In Matungulu ward in Kenya’s Machakos County, farmer John Wambua photographs his maize leaves with a smartphone and receives a diagnosis within 20 seconds — a fall armyworm infestation, with recommended solutions to address it. “This app has greatly helped me and many farmers around this area,” Wambua said, adding that the tool diagnoses problems,…
The growth of AI-generated media can make it hard to determine what online content is real and what is fake. But a professor from Arizona State University is trying to figure out how to better detect AI content. YZ Yang says his team’s work began several years ago. He contributed to developing a mechanism that…
In a world full of deepfakes and fake news, EU-funded researchers are building tools to help journalists tell what’s real and what’s not. By Hannah Docter-Loeb Last winter, as Christmas markets opened across Europe, social media was flooded with alarming videos. Posts claimed that radical Islamists were “invading” Christmas markets. One clip appeared to show…
At a construction site in Paris Ris for the upcoming Cross Island Line (CRL) Punggol extension, one of the 31 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras detects a worker without his helmet. Within seconds, his supervisor receives a notification alert on Telegram, along with a four-second footage of the errant behaviour. The lack of personal protective equipment…
1. Why is AI a threat to remote interviews? AI can generate fake videos, clone voices, and provide real-time answers, making it hard to know if the candidate is genuine. 2. What are deepfake video tools used for in interviews? They can impersonate another person by creating realistic video and audio during live or recorded…
