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5 things about AI you may have missed today: UK firm disables rogue AI chatbot, GenAI risk, more
20Jan By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: UK firm disables rogue AI chatbot, GenAI risk, more

[ad_1] UK Parcel firm disables AI chat after poetic bot critiques customer service; AI flags patients pre-surgery alcohol risks, outperformed diagnosis codes; California community unveils AI tech to prevent School shootings; Mark Zuckerberg's open source AGI sparks concerns among experts- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. UK Parcel firm disables AI chat after poetic bot critiques customer service A UK parcel delivery firm has disabled its AI chat function after a user coaxed the system into composing a poem criticizing the company's customer service. Frustrated with the bot's lack of assistance, the user requested a poem, leading to verses describing the bot as useless. The incident gained attention on social media with 1.1 million views. The firm opted to shut d...
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Adecco chief says AI will create serious concerns for jobs, but will birth new positions
15Jan By adminNo Comments
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Adecco chief says AI will create serious concerns for jobs, but will birth new positions

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence raises serious concerns for jobs but it will also create new positions, the head of Adecco, the world's biggest temporary staffing agency, told AFP. From meteorologists to lawyers and screenwriters, generative AI capable of creating content -- such as the chatbot ChatGPT -- could change the contours of many professions. But it will also create new positions, according to Denis Machuel, the chief executive of Zurich-based Adecco.- How will AI disrupt the world of work? -Machuel: "It's probably the largest disruption and revolution that we've seen in decades. It's going to be massive. And let's be clear, no one really knows or can really anticipate with a precise view what's going to happen in the next five years. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. "All ...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: LimeChat unveils AI chatbot, Mahindra scraps AI influencer, and more
11Jan By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: LimeChat unveils AI chatbot, Mahindra scraps AI influencer, and more

[ad_1] AI Roundup: Several notable developments took place in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) today, January 11. Mahindra scrapped plans for Ava, its AI influencer, just a day after unveiling it. The company faced backlash on social media platforms. Meanwhile, Nvidia VP emphasized the need for infrastructure for sovereign AI in India during his address in Gujarat. LimeChat introduced an AI-powered chatbot in partnership with Microsoft.All this, and more in today's AI roundup. 1. LimeChat partners with Microsoft to launch AI chatbotLimeChat, in collaboration with Microsoft, today announced the release of an advanced AI-powered chatbot. Bolstering support solutions, the AI chatbot aims to provide an enhanced, efficient, secure, and personalized customer service experience, accor...
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Microsoft Copilot app is now available for iPhones; the AI chatbot can generate text and images
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft Copilot app is now available for iPhones; the AI chatbot can generate text and images

[ad_1] After OpenAI launched its ChatGPT app on Android and iOS, Microsoft has followed suit. Just days after launching the Android app, Microsoft Copilot, the company's AI chatbot integrated with the Bing search engine, is now available for iPhones too. The app has also been optimized for iPads and is available for iPadOS. The app, unlike its web avatar, is a standalone AI chatbot that can answer questions in both text as well as image formats. The app is free to use.The Microsoft Copilot app for iOS can be accessed here. Interestingly, where ChatGPT only lets you access the GPT 3.5 version on the free account, Microsoft is letting you get access to GPT 4 through the Copilot app. On its app info page, it said, “Copilot is a pioneering chat assistant from Microsoft powered by the latest...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI adoption by Indian businesses, Nasscom survey, AI in cancer fight, more
26Dec By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI adoption by Indian businesses, Nasscom survey, AI in cancer fight, more

[ad_1] Today, December 26, is the day after Christmas, also known as Boxing Day. As Businesses open again and people return to work, we have new artificial intelligence developments to report on. At first, a Nasscom survey found that the majority of Indian businesses have reported having either matured Responsible AI (RAI) practices and policies or having initiated formal steps towards the adoption of such responsible practices. In other news, researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have run tests and found that doctors can more efficiently catch cancer-causing tumors during colonoscopy with the help of AI. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.Indian businesses take steps for responsible AI adoptionAccording to a Nasscom survey, almost 60 percent of ...
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Alphabet to limit election queries Bard and AI-based search can answer
20Dec By adminNo Comments
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Alphabet to limit election queries Bard and AI-based search can answer

[ad_1] Alphabet's Google said on Tuesday it will restrict the types of election-related queries its chatbot Bard and search generative experience can return responses for, in the run up to 2024 U.S. Presidential election. The restrictions are set to be enforced by early 2024, the company said. Aside from the U.S., a slew of groundbreaking elections are expected in 2024, including national elections in India, the world's largest democracy, and South Africa, among others. The tech giant said it will "work with an increased focus on the role artificial intelligence (AI) might play" as it looks to service voters and campaigns related to these elections. Facebook-owner Meta had also said in November it is barring political campaigns and advertisers in other regulated industries from using ...
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ChatGPT limited in producing environmental justice information on rural counties: US study
18Dec By adminNo Comments
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ChatGPT limited in producing environmental justice information on rural counties: US study

[ad_1] Researchers have discovered the limits to ChatGPT's ability to provide location-specific information about environmental justice issues, which they said possibly hint at the chatbot's geographic biases. The researchers at Virginia Tech University in the US asked ChatGPT to answer a prompt about the environmental justice issues in each of the 3,108 counties across the states of the country. ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, developed by OpenAI, that is trained extensively on massive amounts of data in natural language. Such AI tools, also called large language models, can process, manipulate and generate textual responses based on users' requests, or "prompts".The researchers found that while ChatGPT displayed an ability to identify location-specific envir...
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Ola Founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI Startup Krutrim Launches Indian Large Language Model
16Dec By adminNo Comments
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Ola Founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI Startup Krutrim Launches Indian Large Language Model

[ad_1]  Krutrim, an artificial intelligence startup founded by serial entrepreneur Bhavish Aggarwal, has launched India's first multilingual large language model, which can generate text in 10 Indian languages. “Our LLM is voice-enabled, and able to understand several languages and even as a mix of languages such as Hinglish — Hindi and English,” Aggarwal said at the Friday event in Bangalore, hosted on the campus of Ola Group, where he's chief executive officer. “It's uniquely Indian.” Krutrim, which translates to “artificial” in Sanskrit, is also developing data centers and will ultimately aim to create servers and super computers for the AI ecosystem. The chatbot will be available in a beta version in January. Prototypes of the servers will be out in mid 2024 and production will star...
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2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence — and weren’t sure what to do about it
15Dec By adminNo Comments
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2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence — and weren’t sure what to do about it

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence went mainstream in 2023 — it was a long time coming yet has a long way to go for the technology to match people's science fiction fantasies of human-like machines. Catalyzing a year of AI fanfare was ChatGPT. The chatbot gave the world a glimpse of recent advances in computer science even if not everyone figured out quite how it works or what to do with it. “I would call this an inflection moment,” pioneering AI scientist Fei-Fei Li said. “2023 is, in history, hopefully going to be remembered for the profound changes of the technology as well as the public awakening. It also shows how messy this technology is.” It was a year for people to figure out “what this is, how to use it, what's the impact — all the good, the bad and the ugly," she said. PANIC OVE...
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Looking for ChatGPT alternatives? Check these top 5 replacements – Bard, Copilot, more
13Dec By adminNo Comments
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Looking for ChatGPT alternatives? Check these top 5 replacements – Bard, Copilot, more

[ad_1] Ever since it was launched in November 2022, OpenAI's ChatGPT has created an artificial intelligence frenzy that is still going strong. ChatGPT is the pioneer when it comes to generative AI chatbot technology, and with its Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) foundational model, it can do pretty much anything a modern AI chatbot can. However, it is also one of the most general-purpose chatbots there is. If your use case requires you to go for something more nuanced or for a different capability, then these are the best ChatGPT alternatives that you should know about. The list includes Google Bard, Microsoft Copilot, and more. Best ChatGPT alternatives1. Google Bard: Google Bard is based on the company's next-generation language and conversation capabilities powered by their L...
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