artist. But, he says, with its increasingly realistic mimicking of the human voice, artificial intelligence now poses an existential threat to people in his field.
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Could AI reject your resumé? California tries to prevent a new kind of discrimination
State regulators have proposed rules on evaluating workers and job applicants using artificial intelligence. “This new technology can obscure responsibility and make it harder to discern who’s responsible when a person is subjected to discriminatory decision-making,” one analyst says.
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Bill package takes aim at AI and elections
A suite of five bills introduced this week seeks to protect election integrity from bad actors using artificial intelligence, especially on social media.
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Ron DeSantis or ChatGPT? When is it cheating? UCSC chancellor on artificial intelligence in education
The emergence of ChatGPT and other generative AI applications has marked an inflection point in education, technology and beyond. UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive sat down with local tech heavy hitter Guy Kawasaki for an insightful conversation about education in this new era, what Larive considers cheating and the role of a teacher in a world when knowledge sits at the tip of our keyboard.
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With growing popularity of tech like ChatGPT, county restricts AI for hiring, requires more public disclosure
In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors approved a policy on artificial intelligence aimed at “harnessing the potential but also recognizing some of the risks, in particular on data privacy.” Big decisions will remain in human hands, a spokesperson said, but the county wanted a policy that could allow it to use AI as a tool while acknowledging its blind spots.
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Could Dave have talked HAL into opening the pod doors if HAL was an advanced AGI?
Doug Erickson, Santa Cruz tech guru and founder of Santa Cruz Works, helps us understand artificial intelligence by taking us back to 1968’s cult classic “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Could that fictional scenario of machines taking over for people happen with today’s AI? He leads us through some scenarios.
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As California fires worsen, can AI come to the rescue?
Cal Fire is the first fire agency to use artificial intelligence to look for signs of wildfires and directly alert dispatch centers.
