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OpenAI team to focus on democratic processes for artificial intelligence software

17Jan

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OpenAI team to focus on democratic processes for artificial intelligence software

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence lab OpenAI is forming a new team to create democratic processes to shape how its AI software should be governed to address bias and other factors, the Microsoft-backed company said in a blog post on Tuesday.The "Collective Alignment" team is a continuation of the work of a grant program for funding democratic process experiments that was announced in May 2023, the San Francisco-based firm said. The program wrapped up recently. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. "As we continue to pursue our mission towards superintelligent models who potentially could be seen as integral parts of our society ... it's important to give people the opportunity to provide input directly," Tyna Eloundou, a research engineer and founding member of OpenAI's new team, told Reu...

The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal

25Dec

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The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal

[ad_1] We lost Twitter and got X. We tried out Bluesky and Mastodon (well, some of us did). We fretted about AI bots and teen mental health. We cocooned in private chats and scrolled endlessly as we did in years past. For social media users, 2023 was a year of beginnings and endings, with some soul-searching in between.Here's a look back some of the biggest stories in social media in 2023 — and what to watch for next year: GOODBYE TWITTERA little more than a year ago, Elon Musk walked into Twitter 's San Francisco headquarters, fired its CEO and other top executives and began transforming the social media platform into what's now known as X. Musk revealed the X logo in July. It quickly replaced Twitter's name and its whimsical blue bird icon, online and on the company's San Francisco he...

Restaurant Owners Are Fed Up With Reservation-Hoarding Bots

26Oct

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Restaurant Owners Are Fed Up With Reservation-Hoarding Bots

[ad_1] To score a table at Don Angie, the Italian-American hotspot in New York's West Village, the official course of action is to log on to the restaurant booking site Resy at 9 a.m. seven days before the desired dining date. At least, that's the policy that chef-owners Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli have set up for potential diners.But those who have recently tried to book those elusive seats via the reservation platform know they rarely open up. If you head over to Appointment Trader, however, and are willing to pay up to $125 just for the opportunity to walk through the door, you can start bidding on seats for any day for the next few weeks. The issue of seats disappearing that should be available began last summer, says Rito. “But it has become more pronounced over the last few mon...

5 things about AI you may have missed today: Punjab Police leveraging AI, AI-powered labor productivity, more

22Sep

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Punjab Police leveraging AI, AI-powered labor productivity, more

[ad_1] AI Roundup: Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann announced plans to use AI technology to enhance the efficiency of the state police. On the other hand, US Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook suggested that AI has the potential to boost labor productivity, though questions still remain for policymakers. In a separate development, AI is being employed to quicken the process of finding suitable patients for clinical trials, which could potentially saving lives. All this, and more in today's AI roundup. 1. AI to aid Punjab Police, says CMPunjab CM Bhagwant Mann said on Friday that AI will be used to enhance the efficiency of the state police. As per a PTI report, Mann said that the use of AI will aid in making the Punjab Police a frontrunner in AI. The Punjab CM highlighted that the state faces a...

AI Study Says Stocks Already Pricing a Job-Replacement Premium

3Aug

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AI Study Says Stocks Already Pricing a Job-Replacement Premium

[ad_1] Trying to sort winners from losers as artificial-intelligence spreads through the economy? The stock market already is, and it goes way beyond Nvidia Corp. and Microsoft Corp.A trio of researchers say companies with workforces ripest for AI streamlining are doing something interesting in the market: beating it. Their study, “Generative AI and Firm Values,” by Andrea L. Eisfeldt and Gregor Schubert of the University of California Los Angeles and Miao Ben Zhang of the University of Southern California, is an attempt to quantify shock waves created by the release of the ChatGPT program. While the idea AI is driving equity returns isn't news to anyone who has watched the Nasdaq 100 surge 44% in 2023, the conclusions in the paper go further. They depict a market that beneath its surfa...

AI in space! NASA to roll out ChatGPT-like chatbot for astronauts to talk to spacecraft

26Jun

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AI in space! NASA to roll out ChatGPT-like chatbot for astronauts to talk to spacecraft

[ad_1] ChatGPT has taken over every aspect of human activity imaginable on Earth and now it is spreading its tentacles to space too. NASA engineers are working on the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. It is likely to be similar to ChatGPT. Amazingly, just like in science fiction novels, it will enable astronauts to have conversations with their spacecraft. For example, this advancement in communication capabilities brings to mind the iconic depiction of HAL 9000, the supercomputer in the science fiction novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C, Clarke - it conversed with mission pilots on a spacecraft bound for Jupiter.The focus of NASA's efforts is the Lunar Gateway. It is an upcoming "extraterrestrial" space station scheduled for launch in November 2024. This ...

Andreessen-Backed AI Startup Pinecone Valued at $750 Million

28Apr

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Andreessen-Backed AI Startup Pinecone Valued at $750 Million

[ad_1] Pinecone Systems Inc., a startup whose platform supports artificial intelligence software, has raised $100 million in a funding round that values the company at $750 million.The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Iconiq and existing investors Menlo Ventures and Wing Venture Capital, according to a statement Thursday. The firm intends to use the capital for research and development, hiring drive and scaling up the business, Chief Executive Officer Edo Liberty said in an interview. The New York-based company was last valued at $168 million after raising $28 million in a Series A round led by Menlo Ventures in February 2022, according to data provider PitchBook. Since then, interest in AI has skyrocketed as chatbots such as ChatGPT have attracted wider att...

SenseTime Soars on Speculation; It Will Create AI Rival to ChatGPT

5Apr

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SenseTime Soars on Speculation; It Will Create AI Rival to ChatGPT

[ad_1] SenseTime Group Inc. rose its most in two months after speculation spread among investors that China's most valuable specialist AI company was preparing to launch a challenger to artificial intelligence phenomenon ChatGPT.Shares spiked 13% on Tuesday after talk spread on social media that the SoftBank Group Corp.-backed firm would unveil a large-scale AI model in coming days, joining the hordes of software companies now seeking to compete with OpenAI's creation. A SenseTime representative confirmed the company will soon send out invitations to a media event, without further details. Shanghai-based SenseTime, best known as a leader in AI-powered computer vision, would be joining an already crowded race to develop generative AI. Services like Midjourney, OpenAI's Dall-E and convers...

Germany’s biggest publisher warns AI could ‘replace’ journalism

1Mar

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Germany’s biggest publisher warns AI could ‘replace’ journalism

[ad_1] German media giant Axel Springer warned on Tuesday that journalists risked being made obsolete by artificial intelligence. "Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to make independent journalism better than it ever was -- or simply replace it," Axel Springer CEO Mathias Doepfner said in an internal letter to employees seen by AFP. Computers using AI would soon be better at the "aggregation of information" than human journalists, Doepfner predicted. He said media outlets must focus on generating exclusive news or original commentary and features if they want to survive. Investigative journalism, personality driven features and entertainment coverage were becoming "increasingly important" for the media business, Doepfner said. And divining the "true motives" behin...