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☆ AI tools from Microsoft and Google are just streamlining middle management, leading AI expert says: WSJ
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini have been advertised as AI-powered productivity tools. But Ethan Mollick, a leading AI expert, has a more cynical view of the products. Copilot automates middle management while Gemini makes surveillance easier, he told WSJ. AdvertisementMicrosoft and Google rolled out their own AI-powered productivity tools last year, touting them as products that could revolutionize how people work. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Ethan Mollick, —, JP Morgan Organizations: Microsoft, Google, Gemini, Service, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, White, Business

☆ Opinion | How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s something of a paradox that has defined my experience with artificial intelligence in this particular moment. So I wanted to understand what I’m missing and get some tips for how I could incorporate A.I. This conversation covers the basics, including which chatbot to choose and techniques for how to get the most useful results. But the conversation goes far beyond that, too — to some of the strange, delightful and slightly unnerving ways that A.I. responds to us, and how you’ll get more out of any chatbot if you think of it as a relationship rather than a tool.

Persons: Ethan Mollick, University of Pennsylvania who’s, “, Ezra Klein, chatbot Organizations: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google

☆ It's not just Sam Altman trying to throw money at the AI chip shortage
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The race is on to address the AI chip shortage. SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is the latest tech leader who plans to invest heavily in chip production. Chips are needed to train the complex models that underpin AI — but there's not enough to go around. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is the latest tech leader to raise funds to tackle the chip shortage. So too are more speculative ambitions being pursued by both Altman and Son, such as the development of artificial general intelligence.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, it's, Masayoshi Son, Altman, Son, Ethan Mollick, ” There's, That's, Mark Zuckerberg, ” Mark Zuckerberg, JOSH EDELSON, Son’s Organizations: Service, Tech, Journal, Izanagi, Bloomberg, Kyodo, Stills, Nvidia, Samsung, Intel, ARM Locations: Tokyo

☆ AI deepfakes threaten to wreak havoc with the world's year of elections
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementRecent advances in generative AI, spurred by OpenAI's ChatGPT , mean the technology is now a much bigger problem. In the UK, research by Fenimore Harper Communications found more than 100 deepfake video ads impersonating Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Facebook. Though it's not clear exactly who is behind the deepfakes in the US and UK, the recent proliferation of AI means almost anyone with internet access and an AI tool can cause some havoc. Earlier this month, OpenAI unveiled its plans to prevent the misuse of AI ahead of this year's elections.

Persons: —, Ethan Mollick, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Joe Biden, Deepfake robocalls, Joe Biden's, Drew Angerer, Biden, Rishi Sunak, Leon Neal, Fenimore Harper's, Meta, it's, Mollick, OpenAI, Lisa Quest, Oliver Wyman, Spriha Srivastava Organizations: Service, Business, Voters, Wharton, NBC News, PLOS, Fenimore Harper Communications, Facebook, UK, Ireland Locations: Britain, India, Mexico, New Hampshire, Turkey, Malaysia, Philippines, United States, Davos

☆ Opinion | A.I. Should Be a Tool, Not a Curse, for the Future of Work
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Folding clothes and wiring a new home were two of the tasks they were asked to think about. The date of 2047 for the 50 percent chance is 13 years earlier than researchers were estimating in a survey conducted one year earlier. It’s still possible for the human race to direct A.I. Gardeners use hoes and rakes rather than clawing the soil with their bare hands, right? Artificial intelligence can be the hoes and rakes of the 21st century.

Persons: ”, Ethan Mollick, “ America’s Organizations: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Gardeners

☆ An image of Israel Kamakawiwoʻole shows Google search still can't tell AI-generated pictures apart from genuine ones
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementIf you're struggling to differentiate AI-generated images from real ones, you're not alone. An AI-generated image of the late Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwoʻole is currently showing up as the top search result on Google when you search his name. Business Insider searched for "Israel Kamakawiwoʻole" on Sunday evening and found the AI-generated images continuing to appear as the top search results. Noah Giansiracusa, a professor at Bentley University, pointed out on X that the AI-generated images show Kamakawiwoʻole playing a guitar. Google told 404 Media a day later that it had removed the AI-generated image from search results.

Persons: —, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Ethan Mollick, VdZmuUAwCK, Noah Giansiracusa, Google's, Giansiracusa, Kamakawiwoʻole, Judy Garland's, Edward Hopper, Johannes Vermeer Organizations: Service, Google, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Business, Bentley University, Reddit, Media Locations: Hawaiian, Reddit

☆ AI is going to force millions of workers to train for new jobs. The US has historically been terrible at this.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Experts say many of those workers will need to be retrained for new jobs to avoid being left behind. The US economy has struggled in recent decades to help workers adjust to job disruptions. Emerging generative AI technologies like ChatGPT could eliminate or change the nature of millions of jobs over the next decade. AdvertisementWhen Donald Trump promised to bring back manufacturing jobs before the 2016 election, he was speaking to the Americans who had been left in the lurch. But many overseas jobs aren't likely to return anytime soon, among the reasons job retraining was — and remains — necessary for impacted workers.

Persons: —, Richard Baldwin, Seth Carpenter, Morgan Stanley, hasn't, Donald Trump, Michael Chui, Chui, Ethan Mollick Organizations: Service, Global, Economic, Institute, McKinsey Global Institute, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM, Schools Locations: United States, Mexico

☆ The next phase in AI is interactive bots that can carry out tasks for you, says the cofounder of Google's AI division DeepMind
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"Generative AI is just a phase. What's next is interactive AI," said Mustafa Suleyman, the cofounder of Google DeepMind. His company, Inflection AI, launched its chatbot Pi as a rival to ChatGPT in May, focusing on personal advice and being conversational. For context, we are currently seeing the rise of generative AI tools that go beyond the chat interface popularized by ChatGPT in November. Suleyman and Inflection AI did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Ethan Mollick, Jasper Organizations: Google, Service, MIT Technology, ChatGPT, Investors, Wall Street Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Bad news, star employees: You're not the ones who'll benefit the most from AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Consultants using AI completed tasks faster and produced higher-quality results than those without, according to a new study. The greatest gains were seen by below-average performers using AI, per the study's authors. AdvertisementAdvertisementThey were then assigned a series of practical consulting tasks for a fictional shoe company and had their performance graded by human and AI raters. The greatest gains were seen by below-average performers using AI, whose average performance improved by 43%. Their above-average counterparts only saw an average performance increase of 17% from using AI.

Persons: ChatGPT, Ethan Mollick, — Organizations: Service, Boston Consulting Group, Harvard, MIT, University of Warwick, University of Pennsylvania, Fortune Locations: Wall, Silicon, Wharton

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☆ Employees Are Secretly Using ChatGPT to Get Ahead at Work
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

And he's kept right on using Bing to do his job even after his company issued a policy barring the staff from using AI. Those secretly using AI on the job — experts call it "shadow IT" — appear to be legion. Luke doesn't know whether his employer is OK with him using ChatGPT, since it hasn't issued an official policy, and he's not about to ask. Even when employers block access to AI tools at work, employees are pulling up apps like ChatGPT on their personal devices. By failing to create clear guidance on AI, companies are effectively empowering the covert users at the expense of everyone else.

Persons: Blake doesn't, Blake, Bing, hasn't, he's, ChatGPT, Blake —, Bard, Fishbowl, Ethan Mollick, they've, Gartner, Eser Rizaoglu, Alex Alonso, We're, Roberto, I'm, Roberto hasn't, Luke, —, Luke doesn't, He's, Jaap Arriens, they're, GPT, Wharton, Roberto aren't, they'll, Aki Ito Organizations: Wharton School, Gartner, Employers, Employees, Bing Locations: America

☆ ChatGPT creator says AI advocates are fooling themselves if they think the technology is only going to be good for workers: 'Jobs are definitely going to go away'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says some jobs are "definitely going to go away." New jobs could be created in their place, but not all displaced workers will benefit. In March, Goldman Sachs forecasted that 300 million full-time jobs across the globe could be disrupted — not necessarily replaced — by AI. Altman told The Atlantic that he expects better — perhaps higher-paying jobs — will be created in place of the ones that are disrupted. The question, however, is whether displaced workers will be able to navigate their way to these new gigs.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, he's, it'd, Jobs, Goldman Sachs, Carl Benedikt Frey, Ethan Mollick, — Organizations: Service, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Columbia Business School, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School Locations: Wall, Silicon, Oxford

☆ Marc Andreessen says AI will function as a lifelong 'partner' for kids with full insight into everything they've done and want — and he thinks that's a good thing
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Marc Andreessen championed AI as a personalized teaching tool for children in a podcast interview. In AI, children will have a partner "whose goal in life will be to make them as happy and satisfied and successful as possible," he said. Billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen — who has long been bullish on the tech — thinks AI is a lifelong "ally" for the children of tomorrow as they both grow up together. Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast last Wednesday, Andreessen shared how he had introduced his 8-year-old son to the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT as an educational tool. One e-commerce CEO sparked outrage for laying off 90% of his support staff after an AI chatbot outperformed them.

Persons: Marc Andreessen, Marc Andreessen —, Joe Rogan, Andreessen, it's, Andreessen Horowitz, Wharton, Ethan Mollick Organizations: ChatGPT, Morning, Billionaire, Microsoft

☆ Want to know how to get ready for the rise of AI? Dig into the past.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

It's why top researchers are looking to the past as a guide to predict how generative AI could affect workers' jobs in the years and decades to come. "It's possible that in the end, we get better jobs, but in the short term, there's a lot of disruption," Mollick said. But Raymond warned that AI could produce some less-desirable outcomes for customer-service workers, particularly if customer-support chatbots become much more capable and advanced. The extent to which AI displaces jobs will depend on how quickly it scales what Mollick calls the "three levels" of work: tasks, jobs, and systems. Instead, what I would be thinking about is: How do you figure out how to use it to do your job better?"

Persons: Ethan Mollick, Mollick, Carl Benedikt Frey —, Frey, Lindsey Raymond —, —, Raymond, that's, chatbots, Oded, There's Organizations: Service, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, MIT Sloan School of Management, White, National Bureau of Economic Research Locations: Wall, Silicon, Oxford, COVID, Columbia

☆ The AI behind ChatGPT really does seem to be getting dumber — but no one can quite figure out why
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It's not just you: new research suggests ChatGPT's AI model really is getting dumber. There's been a growing feeling for a while now that the AI model behind ChatGPT is, frankly, getting dumber. No one can quite figure out why GPT-4 is changingWhat the research doesn't seem to identify is why this performance drop has happened. As the AI model underlying a more advanced version of ChatGPT, one that paying subscribers get access to, that's a bit of a problem for OpenAI. That said, it's hard to ignore the questions of quality surrounding GPT-4 when a whole community of AI devotees is asking them.

Persons: It's, There's, OpenAI, Ethan Mollick, Wharton, OpenAI hasn't, Peter Yang, Alistair Barr, Peter Welinder, tweeting, Matei Zaharia, —, Arvind Narayanan Organizations: Stanford, UC Berkeley, Morning, Stanford University, UC Berkeley — Locations: Princeton, GPT

☆ Here's 9 ways to turn ChatGPT Plus into your personal data analyst with the new Code Interpreter plug-in
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Aaron Mok | Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Here's 9 ways ChatGPT Plus users have used Code Interpreter, from data analysis to game creation. Last week, OpenAI launched a beta version of its plug-in called Code Interpreter to users of ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20 a month. Thanks to the new plug-in, users may now be able to turn ChatGPT into their own personal data analyst. After that, Ker found open source code to help Code Interpreter devise a version of the game. Analyze playlistsWith Code Interpreter, there may be no need to wait all year for your Spotify Wrapped playlist.

Persons: OpenAI, Ethan Mollick, there'd, Mollick, Alex Ker, Ker, Greg Howe, Jason Gulya, Drake Surach, —, Surach, Kris Kashtanova, ChatGPT, Salma Aboukar, Midjourney, Wharton, — Salma Aboukar, Rick Astley Organizations: LinkedIn, ChatGPT, Twitter, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, Berkeley College, YouTube

☆ What to Know About ChatGPT’s New Code Interpreter Feature
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Yiwen Lu | More About Yiwen Lu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

How does code interpreter work? But when code interpreter is enabled, ChatGPT writes and runs a piece of computer code to find the answer, OpenAI said. “The code objectively does something right,” said Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who tested code interpreter for two months before it was released. What have people used code interpreter to do? Some people have also used code interpreter to convert the formats of files, such as turning images into videos or PDF documents into pictures.

Persons: ChatGPT, OpenAI, ”, Ethan Mollick, Mollick Organizations: University of Pennsylvania, Financial Locations: United States

☆ A Wharton professor says a new $20 ChatGPT tool can code and make graphs 'in seconds'. These tasks took him weeks to master during his doctorate.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

ChatGPT's new Code Interpreter tool was released to paying customers on 7 July. A Wharton professor said: 'Things that took me weeks to master in my Ph.D. were completed in seconds' by the tool. Even without Code Interpreter, ChatGPT already had some code-writing abilities. ChatGPT-creator OpenAI released Code Interpreter to Plus subscribers on July 7. Even without Code Interpreter, ChatGPT already had some code-writing abilities.

Persons: Wharton, ChatGPT, Ethan Mollick, Mollick, OpenAI, Insider's Aki Ito, Sarah Silverman —, Sam Altman, Peter Tennant Organizations: University of Leeds, Turing

☆ Workers are hiding their AI productivity hacks from bosses. A Wharton professor says companies should get them to share.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Wharton professor said employees are leveraging AI to increase their productivity at work. Companies should offer incentives to try and lure these workers out, the professor said. A Wharton professor has said companies should try to tempt employees to share how they're using AI to increase their personal productivity – rather than ban the tech and force them to hide it. He advised companies to try and lure these workers out, offering them incentives such as shorter days to share their discoveries. Mollick added that workers are already finding ways to get around bans on using AI at work, such as using their personal phones to access it.

Persons: Wharton, they're, Ethan Mollick, Mollick, Goldman Sachs Organizations: Companies, Morning, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Employees, Goldman

☆ 10 things in tech: Epstein appeared to threaten Gates, Apple gets its AI cut, and a Twitter hotel
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Michael Cogley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Cupertino-based tech giant is taking its usual 30% cut from users signing up to ChatGPT Plus through the app, according to a note from Bernstein analysts. A spokesperson for Gates told the WSJ that Epstein had "tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship" to threaten the tech billionaire. Microsoft's marketing chief told staffers to bump the stock prices for raises. The tech giant has already managed to outpace the market with shares up 33% so far this year. The tech giant just launched two new Pixel phones.

☆ A Wharton professor says AI is like an 'intern' who 'lies a little bit' to make their bosses happy
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

UPenn professor Ethan Mollick compares AI to an "intern" who "lies a little bit," CBS reports. Like interns, AI tools require guidance for their outputs to be useful, according to Mollick. Similar to interns who may overcompensate to get ahead of the curve, Mollick compares AI to an "infinite intern" who "lies a little bit" and, at times, wants to make their bosses "a little happy." But like interns, AI requires guidance for its outputs to be useful. Mollick's thoughts on AI come as generative AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT take the world by storm.

☆ AI is going to offer every student a personalized tutor, founder of Khan Academy says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, recently gave a TED Talk on AI's potential impact on education. The technology could offer personalized tutors to every student at a large scale, he said. Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, an educational nonprofit that aims to provide free learning resources, is not necessarily fearful of the technology. In a TED Talk that was released this week, Khan explained the potential benefits of AI across the field of education, likening the possibilities to a personalized tutor for every student. Khan said AI could also offer personalized assistance to teachers, by helping with pre-class work like lesson planning, filling out report cards, and general administrative tasks.

☆ AI Technology Like ChatGPT Will Reshape Software Coding Jobs Forever
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Their conclusion: 19% of workers hold jobs in which at least half their tasks could be completed by AI. Researchers at Microsoft and its subsidiary GitHub recently divided software developers into two groups — one with access to an AI coding assistant, and another without. Amazon has built its own AI coding assistant, CodeWhisperer, and is encouraging its engineers to use it. Another argument from the optimists: Even as AI takes over the bulk of coding, human coders will find new ways to make themselves useful by focusing on what AI can't do. So maybe, long term, human coders will survive in some new, as-yet-to-be-determined role.

☆ An academic used ChatGPT to write a letter of recommendation that helped a student win a prestigious scholarship from Cambridge
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Matt Huculak, a university librarian, used ChatGPT to help write a letter of recommendation for a student. The "heartfelt" letter may have helped the student win a prestigious scholarship to Cambridge. A screenshot of the ChatGPT-generated reference letter Huculak used as a template of what not to write. After all, writing a reference letter, Huculak said, "is a tremendously difficult task" that he finds "anxiety producing." "I think committees will quickly learn to spot ChatGPT letters," Huculak said.

☆ 35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Francesca Paris | Larry Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +24 min

People are using ChatGPT and other A.I. Here’s how 35 real people are using A.I for work, life, play and procrastination. People are using A.I to …Plan gardens. Chris Norn Researcher at the University of Washington Two years ago researchers cracked the code on using A.I. When you run a Dungeons & Dragons game, Mr. Green says, you have to be creative, but that almost always means pulling from existing fantasy literature.

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