Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents act like virtual employees to automate tasks
These Copilot agents will be triggered by certain events and work with a business’s own data.
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AI-powered marketing without prompts
The software-as-a-service tool is capable of using a company’s existing data, images, brand style and analytics to build marketing campaigns for new and existing products, including email outreach, blogs and social media posts.
Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first
In the initial phase, the consortium will look at 56 roles likely to be eliminated by AI first. According to IBM these roles include 80 percent of the top 45 ICT job titles.
New data shows shortsighted companies will try to replace workers with AI
Senior executives from 2,000 large companies worldwide predicted what they think will happen in the coming years. 41% said they expect to have small workforces in the next five years due to artificial intelligence.
The rise of the job-search bots
The bots — with names like LazyApply and Massive — have turned job hunting into a technological arms race. You pay a fee, feed your résumé into the bot, tell it what you’re looking for, and blam! — it starts sending out hundreds of applications on your behalf, often in real time.
Microsoft is giving Windows Copilot an upgrade with Power Automate, promising to banish boring tasks thanks to AI
Microsoft has revealed a new plug-in for Copilot, its AI assistant, named Power Automate that will enable users to automate repetitive and tedious tasks, such as creating and manipulating entries in Excel, handling PDFs, and file management.
CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024
Industries led by media and entertainment, banking, insurance, and logistics were most likely to predict job losses because of cutting-edge AI tools, according to the poll of top directors conducted by PwC ahead of this week’s World Economic Forum.
Real estate agents are already using ChatGPT to do their jobs
“This is giving me the ability for responding to every single annoying buying inquiry that I have to deal with … and it is giving me the ability to create a bespoke customer empathetic engaging piece of communication that’s going to stand me in good stead in front of that buyer.”
Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster
Believing that AI will save time is like being a person in the late 1800s seeing their first car and thinking “oh how easy it’ll be to get to the meadow now!” People back then didn’t imagine that by the 1960s we’d be stuck in traffic jams for hours in mega-cities. Now apply this to AI.
Google is launching a generative AI-enhanced version of Assistant
Google says its new AI-enhanced Assistant with Bard can do things like help plan your next trip, find details in your email inbox, and even create a grocery list. Big promises – but can they deliver?
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