From Microsoft to Google, there is AI in your productivity tools too
1 year, 5 months ago

From Microsoft to Google, there is AI in your productivity tools too

Live Mint  

Generative Artificial Intelligence can easily stake claim to the honours board for 2023. The sudden buzz around ChatGPT quickly brought generative AI into the lexicon of laypeople and technology companies like Microsoft, Google and Adobe scrambled to announce a slew of transformational capabilities in search as well as productivity and creative tools. Word Editor: A lot of my friends use Grammarly to avoid writing mistakes but aren’t familiar with the much more advanced Microsoft Editor built in with Word. The feature will use AI to automatically convert your document to a slide presentation, along with pictures, icons and other design elements. Use the Analyze Data option and Excel will automatically analyse the raw data, and, using AI, every column will be correlated with every other column.

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ChatGPT could replace telemarketers, teachers and traders
1 day, 10 hours ago

ChatGPT could replace telemarketers, teachers and traders

Live Mint  

AFTER DECADES of blue-collar jobs being snatched up by machines, advanced chatbots are now breathing down white collars. Humans and AI separately rated how well software powered by large language models, which are trained on vast chunks of the internet and then fine-tuned to specific functions, could undertake 19,000 tasks involved in the jobs. For other tasks the annotators imagined …

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work
1 week, 1 day ago

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work

LA Times  

If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank. There was a “shift from putting out models to actually building products,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor and co-author of the new book “AI Snake Oil: What Artificial …

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work
1 week, 3 days ago

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work

Associated Press  

If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank. There was a “shift from putting out models to actually building products,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor and co-author of the new book “AI Snake Oil: What Artificial …

AI Wants More Data. More Chips. More Real Estate. More Power. More Water. More Everything
3 weeks, 6 days ago

AI Wants More Data. More Chips. More Real Estate. More Power. More Water. More Everything

Bloomberg  

It looks easy enough: Ask ChatGPT something, and it responds. But pull back the curtain, and you’ll find that every ChatGPT prompt and Microsoft Copilot task consumes vast resources. Researchers have estimated that a single ChatGPT query requires almost 10 times as much electricity to process as a traditional Google search. But the latest AI products rely on what are …

Indian software majors need a clear strategy to ride the AI wave
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Indian software majors need a clear strategy to ride the AI wave

Live Mint  

Ever since ChatGPT made its debut in late 2022, artificial intelligence has kept the world abuzz in anticipation of computers doing what we had assumed only humans were clever enough to do. For now, AI tools based on large language models would make incremental gains, especially on reliability, but not inspire the sort of awe that some of us may …

More Than 90% Of Indian Offices Considering, Encouraging ChatGPT's Use, Reveals Study
6 months ago

More Than 90% Of Indian Offices Considering, Encouraging ChatGPT's Use, Reveals Study

ABP News  

Artificial intelligence is slowly taking over and its userbase is increasing exponentially as time passes. This study not only underscores the innovative spirit of Indian employees but also sets a benchmark for global workplaces on how generative AI can be effectively integrated into daily operations to complement human skills and enhance overall performance.” The Rise In Acceptance Of AI At …

Google AI updates a ‘direct response’ to ChatGPT dominance, experts say
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Google AI updates a ‘direct response’ to ChatGPT dominance, experts say

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Google’s latest AI updates are …

Google Cloud Next 2024 unveils Gemini-powered AI features for Workspace tools
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Google Cloud Next 2024 unveils Gemini-powered AI features for Workspace tools

India TV News  

Google, a global tech giant- during its Cloud Next 2024 conference, announced a series of updates aimed at enhancing collaboration and productivity within its Workspace suite. Google Chat functionality enhanced Google Chat which will integrate Gemini's AI will summarise conversations and provide automatic message translation. Advanced AI capabilities for enterprise edition Google has introduced a new enterprise add-on priced at …

ChatGPT is having a ‘breakdown’ – and it’s the most human it’s ever been
10 months, 2 weeks ago

ChatGPT is having a ‘breakdown’ – and it’s the most human it’s ever been

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It’s certainly a lot closer to …

Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom
55 years ago

Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom

Wired  

The history of artificial intelligence has been punctuated by periods of so-called “AI winter,” when the technology seemed to meet a dead end and funding dried up. Google’s release of Gemini, claimed to be a fundamentally new kind of AI model and the company’s most powerful to date, suggests that a new AI winter isn’t coming anytime soon. Google had …

JournoGPT: Google is secretly showcasing its generative AI for journalists to major US newspapers
1 year, 5 months ago

JournoGPT: Google is secretly showcasing its generative AI for journalists to major US newspapers

Firstpost  

Google has been showcasing a special AI chatbot they have developed for journalists to major newspapers in the US. Apart from journalists losing their jobs, media outlets also risk hurting their reputation because of AI hallucinations and inaccurate, made-up stories Google has secretly unveiled an AI tool known as Genesis, capable of producing news stories for major newspapers like The …

No salary hike for Microsoft employees, tech giant slashes budgets for salaries and bonuses to staff
1 year, 7 months ago

No salary hike for Microsoft employees, tech giant slashes budgets for salaries and bonuses to staff

Firstpost  

Microsoft Corporation has decided not to increase salaries for full-time employees in the current year, according to a report by Insider. As of now, The report quoted Nadella explaining that the decision was influenced by the different economic conditions compared to the previous year when the company made significant investments in compensation due to market conditions and company performance, nearly …

How you search on Google could change
1 year, 8 months ago

How you search on Google could change

The Hindu  

As Google looks at integrating its large language models with its browser, our way of searching the web could change. In an interview to The Wall Street Journal, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said users would be able to get AI-enhanced answers to their questions as the company explores expanding use cases for conversational AI. While Google released its own Bard …

AI chatbots threat to software engineers? This is what ChatGPT said
1 year, 8 months ago

AI chatbots threat to software engineers? This is what ChatGPT said

India Today  

AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing have eased our work big time, but they are also considered to be a threat to some human jobs. "While AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing can automate certain tasks and processes, they are not designed to replace software engineers entirely," it said. "Software engineers are responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining complex software …

Google search engine to soon get ChatGPT-like AI support, confirms Sundar Pichai
1 year, 9 months ago

Google search engine to soon get ChatGPT-like AI support, confirms Sundar Pichai

India Today  

Just when we thought ChatGPT would dethrone Google in the coming days, the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Google's search engine would get AI support. The report states that Google is currently facing investor pressure to cut costs and competition from Microsoft's enhanced version of Bing search engine powered by ChatGPT. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes that AI-powered search …

Let the AI Coding Wars Begin!
1 year, 9 months ago

Let the AI Coding Wars Begin!

Wired  

The big news this week was a call from tech luminaries to pause development and deployment of AI models more advanced than OpenAI’s GTP-4—the stunningly capable language algorithm behind ChatGPT—until risks including job displacement and misinformation can be better understood. It might not look like a regular business deal, but Alphabet’s agreement to supply AI to Replit, a web-based coding …

Review: We Put ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Bard to the Test
1 year, 9 months ago

Review: We Put ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Bard to the Test

Wired  

Imagine trying to review a machine that, every time you pressed a button or key or tapped its screen or tried to snap a photo with it, responded in a unique way—both predictive and unpredictable, influenced by the output of every other technological device that exists in the world. This is a comparative look at three new artificially intelligent software …

Google's AI-powered Bard ‘just as intelligent’ as rival ChatGPT? What it said
1 year, 9 months ago

Google's AI-powered Bard ‘just as intelligent’ as rival ChatGPT? What it said

Hindustan Times  

To use, or not to use, Bard? The recently rolled-out bot dubbed Bard is the internet search giant's answer to the ChatGPT tool that Microsoft has been melding into its Bing search engine and other software. Bard hailed HAL's intelligence calling it “an interesting character” before acknowledging its dark side. “I could also be used to suppress voter turnout by …

Google’s ‘code red’ crisis grows as ChatGPT races ahead
1 year, 9 months ago

Google’s ‘code red’ crisis grows as ChatGPT races ahead

The Telegraph  

For years, Google’s cash cow search business kept it at the forefront of innovation. Last Friday Microsoft claimed that the newest model of ChatGPT, an AI algorithm backed by the PC pioneer, was showing “sparks” of intelligence that were “strikingly close to human-level performance”. Google executives have labelled it a “code red” problem and co-founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page …

Google launches ChatGPT rival Bard in US and UK
1 year, 9 months ago

Google launches ChatGPT rival Bard in US and UK

Al Jazeera  

Google chatbot is the latest AI app to churn out essays, poems and computer code on command. Google CEO Sundar Pichai told staff on Tuesday that after testing Bard with 80,000 Google employees, the chatbot would be tested with the UK and US public as a “first step” before going out to more countries in other languages. “We’ve learned a …

Microsoft unveils AI for its office suite in rising rivalry with Google
1 year, 9 months ago

Microsoft unveils AI for its office suite in rising rivalry with Google

The Hindu  

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday trumpeted its latest plans to put artificial intelligence into the hands of more users, answering a spate of unveilings this week by its rival Google with upgrades to its own widely used office software. The company previewed a new AI "copilot" for Microsoft 365, its product suite that includes Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and …

Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel get ChatGPT-like AI-powered features: Everything you need to know
1 year, 9 months ago

Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel get ChatGPT-like AI-powered features: Everything you need to know

India Today  

Days after Google announced AI-powered features for its Docs, Sheets and other applications, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft 365 Copilot, which integrates artificial intelligence capabilities into its popular and widely used applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Teams. With our new copilot for work, we’re giving people more agency and making technology more accessible through the most universal …

How ChatGPT has triggered a Generative AI race between Google and Microsoft
1 year, 9 months ago

How ChatGPT has triggered a Generative AI race between Google and Microsoft

Hindustan Times  

In just a few months, ChatGPT has made generative artificial intelligence mainstream, pushing tech giants to the edge, forcing business leaders to jump on the AI bandwagon and triggering a battle of one-upmanship between Alphabet's Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadela. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Google's nearly quarter-century supremacy over the World Wide Web is being questioned, with Microsoft racing to revamp …

Google just gave Docs and Gmail AI superpowers, now you just type the topic and AI will write for you
1 year, 9 months ago

Google just gave Docs and Gmail AI superpowers, now you just type the topic and AI will write for you

India Today  

Google is finally taking the power of AI to the next level. With the vision to harness the power of generative AI and help users "create, connect, and collaborate", the tech giant has announced the integration of AI-powered tools for Google Workspace for individuals, businesses, and communities. In short, Google is giving the power of AI to Google Docs and …

An Exorbitant Affair: ChatGPT-style search costs Google and Microsoft 10X of normal searches
1 year, 10 months ago

An Exorbitant Affair: ChatGPT-style search costs Google and Microsoft 10X of normal searches

Firstpost  

AI chatbots and AI searches will increase Google and Microsoft’s operational costs by as much as 10 times. Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy and several experts say that “an interaction with AI known as a big language model likely costs 10 times more than a normal phrase search,” and that it could mean “several billion dollars in additional costs.” It’s unclear …

Microsoft Could Soon Introduce ChatGPT-like AI To Word, PowerPoint And Outlook: Report
1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft Could Soon Introduce ChatGPT-like AI To Word, PowerPoint And Outlook: Report

News 18  

Days after announcing OpenAI’s integration with Bing, Microsoft is all set to take another major step forward in its effort to push and integrate artificial intelligence technology into its core productivity suite. The details of Microsoft’s productivity plans for integrating OpenAI’s language AI technology will be revealed in the coming weeks, according to sources cited by The Verge. Additionally, it …

Google warns against 'hallucinating' AI chatbots: Report
1 year, 10 months ago

Google warns against 'hallucinating' AI chatbots: Report

Hindustan Times  

The boss of Google's search engine warned against the pitfalls of artificial intelligence in chatbots in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, as Google parent company Alphabet battles to compete with blockbuster app ChatGPT. Google logo "This kind of artificial intelligence we're talking about right now can sometimes lead to something we call hallucination," Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president at …

Google's new AI bot made a gaffe because it was 'rushed' out to compete with ChatGPT, experts say
1 year, 11 months ago

Google's new AI bot made a gaffe because it was 'rushed' out to compete with ChatGPT, experts say

Daily Mail  

Google's new AI chatbot made an embarrassing gaffe because it was 'rushed' out ahead of schedule amid growing competition from ChatGPT and Microsoft, tech industry experts claimed today. Tech industry experts say that Google was 'rushed' into announcing Bard, its chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, to rival the revolutionary ChatGPT ChatGPT is a large language model that has been trained …

AI search engines can now chat with us, but glitches abound
1 year, 11 months ago

AI search engines can now chat with us, but glitches abound

Associated Press  

REDMOND, Wash. — Nearly a quarter-century after Google’s search engine began to reshape how we use the internet, big tech companies are racing to revamp a familiar web tool into a gateway to a new form of artificial intelligence. If it seems like this week’s newly announced AI search chatbots — Google’s Bard, Baidu’s Ernie Bot and Microsoft’s Bing chatbot …

Will Microsoft Bing outplay Google’s Bard?
1 year, 11 months ago

Will Microsoft Bing outplay Google’s Bard?

Live Mint  

Will Microsoft Bing outplay Google’s Bard?Jolted by the phenomenal success of ChatGPT, Google launched Bard, its AI-powered chatbot. Microsoft countered two days later with its AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser. The use of such AI could also change how search engine optimization works for websites, since they will now seek to provide the ‘best’ answer to a query …

Microsoft Taps ChatGPT to Boost Bing—and Beat Google
1 year, 11 months ago

Microsoft Taps ChatGPT to Boost Bing—and Beat Google

Wired  

Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, is getting an AI refresh. At the company’s campus in Redmond, Washington, today, executives unveiled a new version of Bing incorporating technology behind startup OpenAI’s viral chatbot ChatGPT. The updates will see Bing results include smooth, written responses to queries that summarize information found on the web, and the addition of a new chatbot interface for …

Future of AI: ChatGPT vs Bard battle will point to what lies ahead
1 year, 11 months ago

Future of AI: ChatGPT vs Bard battle will point to what lies ahead

Hindustan Times  

This week, Google responded to the conversational AI battles by unveiling Bard, which will rival ChatGPT, the artificially intelligent text generation system by tech startup OpenAI that has become, and often generated, the talk of the town. That’s why we’re committed to developing AI responsibly,” said Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, in a statement, unveiling Bard. Google’s insights …

Google to launch ChatGPT competitor \'Bard\': Sundar Pichai
1 year, 11 months ago

Google to launch ChatGPT competitor \'Bard\': Sundar Pichai

Deccan Chronicle  

New York: Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that the tech giant will soon launch an Artificial Intelligence powered chatbot called '‘Bard', aimed at countering the popularity of the ChatGPT tool backed by Microsoft. “Bard can be an outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity," Pichai, the Indian-origin CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, said on Monday, adding …

The AI War: Google officially announces Bard to take on ChatGPT, shows off their AI bot in search
1 year, 11 months ago

The AI War: Google officially announces Bard to take on ChatGPT, shows off their AI bot in search

Firstpost  

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai formally announced Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, called BardAI. The company’s new artificial intelligence bot, Bard, intends to “combine the richness of the world’s information with the strength, intellect, and creativity of our massive language models.” Google, clearly is not short on ambition. “Help[s> explain fresh NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discoveries to a 9-year-old, or …

Google reveals AI search tech Bard, as Microsoft adds ChatGPT to Bing in the fight for search engine supremacy
1 year, 11 months ago

Google reveals AI search tech Bard, as Microsoft adds ChatGPT to Bing in the fight for search engine supremacy

ABC  

Google and Microsoft are this week revealing how major advances in artificial intelligence will be built into their respective search engines. The tech giants have invested billions of dollars in the technology, and Microsoft's partnership with ChatGPT creators OpenAI reportedly caused a "code red" panic at Google late last year. Google CEO Sundar Pichai says in a blog post that …

Google Invests $400 Million In ChatGPT-Rival Anthropic In A Bid To Launch Own Chatbot: Report
1 year, 11 months ago

Google Invests $400 Million In ChatGPT-Rival Anthropic In A Bid To Launch Own Chatbot: Report

ABP News  

After investing around $400 million in OpenAI's ChatGPT rival Anthropic, Google has announced the release of its own chatbot for the public in "the coming weeks and months" after the remarkable performance and success of ChatGPT. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the use of AI had arrived at an "inflection point" and that the tech giant was "extremely well positioned" …

ChatGPT can easily be hired for an entry-level coding job at Google, report reveals
1 year, 11 months ago

ChatGPT can easily be hired for an entry-level coding job at Google, report reveals

India Today  

Google is losing its sleep over OpenAI’s new ChatGPT. Now a new report has stated that ChatGPT is so efficient and on point with its skills that it can easily bag an entry-level coding job at Google. We are not saying it but Google found this while comparing its ChatGPT while comparing it with its own AI chatbot tool, which …

Google has the next move as Microsoft embraces OpenAI buzz
1 year, 11 months ago

Google has the next move as Microsoft embraces OpenAI buzz

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Before the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT was unleashed into the world, the novelist Robin Sloan was testing a similar AI writing assistant built by researchers at Google. “A lot of the state-of-the-art AI right now is impressive enough to really raise your expectations and make you think, ‘Wow, I’m dealing with something really, really capable,’” Sloan said. …

ChatGPT Rival? Google May Introduce AI-Chatbot Competitor In May
1 year, 11 months ago

ChatGPT Rival? Google May Introduce AI-Chatbot Competitor In May

ABP News  

Tech giant Google is preparing to introduce at least 20 artificial intelligence -powered tools and a search chatbot during its annual developer conference in May this year, amid pressure from OpenAI's ChatGPT. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has declared a "code red" and boosted AI development, as the tech giant sees ChatGPT as a threat to its search business. "Pichai reportedly …

ChatGPT fears? Google working on AI search engine and over 20 AI projects
1 year, 11 months ago

ChatGPT fears? Google working on AI search engine and over 20 AI projects

Live Mint  

Ever since its introduction in December last year, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has raised alarms at Google. According to a report by The New York Times, the software giant is working on a version of Google Search engine with chatbot features. As per The New York Times, Google has called in its founding fathers – Larry Page and Sergey Brin for the …

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