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☆ Apple's software chiefs decided they needed to upgrade Siri after spending weeks testing out ChatGPT themselves
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Apple executives knew they needed to upgrade Siri after they started using ChatGPT. The company's software chiefs spent weeks using the OpenAI chatbot before making the decision. AdvertisementApple executives realized their digital assistant Siri badly needed an upgrade after they began testing OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT. Unlike most tech giants, Apple has remained relatively coy about how it intends to compete in the field of AI. The Sam Altman-led AI company has long been on Apple's radar, with Cook admitting in an interview with Good Morning America last year that he, too, uses ChatGPT.

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☆ OpenAI's new product could include sarcasm detection, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI may unveil a new multimodal AI assistant on Monday, The Information reported. This technology could, in theory, help automated customer service agents detect sarcasm. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The Information reported that machine learning company OpenAI could unveil a voice assistant with both audio and visual capabilities that could, in theory, detect sarcasm.

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☆ OpenAI reportedly plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google. OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google. Bloomberg and the Information have reported that Microsoft -backed OpenAI is working on a search product to potentially compete with Alphabet's Google and with Perplexity, a well-funded AI search startup. OpenAI's search product is an extension of its flagship ChatGPT product, and enables ChatGPT to pull in direct information from the Web and include citations, according to Bloomberg. ChatGPT is OpenAI's chatbot product that uses the company's cutting-edge AI models to generate human-like responses to text prompts.

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☆ Investing legend Jeremy Grantham sounds the alarm on a stocks bubble, blasts bitcoin, and says the dollar's still king
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The stock market "shows every sign of being just as crazy" as it's ever been, the GMO cofounder and long-term investment strategist told the Insightful Investor podcast in a recent conversation. AdvertisementThe veteran investor underscored that prolonged bull markets typically begin when unemployment is high, profit margins are depressed, and stock valuations are beaten down. Current conditions are the polar opposite of that, putting stocks in "double jeopardy" as both profits and valuations may plunge, Grantham said. Related storiesThe stock market has staged big rallies during boom times a couple of times before, including in 1929 and 1999, but those "ended incredibly badly," he said. Grantham also tackled the topic of de-dollarization and whether the dollar might lose its status as the world's reserve currency.

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The tool is derived from another AI image-generator, DALL-E 3, made by Microsoft's close business partner OpenAI. His letter to Microsoft urges the company to take it off the market until it is safer. “Many of the issues with Copilot Designer are already addressed with ChatGPT's own safeguards,” he said via text. A number of impressive AI image-generators first came on the scene in 2022, including the second generation of OpenAI's DALL-E 2. Google has temporarily suspended its Gemini chatbot's ability to generate images of people following outrage over how it was depicting race and ethnicity, such as by putting people of color in Nazi-era military uniforms.

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☆ Gen AI is here to stay — here are 5 skills to help you stay relevant in the changing job market
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Ernestine Siu | In Ernestinesiu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Generative AI isn't just a buzzy new topic – it's revolutionizing the workforce. Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence capable of generating images, text or other content. Nearly three in five whitecollar employees report using generative AI on a weekly basis. Oliver WymanOliver Wyman conducts monthly surveys of more than 200,000 people across 20 countries to gather data about attitudes surrounding Generative AI and other trends. "Generative AI lacks the contextual nuance and ethical judgment that humans should apply in analysis," a spokesperson for Oliver Wyman told CNBC Make It.

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☆ ChatGPT is losing its mind and no one seems to know why
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Users started to wonder if the OpenAI's chatbot was malfunctioning after it spouted "Spanglish." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Muchas gracias for your understanding, y I’ll ensure we’re being as crystal clear como l’eau from now on,” ChatGPT wrote. chatgpt is apparently going off the rails right now and no one can explain why pic.twitter.com/0XSSsTfLzP — sean mcguire (@seanw_m) February 21, 2024Another user asked ChatGPT about the difference between mattresses in different Asian countries. Its status dashboard first noted it was “investigating reports of unexpected responses from ChatGPT” on February 20.

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☆ As AI creates more 6-figure, remote work opportunities, 'the upside is high, but so are the risks,' experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Mark Kashef had long considered finance the most stable, lucrative field you could work in — until the release of ChatGPT. Kashef adds that, in the long term, he wouldn't be surprised if AI surpassed finance in terms of job opportunities and earning potential. AI brings new fears and opportunities for workersEconomists and HR experts say the future of the AI job market is bright — but its success isn't guaranteed. "If you look at the descriptions for AI job postings, many of the roles are still very exploratory, alluding to building or testing new products," Pollak says. Several industries outside of tech have demonstrated a clear, consistent interest in hiring for AI jobs, including retail, finance, health care and education, Pollak notes.

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☆ Arizona State students will get their own ChatGPT-powered tutors as OpenAI partners with the university
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewStudents at Arizona State University will soon have access to personalized OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. The university plans to build personalized AI tutors and avatars for students and expand its prompt engineering course. Representatives for OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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☆ ChatGPT is particularly useful for people in these 3 industries, says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

But the popular chatbot is particularly useful for workers in three specific industries, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. It's massively deployed and at scaled usage, at this point," Altman said during a recent episode of "Unconfuse Me," a podcast hosted by Bill Gates. Altman, whose company makes ChatGPT, made a point of noting that today's AI systems "certainly can't do [those] jobs" for you. CodingChatGPT can help programmers finish their work as much as three times faster than usual, Altman said. Some educators have worried that tools like ChatGPT could make it easier for students to cheat on assignments.

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☆ City officials in Brazil unanimously voted to pass a bill that was secretly written by ChatGPT in just 15 seconds
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A city in Brazil unanimously passed a bill entirely drafted by ChatGPT. The sponsor told BI that he kept the AI component secret to ensure the bill actually got voted on. AdvertisementA bill about water meters that a Brazilian city council unanimously voted to pass in October was revealed to have been entirely written by ChatGPT, its sponsor disclosed last week in an X post. Rosário told The Post that this experiment was performed to bring about "the debate surrounding the beginning of a great technological revolution." Last Wednesday, when was revealed that ChatGPT formulated the bill, it was met with skepticism by the city council's president.

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The lawsuit is one of several that have been brought by groups of copyright owners, including authors John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jonathan Franzen, against OpenAI and other tech companies over the alleged misuse of their work to train AI systems. Sancton's complaint is the first author lawsuit against OpenAI to also name Microsoft as a defendant. "While OpenAI and Microsoft refuse to pay nonfiction authors, their AI platform is worth a fortune," Sancton's attorney Justin Nelson said in a statement. The complaint also said that Microsoft has been "deeply involved" in training and developing the models and is also liable for copyright infringement.

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☆ Wall Street banks want AI to write performance reviews
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Wall Street banks are turning to AI to streamline processes like writing performance reviews. Software firm Workday said it's seen an uptick in banks expressing interest in its new AI products. AdvertisementWall Street banks are looking to speed up operations and cut costs by deploying AI to write performance reviews among other tasks, a Workday boss said in an interview with Bloomberg at its conference in Barcelona. Workday's co-CEO Carl Eschenbach said Wall Street banks are keen to get their hands on some of its new AI products. A number of Wall Street banks are optimistic about how AI will improve productivity since the launch of OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022.

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☆ One in 5 teens who have heard of ChatGPT say they've used it for schoolwork, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Pew Center study found that one in five teens who have heard of ChatGPT have used it for schoolwork. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . With around two-thirds of US teenagers having heard of ChatGPT, that is a lot of kids using OpenAI's chatbot to help write essays and solve math problems. ChatGPT is so popular among students right now that its US traffic dropped by over 10% when schools finished for summer. AdvertisementIts growing presence in classrooms has fuelled fears of a cheating epidemic, with another survey conducted earlier this year finding that one in four teachers say they have caught their students cheating using ChatGPT.

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☆ Tencent shrugged off a new US AI chip ban, saying it's stockpiled enough Nvidia processors for 'a couple more generations'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tencent president Martin Lau said on Wednesday the company is holding a vast stockpile of chips. Its inventory is enough to last its AI development a "couple more generations," Lau said. The US issued a new AI chip export ban to China in October, sparking fears that Tencent could be hit. But Lau also said Tencent will eventually have to pivot toward China-made AI chips. "Going forward, we have to figure out ways to make usage of our AI chips more efficient," Lau said.

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☆ Microsoft temporarily blocked staff from using ChatGPT over security concerns, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft temporarily blocked employees from using ChatGPT on Thursday, CNBC reported. Staff were warned OpenAI's chatbot is an "external service" that posed privacy and security risks. AdvertisementAdvertisementMicrosoft temporarily blocked its employees from using ChatGPT, according to CNBC reported . Several big tech companies, including Amazon and Apple , have issued bans on using ChatGPT internally over fears that using it could lead to leaks of confidential data. Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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☆ How ChatGPT Enterprise has helped Canva save hours of time and build better tools
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The graphic design platform used the software to build its own AI tools, Canva's head of AI told Insider. Here's what ChatGPT Enterprise has automated — and what it still has to work on. AdvertisementAdvertisementOpenAI, one of the most influential artificial intelligence firms, rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise, a version of ChatGPT designed for businesses, at the end of August. AdvertisementAdvertisementEngineers used ChatGPT Enterprise to review Canva's blocklist and flag artist names that were similar to dictionary words for human review. While the company expects to keep using ChatGPT Enterprise moving forward, it doesn't plan on shrinking Canva's workforce.

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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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☆ Only 2 in 5 teens are using ChatGPT, survey finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

40% of teenagers have used ChatGPT in the last six months, according to a Piper Sandler report. ChatGPT saw its traffic decline three months in a row until August, with summer break a possible cause. AdvertisementAdvertisementJust two in five teenagers have used ChatGPT in the last six months, according to a survey from Piper Sandler. On ChatGPT usage, it also pointed out a gender imbalance: 68% of the teens who have used OpenAI's chatbot are male. It found then that only 24% of the teens surveyed had used ChatGPT, of which almost three-quarters were male.

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☆ Job listings on LinkedIn that mention AI have more than doubled in the past 2 years and applications are flying in, the social platform says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Job postings on LinkedIn that mention AI or generative AI have increased significantly since 2021. Overall, job seekers are keen to snap up these roles because some pay over $100,000. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe number of jobs postings on LinkedIn that mention AI or require AI skills have increased significantly since 2021 and jobs seekers are keen to snap up these jobs, new LinkedIn data shows. These changes are already showing up as job postings that mention AI or generative AI have more than doubled globally in the past two years, per LinkedIn's data. There's been a rapid increase in interest around AI skills in the past year since the launch of OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022.

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☆ Microsoft to sell AI assistant software to biggest clients starting Nov. 1
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft said Thursday that starting Nov. 1, large companies will be able to buy Microsoft 365 Copilot, its artificial intelligence supplement to core productivity apps such as Word and Excel. Microsoft 365 Copilot is one result of the company's close collaboration with San Francisco startup OpenAI, which became a household name after ChatGPT, OpenAI's chatbot, went viral last year. In March, Microsoft first revealed plans for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft 365 Copilot tools are now in preview with small businesses, Colette Stallbaumer, a general manager, said at Thursday's event. Turning Microsoft 365 Copilot into a big business might take time.

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☆ Insider Today: Your knockoff's hidden cost
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Tech: What could become of VMware employees when Broadcom's acquisition closes. What could become of VMware employees when Broadcom's acquisition closes. AdvertisementAdvertisementSo, instead of visiting the company's website, you head to one of the many e-commerce sites offering knockoffs. 3 things in techRaghu Raghuram VMwareLeaked email: The fate of VMware employees as Broadcom acquisition closes. The Insider Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, senior editor and anchor, in New York City.

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The new round, led by T. Rowe Price, could mark the last round of private funding as the data company gears up for the public market. Chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O), another beneficiary of the AI boom, and credit card firm Capital One Financial (COF.N), also participated in the latest funding round. AI, the latest buzzword in the technology space, has captivated the interest of investors from Silicon Valley to Wall Street. Its latest valuation is over 13% more than the $38 billion the San Francisco-based company was worth after its last fundraise in 2021. The company has raised $4 billion since inception.

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☆ Google CEO says he isn't worried about catching up to OpenAI after declaring a 'code red': 'I feel very comfortable about where we are.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai isn't in a rush to catch up to OpenAI, he told Wired. Releasing Google's AI products before ChatGPT was launched "wouldn't have worked out as well," he said. Pichai's thoughts on AI come months after the CEO declared a "code red" for Google's search engine. "In some ways, it was an exciting moment for me, because we are building that underlying technology and deploying it across our products," Pichai told Wired in an interview published on Monday. Since the disastrous demo, Google has announced a slate of new AI products.

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☆ ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The number of visits to ChatGPT's website has fallen for three months in a row, per Similarweb. August marked the third month in a row that the number of monthly visits to ChatGPT's website worldwide was down, according to data from analytics firm Similarweb. In the US alone, visits to the ChatGPT website increased by 0.4% in August. Before Meta's Threads assumed the title in July, ChatGPT was the fastest-growing app ever when it reached 100 million users in two months. AdvertisementAdvertisementBut it's also being used in the workplace, with employees using ChatGPT to write code, do research, and improve time management.

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