Weekly Review 4 April 2025

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):

1. The latest version of DALL-E is frighteningly good: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/openais-new-ai-image-generator-is-potent-and-bound-to-provoke/
2. Tools for fighting fake AI generated images: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/24/defending-against-ai-powered-deepfakes/
3. Changing accents with AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/krisp-launches-a-dubbing-feature-to-change-accent-of-the-speaker-during-a-call/ And the scammers are going to love it.
4. Siloing of data is inhibiting the growth of AI in organisations: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-data-silos-impact-ai-and-agents
5. The issues around attribution and ownership of AI generated art: https://dataconomy.com/2025/03/26/ai-creativity-and-the-challenge-of-attribution/
6. Another overview of what AI is: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/what-is-ai-artificial-intelligence-generative-ai
7. The Chinese government is using AI to improve its ability to censor news it doesn't like: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/leaked-data-exposes-a-chinese-ai-censorship-machine/
8. If you run a generative AI extension in your browser, it is probably stealing your data: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/generative_ai_browser_extensions_privacy/
9. Venture capital and other funding options for AI: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-and-data-science-startups-can-leverage-venture-capital-and-secondary-markets/
10. How to get better results from generative AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3853747/the-secret-to-using-generative-ai-effectively.html
11. Microsoft has released some AI-powered security tools: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/24/microsoft_security_copilot_agents/
12. Some predicted impacts of AI in the next ten years: https://dataconomy.com/2025/03/27/how-will-ai-shape-the-next-decade/
13. The UK government wants to use more AI, but their IT infrastructure is so old it can't handle it: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/26/legacy_systems_uk_ai/
14. New research shows how it is possible to simulate a spiking neural network with only two transistors per neuron: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/researchers-get-spiking-neural-behavior-out-of-a-pair-of-transistors/
15. Workers are starting to see AI as coworkers, but are worried about being excluded from the benefits AI bring: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-data-silos-impact-ai-and-agents
16. Microsoft releases AI for business research and analysis: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/microsoft_365_copilot_reasoning_agents/
17. The problems with using AI in news reporting: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/22/we-need-to-set-the-terms-or-were-all-screwed-how-newsrooms-are-tackling-ais-uncertainties-and-opportunities
18. An overview of industrial AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/03/26/the-rise-of-specialized-industrial-ai/
19. An AI dental assistant: https://dataconomy.com/2025/03/27/deepcares-ai-reveals-mountains-in-your-moles/
20. Web hosts of open source projects are fighting back against AI crawlers: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/open-source-devs-are-fighting-ai-crawlers-with-cleverness-and-vengeance/
21. When you are learning how to use AI, you need some data sets to try out. Here are some sources of data: https://www.kdnuggets.com/where-do-we-get-our-data-a-tour-of-data-sources-with-examples
22. The copyright issues around generative AI are going to keep lawyers busy for a very long time: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/openais-viral-studio-ghibli-moment-highlights-ai-copyright-concerns/
23. More on Microsoft's security AI: https://www.theverge.com/news/634598/microsoft-security-copilot-ai-agents
24. More on how outdated IT infrastructure is hindering the adoption of AI by the UK government: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3855620/as-big-tech-circles-uk-government-struggles-to-reap-promised-ai-benefits.html