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5 Things about AI you may have missed today: World’s first AI software tester unveiled, CGI and Microsoft on AI, more
8Apr By adminNo Comments
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5 Things about AI you may have missed today: World’s first AI software tester unveiled, CGI and Microsoft on AI, more

[ad_1] AI roundup: AI automation has become a new trend in the tech industry. With the growing use of AI, a company named TestGrid unveiled the world's first AI Software Tester which will simplify the automation testing process. In other news, CGI and Microsoft had a brief discussion about the digital revolution and generative AI's impact on our lives. Know more about what happened in the world of AI in our roundup.The world's first AI software tester announcedTestGrid a leading automation testing company unveiled CoTester, an AI-powered software tester, providing ease to the automation tester. The tool has the ability to understand complex software testing and it can work on different testing frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, and others. Harry Rao, the CEO & Founder of TestGrid...
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We need to know how AI firms fight deepfakes
12Feb By adminNo Comments
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We need to know how AI firms fight deepfakes

[ad_1] When people fret about artificial intelligence, it's not just due to what they see in the future but what they remember from the past -- notably the toxic effects of social media. For years, misinformation and hate speech evaded Facebook and Twitter's policing systems and spread around the globe. Now deepfakes are infiltrating those same platforms, and while Facebook is still responsible for how bad stuff gets distributed, the AI companies making them have a clean-up role too. Unfortunately, just like the social media firms before them, they're carrying out that work behind closed doors.I reached out to a dozen generative AI firms whose tools could generate photorealistic images, videos, text and voices, to ask how they made sure that their users complied with their rules.(1) Ten...
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Microsoft, Google Woo India Programmers to Win AI Leadership
2Feb By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft, Google Woo India Programmers to Win AI Leadership

[ad_1] Top executives from Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. are touring India over the next week to court the country's millions of programmers and support the adoption of artificial intelligence services in a key market. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella will address developers and technologists on “discovering new opportunities with AI” during a visit next week in Bangalore, the country's technology epicenter. He'll also speak to industry leaders in Mumbai about the opportunities and challenges with next-generation AI. Separately, Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean will speak on AI's next frontier with researchers, developers and startups in Bangalore and then participate in a fireside chat about India's role in enabling AI to drive massive societal impact.The dueling a...
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AI companies will need to start reporting their safety tests to the US government
30Jan By adminNo Comments
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AI companies will need to start reporting their safety tests to the US government

[ad_1] The Biden administration will start implementing a new requirement for the developers of major artificial intelligence systems to disclose their safety test results to the government.The White House AI Council is scheduled to meet Monday to review progress made on the executive order that President Joe Biden signed three months ago to manage the fast-evolving technology. Chief among the 90-day goals from the order was a mandate under the Defense Production Act that AI companies share vital information with the Commerce Department, including safety tests. Ben Buchanan, the White House special adviser on AI, said in an interview that the government wants "to know AI systems are safe before they're released to the public — the president has been very clear that companies need to mee...
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OpenAI Director Adam D’Angelo, Who Helped Oust Sam Altman, Now Key Player in Startup’s Future
30Nov By adminNo Comments
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OpenAI Director Adam D’Angelo, Who Helped Oust Sam Altman, Now Key Player in Startup’s Future

[ad_1] Two days after Sam Altman reached an agreement with OpenAI to return as its chief executive, he spent part of his Thanksgiving with Adam D'Angelo, one of the company's board members who had fired him the week prior. Their hours-long meeting, which Altman called “really nice,” highlights D'Angelo's unique role in a corporate drama that has captivated Silicon Valley — and the importance of their relationship in restoring some stability at the world's best-known artificial intelligence startup. As part of the deal to bring Altman back, the board is set to be completely overhauled, with one exception: D'Angelo will stay on as a director.D'Angelo's staying power at the company may have surprised some given his part in ousting Altman for not being “consistently candid in his communicat...
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AI Companies Must Rethink How They Pay For Data, Lanier says
17Nov By adminNo Comments
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AI Companies Must Rethink How They Pay For Data, Lanier says

[ad_1] Some prominent figures in Silicon Valley have suggested artificial intelligence will eventually create so much wealth that companies could redistribute it to the public, including people whose livelihoods were impacted by AI. But Jaron Lanier sees problems with that plan. “I don't want to create more people who are just dependent on state payout to survive,” said Lanier, a technology pioneer and Microsoft Corp.'s Prime Unifying Scientist. “I want to create more, if you like, creative classes of people who are really good at providing fresh data that makes the models work better. So everybody benefits.” Lanier made the remarks during a wide-ranging interview for the latest episode of the Bloomberg Originals series AI IRL, available to stream now. (Although employed by Microsoft, h...
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Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work
1Sep By adminNo Comments
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Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work

[ad_1] Kelly McKernan's acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The style, in the artist's words, is “surreal, ethereal … dealing with discomfort in the human journey.”The word “human” has a special resonance for McKernan these days. Although it's always been a challenge to eke out a living as a visual artist — and the pandemic made it worse — McKernan now sees an existential threat from a medium that's decidedly not human: artificial intelligence. It's been about a year since McKernan, who uses the pronoun they, began noticing online images eerily similar to their own distinctive style that were apparently generated by entering their name into an AI engine. The Nashville-based McKernan,...
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Investors Are Happy to Pay Premium for Tech, But Not for AI
31Jul By adminNo Comments
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Investors Are Happy to Pay Premium for Tech, But Not for AI

[ad_1] Investors on Wall Street and beyond are betting that the great tech rally of 2023 has staying power, even as they appear skeptical that the artificial-intelligence era will live up to the hype.Some 77% of the 514 respondents to the latest Markets Live Pulse survey are planning to either increase their exposure to technology stocks or keep it steady over the next six months. Meanwhile, less than 10% see a bubble in the sector bursting anytime soon. That bullishness has pushed the Nasdaq 100 to its best first half in history, ramping up market valuations and blindsiding pros on the Street. Yet while survey participants are likely riding the AI-fueled market melt-up thanks to their broad equity exposure, they aren't going all-in on the technology just yet. Half are disinclined to pa...
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AI in Washington’s crosshairs but consensus far from certain
16May By adminNo Comments
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AI in Washington’s crosshairs but consensus far from certain

[ad_1] U.S. lawmakers are grappling with what guardrails to put around burgeoning artificial intelligence, but months after ChatGPT got Washington's attention, consensus is far from certain. Interviews with a U.S. senator, congressional staffers, AI companies and interest groups show there are a number of options under discussion. The debate will be in focus on Tuesday when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman makes his first appearance before a Senate panel. Some proposals focus on AI that may put people's lives or livelihoods at risk, like in medicine and finance. Other possibilities include rules to ensure AI isn't used to discriminate or violate someone's civil rights. Another debate is whether to regulate the developer of AI or the company that uses it to interact with consumers. And OpenAI, th...
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Google is falling behind in AI arms race, senior engineer warns
5May By adminNo Comments
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Google is falling behind in AI arms race, senior engineer warns

[ad_1] A senior software engineer at Google wrote a critique asserting that the internet search leader is losing its edge in artificial intelligence to the open-source community, where many independent researchers use AI technology to make rapid and unexpected advances.The engineer, Luke Sernau, published the document on an internal system at Google in early April. Over the past few weeks, the document was shared thousands of times among Googlers, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to discuss internal company matters. On Thursday, the document was published by the consulting firm SemiAnalysis, and made the rounds in Silicon Valley. In Sernau's analysis, Google's rivalry with startup OpenAI had distracted from the ra...
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