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☆ Sam Altman says he doesn't think the world 'needs another copy of Google' because 'that's boring'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI's Sam Altman isn't interested in beating Google at search. Building a better search engine than Google, Altman said, is "boring." "I don't think the world needs another copy of Google," Altman told podcaster Lex Fridman. AdvertisementOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he isn't interested in beating Google in the search business. Advertisement"I don't think the world needs another copy of Google," Altman told Fridman.

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☆ Alphabet cuts ties with Australian AI firm that helped train Bard and Google Search
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai departs federal court on October 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. Appen, based in Australia, has helped train AI models for a star-studded list of tech behemoths. Five customers — Microsoft , Apple , Meta , Google and Amazon — have in the past accounted for 80% of Appen's revenue. Alphabet accounted for roughly one-third of Appen's revenue, meaning the decision to end the relationship will impact "at least two thousand subcontracted Alphabet workers," according to a statement Monday from the Alphabet Workers Union. Alphabet has cut contractual ties with Appen , the artificial intelligence data firm that helped train Google's chatbot Bard, Google Search results and other AI products.

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☆ AI chatbots are getting their wires crossed on the Israel-Hamas war
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AI chatbots may be the most hyped tech of 2023, but maybe don't rely too heavily on them just yet. Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI chatbots are struggling to keep up with the Israel-Hamas war. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In a disclaimer before using Bard, Google notes that "Bard is an experiment" and "will not always get it right." However, it still said "Egypt has brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas" that had yet to be accepted by either side.

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☆ Google is turning its Bard AI chatbot into a personal assistant by tapping into products like Gmail and Maps, giving it a key advantage in the AI race
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Also, if granted permission, it can access information from users' personal content from Gmail, Docs, and Drive to summarize documents. Google says you can ask Bard to find and bring together information from relevant emails. You could ask Bard to find a document you previously created of your bucket-list restaurants and then show their locations on a map. Hsiao told Insider the information taken from apps such as Gmail or Docs would not be used for advertising or for training Google's AI models. Google has already rolled out AI-assistant features to its Workspace apps and has clarified how it plans to keep weaving AI into its most popular products .

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☆ Op-ed: Why this tech expert says he'd rather his kids play with A.I. than TikTok: The thought of it 'doesn't scare me'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Adam Singolda | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Are generative AI apps such as ChatGPT going to make us more productive, save us time, help us be healthier, smarter, happier? Generative AI is as real as it gets in terms of revolutionizing work, culture, and the nature of creativity. I root for generative AI not only as a tech executive but as a parent. If you spend some time with generative AI, you'll see it's pretty good already. Generative AI companies need to make a stand — will they pay for the sources of data they are ingesting daily?

Persons: Siri, Alexa, George Lucas, Google's chatbot, Anakin, Darth Vader, Adam Singolda Organizations: News

☆ Scientists develop A.I. system focused on turning peoples' thoughts into text
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The researchers trained their semantic decoder on dozens of hours of brain activity data from participants, collected in an fMRI scanner. Scientists have developed a noninvasive AI system focused on translating a person's brain activity into a stream of text, according to a peer-reviewed study published Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience . PH.D. STUDENT JERRY TANG PREPARES TO COLLECT BRAIN ACTIVITY DATA IN THE BIOMEDICAL IMAGING CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. Once the AI system is trained, it can generate a stream of text when the participant is listening to or imagines telling a new story. According to a news release, the trained system produces text that closely or precisely matches the intended meaning of the participant's original words around half of the time.

☆ Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns society to brace for impact of A.I. acceleration, says ‘it’s not for a company to decide'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a panel at the CEO Summit of the Americas hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on June 09, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said "every product of every company" will be impacted by the quick development of AI, warning that society needs to prepare for technologies like the ones it's already launched. "This is going to impact every product across every company," Pichai said. Pelley viewed other areas with advanced AI products within Google, including DeepMind, where robots were playing soccer, which they learned themselves, as opposed to from humans. Another unit showed robots that recognized items on a countertop and fetched Pelley an apple he asked for.

☆ Google CEO says he used the company's Bard AI chatbot to plan his father's 80th birthday party
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he used Google Bard to help plan his father's 80th birthday. Pichai said Bard told him he should make a scrapbook for the event. "It's not that it's profound, but it says things and kind of sparks the imagination," Pichai told the Times. Pichai's experience echoes similar stories from early users of Google's competitor, Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot. Pichai told the Times he understands the concerns people have, but remains optimistic about AI technology.

☆ Nearly 70% of people using ChatGPT at work haven't told their bosses about it, survey finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

More than 40% of professionals have used it at work, and 70% did so without telling their bosses, a recent survey found. A recent survey from professional networking app Fishbowl found that 43% of working professionals have used AI tools, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, to accomplish tasks at work. Of these people, 68% hadn't told their bosses they were using these tools for work. Working professionals including a realtor, a lawyer, and a teacher previously told Insider they'd discovered ways to make their jobs easier by using ChatGPT. Do you use ChatGPT or other AI tools at work?

☆ Two Google engineers built a ChatGPT-like AI chatbot years ago, but execs reportedly shut it down due to safety concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ex-Google engineers developed a conversational AI chatbot years ago, per The Wall Street Journal. Google is now racing to catch up with Microsoft's AI and plans to release its AI chatbot this year. "It caused a bit of a stir inside of Google," Shazeer said in an interview with investors Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan last month. But Google's AI plans may now finally see the light of day, even as discussions around whether its chatbot can be responsibly launched continue. Alphabet chairman John Hennessy agreed that Google's chatbot wasn't "really ready for a product yet."

☆ How big investors are playing the latest A.I. trend overtaking Wall Street
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

But not every company with AI in its title, or a stake in the race, may be worth investors' hard earned cash. Given these recent developments, many investors recommend staying long Microsoft, including Sid Choraria, a portfolio manager at SC Asia. Microsoft's AI developments and the reported blunder of Google's chatbot during a promotional video have fueled concerns in recent weeks that Alphabet may be losing the AI war . "Stay focused on Alphabet," he said, adding that more AI developments should create additional revenue opportunities. Integrating an AI tool into Alibaba's business and more AI content generation should improve efficiency and boost advertising effectiveness, he added.

☆ AI is expensive. A search on Google's chatbot Bard costs the company 10 times more than a regular one, which could amount to several billion dollars.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Alphabet chairman John Hennessy said an AI chatbot search costs 10 times more than a regular one, per Reuters. Analysts expect Google to incur billions in extra AI costs over the next several years. Analysts say the extra costs can amount to billions of dollars over the span of years, Reuters reported. The projected costs of AI search varies. To reduce its AI-related costs, Google said it will run its chatbot with a "smaller version" of its LaMDA AI model, per Reuters.

☆ Microsoft limits Bing chats to 5 questions per session
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] The Microsoft logo is seen outside the Microsoft Experience Center in New York City, U.S., January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonFeb 17 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) said on Friday it will limit chat sessions on its new Bing search engine powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to five questions per session and 50 questions per day. "As we mentioned recently, very long chat sessions can confuse the underlying chat model in the new Bing. To address these issues, we have implemented some changes to help focus the chat sessions," Microsoft said in the blog post. The new Bing, which has a wait list of millions of people for access, is a potentially lucrative opportunity for Microsoft.

☆ Exclusive: Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Sheila Dang | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Last week, Microsoft and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google announced new generative AI chatbots a day apart from the other. Microsoft expects the more human responses from the Bing AI chatbot will generate more users for its search function and therefore more advertisers. Advertisements within the Bing chatbot may also enjoy more prominence on the page compared to traditional search ads. loadingMicrosoft's Edge web browser, which uses the Bing search engine, has a market share under 5% worldwide, according to one estimate from web analytics firm StatCounter. Parts Geek did not immediately respond to questions about whether it was aware of its ads appearing in the new Bing chatbot.

☆ Google is warning its employees not to help its Bard AI chatbot trick users into thinking it's human
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

When Bard provides a response that is considered bad, employees can "fix" the response by rewriting it. In the "Do's" section, it told employees that Bard's responses should be in the first-person, maintaining an "unopinionated, neutral tone." 5 steps for teaching Bard Step 1: Pick a use case Step 2: Try out a prompt Enter a prompt. Step 3: Evaluate Bard's response Check Bard's response and give it a thumbs up or down - Did it follow instructions as you expected - Was the response factually correct? Make sure you refer to recommended formatting for different types of responses Step 5: Submit and confirm Before submitting.

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