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China's Huawei Discusses Rapid Advances In Operating Systems, AI Technology
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China's Huawei Technologies said on Friday it had made breakthroughs in fields from operating systems to artificial intelligence, and that it had taken the company 10 years to do what the United States and Europe took 30 years to achieve.
Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei's Consumer Business Group, was speaking at the opening of a three-day developer conference in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan, where he said the company's Harmony operating system was now available on more than 900 million devices.
"Harmony has made major breakthroughs. You can say in 10 years we've achieved what it took our European and American counterparts more than 30 years to do, in terms of building the core technology of an independent operating system," Yu said.
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HarmonyOS is Huawei's proprietary operating system which it launched in 2019, when U.S. Technology restrictions cut it off from Google support for the Android operating system it used in smartphones.
China's Huawei Technologies said on Friday it had made breakthroughs in fields from operating systems to artificial intelligence, and that it had taken the company 10 years to do what the United States and Europe took 30 years to achieve. (REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/FILE PHOTO / Reuters)
The company's Ascend artificial intelligence infrastructure – the most powerful from a Chinese company – was now the second most popular after Nvidia, which dominates the market for AI chips, Yu added.
Operating systems and other software has been dominated by Europe and the United States for a long time, although the era of internet of things has given Huawei an opportunity to overtake them, he said.
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Huawei's smartphone business has gone through a renaissance since the Mate 60 launched last year with a improved China-made chip. Harmony-equipped smartphone sales have risen 68% in the first five months of the year, Yu said.
In the first quarter of 2024, Huawei's HarmonyOS surpassed Apple's iOS to become the second best-selling mobile operating system in China behind Android with a 17% market share, research firm Counterpoint said.
Artificial Intelligence Advances Could Spread Holocaust Denial, Warns Unesco
A United Nations agency is warning that developments in artificial intelligence (AI) could spawn a new surge in Holocaust denial.
A report published on Tuesday by Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) concludes that AI could result in false and misleading claims about the Holocaust spreading online.
The report suggested this was because of either flaws in computer programming, or because hate groups and Holocaust deniers will intentionally use AI to generate content that falsely calls into question the murder of Jews and other groups by the Nazis.
One of the biggest concerns is that AI could be used to create so-called deepfakes of the Holocaust — realistic images or videos that could be used to suggest the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerated.
That could lead to greater antisemitism and a lack of understanding of a key moment in 20th century history.
The report noted that some AI-assisted programs allow users to interact with simulated historical figures, including prominent Nazis like Adolf Hitler.
"If we allow the horrific facts of the Holocaust to be diluted, distorted or falsified through the irresponsible use of AI, we risk the explosive spread of antisemitism and the gradual diminution of our understanding about the causes and consequences of these atrocities," Audrey Azoulay, Unesco's director-general, said in a statement accompanying the report.
Widespread use of AI for assistance in education, research and writing is increasing the likelihood that unreliable data and artificial intelligence "hallucinations" could increase public misunderstandings about the Holocaust, even inadvertent ones.
AI programs whose understanding of the world is based on relatively narrow sources can also return incomplete or misleading responses when asked about the Holocaust.
Umesco's report called on tech companies to establish ethical rules for the development and use of AI, to reduce the chances of unreliable information and to prevent bad actors from harnessing their programs in order to encourage violence and to spread lies about the Holocaust.
The report was published in partnership with the World Jewish Congress.
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