AI’s power hunger threatens climate goals
Artificial intelligence’s thirst for electricity is conspiring with other factors to trigger a sharp spike in electricity demand that the U.S. is only beginning to address.
Tag: generative AI
Looking AI in the Eye
. “Candidly, a lot of people inside law firms just don’t think about the deployment of tech in the delivery of legal services,” he said. “If you want to see a doctor today, it’s all through a website, but if you want a lawyer, you’ve got to pick up the phone.”
Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed
A fake photo—or memory-based reconstruction, as the Barcelona-based design studio Domestic Data Streamers puts it—of the scene that a real photo might have captured. The fake snapshots are blurred and distorted, but they can still rewind a lifetime in an instant.
Why Walmart’s quick success in generative AI search should have Google worried
“Maybe when a retailer has a powerful generative AI engine on their platform, customers don’t feel the need to go on Google at all. Maybe they’re able to get to learn about what they need directly on the retailer’s platform.”
Google’s Gemini AI now refuses to answer election questions
Tuesday, Google confirmed to Reuters that those restrictions have kicked in. Election queries now tend to come back with the refusal: “I’m still learning how to answer this question. In the meantime, try Google Search.”
Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges with Generative AI
“As the dialogue unfolded, a central theme emerged concerning how higher education institutions can adapt to the rapid pace of technological change, emphasizing the need for responsibility to guide the conversation around AI.”
Is ChatGPT making scientists hyper-productive? The highs and lows of using AI
Generative AI is continuing to improve — so publishers, grant-funding agencies and scientists must consider what constitutes ethical use of LLMs, and what over-reliance on these tools says about a research landscape that encourages hyper-productivity.
Data gold rush: companies once focused on mining cryptocurrency pivot to generative AI
Cryptocurrency? That’s _so_ 2022. Owners of fleets of GPUs, they’re now pivoting to AI, according to The Guardian…
How much electricity does AI consume?
“The figures were notably larger for image-generation models, which used on average 2.9 kWh per 1,000 inferences. The average smartphone uses 0.012 kWh to charge, so generating one image using AI can use almost as much energy as charging your smartphone.”
3 tips to build an AI-positive work culture
The disparity between leaders’ attitudes to AI and that of their employees is a difficult gap to close; the aspects of AI that form the business case for its implementation are often the same aspects that drive concerns from employees about job security.
What the birth of the spreadsheet can teach us about generative AI
There is one very clear parallel between the digital spreadsheet and generative AI: both are computer apps that collapse time. A task that might have taken hours or days can suddenly be completed in seconds.
KPMG Study: Consumers Optimistic About Benefits of Generative AI As Technology Becomes More Pervasive
“As consumers increasingly use generative AI (GenAI) in their personal and professional lives, they are optimistic about its potential positive impact on society and believe that the benefits of the technology outweigh the risks they see…”
Now decides next: Insights from the leading edge of generative AI adoption
Deloitte: “The arrival of generative AI heralds disruption and opportunity across industries. Organizations are exploring how generative AI can be used to unlock and open the door to entirely new products, services and business models…”
AI in Google Search
Starting today, when you point your camera (or upload a photo or screenshot) and ask a question using the Google app, the new multisearch experience will show results with AI-powered insights that go beyond just visual matches.
Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
In this evolving landscape, advanced economies and more developed emerging markets need to focus on upgrading regulatory frameworks and supporting labor reallocation, while safeguarding those adversely affected…
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.
These six questions will dictate the future of generative AI
“With the infrastructure in place—the base generative models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and a handful of others—people other than the ones who built it will start using and misusing it in ways its makers never dreamed of.”
Generative AI in the Enterprise
“What use cases are appropriate, and what aren’t? The ability to distinguish between the two is important, and it’s an issue for both companies that use AI and companies that don’t.”
AI and Trust
“It’s no accident that these corporate AIs have a human-like interface. There’s nothing inevitable about that. It’s a design choice…The companies behind those AIs want you to make the friend/service category error.”
Generative AI could revolutionize health care — but not if control is ceded to big tech
In the rush to deploy off-the-shelf proprietary LLMs, health-care institutions and other organizations risk ceding the control of medicine to opaque corporate interests.
Sports Illustrated Published Painfully Bad Articles by Fake AI-Generated Writers
“Drew Ortiz doesn’t seem to exist. He has no social media presence and no publishing history. And even more strangely, his profile photo on Sports Illustrated is for sale on a website that sells AI-generated headshots…”
ChatGPT is one year old. Here’s how it changed the world.
It’s getting terrifically hard to remember a world before ChatGPT and other AI chatbots – which tells us just how monumental a shift we’ve lived through.
ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis
“It will make it very easy for any researcher or group of researchers to create fake measurements on non-existent patients, fake answers to questionnaires or to generate a large data set on animal experiments.”
The authors describe the results as a “seemingly authentic database”.
A year after ChatGPT’s launch, how do banks stack up?
This month marks a year since OpenAI released ChatGPT into the market, and several large banks are charging ahead to take primacy in harnessing the burgeoning technology.
Microsoft reveals Generative AI Captions for Bing search results that summarizes webpages
By analyzing a search query, it extracts the most pertinent insights from web pages, and skillfully transforms them into highly relevant and easily digestible snippets.
The 6 Types of Conversations with Generative AI
Why does this matter? First, different conversation types serve distinct information needs and demand varied UI designs. Second, there is no one optimal conversation length — both short and long conversations can be helpful, as they might support different user goals.
Generative AI holds much promise for businesses
Three-quarters of the business uses of generative ai will fall into four areas: customer operations, marketing and sales, software engineering, and research and development. Navigating a complex tax code or summarising a legal document could become a breeze.
JAMA: Health Disinformation Use Case Highlighting the Urgent Need for Artificial Intelligence Vigilance
As an example, using a single publicly available large-language model, within 65 minutes, 102 distinct blog articles were generated that contained more than 17 000 words of disinformation related to vaccines and vaping.
IAC warns regulators generative AI could wreck the web
In the memo, representatives from IAC and Dotdash lay out a doomsday vision of what the web would become if copyright law doesn’t evolve to force generative AI companies to pay for access to quality content.
Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search
The age of generative AI threatens to sprinkle epistemological sand into the gears of web search by fooling algorithms designed for a time when the web was mostly written by humans.
How to craft perfect charts with ChatGPT
All it takes are a few simple steps to get a customized, data-driven chart just by speaking in natural language with ChatGPT.
Microsoft Copilot Cheat Sheet: Complete Guide for 2023
Businesses at the enterprise level are also looking for ways AI can leverage the massive amounts of data generated daily by their organizations in increasingly productive ways.
Walmart will give 50,000 office workers a generative AI app
Walmart said its new “My Assistant” feature can help with a range of tasks, from summarizing long documents to assisting in the creation of new content.
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