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Amazon to supercharge Alexa AI, make you pay; know all about the rumoured ‘Alexa Plus’

19Jan

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Amazon to supercharge Alexa AI, make you pay; know all about the rumoured ‘Alexa Plus’

[ad_1] Amazon Alexa has become one of the biggest names in recent years in the world of AI-powered voice assistants. It is quite useful when it comes to tasks such as playing music, solving queries and even entertaining kids. It can even control smart home devices such as your TV, lights, AC, washing machine, and more. However, it seems like Amazon is set to enhance its capabilities by supercharging it with personalized artificial intelligence (AI) technology. But there is a catch. To use this new Alexa AI tool - aka Alexa Plus - you will have to pay for it. And what is more, it may not even be too accurate in its answers and that is a sticking point that has been highlighted internally. Alexa AI paid subscriptionAccording to a Business Insider report, Amazon Alexa AI voice assistant wi...

5 things about AI you may have missed today: India preparing AI regulations, IBM’s AI acquisition, more

19Dec

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: India preparing AI regulations, IBM’s AI acquisition, more

[ad_1] Today, December 19, has turned out to be an important day for artificial intelligence, especially for India. The government has announced that it has commenced the process of formulating regulations on AI to foster development, protection, and innovation in this space. In other news, IBM has revealed its plans to acquire StreamSets and webMethods platforms of Software AG for a total of 2.3 billion dollars in a bid to improve its own AI offerings. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.Indian government preparing AI regulationsThe Indian government has initiated the process of formulating regulations for AI to promote development, protection, and innovation in the field, reported PTI. The Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (...

1Dec

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Big Tech in charge as ChatGPT turns one

[ad_1] A year after the history-making release of ChatGPT, the AI revolution is here, but the recent boardroom crisis at OpenAI, the super app's company, has erased any doubt that Big Tech is in charge.In some ways, the discreet reveal of ChatGPT on November 30 last year was the revenge of the geeks, the unsung researchers and engineers who have been quietly building generative AI behind the scenes. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, a well-known figure in technology circles, but still little known beyond that, with the release of ChatGPT made sure that this unheralded AI tech would get the attention it deserves. ChatGPT became the fastest adopted app in history (since taken over by Meta's Threads) as users marveled at the generation of poems, recipes -- or whatever the internet could muster -- in ...

Cutting-edge AI raises fears about risks to humanity. Are tech and political leaders doing enough?

1Nov

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Cutting-edge AI raises fears about risks to humanity. Are tech and political leaders doing enough?

[ad_1] Chatbots like ChatGPT wowed the world with their ability to write speeches, plan vacations or hold a conversation as good as or arguably even better than humans do, thanks to cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems. Now, frontier AI has become the latest buzzword as concerns grow that the emerging technology has capabilities that could endanger humanity.Everyone from the British government to top researchers and even major AI companies themselves are raising the alarm about frontier AI's as-yet-unknown dangers and calling for safeguards to protect people from its existential threats. The debate comes to a head Wednesday, when British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosts a two-day summit focused on frontier AI. It's reportedly expected to draw a group of about 100 officials from ...

5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI-linked sports betting, AI to assess aging drivers for insurers and more

22Oct

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI-linked sports betting, AI to assess aging drivers for insurers and more

[ad_1] ScaleAI aims to be America's AI arms dealer in race against China; AI to personalise sports betting by bringing Netflix-like experience to wagers; Wikipedia's citation woes may be solved by AI, study suggests; Insurers turn to AI to assess cognitive decline in aging drivers- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. ScaleAI aims to be America's AI arms dealer in race against ChinaAlexandr Wang, CEO of ScaleAI, aims to provide the U.S. military with AI tech to gain an edge over China. ScaleAI has won a $249 million contract with the Department of Defense and has deployed its large language model chatbot, Donovan, on a classified Army network. Wang believes that private tech companies are essential for developing AI that will maintain the U.S.'s military's superiori...

BYJU’S inducts generative AI for guiding students; says it won’t replace teachers

9Jun

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BYJU’S inducts generative AI for guiding students; says it won’t replace teachers

[ad_1] Edtech major BYJU's on Wednesday said it has introduced generative artificial intelligence in its learning modules with an avowal that the technology will not replace teachers.The company has introduced a new suite of three AI models under BYJU's WIZ suite -- BADRI, Math GPT, and TeacherGPT -- to understand students' learning patterns and develop methodology on its own that will help them learn better. BYJU's co-founder Divya Gokulnath told PTI that implementation of AI is not meant to replace teachers but to generate efficiency in the organisation and help teachers focus on better placed tasks. She said that videos have been used in the learning system but they have not replaced teachers."No AI could replace what we did as teachers do in that video. No AI can replace what we as ...

Scale AI CEO Says US Risks Losing AI ‘Ammunition’ Edge to China

8Jun

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Scale AI CEO Says US Risks Losing AI ‘Ammunition’ Edge to China

[ad_1] The head of Scale AI, which helps companies like the designer of ChatGPT improve the data that feed their systems, said the US risks losing its edge to China in the quality of data used as “ammunition” for the powerful new tools.The US is at a “critical moment” in its race for AI supremacy against China, Scale AI Chief Executive Officer Alexandr Wang said at summit for government officials organized by his company, a start-up he founded in 2016 after dropping out of MIT. “We're risking America falling behind,” Wang said, adding that China is investing more in AI, both in absolute terms and relative to its larger defense budget. In his presentation, Wang said China's People's Liberation Army invested at least $1.6 billion in the technology in 2020, compared to the US Defense Depar...

Human extinction threat ‘overblown’ says AI sage Marcus

4Jun

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Human extinction threat ‘overblown’ says AI sage Marcus

[ad_1] Ever since the poem churning ChatGPT burst on the scene six months ago, expert Gary Marcus has voiced caution against artificial intelligence's ultra-fast development and adoption.But against AI's apocalyptic doomsayers, the New York University emeritus professor told AFP in a recent interview that the technology's existential threats may currently be "overblown." "I'm not personally that concerned about extinction risk, at least for now, because the scenarios are not that concrete," said Marcus in San Francisco. "A more general problem that I am worried about... is that we're building AI systems that we don't have very good control over and I think that poses a lot of risks, (but) maybe not literally existential."Long before the advent of ChatGPT, Marcus designed his first AI pr...

Will You Be Replaced By Your AI Clone? Maybe One Day, But Not Quite Yet

3Jun

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Will You Be Replaced By Your AI Clone? Maybe One Day, But Not Quite Yet

[ad_1] Every business has that employee it couldn't stand to lose. The outstanding one. The one you joke about cloning.Well, the joke might one day be on us as the artificial intelligence boom gathers speed. And digital clones — avatars by another name — present a world of business, economic, scientific and artistic opportunities, even as they also raise a host of ethical questions. To see just how far the technology has already progressed, Bloomberg Television anchor Tom Mackenzie cloned himself. Then he had a chat with his AI-powered twin, call him Avatar Tom.Mackenzie's digital twin, created by London-based synthetic media platform Synthesia and using ChatGPT to generate its responses, is animated by algorithms able to mimic his appearance, behavior and voice.Avatars could well be th...

Artificial intelligence can help reduce injuries, says Kane

2Jun

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Artificial intelligence can help reduce injuries, says Kane

[ad_1] England men's captain Harry Kane believes artificial intelligence (AI) could be the future of injury prevention in soccer as he bemoaned the fact that a number of leading players will miss this year's women's World Cup.England won the women's European Championship on home soil last year but enter the tournament in Australia and New Zealand starting in July without stars including former captain Leah Williamson and 2021-22 women's player of the year Beth Mead. Other major contenders including Olympic champions Canada and defending champions the United States will also be depleted. "It's been a real shame to see some of the women players go down with those injuries and big injuries as well," Kane told Reuters.The Tottenham Hotspur striker on Thursday announced his investment in Oxe...