Hang on… Did Microsoft just admit that AI could dumb us down?
1 month ago

Hang on… Did Microsoft just admit that AI could dumb us down?

Live Mint  

Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion on artificial intelligence this year, reinforcing its position as a leading vendor. The study, carried out with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, surveyed 319 knowledge workers on how they used AI, including a teacher generating images for a presentation about hand-washing to her students using DALL-E 2 and a commodities trader generating strategies using ChatGPT. A similar study by Anthropic, which looked at how people were using its AI model Claude, found that the top skill exhibited by the chatbot in conversations was “critical thinking." There’s a clue in the report itself, where the authors note that they risk creating products “that do not address workers’ real needs," if they don’t know how knowledge workers use AI, and how their brains work when they do. If a sales manager’s thinking skills go downhill by using Microsoft’s AI products, the quality of their work might decline too.

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Relying On AI All The Time Has This Surprising Consequence
1 month, 1 week ago

Relying On AI All The Time Has This Surprising Consequence

Huff Post  

juanma hache via Getty Images A new Microsoft study aligns with previous research about how generative AI tools are changing the way we think and problem-solve — and not always for the better. The data showed that people who trusted generative AI’s ability to complete certain tasks had more answers associated with “less critical thinking effort,” according to the study. …

41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI
2 months, 1 week ago

41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI

CNN  

London CNN — Artificial intelligence is coming for your job: 41% of employers intend to downsize their workforce as AI automates certain tasks, a World Economic Forum survey showed Wednesday. Out of hundreds of large companies surveyed around the world, 77% also said they were planning to reskill and upskill their existing workers between 2025-2030 to better work alongside AI, …

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work
2 months, 3 weeks ago

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

The Hindu  

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 …

Microsoft pitches AI ‘agents’ that can perform tasks on their own at Ignite 2024
4 months ago

Microsoft pitches AI ‘agents’ that can perform tasks on their own at Ignite 2024

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told customers at a conference in Chicago on Tuesday that the company is teaching a new set of artificial intelligence tools how to “act on our behalf across our work and life.” AI developers are increasingly pitching the next wave of generative AI chatbots as AI “agents” that can do more useful things on …

AI Is Coming for Big Tech Jobs—but Not in the Way You Think
9 months ago

AI Is Coming for Big Tech Jobs—but Not in the Way You Think

Wired  

Aaron Damigos’ inbox was hit with a dreaded, ubiquitous business-update calendar invite on June 3. An email to employees from Jason Zander, executive vice president of strategic missions and technologies at Microsoft, leaked to Business Insider, blamed a pivot to invest in artificial intelligence: “Our clear focus as a company is to define the AI wave and empower all our …

Don’t Let Mistrust of Tech Companies Blind You to the Power of AI
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Don’t Let Mistrust of Tech Companies Blind You to the Power of AI

Wired  

It seems evident to me that almost 70 years after the first conference on artificial intelligence—where the nascent field’s leaders suggested the task would be completed within a decade—the field is now poised to make a transformational impact on our lives. I wrote as much in this column three weeks ago, citing evidence that after the astonishing leap of large …

Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know
10 months, 1 week ago

Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know

Wired  

White-collar workers are so overwhelmed with emails, web chats, and meetings that they are using AI tools to get their jobs done—even if their companies haven’t trained them to do so, according to a work trend index published Wednesday by Microsoft and LinkedIn. Seventy-five percent of people in desk jobs are already using AI at work, and the amount of …

Crystal ball review: AI has evolved only partly as predicted a quarter ago
11 months, 1 week ago

Crystal ball review: AI has evolved only partly as predicted a quarter ago

Live Mint  

Even as humanity frets about all the jobs AI will impact, one profession clearly under threat is that of predicting the future. With the year’s first frenzied quarter having drawn to a close, here it is: Tech wars would rage: The AI race would accelerate, I said, with the Microsoft-OpenAI alliance in fierce contest with a resurgent Google. AI will …

'AI is such an exciting thing': Bill Gates tells Sam Altman he 'didn't expect ChatGPT to get so good'
11 months, 1 week ago

'AI is such an exciting thing': Bill Gates tells Sam Altman he 'didn't expect ChatGPT to get so good'

Live Mint  

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who was hosting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, said Artificial Intelligence is an exciting thing, however, he was "very skeptical" about ChatGPT initially and hadn't expected it to get "so good". I guess you and I do have some concern, along with this good thing, that it’ll force us to adapt faster than we’ve had to ever …

AI to eliminate 800,000 jobs in Hong Kong by 2028: REPORT
1 year, 9 months ago

AI to eliminate 800,000 jobs in Hong Kong by 2028: REPORT

India TV News  

AI to eliminate 800,000 jobs in Hong Kong by 2028: REPORT Rising concerns over job losses accompany the increased adoption of AI models like ChatGPT, prompting companies in Hong Kong to urge employees in non-IT roles to learn ChatGPT usage, according to Venturenix. A study conducted by IT recruitment firm Venturenix predicts that around 800,000 jobs, equivalent to 25% of …

Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law
1 year, 9 months ago

Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law

Hindustan Times  

Lawyers are a conservative bunch, befitting a profession that rewards preparedness, sagacity and respect for precedent. For that is what AI is: neither a fad nor an apocalypse, but a tool in its infancy—and one that could radically change how lawyers work and law firms make money. As Pablo Arredondo, creator of a generative-AI “legal assistant” called CoCounsel, explains, using …

How AI could help solve Australia's 'productivity problem' without leaving workers worse off
1 year, 9 months ago

How AI could help solve Australia's 'productivity problem' without leaving workers worse off

ABC  

Artificial intelligence has helped Fiona Dixon's team save about 2,700 working hours in the past six months. "AI has been a really great investment that we've made here," Ms Dixon, a partner heading up business transformation at accounting firm HLB Mann Judd, told The Business. Jobs we haven't even heard of Global investment firm Goldman Sachs predicts AI will improve …

Generative AI will require us to recalibrate how we do our work
1 year, 9 months ago

Generative AI will require us to recalibrate how we do our work

Live Mint  

I was struck by a remarkable statement by software engineer Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming. Copy and Jasper help create great marketing material, Stable Diffusion and Dall-E2 create amazing images for artists and designers, Jukebox help create ad jingles and GitHub Copilot writes solid code. AI won’t create superlative pieces of work, at least not yet, and will require …

No salary hike for Microsoft employees, tech giant slashes budgets for salaries and bonuses to staff
1 year, 10 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 …

Microsoft will not give employees salary raise this year
1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft will not give employees salary raise this year

The Hindu  

Microsoft Corp. will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards, Insider reported on Wednesday, citing an internal email by CEO Satya Nadella. "Last year, we made a significant investment in compensation driven by market conditions and company performance, nearly doubling our global merit budget.this year the economic conditions are very …

Google, Microsoft top expectations as AI rivalry heats up
1 year, 10 months ago

Google, Microsoft top expectations as AI rivalry heats up

Live Mint  

Google parent company Alphabet beat market expectations in the first quarter of 2023 with a net profit of $15 billion, the company said on Tuesday, in a sign that the search engine behemoth is regaining its footing. "We'll continue to incorporate generative AI advances to make search better in a thoughtful and deliberate way," Google chief Sundar Pichai said during …

Google’s ‘code red’ crisis grows as ChatGPT races ahead
1 year, 11 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 …

Amid ChatGPT Craze, Microsoft Lays Off Ethical AI Team: Report
2 years ago

Amid ChatGPT Craze, Microsoft Lays Off Ethical AI Team: Report

ABP News  

Microsoft has reportedly laid off its entire AI ethics and society team as part of its larger job cuts. According to sources cited in a report by Platformer, the move leaves Microsoft without a dedicated team to ensure that its AI principles are closely tied to product design, at a time when the company is pushing to make AI tools …

Microsoft lays off its entire responsible AI team: Report
2 years ago

Microsoft lays off its entire responsible AI team: Report

The Hindu  

Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team as part of recent layoffs that affected 10,000 employees. The move has left the company without a dedicated team to ensure its AI principles are closely tied to product design, a report from the Platformer said. While Microsoft still maintains an active Office of Responsible AI, tasked with creating rules and …

Microsoft lays off ethical team that critically assessed AI tools like ChatGPT
2 years ago

Microsoft lays off ethical team that critically assessed AI tools like ChatGPT

India Today  

Microsoft has reportedly laid off the entire "ethics and society" team within the AI organisation as a part of recent layoffs that impacted 10,000 workers globally. The report notes that Microsoft maintains an "active Office of Responsible AI, whose task is to create rules and principles to govern the company's AI initiatives." Platformer also spoke to some former workers who …

ChatGPT: Almost 30% of professionals say they’ve used the AI tool at work
2 years, 1 month ago

ChatGPT: Almost 30% of professionals say they’ve used the AI tool at work

Live Mint  

Some early adopters are already experimenting with the generative AI program ChatGPT at the office. Almost 30% of the nearly 4,500 professionals surveyed this month by Fishbowl, a social platform owned by employer review site Glassdoor, said that they’ve already used OpenAI’s ChatGPT or another artificial intelligence program in their work. Experts anticipate that this kind of AI will be …

Golden age of Artificial Intelligence is here, says Microsoft boss Satya Nadella
2 years, 2 months ago

Golden age of Artificial Intelligence is here, says Microsoft boss Satya Nadella

Hindustan Times  

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella believes that the golden age of Artificial Intelligence is "underway" and it will redefine work and businesses as we know them. Satya Nadella said Microsoft is opening up access to new AI tools like ChatGPT In a session at the ongoing five-day annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Nadella said that technology will …

Half of all employees will be equipped with AI skills in 6-10 years: Microsoft
4 years, 7 months ago

Half of all employees will be equipped with AI skills in 6-10 years: Microsoft

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: As artificial intelligence takes centrestage in most companies, half of all employees are expected to be equipped with AI skills in the next 6-10 years, according to a Microsoft India study released on Monday. The combination of skilling and AI deployment is helping businesses succeed with 94% of senior executives from leading businesses already seeing value from AI deployment. …

Microsoft creates new AI lab to take on Google’s DeepMind
7 years, 8 months ago

Microsoft creates new AI lab to take on Google’s DeepMind

Live Mint  

London: Microsoft Corp. is setting up a new research lab focused on artificial intelligence with the goal of creating more general-purpose learning systems. The new lab, called Microsoft Research AI, will be based at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and involve more than 100 scientists from across various sub-fields of artificial intelligence research, including perception, learning, reasoning and natural …

Microsoft researcher warns that artificial intelligence is 'a fascist's dream'
8 years ago

Microsoft researcher warns that artificial intelligence is 'a fascist's dream'

Firstpost  

As artificial intelligence systems get more powerful and begin to do more, there is a need to make sure that they are not used to target certain populations. At the ongoing South by South West event in Texas, USA, Microsoft Research’s Kate Crawford explained her point on view on the AI scene and how it makes for an ideal excuse …

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