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Microsoft onboards former Google DeepMind co-founder to head AI products including Copilot and Bing
20Mar By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft onboards former Google DeepMind co-founder to head AI products including Copilot and Bing

[ad_1] In a big win for the company and a boost for its attempts to further broaden its horizons when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft has announced that Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman has joined the company as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft AI. Suleyman will also serve as the head of consumer AI products such as Copilot, Bing and Edge, as well as research.Google DeepMind co-founder joins MicrosoftIn 2010, Mustafa Suleyman co-founded AI technology company DeepMind, which was later acquired by Google in 2014. He was involved in multiple projects up until 2019 when he was promoted to the Vice President of AI Policy and Product Management. Suleyman left Google in 2022 and founded Inflection AI, a company that specializes in machine learning a...
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AI will drive productivity in India and be relevant for rest of the world, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says
12Feb By adminNo Comments
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AI will drive productivity in India and be relevant for rest of the world, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says

[ad_1] Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's tour of India has put the spotlight on artificial intelligence and he has highlighted the abilities of the country's technology workforce to provide transformational economic growth and that too at good speed. India could be one of the countries that can benefit significantly from AI which may also result in solving the country's distinctive structural issues according to Nadella. In a number of interviews over the last few days, Nadella has said that he believes India, with its wide range of talent and massive developer community, could give major competition to developed countries even in this space and achieve transformational change. So, even though India initially missed the digital bus when it came Internet, computers, smartphones and more, cur...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urges India to invest in AI for economic growth
7Feb By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urges India to invest in AI for economic growth

[ad_1] With the recent boom in AI, the world's biggest companies are making efforts to incorporate this technology into their suite of products in a bid to attract more users and drive profits. While it is being debated whether the opportunities arisen courtesy of AI outweigh its dangers, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has called on India as well as other countries to heavily invest in the technology. Nadella also highlighted that India has a unique opportunity to drive its economic growth by leveraging AI.Satya Nadella on AI“AI is really in the air now,” Bloomberg quoted Nadella saying during a keynote speech with industry leaders at the iconic Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai. “I have never seen a rate of diffusion of any technology like this in the 70-year-long computer age.” He said Microsoft...
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WEF 2024: What AI can do to science, will be most interesting: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
16Jan By adminNo Comments
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WEF 2024: What AI can do to science, will be most interesting: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

[ad_1] Artificial Intelligence (AI) may have given new tools to science, but the most interesting thing to watch out for will be what it can do to accelerate science, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella said on Tuesday. He also dismissed concerns that AI cannot be governed or regulated. "There is nothing that cannot be controlled or governed by humankind for better use and this is one of the easiest and simplest technologies. What is needed is that it is governed properly and I'm sure it will happen," Nadella said. He also said that the last thing the world needs is technology creating a divide and "we need to be watchful of it". We are now on WhatsApp. Click here to join. Speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (WEF) 2024, Microsoft's Chairman and CEO said Artificial Intelligen...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Judges allowed to embrace AI, Microsoft’s AI odyssey, more
8Jan By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Judges allowed to embrace AI, Microsoft’s AI odyssey, more

[ad_1] Judges in England and Wales have been given a cautious approval to embrace AI for legal opinions; Big Tech's AI leaves businesses exposed to copyright claims; Layered Reality's AI hologram of Elvis offers time-travel-like experience; Deloitte implements AI chatbot 'PairD' to boost employee productivity- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look. 1. Judges in England and Wales cautiously embrace AI for legal opinionsEngland and Wales permit judges have been allowed to cautiously employ AI for crafting legal opinions. This marks a huge step into a new era in their centuries-old legal system. The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary emphasise AI's role in opinion writing but caution against its use in research and legal analyses due to potential fabrication and bias. Second-h...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Bing AI gets election info wrong, AI risk to financial systems, more
15Dec By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Bing AI gets election info wrong, AI risk to financial systems, more

[ad_1] Today, December 15, the artificial intelligence space was filled with twists and turns, and the familiar foe of emerging technology, AI hallucination, has made a comeback. In the first incident, Microsoft's AI chatbot Bing AI made a major blunder while answering questions on elections in Germany and Switzerland. In other news, the US Financial Stability Oversight Council has found that the rapid adoption of AI can pose new risks for the financial system of the country. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.Microsoft's Bing AI wrongly answers election questionsResearch from European nonprofits AI Forensics and AlgorithmWatch indicates that Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot, now called Microsoft Copilot, provided inaccurate answers to 1 in 3 basic questions about...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI voice changer, Microsoft boss says no chance for AGI, more
30Nov By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI voice changer, Microsoft boss says no chance for AGI, more

[ad_1] Today is the last day of November and as the end of the year festivities appear near the horizon, the artificial intelligence space is still hard at work. In the first news today, Voicemod, a popular AI voice changer app available on PC and Mac, has received a new update that will allow users to create new voices from scratch. In other news, Microsoft President Brad Smith addressed the rumors about OpenAI making a breakthrough toward AGI and said that there is no probability that we will see AGI anytime soon. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look. Voicemod gets an updateVoicemod has introduced new features allowing users to easily create and share their own customized AI voices, reports The Verge. Widely popular among gamers and streamers, Voicemod initia...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Discord to shut down Clyde AI, Microsoft tweaks AI, more
17Nov By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Discord to shut down Clyde AI, Microsoft tweaks AI, more

[ad_1] The weekend is almost here but before you zone out, here are the most noteworthy developments from the artificial intelligence world. In the first incident, Discord, the popular social media platform is getting rid of its in-house experimental AI chatbot Clyde. It will no longer be available from December 1, 2023. In other news, Microsoft has made changes to its AI image generator tool after it created very close resembling images of Disney posters, along with its logo. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.Discord is shutting down its AI chatbotDiscord is discontinuing Clyde, its experimental AI chatbot, by deactivating it at the end of the month, as per a note by the company. Users will no longer be able to invoke Clyde in direct messages, group message...
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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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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Canva rolls out AI tools, Paytm CEO to invest in AI, and more
23Oct By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Canva rolls out AI tools, Paytm CEO to invest in AI, and more

[ad_1] AI Roundup: Morgan Stanley analysts predict that the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) could prove to be beneficial for Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation. In a separate development, Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma announced plans to invest Rs. 300 crore in India's AI and electric vehicle sectors through the VSS Investments Fund. Moreover, Canva introduced AI-powered K-12 education products as part of its Canva for Education platform.All this, and more in today's AI roundup. 1. Xbox, Sony will benefit from AI adoptionAs the AI race heats up, Microsoft and Sony could benefit from the adoption of this technology in video games, Bloomberg reported on Monday. According to Morgan Stanley analysts, Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation will be “the most clear-c...
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