€825m fine for Uber shines spotlight on automated decision making
In August, Uber was issued with an €825m fine by the Dutch data protection authority for taking unlawful automated decisions to suspend and deactivate driver accounts.
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In August, Uber was issued with an €825m fine by the Dutch data protection authority for taking unlawful automated decisions to suspend and deactivate driver accounts.
OpenAI recently announced that an internal AI model had solved part of the Navier-Stokes equations, notoriously difficult maths problems that have gone unsolved for decades. The breakthrough was immediately overshadowed by a dispute. NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster alleged that OpenAI had access to unpublished, related work by him and Levent Alpöge (an Anthropic employee researching in a personal capacity) which had been fed into Open AI’s tools.
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