Northwestern University's MacArthur Justice Center has sued the city of Chicago and police over their use of an AI gunfire detection system. The lawsuit claims the ShotSpotter system has resulted in "grave and systematic" rights violations, including the false arrests of Daniel Ortiz and Michael Williams. More: - ShotSpotter says its uses AI, algorithms, and sensors to classify sounds from audio recordings as gunfire and alert police to the location.
- However, a prior AP investigation found flaws in the AI gunfire detection system, including its potential to misclassify fireworks and other sounds as gunshots or miss live gunfire altogether.
- Williams, for example, was accused of fatally shooting a man in his vehicle based on a ShotSpotter alert. He was jailed for almost a year before a judge dismissed his case for insufficient evidence.
- The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Ortiz and Williams, seeks to end ShotSpotter's use in Chicago. It alleges that the system "inflates gunfire statistics," leading to oppressive surveillance and police tactics in Chicago.
Zoom-out: - ShotSpotter, which was not named as a defendant in the suit, says its AI system has a 97% aggregate accuracy rate for real-time gunfire detection and maps historical data on homicides and shootings.
- Previously, a MacArthur Project report found that nearly 90% of ShotSpotter alerts lacked on-site evidence. The system allegedly generated 40,000+ dead-end police deployments over 21 months in Chicago.
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Google has fired a software engineer who previously claimed that the company's LaMDA AI chatbot model is sentient. Blake Lemoine was placed on paid administrative leave in June after Google said he improperly shared confidential information about the AI project with outside parties. More: - Lemoine, a member of Google's Responsible AI organization, said he began chatting with Google's Language Model for Dialogue Applications or LaMDA last fall.
- The engineer made headlines when he claimed that the AI system is a sentient person with rights and its own thoughts and feelings. Google quickly dismissed the claims, saying they were "wholly unfounded" and Lemoine had anthropomorphized the technology.
- Google has now confirmed that it fired Lemoine. The company claims it engaged with Lemoine for months but he still chose to "persistently violate" its employment and data security policies regarding product information.
- First announced in May 2021, LaMDA is built on the Transformer neural network architecture developed at Google. It's trained specifically on dialogue, making its more capable than other models at free-flowing, sensible, and specific conversation.
- Google says it has formally reviewed LaMDA 11 times. "We will continue our careful development of language models," it said.
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Health tech startup Cleerly, a developer of AI software that spots early signs of heart disease, announced a $192M financing round. The software analyzes heart CT angiography scans to gauge plaque build-up and calculates a patient's risk of a heart attack. More: - Cleerly says its AI-enabled technology is designed to assist doctors in better identifying plaque build-up in the walls of heart arteries.
- In a recent study, its FDA-cleared algorithms showed an overall accuracy of at least 84%.
- The oversubscribed Series C round was led by T. Rowe Price and Fidelity Management & Research Company and included additional investors Peter Thiel, Sands Capital, Piper Sandler's Merchant Banking, and others.
- Cleerly says it will use the funding to support clinical trials and expand its team and the software's commercial reach.
- It currently has over 12 multicenter clinical trials. One of those is an international registry that's enrolling 100,000+ patients in the next 10 years.
- To date, Cleerly has raised a total of $248M.
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Canadian telecom operator Rogers Communications says it will invest $7.7B in artificial intelligence technologies and additional testing and oversight over three years to improve its network. Toronto-based Rogers recently experienced a widespread network collapse affecting millions of customers in Canada. More: - The July 8 outage affected the wireless and internet services of about 12 million residents over nearly 20 hours, disrupting 911 calls, flights, financial payment systems, and other services.
- On Sunday, Rogers announced a plan to enhance its network reliability following questioning from regulators and Canada's government.
- The company says it will invest in oversight, testing, and artificial intelligence over the next three years, without providing further details.
- It's also working on an agreement to automatically switch 911 calls to the networks of competitors during outages.
- Rogers also pledged to "physically" separate its wireless and internet services to enable an "always on" network, which is expected to cost at least $194M.
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More than half of B2B small businesses polled in the U.S. say they began using AI tools due to the labor shortage, according to an UpCity report. The marketing consultancy partnered with Pollfish to survey 600 U.S. small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and their employees about their use of AI during the worker shortage. The findings: - 51% of small businesses said they have been using AI tools for the last 1-5 years.
- Once the labor shortage started, 40% of B2C small businesses bumped up their existing AI use.
- 35% of small businesses reported a monthly AI tools budget of $1,001 to $5,000, both now and pre-COVID.
- 22% of B2B and B2C companies said they use text AI tools most frequently.
- 11% of respondents said they plan to decrease their staff and use more AI tools.
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 |  | Beth is a writer and analyst at Inside.com covering artificial intelligence and daily tech news. Since starting work at Inside, she has covered various topics including virtual reality, drones, and e-commerce. Prior to that she was a public policy and investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic, where she won a Pulitzer Prize nomination and First Amendment Award for reporting on the rising costs of pensions. Reach her at Beth.Duckett@inside.com. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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