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Let’s dive into today’s top stories:
Amazon’s latest update reveals that Alexa is now powered by large language models. The goal is to transform the voice assistant from a mere kitchen timer to a chatty friend who can entertain you with stories whenever you want. But the question is, do people actually want this?
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, recently stated that India is poised to become the next big AI market. Exploring the country, Huang discovered a potentially lucrative consumer base, which would reduce his company’s reliance on China.
Famous authors like George RR Martin, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, and Jonathan Franzen are among those suing OpenAI for copyright infringement. They claim that AI tools are being trained on their work without their permission. The highly anticipated release of DALL-E 3 is just around the corner, so get ready to unleash your creativity with bizarre art prompts.
Moving on to AI assistants, Microsoft announced back in March that it was introducing an AI assistant to its Office apps. Microsoft 365 Copilot has been tested by around 600 companies so far. The most popular use cases for the software include summarizing meetings, highlighting important emails from Outlook, and summarizing emails. These AI assistants are designed to take over some of the tedious tasks we dread, but it’s still too early to determine just how much more productive they will make us.
Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, recently emphasized the need for regulators to take responsibility in ensuring that AI does not create anything more dangerous than what already occurs in nature.
AI-run asset managers face an old challenge – creating green and sustainable investment portfolios. Aether, an asset management tool, has spent four years learning and accumulating data. However, it faces issues with inconsistent ESG metrics as companies calculate carbon emissions differently. This poses problems as the tool needs to standardize the data, so users must exercise caution.
Here are some other interesting AI articles from this week:
– Historically, Luddites predicted the challenges posed by AI centuries ago.
– An AI built with Amazon software is monitoring cancer in Nigeria and Kenya, offering hope for improved diagnostics.
– Project Gutenberg’s AI implementation is a nightmare for actors, highlighting one of the worst fears associated with AI technology.
– Tech companies are striving to make AI image generators more secure to prevent misuse.
AI-powered chatbots may change the landscape of white-collar jobs, but rest assured they won’t replace them entirely. Salesforce’s AI assistant, Einstein Copilot, will soon interact more with customers. It can initiate returns, summarize chat support responses, and even write sales and marketing content. However, it still requires human input to guide its prompts and reduce errors.
An AI fact-checking feature was recently introduced by Google’s Bard AI chatbot. After asking Bard to provide a list of the 10 most in-demand organs, our attempt to double-check the results revealed some discrepancies. While Bard correctly identified kidneys as the most in-demand, it couldn’t verify “intestines” and advised further research. These examples demonstrate that fact-checking tools should be cross-referenced with human intelligence.
On a lighter note, when we asked Bard to generate a one-paragraph story about a baboon giving a heart to a busboy, it produced a four-paragraph tale featuring a talking baboon named Bobo. It seems AI still has some amusing quirks.
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