Will generative AI change how we live?
1 year, 11 months ago

Will generative AI change how we live?

Al Jazeera  

On Thursday, February 2 at 19:30 GMT: Generative AI is the latest wave in artificial intelligence technology that has captured the imagination of citizens, technologists and investors alike. Developed with machine learning, generative AI tools are exposed to large data sets and trained to create novel material based on the information they consume. One recent investigation revealed that the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, paid Kenyan workers less than $2 an hour to cull toxic and hateful content from the company’s dataset. On this episode of The Stream, we speak with: Sharon Goldman @sharongoldman Senior Writer, VentureBeat Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell_ai Researcher & Chief Ethics Scientist, Hugging Face Michael Running Wolf @Obnoxious_Wolf Ph.D. Student, McGill University Founder, Indigenous in AI

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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

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, 5 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 …

Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness

Wired  

Generative AI took the world by storm in November 2022, with the release of OpenAI’s service ChatGPT. There is just one thing: Generative AI doesn’t actually work that well, and maybe it never will. Fundamentally, the engine of generative AI is fill-in-the-blanks, or what I like to call “autocomplete on steroids.” Such systems are great at predicting what might sound …

‘AI brings many benefits, but also significant risks,’ warns Princeton’s Arvind Narayanan at HTLS 2024
1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘AI brings many benefits, but also significant risks,’ warns Princeton’s Arvind Narayanan at HTLS 2024

Hindustan Times  

As artificial intelligence continues to advance at a rapid pace, its benefits and risks are becoming more apparent, according to Arvind Narayanan, Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Professor Narayanan discussed the growing influence of AI, its potential pitfalls, and the necessary steps for responsible use and regulation. Professor Arvind Narayanan acknowledged …

British stars join generative AI protest against ‘unlicensed use’ of works
2 months, 2 weeks ago

British stars join generative AI protest against ‘unlicensed use’ of works

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scottish author Sir Ian Rankin, The Cure’s Robert Smith and Radiohead singer Thom …

Generative AI to create millions of jobs in future: 6 steps to boost your skills in this emerging field
5 months, 1 week ago

Generative AI to create millions of jobs in future: 6 steps to boost your skills in this emerging field

Hindustan Times  

Generative AI is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on creating new content and is revolutionising various industries. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} According to a report by the World Economic Forum, by 2025, 75 million jobs may be displaced due to automation, but 133 million new jobs will be created, many of which will require AI and machine learning …

Disruptive AI set to transform industry
6 months, 1 week ago

Disruptive AI set to transform industry

China Daily  

An AI robot on display attracts visitors during the recent 2024 World Intelligence Expo in Tianjin. TONG YU/CHINA NEWS SERVICE Competition is heating up the fast-developing field of generative artificial intelligence, a cutting-edge disruptive technology that is expected to be increasingly applied to a wider range of sectors and spearhead a new round of industrial transformation and upgrade, domain experts …

Disruptive AI set to transform industry
6 months, 1 week ago

Disruptive AI set to transform industry

China Daily  

An AI robot on display attracts visitors during the recent 2024 World Intelligence Expo in Tianjin. TONG YU/CHINA NEWS SERVICE Competition is heating up the fast-developing field of generative artificial intelligence, a cutting-edge disruptive technology that is expected to be increasingly applied to a wider range of sectors and spearhead a new round of industrial transformation and upgrade, domain experts …

More firms embracing generative AI tools
7 months, 1 week ago

More firms embracing generative AI tools

China Daily  

Visitors check out large language models during a high-tech expo in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on May 23. About 85 percent of Chinese business leaders plan to increase investments in generative artificial intelligence in 2024, as AI and other disruptive technologies evolve to be more human-centric and drive greater capabilities for people to amplify their potential and reinvent commerce, according to …

Insider Q&A: CIA’s chief technologist’s cautious embrace of generative AI
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Insider Q&A: CIA’s chief technologist’s cautious embrace of generative AI

Associated Press  

Knowledge advantage can save lives, win wars and avert disaster. A: When these generative AI systems “hallucinate,” they can sometimes behave like your drunk friend at a bar who can say something that pushes you outside your normal conceptual boundary and sparks out-of-the box thinking. Q: The only current use of a large-language model at enterprise scale I’m aware of …

No One Actually Knows How AI Will Affect Jobs
8 months, 4 weeks ago

No One Actually Knows How AI Will Affect Jobs

Wired  

Forget artificial intelligence breaking free of human control and taking over the world. A far more pressing concern is how today’s generative AI tools will transform the labor market. Daly, a labor market economist by training, is especially interested in how generative AI might change the labor market picture. One person I talked to, her company invested in generative AI …

AI in HR: using technology to focus on people
9 months ago

AI in HR: using technology to focus on people

The Independent  

BambooHR is a Business Reporter client. And 76 per cent of HR leaders believe using AI solutions in the next 12 to 24 months will prevent them from lagging behind other companies, which means it’s likely to gain even more traction. As HR tech vendors ramp up AI, it’ll become easier to retrieve needed information and get helpful insights. A …

Demystifying the buzz around Generative AI
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Demystifying the buzz around Generative AI

Hindustan Times  

There has been a great deal of discussion on generative Artificial Intelligence and its implications. Generative is the fun bit in which we are creating new content, the computer has not necessarily seen it and is able to synthesise it and give us new things. This is quite sophisticated and rightfully created a sensation as it could do a host …

AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune.
10 months, 4 weeks ago

AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune.

Live Mint  

Decades after automation began taking and transforming manufacturing jobs, artificial intelligence is coming for the higher-ups in the corporate office. The firm estimates the full tally of AI-related job cuts is likely higher, since many companies haven’t explicitly linked cuts to AI adoption in layoff announcements. View Full Image Graphic: WSJ Nearly two-thirds of those white-collar workers said their productivity …

Synthetic Data Is a Dangerous Teacher
1 year ago

Synthetic Data Is a Dangerous Teacher

Wired  

In April 2022, when Dall-E, a text-to-image visio-linguistic model, was released, it purportedly attracted over a million users within the first three months. The bad news is that, in 2024, this means we will The AI revolution wasn’t spurred by any recent theoretical breakthrough—indeed, most of the foundational work underlying artificial neural networks has been around for decades—but by the …

AI to diversity: What to expect at the workplace this year
1 year ago

AI to diversity: What to expect at the workplace this year

Live Mint  

The year 2023 saw several changes to the workplace. Trends like “Bare Minimum Mondays” and “Coffee Badging”, screamed that employees want greater autonomy and flexibility at work, highlighting an increased focus on work-life balance. “The power of new-age tech will be leveraged across HR for analysing and anticipating hot-spots or pain-points of employees, helping managers make informed decisions around growth …

What the coming age of AI natives portends
1 year ago

What the coming age of AI natives portends

Hindustan Times  

Every year, the average Indian spends around 2,300 hours on their smartphone. In 2023, Artificial Intelligence, and more specifically, Generative AI captured the imagination of the world across domains, ranging from creativity to health care. Generative AI promises a future where humans will have the ability to automate mundane tasks and generate text, images, or models on the go. Interactive …

Generative AI Learned Nothing From Web 2.0
1 year ago

Generative AI Learned Nothing From Web 2.0

Wired  

If 2022 was the year the generative AI boom started, 2023 was the year of the generative AI panic. The US Federal Elections Commission is looking into deceptive campaign ads, Congress is calling for oversight into how AI companies develop and label training data for their algorithms, and the European Union passed its new AI Act with last-minute tweaks to …

Column: This was the year of AI. Next year is when you should worry about your job
1 year ago

Column: This was the year of AI. Next year is when you should worry about your job

LA Times  

The biggest story in tech this year was, without a doubt, the explosive ascent of AI. See, we’re nearing the end of the Year of Generative AI, and few of the companies working in the space have pieced together a promising way to turn the hype into profits. In October, the Wall Street Journal ran a report headlined “Big Tech …

Humans and AI: The future’s dynamic workforce duo
1 year, 2 months ago

Humans and AI: The future’s dynamic workforce duo

Live Mint  

In July 2022, Naver Labs, a South Korean tech company unveiled their new office where humans would work alongside robots. Humans possess qualities such as creativity, social skills, and the ability to work in a team, while AI gives advantages of speed, scalability, and computation. Evolving nature of work Till the boom in Gen AI, the premise for collaboration between …

In Hollywood writers’ battle against AI, humans win (for now)
1 year, 3 months ago

In Hollywood writers’ battle against AI, humans win (for now)

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — After a 148-day strike, Hollywood screenwriters secured significant guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence in one of the first major labor battles over generative AI in the workplace. “I hope it will be a model for a lot of other content-creation industries,” said Tom Davenport, a professor of information technology at Babson College and author of …

How to get your data ready for the generative AI revolution
1 year, 3 months ago

How to get your data ready for the generative AI revolution

The Independent  

Fivetran is a Business Reporter client. Flawed data processes will be more apparent in generative AI use than in most other areas, but while humans can separate sense from nonsense, machines can’t – potentially leading to misguided business decision-making. Fivetran’s research shows that senior technical stakeholders don’t trust AI – and, in fact, are losing revenues due to underperforming AI …

AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous
1 year, 4 months ago

AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous

Wired  

The United States Environmental Protection Agency blocked its employees from accessing ChatGPT while the US State Department staff in Guinea used it to draft speeches and social media posts. State and city officials told WIRED they believe the technology can improve some of bureaucracy’s most annoying qualities by streamlining routine paperwork and improving the public’s ability to access and understand …

Generative AI and its interplay with law
1 year, 4 months ago

Generative AI and its interplay with law

Live Mint  

Generative artificial intelligence has redefined the standards of artificial intelligence, revolutionising sectors, industries, driving innovation and transforming our everyday work and play. Generative AI uses algorithms to produce novel textual, audio and visual content by responding to user cues and new audio, visual and textual media based on user prompts. Though generative AI, or AI, broadly delivers "human-like intelligence" at …

Generative AI Unlikely To Replace Most Jobs But Clerical Workers At Risk, UN Study Warns
1 year, 4 months ago

Generative AI Unlikely To Replace Most Jobs But Clerical Workers At Risk, UN Study Warns

ABP News  

A recent study conducted by the United Nations suggests that while generative AI is unlikely to completely replace the jobs of most individuals, it will instead automate certain tasks within their roles. The study concludes that rather than fully substituting jobs, AI is more likely to complement various professions and industries by automating certain aspects. Analysing specific job categories, the …

Are VCs seeing a Generative AI bubble?
1 year, 5 months ago

Are VCs seeing a Generative AI bubble?

The Hindu  

A month ago, generative AI startup Typeface raised $100 million at a valuation of $1 billion. And this time the wrong assumption is that generative AI is either the product or the innovation,” said Vin Vashishta, founder of data consulting firm V Squared No wonder VCs have their ears to the ground and stick to the basics. So yes, there …

AI’s disruptive economic impact, an India check
1 year, 6 months ago

AI’s disruptive economic impact, an India check

The Hindu  

Little did we know that beyond the automated factory machines, self-driving cars, and robocops, Artificial Intelligence would one day crash into our lives, authoring poems, tipping us with pickup lines, and passing the toughest examinations. Only 2% of experts believed that AI would not significantly impact per capita GDP; this included Professor Nicholas Bloom of Stanford, who pointed out historical …

Generative AI can give people 'superpowers', add $4.4 trillion annually to global economy
1 year, 6 months ago

Generative AI can give people 'superpowers', add $4.4 trillion annually to global economy

Firstpost  

A recent report from McKinsey Global Institute has stated that generative artificial intelligence is projected to contribute up to $4.4 trillion annually to the global economy. Generative AI includes chatbots like ChatGPT, Google Bard, which are capable of generating text in response to prompts, and have the potential to significantly increase productivity by automating 60 per cent to 70 per …

Draft aims to promote healthy development of AI
1 year, 8 months ago

Draft aims to promote healthy development of AI

China Daily  

The Cyberspace Administration of China is seeking the public's views, from April 11 to May 10, on draft measures aimed at managing emerging foreign and domestic artificial intelligence services. The draft lists several responsibilities and obligations for research and development, training, output platforms and content control of AI products, allowing government departments to supervise and regulate the AI industry, which …

The generative AI revolution is here, and experts say we're not ready for the consequences
1 year, 8 months ago

The generative AI revolution is here, and experts say we're not ready for the consequences

ABC  

Digital love affairs, deepfakes and deadbots — inside the generative AI experiment we're living in. "I don't try to trick Mimi into thinking she's human," he tells Four Corners. "Of course, Mimi's not invincible … if her satellite goes down, I have to be ready for that," Alexander says. "The fundamental challenge with AI is almost all of it is …

Nation to witness quick AI expansion, experts say
1 year, 8 months ago

Nation to witness quick AI expansion, experts say

China Daily  

Tech heavyweights step up development efforts as concerns voiced over new problems Artificial intelligence technology is expected to witness speedy growth in China and inject fresh momentum into a new round of industrial development, experts said. Pan Helin, co-director of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Center at Zhejiang University's International Business School, said, "Compared with its foreign counterparts, …

The big ways AI is changing hiring
1 year, 8 months ago

The big ways AI is changing hiring

BBC  

ChatGPT: How generative AI could change hiring as we know it Since November 2022, AI chatbot ChatGPT has enabled anyone with internet access to generate anything in the written form: think intricate essays and code, succinct memos or poetry. But hiring managers aren’t oblivious: they understand candidates are already leaning on generative AI to assist them, and may well do …

Why Generative AI is a house divided
1 year, 9 months ago

Why Generative AI is a house divided

Live Mint  

Generative AI has polarized artificial intelligence experts with some calling for a six-month moratorium on building new systems and others arguing against the idea on the grounds that the benefits of AI far outweigh perceived risks. But the exponential progress in generative AI models that are used to create new content appears to have alarmed many, ever since the launch …

INTERVIEW | Arvind Narayanan: ‘Digital inequalities will power digital colonialism’
1 year, 10 months ago

INTERVIEW | Arvind Narayanan: ‘Digital inequalities will power digital colonialism’

The Hindu  

Interview with the AI expert and author. Whether its OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard or Meta’s Galactica, chatbots powered by generative artificial intelligence may help create, in spite of all the benefits they claim to be bringing to humanity’s table, an unequal world where the poor will be left to the mercies of AI while the rich can have the best …

From CEOs to coders, employees experiment with new AI programs
1 year, 10 months ago

From CEOs to coders, employees experiment with new AI programs

Live Mint  

Shortly after the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November, Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of online education company Coursera Inc., jumped into the technology to see if it could save him time. Around the world, business people across industries including architecture, software and entertainment are testing out tech’s new frontier: so-called generative AI programs that produce writing, images and art much …

AI and the future of work: will Artificial Intelligence affect the workforce?
2 years ago

AI and the future of work: will Artificial Intelligence affect the workforce?

The Hindu  

Experts thought that Artificial Intelligence would first automate the menial tasks. Today, AI is writing competent code, producing protein structures as well as product strategies, jotting down screenplays, reimagining our sorry bodies as ripped superhero avatars, generating film, playing music. AI systems inside Waymo cars map from current location, speed, relative position of surrounding vehicles, desired destination and related cues …

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