If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your C.E.O.
“My first instinct is they would say, ‘Replace all the employees but not me. But I thought more deeply and would say 80 percent of the work that a C.E.O. does can be replaced by A.I.”
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Your New Computer Has an AI Button. Now What?
Microsoft is requiring laptop makers that ship devices with Windows 11 and specific hardware to include the new Copilot key on their keyboards.
Press Pause on the Silicon Valley Hype Machine
“It’s looking less like an all-powerful being and more like a bad intern whose work is so unreliable that it’s often easier to do the task yourself.”
Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
Siri’s underlying technology will include a new generative A.I. system that will allow it to chat rather than respond to questions one at a time.
Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted
Meta’s assistant stinks at counting. When you ask it for a five-syllable word starting with the letter w, it will respond with “wonderfully,” which has four syllables. When you ask it for a four-syllable word starting with w, it will offer “wonderful”.
A.I. Has a Measurement Problem
There’s a problem with leading artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude: We don’t really know how smart they are.
Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would make a $1.5 billion investment in G42, an artificial intelligence giant in the United Arab Emirates, in a deal largely orchestrated by the Biden administration to box out China as Washington and Beijing battle over who will exercise technological influence in the Persian Gulf region and beyond.
Watch an A.I. Learn to Write
While the inner workings of these algorithms are notoriously opaque, the basic idea behind them is surprisingly simple. They are trained by going through mountains of text, repeatedly guessing the next few letters and then grading themselves against it.
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
Tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law, according to an examination by The New York Times.
How the A.I. That Drives ChatGPT Will Move Into the Physical World
Covariant is creating ways for robots to pick up, move and sort items as they are shuttled through warehouses and distribution centers. Its goal is to help robots gain an understanding of what is going on around them and decide what they should do next.
OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to ‘hack’ ChatGPT
The startup opined that the broadsheet’s evidence “appears to have been prolonged and extensive efforts to hack OpenAI’s models,” and denied that ChatGPT could divert people around paywalls, adding that folks don’t use the chatbot to read articles…
Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.’s Hottest Start-Ups
“Over the last year, the start-up’s valuation has tripled to $15 billion… It hit roughly $8 million in monthly revenue last year and expects that to grow by around eightfold this year…”
Federal Trade Commission Launches Inquiry Into A.I. Deals by Tech Giants
Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, while Amazon and Google have each committed billions of dollars to Anthropic, another leading A.I. start-up.
Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests
According to new research from Stanford University, the popularization of A.I. chatbots has not boosted overall cheating rates in schools.
Chatbots May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize
A new startup, Vectara, says that its company’s research estimates that even in situations designed to prevent it from happening, chatbots invent information at least 3 percent of the time — and as high as 27 percent.
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