Technology

59151 readers

3230 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

348

Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes (wapo.st)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

58 comments fedilink hide all child comments

In particular, know how to identify the common and deadly species (eg: much of the genus Amanita) yourself, and get multiple trustworthy field guides for your part of the world.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Has any government done anything about the innumerable negligent implementations of AI yet? Every day feels like a countdown to catastrophe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The EU at least tries to regulate AI with the AI Act

It's not a catch all, but some things are banned from using AI and others will need an assessment before going live. Some other will not need an assessment, but serious incidents need to be reported

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Some day someone is going to hook up AI to something important like traffic lights, people will die, and it will be revealed that AI was the reason.