In line with the Chief Executive's 2022 Policy Address, the Education Bureau is actively promoting STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education and popularizing innovative technology education in primary and secondary schools. The aim is to enhance students' interest and abilities in learning Information Technology and innovative technology. The Education Bureau continues to incorporate elements of STEM education into the curriculum of primary and secondary schools. They are also developing "Primary Coding Education Units" and "Secondary Artificial Intelligence Education Units." These curriculum units are based on the achievements of the "Jockey Club Computational Thinking Education" program and the "CUHK Jockey Club 'Smart' for the Future Program," which are initiated and supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, and adapted from the materials used in these programs.
On May 19th, Google announced that it would introduce two new features to its image search service to combat the spread of false information, particularly in light of the ease with which AI tools can generate fake images. Google will now label every AI-generated image created by AI tools and is collaborating with other platforms and services to ensure that they add the same labeling to the files they publish. Google has reached out to partners such as the AIGC drawing platform Midjourney and vector image library Shutterstock to ensure that all AI content appearing in search results is appropriately labeled.
For some time, the most popular singer has to be AI Stefanie Sun. On related platforms, you can listen to various singles by AI Stefanie Sun, such as "I Remember", "Hair Like Snow", "Rainy Day", etc., which are released frequently every day and are widely loved. It is worth noting that this is not a song sung by Stefanie Sun herself, but with the help of AI technology, a model was obtained by training Stefanie Sun’s voice data, and through model reasoning, the voice replacement was finally achieved. There are also various risks hidden behind the use of technology to realize song covers. Relevant experts said in an interview with reporters that the relevant perpetrators are suspected of infringing on Stefanie Sun's own voice rights, and may also infringe on the copyright of the lyrics and composer of the music work. Considering that the potential risks are not limited to these, some experts have expressed concerns about technology being used for illegal and criminal activities. From a legal perspective, it is necessary to further investigate the technology and make a legal judgment on substantive violations. (Source: 21 Finance)
Cybersecurity company Home Security Heroes published a study on artificial intelligence and password cracking. Specifically, the researchers studied a new artificial intelligence password cracking tool called PassGAN (Password Generating Adversarial Network). In this study, researchers used PassGAN to run a list of more than 15 million passwords. The results show that the commonly used passwords of 51% can be cracked in one minute, 65% can be cracked in one hour, 71% can be cracked in one day, and 81% can be cracked in one month. In addition, the team also presented the results of the experiment in tabular form, showing that almost every password containing six characters or less was immediately cracked. According to the organization, passwords longer than 18 characters are considered safe for tools like PassGAN. According to the table, it would take the tool at least 10 months to calculate an 18-character password that uses only numbers. (Source: Home Security Heroes)
On April 6th, it was revealed by Andrew Bosworth, the Chief Technology Officer of Meta, that the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, now spends most of his time on AI. Bosworth also stated that suggestions, such as Elon Musk's call for a pause in AI development, are "impractical." Meta plans to commercialize their own developed Generative AI technology before December of this year and explore its practical applications in collaboration with Google. Since 2013, Meta has been dedicated to research in the field of artificial intelligence, with the number of research publications comparable to Google. In February of this year, Meta announced the establishment of a new team to develop AIGC technology. Now, they have revealed the timeline for the commercialization of this technology for the first time.
According to news on April 4, Cambridge University Press’s new artificial intelligence ethics policy prohibits artificial intelligence from being regarded as the author of academic papers and books published by it. The publisher said the guidelines are intended to uphold academic standards as tools like ChatGPT can lead to issues such as plagiarism, originality and accuracy. "It is clear that tools like ChatGPT cannot and should not be considered authors," said Mandy Hill, general manager of scholarly publishing at Cambridge University Press. The newly announced principles state that authors are responsible for the originality, completeness and accuracy of their work, and that the use of artificial intelligence must also be described in research papers, just as methodologies, software and tools have been clearly stated in the paper. Moreover, any use of artificial intelligence must not violate the publisher’s relevant regulations on academic plagiarism, which means that academic works must be the author’s own and must not present other people’s ideas, materials, or information without “full citation and reference.” text or other material. (Source: AI business)
According to news on April 3, the Writers Guild of America stated that AI-assisted script writing can be used without affecting the author's credit, and studios can also assign AI-generated scripts to writers for editing or rewriting. The association said that AI is playing an increasing role in writing, but it does not want to use artificial intelligence to generate "source materials", which refers to the works that inspired the creation of scripts, such as magazine articles, novels or plays. With the source material, the AI gets "screenwriter" credit, and ChatGPT's inability to create the "original material" designation means that the author will get full "author" credit, with the AI just being a tool.
