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Amazon used remote workers from India to power its ‘Just Walk Out’ AI technology at stores
4Apr By adminNo Comments
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Amazon used remote workers from India to power its ‘Just Walk Out’ AI technology at stores

[ad_1] Amazon's 'Just Walk Out' technology, which promised a seamless shopping experience by eliminating the need for checkout lines, was initially hailed as a groundbreaking innovation leveraging advanced AI and sensor technology. However, a recent report by The Information has revealed that behind the scenes, the system heavily relied on manual labor, particularly from low-paid workers in India, rather than purely on AI.The Human Element: Outsourcing to Indian WorkersIntroduced in 2018, the 'Just Walk Out' system allowed customers to enter Amazon Fresh stores, pick up items they wanted to purchase, and leave without the need to check out. The technology was purported to track customers' selections using a network of cameras and sensors throughout the store. However, instead of solely...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Demand raised for crackdown against deepfakes, AI-focused Amazon cuts jobs
18Nov By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Demand raised for crackdown against deepfakes, AI-focused Amazon cuts jobs

[ad_1] Today, November 18, marked a day of shocking developments in the artificial intelligence space. In the first incident, the cofounder of OpenAI, Sam Altman, was sacked from the position of CEO of OpenAI by the company's board of directors. In the fallout of the decision, company president Greg Brockman also resigned from his position. In other news, Amazon announced it is trimming jobs at its Alexa voice assistant unit, citing shifting business priorities and a greater focus on generative artificial intelligence. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.Amazon to cut jobs to focus on AIAmazon is reducing jobs in its Alexa voice assistant unit, citing changes in business priorities and a higher emphasis on generative AI, said a report by Reuters. The job cuts ...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Samsung Gauss unveiled, Meta asks for disclosure on political AI ads, more
8Nov By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Samsung Gauss unveiled, Meta asks for disclosure on political AI ads, more

[ad_1] Today, November 8, was another exciting day for the artificial intelligence field as major tech firms made headlines for forays in AI. In the first incident, Samsung introduced a new generative AI model, Samsung Gauss, during its AI forum. The company claims that it can run locally on devices, and some reports are suggesting that it can be introduced in the Galaxy S24 series. In other news, Meta will require advertisers to disclose when political or social issue ads have been created or altered by AI. This will begin starting 2024. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.Samsung unveils generative AI modelSamsung is developing a new generative AI model called Samsung Gauss, which can run locally on devices. According to a report by Korea Times, Gauss can be...
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Amazon’s New AI Will Make Its Junk Problem Even Worse
30Oct By adminNo Comments
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Amazon’s New AI Will Make Its Junk Problem Even Worse

[ad_1] Of all the negative articles written about Amazon.com Inc. through the years, one piece in particular stung the company more than most. Claiming that Amazon's aggressive pursuit of growth had come at the expense of a good shopping experience for its customers, New York magazine this January criticized what it called “The Junkification of Amazon.”It's true that Amazon's online store experience had deteriorated due to unreliable and untrustworthy third-party sellers, many of which are fly-by-night brands — many based in China — with scant regard for quality, reliability and in some cases safety. At its immense scale, Amazon had developed a tumorous trust problem.  I was reminded of the article this week when learning about a new initiative Amazon is working on to give its sellers t...
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Amazon rallies on cloud recovery as it chases Microsoft for AI business
27Oct By adminNo Comments
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Amazon rallies on cloud recovery as it chases Microsoft for AI business

[ad_1] Amazon.com rallied nearly 6% on Friday on signs that growth in its main profit driver, the cloud business, was picking up pace after two years of sluggishness due to lower client spending.The company was on track to add more than $70 billion to its market capitalization based on its premarket share price of $127. Smaller cloud rivals Microsoft and Alphabet also gained around 1% each. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on Thursday the cloud business was stabilizing as large expansions with existing customers and first-time agreements were likely to aid growth in the final three months of the year. He also touted the AI opportunity for Amazon Web Services (AWS), saying that he expected the technology to lead to "tens of billions of dollars in revenue over the next several years".Wall Stree...
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Amazon, Google, Meta and other tech firms agree to AI safeguards set by the White House
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Amazon, Google, Meta and other tech firms agree to AI safeguards set by the White House

[ad_1] President Joe Biden said Friday that new commitments by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other companies that are leading the development of artificial intelligence technology to meet a set of AI safeguards brokered by his White House are an important step toward managing the “enormous” promise and risks posed by the technology.Biden announced that his administration has secured voluntary commitments from seven U.S. companies meant to ensure their AI products are safe before they release them. Some of the commitments call for third-party oversight of the workings of commercial AI systems, though they don't detail who will audit the technology or hold the companies accountable. “We must be clear eyed and vigilant about the threats emerging technologies can pose," Biden said, ad...
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3 things about AI you may have missed today: AI replaces camera lens, Amazon’s new AI tool, more
1Jun By adminNo Comments
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3 things about AI you may have missed today: AI replaces camera lens, Amazon’s new AI tool, more

[ad_1] The month of June has begun and it comes with more exciting developments in the world of artificial intelligence. Highlighting yet another use case of AI, Meta, and YouTube have revealed that they are using AI to remove disturbing content, including videos of war crimes, from their platforms. In other news, Photographica emerges as a unique AI tool that claims to replace camera lenses with location data. Amazon will soon use AI tools to screen damaged goods and reduce their order return volume. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a look.AI replaces camera lensAI tools continue to blow our minds. A new AI website called Paragraphica has taken the limits of what artificial intelligence can do to the next level. The website uses location data from your device to know wh...
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What is Nvidia’s role in the AI boom and why are its shares soaring?
31May By adminNo Comments
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What is Nvidia’s role in the AI boom and why are its shares soaring?

[ad_1]  Nvidia Corp soared to a trillion-dollar market value on Tuesday as shares continued to surge after a bumper earnings report that forced Wall Street to reassess the potential windfall for the chipmaker from an artificial intelligence boom.Here's an explainer on Nvidia and its role in AI boom.HOW BIG IS NVIDIA IN TERMS OF MARKET VALUE? Nvidia's $1 trillion valuation makes it the fifth most valuable U.S. company behind Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon. FROM GAMING TO AI: NVIDIA'S FOCUS SHIFTNvidia, known for its chips used in videogames, pivoted to the data center market over the last few years.The company's business rapidly expanded during the pandemic when gaming took off, cloud adoption surged and crypto enthusiasts turned to its chips for mining coins.Data center chip busi...
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Amazon Unveils New Gadgets as AI Race Heats Up
18May By adminNo Comments
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Amazon Unveils New Gadgets as AI Race Heats Up

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc. introduced an updated slate of Echo devices and pledged to bring ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence to Alexa-powered gadgets.For more than a year the digital assistant has been using a home-built set of large language models — the foundational networks that enable ChatGPT and rival technologies — to help summarize text gathered from the web and make Alexa more conversant in various languages, Dave Limp, Amazon's senior vice president of Devices & Services, said in an interview. New, more conversational capabilities will “roll out incrementally,” he said. “It's not years away, but there are some things that we have to solve.” Amazon on Wednesday announced four updated Alexa devices:The Echo Pop, which takes the company's spherical, fabric-covered Echo Dot sm...
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