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AI risks repeating social media era’s mistakes: Microsoft president
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AI risks repeating social media era’s mistakes: Microsoft president

[ad_1] Breakneck development of artificial intelligence risked repeating mistakes made by the tech industry at the start of the social media era, Microsoft president Brad Smith told a business forum on Friday.Rapid advancements in AI have stoked global alarm over the technology's potential for disinformation, misuse and upheaval of the labour market. But Smith suggested these misgivings were not reflected by the developers of the potentially revolutionary technology, whose optimism reminded him of the early years of social media platforms. Back then, the tech industry "became a little too euphoric about all the good things that social media would bring to the world -- and there have been many -- without thinking about the risks as well," he said."We need to be clear-eyed, we need to be ...
5 things about AI you may have missed today: Alibaba launches AI models, Microsoft President warns against AI and more
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Alibaba launches AI models, Microsoft President warns against AI and more

[ad_1] AI Roundup: Microsoft President Brad Smith today warned against the rapid development of AI as it could lead to tech companies making similar mistakes as the early years of social media. On the other hand, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna claimed that AI could not only increase productivity, but also lower business costs.All this, and more in our today's AI roundup. 1. Alibaba launches two AI modelsWith the growing demands in the field of AI, Alibaba launched two AI models on Friday. As per a CNBC report, the two models, named Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat, will be open source, allowing developers around the world to utilize them. The Qwen-VL-Chat bot is capable of carrying out more complex conversations than its predecessor and it can answer a multitude of questions. It can also generate image...
Microsoft president goes to Europe to shape AI regulation debate
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Microsoft president goes to Europe to shape AI regulation debate

[ad_1] Microsoft President Brad Smith on Thursday talked up the benefits of regulating artificial intelligence and how the U.S. software giant can help, reiterating a message to a Brussels audience that he delivered in Washington last month.Together with Twitter-owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Smith has sought to court regulators and lawmakers with calls for regulating AI, a technology that has drawn massive public interest with the arrival of Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT. Big Tech has shared suggestions on how best to regulate AI, which could help to blunt some of the impact of such rules on their business. The European Union is working out the details of rules known as the AI Act, a global first that could set the benchmark for other countries."Our intention is to offer constructi...
China becoming close rival of ChatGPT: Microsoft President
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China becoming close rival of ChatGPT: Microsoft President

[ad_1] Microsoft President Brad Smith on Saturday warned that Chinese research organisations and companies will emerge as major rivals of ChatGPT, according to a report in Nikkei Asia.The tech giant is the biggest investor in OpenAI, the developer of the AI-powered chatbot. Smith said China will not be far behind as competition heats up among US technology giants such as Amazon and Google in the development of generative AI, according to Nikkei Asia. "We see three at the absolute forefront," Smith said in an interview in Tokyo with Nikkei Asia. One is Open AI with Microsoft, the second is Google, and "the third is the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence. ""Who's ahead and who's behind can change a bit from one part of the year to another, but one thing has been absolutely constan...
Microsoft President Wants More Training for Workers to Fight Climate Change
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Microsoft President Wants More Training for Workers to Fight Climate Change

[ad_1] Brad Smith says employees need to learn more about carbon accounting, green procurement and supply chain management for companies to fight global warming. Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith is calling for companies, schools and governments to dramatically increase training workers for new and redesigned roles tackling the climate crisis. The software giant, which has pledged to remove more carbon than it emits by 2030, says the lack of skills in areas like carbon accounting, green procurement and supply chain management is a threat to the kind of progress needed to arrest global warming.The company, along with the Boston Consulting Group, studied 15 companies they said were leading the pack in sustainability innovation to produce a report on what's needed. Microsoft plans to ...