In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work
1 week 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 Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell The Difference.” The first 100 million or so people who experimented with ChatGPT upon its release two years ago actively sought out the chatbot, finding it amazingly helpful at some tasks or laughably mediocre at others. “The main thing that was wrong with generative AI last year is that companies were releasing these really powerful models without a concrete way for people to make use of them,” said Narayanan. “What we’re seeing this year is gradually building out these products that can take advantage of those capabilities and do useful things for people.” At the same time, since OpenAI released GPT-4 in March 2023 and competitors introduced similarly performing AI large language models, these models have stopped getting significantly “bigger and qualitatively better,” resetting overblown expectations that AI was racing every few months to some kind of better-than-human intelligence, Narayanan said. But generative AI still can’t create unique work or “completely new things,” said Walid Saad, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and AI expert at Virginia Tech.

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Why your company is struggling to scale up generative AI
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Why your company is struggling to scale up generative AI

Live Mint  

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CNN  

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Live Mint  

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Live Mint  

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

Associated Press  

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AI in 2025: What to expect and how will it reshape the world
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AI in 2025: What to expect and how will it reshape the world

Hindustan Times  

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Hindustan Times  

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Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness
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Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness

Wired  

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New Indian Express  

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Live Mint  

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AI is not “artificial” intelligence, it’s human intelligence
3 weeks ago

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The Independent  

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Bloomberg  

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Wired  

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Live Mint  

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Is artificial intelligence overhyped or a genuine utility? Join our exclusive AI panel event

The Independent  

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‘GenAI, AI agents will be a defining force despite limitations’
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‘GenAI, AI agents will be a defining force despite limitations’

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Raw Story  

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Coding is still important, AI is not taking over everything: Google research head suggests
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Coding is still important, AI is not taking over everything: Google research head suggests

India Today  

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SAP confident of new job creation by AI
2 months ago

SAP confident of new job creation by AI

Live Mint  

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AI Revolution: Google's Code Generation Skyrockets to 25%
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Firstpost  

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AI Revolution: 25% of Google Software Now Written by AI

India Today  

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Google's Next AI Project: A Mystery Unveiled
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Google's Next AI Project: A Mystery Unveiled

The Hindu  

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Tech Titans Embrace Retrieval-Augmented AI: A Deeper Dive into AI Payoff

Live Mint  

Companies are increasingly looking beyond the public-facing chatbots and are instead focusing on deploying specialized, internal AI tools that tap their data to generate revenue insights and optimize their operations. This shift is driven by the fact that traditional workflows and processes are becoming increasingly outdated in the age of AI. Companies are using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology to connect …

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  

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A new book chronicles the battle over AI, but fails to question whether AI is worth battling over
4 months ago

A new book chronicles the battle over AI, but fails to question whether AI is worth battling over

LA Times  

Book Reviews Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World By Parmy Olson St. Martin’s Press” 336 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. For much of her book, Olson seems overly captivated by the potential of AI; in her prologue, …

New AI platform aims to supercharge your company research workflow – here’s how
4 months ago

New AI platform aims to supercharge your company research workflow – here’s how

The Independent  

The Independent was not involved in the creation of this From improving medical diagnostics to streamlining corporate operations and overhauling recruitment, AI’s potential to enhance efficiency and drive innovation across multiple industries is undeniable. Nexis+ AI is a decision intelligence platform using trusted sources and generative AI-powered tools to transform company research. Little wonder, then, that LexisNexis’s 2024 Future of …

New AI platform aims to supercharge your company research workflow – here’s how
4 months ago

New AI platform aims to supercharge your company research workflow – here’s how

The Independent  

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‘Get to know your enemy.’ How Hollywood workers are learning to use AI
4 months ago

‘Get to know your enemy.’ How Hollywood workers are learning to use AI

LA Times  

While working as a cinematographer on the second season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” in April 2022, Benji Bakshi pondered a compelling question: How would natural light interact with the snowy landscape of a fictional planet under a magenta sky? “It’s natural to see something new and to feel a sense of fear,” said Caleb Ward, co-founder and chief …

This Tech Company Says It Will Never Bring AI Features Into Its Products: Why It Matters
4 months, 2 weeks ago

This Tech Company Says It Will Never Bring AI Features Into Its Products: Why It Matters

News 18  

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Tech Tonic | AI has wedged itself into elections, and there’s nothing we can do
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Tech Tonic | AI has wedged itself into elections, and there’s nothing we can do

Hindustan Times  

In March, and many took that in part as a warning and partly as an acknowledgement of the potential of interference in elections, Google confirmed that the Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot will not answer questions about the elections in many countries this year. Even before the turn of this year, a looming threat of AI’s effect on global elections was …

China wrestles with ‘quantity over quality’ in generative AI patents
4 months, 4 weeks ago

China wrestles with ‘quantity over quality’ in generative AI patents

Al Jazeera  

China has filed for more patents than any other country, but US export controls are not its only hurdle. In July, the UN’s intellectual property agency reported that China had filed more than 38,000 generative AI patents over the past decade, more than all other countries combined. The latest AI boom started with Google’s development of the groundbreaking “transformer” in …

Top 6 Most Widely Used AI Tools In July 2024: ChatGPT, MetaAI, Google Gemini & More
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Top 6 Most Widely Used AI Tools In July 2024: ChatGPT, MetaAI, Google Gemini & More

ABP News  

Artificial Intelligence has rapidly transformed various industries by enhancing their capabilities and streamlining processes in ways that were earlier unimaginable. MetaAI aims to create AI technologies that improve user experiences, enhance communication, and solve complex problems across various applications. Their projects often involve developing new algorithms, improving existing AI models, and applying AI to Meta's products and services, such as …

AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry
5 months, 2 weeks ago

AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry

Wired  

When Noah saw the email, a wave of anxiety hit. It was spring 2023, and the Activision artist was reading a message from the company's then chief technology officer, Michael Vance, about how artificial intelligence was “top of mind” at the video game publisher. All the while, generative AI systems built by OpenAI and its competitors have been seeping into …

Opinion: What’s behind the AI boom? Exploited humans
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: What’s behind the AI boom? Exploited humans

LA Times  

Today we are in the middle of a hype cycle in which companies are racing to integrate artificial intelligence tools into products, transforming fields including logistics, manufacturing and healthcare. Sophisticated software functions only through thousands of hours of low-paid, menial labor — workers forced to work like robots in the hopes that AI will become more like a human. In …

AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Era
5 months, 4 weeks ago

AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Era

Wired  

Right now, generative artificial intelligence is impossible to ignore online. Silicon Valley soon became obsessed with generative AI, and nearly two years later, AI tools powered by large language models permeate the online user experience. “In the back end, these algorithms that need to be running for any generative AI model are fundamentally very, very different from the traditional kind …

China Leads GenAI Adoption, Significantly Higher Than US: Survey
5 months, 4 weeks ago

China Leads GenAI Adoption, Significantly Higher Than US: Survey

ABP News  

China is at the forefront of adopting generative AI technology, according to a recent survey by US AI and analytics software company SAS and Coleman Parkes Research. A recent report from the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization further illustrates China's leadership in the field, showing that the country filed over 38,000 generative AI patents between 2014 and 2023. China's …

China leads the world in adoption of generative AI, survey shows
5 months, 4 weeks ago

China leads the world in adoption of generative AI, survey shows

The Hindu  

China is leading the world in adopting generative AI, a new survey shows, the latest sign the country is making strides in the technology that gained global attention after U.S.-based OpenAI's ChatGPT launched in late 2022. In a survey of 1,600 decision-makers in industries worldwide by U.S. AI and analytics software company SAS and Coleman Parkes Research, 83% of Chinese …

AI Is Coming for Big Tech Jobs—but Not in the Way You Think
6 months, 3 weeks 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 …

No Matter How You Package It, Apple Intelligence Is AI
6 months, 3 weeks ago

No Matter How You Package It, Apple Intelligence Is AI

Wired  

While companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others had been upfront about their efforts in AI, for years Apple had been silent. Eager to shed the the impression that the most innovative of the tech giants was a laggard in this vital technology moment, its software leader Craig Federighi, services czar Eddie Cue, and top researchers argued that Apple had …

AI startup Perplexity wants to upend search business. News outlet Forbes says it’s ripping them off
6 months, 3 weeks ago

AI startup Perplexity wants to upend search business. News outlet Forbes says it’s ripping them off

Associated Press  

The artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI has raised tens of millions of dollars from the likes of Jeff Bezos and other prominent tech investors for its mission to rival Google in the business of searching for information. “If the people who are leading the charge don’t have a fundamental respect for the hard work of doing proprietary reporting, and keeping …

More firms embracing generative AI tools
7 months 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, 2 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 …

It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype
7 months, 3 weeks ago

It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype

Wired  

Tech pundits are fond of using the term “inflection points” to describe those rare moments when new technology wipes the board clean, opening up new threats and opportunities. But one might argue that in the past few years what used to be called out as an inflection point might now just be called “Monday.” Certainly that applied this week. What …

Google unveils ‘future of AI’ at I/O event
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Google unveils ‘future of AI’ at I/O event

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. At its annual Google I/O developer conference in California on Tuesday, the tech giant showed how AI …

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