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☆ Baidu gets China's green light to release its ChatGPT-like Ernie bot to the public
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In this article BIDU Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTPictured here is the Ernie bot mobile interface, with the Baidu search engine home page in the background. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Chinese tech giant Baidu announced Thursday its ChatGPT-like Ernie bot was now open to the public at large. Baidu released Ernie bot on March 16. At the time, Li said the company was "still waiting for the green light for large-scale rollout of Ernie bot for use in consumer facing apps." Last week, Opera web browser parent Kunlun Tech released to the public an AI-powered chatbot and search engine called Tiangong AI search.

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☆ Chatbots Are Trying to Figure Out Where Your Shipments Are
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Liz Young | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Walmart's corporate employees are getting a generative AI assistant while Amazon and Apple are restricting AI in the workplace
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Grace Mayer | Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The retailer is embracing AI while other companies limit employees' use of AI in the workplace. It's one of many generative AI tools the company has already employed across to its 50,000 corporate employees. Walmart's provision of generative AI tools to its office workers is one of the ways the big box retailer seeks to integrate AI across the company. In-stores, Walmart employees can turn to an "Ask Sam" voice assistant to help them locate items. AdvertisementAdvertisementWhile some major US companies are torn on whether to embrace generative AI, others are introducing AI into their businesses with caution.

Persons: Donna Morris, Emerging Technologies Cheryl Ainoa, Sweta Patel, Sam, Doug McMillon, McMillon, Goldman Sachs, Estée Lauder, ChatGPT Organizations: Walmart, Service, Apple, Samsung, New Business, Emerging Technologies, Accenture, Tech, Meta, Netflix, ChatGPT Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ How to stop Meta from using some of your personal data to train generative AI models
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In a related blog post on how it uses data for generative AI, Meta says it collects public information on the web in addition to licensing data from other providers. Blog posts, for example, can include personal information, such as someone's name and contact information, Meta said. CNBC contacted Meta for information about whether that first-party information will continue to be used in training its generative AI models. Here's how you can delete some of your Facebook data used for training generative AI models:Go to the "Generative AI Data Subject Rights" form on Meta's privacy policy page about generative AI. The first option lets people access, download, or correct any of their personal information gleaned from third-party sources that's used to train generative AI models.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, hasn't, that's, they're Organizations: Facebook, Meta, CNBC, Microsoft Locations: Canada, Switzerland

☆ ChatGPT is becoming a certified cash cow with OpenAI on course to generate $1 billion in annual sales, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

ChatGPT is set to become a $1 billion sales cash cow for OpenAI. The Information cited a source saying OpenAI will soon hit $1 billion in annual sales. It's a sign that AI tools like ChatGPT can be lucrative as businesses drive demand. AdvertisementAdvertisementOpenAI's prized possession ChatGPT is helping propel the company towards $1 billion in annual revenue as the boom in AI demand from businesses drives a sales bonanza, according to a new report. Developers using the AI model at the heart of ChatGPT say it's getting dumber.

Persons: OpenAI, Carlyle, Similarweb, ChatGPT, hoover Organizations: Morning, Microsoft, Enterprise, ChatGPT, Amazon, The New York Times

☆ The US Copyright Office just took a big step toward new rules for generative AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The US Copyright Office is taking a big step toward new rules for generative AI. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe US Copyright Office is inching closer to creating new rules and regulations around generative AI and how the technology uses the work of authors and other creators. In the government rule-making process, a public comment period typically happens before a final rule is proposed and adopted. The major tech companies behind these generative AI tools use the crawled data to train their models without paying the creators who produced the original content. More online businesses are slowly becoming aware of the degree to which the web is being scraped for the benefit of generative AI.

Persons: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Bard, Andreessen Horowitz, Bard Organizations: Morning, US, Google, Microsoft, Meta, New York Times, CNN, Office, Hollywood

☆ HPE forecasts fourth-quarter revenue below estimates, shares fall
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Signs for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., cover the facade of the New York Stock Exchange November 2, 2015. HP Enterprise expects current-quarter revenue between $7.2 billion and $7.5 billion, the mid-point of which was below analysts' expectations of $7.49 billion, according to Refinitiv data. Rival Arista Networks (ANET.N) forecast a robust quarterly revenue after delivering better-than-expected results, helped by higher demand for its cloud gear following AI push. On an adjusted basis, HPE earned 49 cents per share for the third quarter ended July 31, compared with expectations of 47 cents. The Spring, Texas-based company posted quarterly revenue of $7.0 billion, beating analysts' estimate of $6.99 billion, according to Refinitiv IBES data.

Persons: Brendan McDermid, HPE, Akshita Toshniwal, Shailesh Organizations: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co, New York Stock, REUTERS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Wall, HP Enterprise, Arista Networks, HP, Dell Technologies, Nvidia, Thomson Locations: , Texas

☆ AI Fuels New Brand-Safety Worries, and Would-Be Solutions, for Marketers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Patrick Coffee | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Across the country AI chatbots are now taking fast-food drive-thru orders. WSJ’s Joanna Stern put the tech through a series of tests at a Hardee’s—including blasting dog barking sounds and asking some crazy questions. Generative artificial intelligence has captivated marketers’ attention by promising to help them conduct research and produce campaigns more efficiently. But it is also poised to further complicate some of their most thankless tasks, such as ensuring that their ads run only near content they want and that their digital marketing materials stay on-brand.

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☆ AI tools make things up a lot, and that’s a huge problem
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But as more people turn to this buzzy technology for things like homework help, workplace research, or health inquiries, one of its biggest pitfalls is becoming increasingly apparent: AI models often just make things up. Researchers have come to refer to this tendency of AI models to spew inaccurate information as “hallucinations,” or even “confabulations,” as Meta’s AI chief said in a tweet. A number of high-profile hallucinations from AI tools have already made headlines. Cracking down on AI hallucinations, however, could limit AI tools’ ability to help people with more creative endeavors — like users that are asking ChatGPT to write poetry or song lyrics. How to prevent or fix AI hallucinations is a “point of active research,” Venkatasubramanian said, but at present is very complicated.

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☆ A disturbing AI phenomenon could completely upend the internet as we know it
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Generative AI could soon be trained on AI-generated content — and experts are raising the alarm. The new term comes as AI-generated content filled with errors continues to flood the internet. Other AI researchers have coined their own terms to describe the training method. Jathan Sadowski, a senior fellow at the Emerging Technologies Research Lab in Australia who researches AI, called this phenomenon "Habsburg AI," arguing that AI systems heavily trained on outputs of other generative AI tools can create "inbred mutant" responses that contain "exaggerated, grotesque features." These new terms come as AI-generated content has flooded the internet since OpenAI launched ChatGPT last November.

Persons: Jathan, paywalls, Ray Wang, Baji, Cohere, OpenAI, ChatGPT, It's, Gizmodo, Kai, Cheng Yang, OpenAI's chatbot, Yang Organizations: University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Stanford, Rice, Emerging Technologies, Constellation Research, CNET, Microsoft, Ottawa Food Bank Locations: Australia, Ottawa

AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken, June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 30 (Reuters) - British officials are warning organisations about integrating artificial intelligence-driven chatbots into their businesses, saying that research has increasingly shown that they can be tricked into performing harmful tasks. The NCSC said that could carry risks, particularly if such models were plugged into other elements organisation's business processes. "They might not let that product be involved in making transactions on the customer's behalf, and hopefully wouldn't fully trust it. The security implications of AI are also still coming into focus, with authorities in the U.S. and Canada saying they have seen hackers embrace the technology.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Raphael Satter, Alex Richardson Organizations: REUTERS, Cyber Security, Authorities, Thomson Locations: guardrails, U.S, Canada

☆ AI bros are at war over declarations that Google's upcoming Gemini AI model smashes OpenAI's GPT-4
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The researchers behind the SemiAnalysis blog say Google's upcoming AI Gemini smashes GPT-4. That might explain OpenAI boss Sam Altman's defensive response to a post published over the weekend titled : "Google Gemini Eats The World – Gemini Smashes GPT-4 By 5X, The GPU-Poors." Gemini is a next-gen, multimodal AI model being worked on by researchers at Google's AI arm DeepMind, and is expected to be released later in 2023. In response, SemiAnalysis' Patel posted on X that he got data on Google's GPU stores from a supplier of Google — rather than Google itself. But to say Gemini Smashes GPT-4 by 5x makes it sound like it is 5x better than GPT-4, it's not, its 5x compute.

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☆ This Dutchman moved to San Francisco a year ago to help tech giants prepare for new EU rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

De Graaf, a 30-year veteran of the European Commission, was tasked with resurrecting the EU office in the Bay Area. The generative AI boomGenerative AI was a virtually foreign concept when de Graaf arrived in San Francisco last September. In June, the European Parliament cleared a major step in passing the EU AI Act, which would represent the EU's package of AI regulations. Tech companies that have for years criticized the EU for overly aggressive regulations are now asking, "Why is it taking you so long?" The rapidly changing landscape of generative AI makes it tricky for the EU to quickly formulate regulations.

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☆ Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles — and regulators can't keep up
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Shubham Agarwal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

One of the latest is flooding social media with spam bots and AI-generated content that could further degrade the quality of information on the internet. Botnets are networks of hundreds of harmful bots and spam campaigns on social media that can go undetected by current anti-spam filters. We can still detect AI-generated spam — for nowBoth NewsGuard and the paper's researchers were separately able to unearth AI-generated spam content using an obvious tell that chatbots currently have. AdvertisementAdvertisementResearchers look for when these responses slip out in an automated bot's content, whether on a webpage or in a tweet. AdvertisementAdvertisementOne such measure was tagging AI-generated content with a hidden label to help people distinguish it from content made by humans, per the White House.

Persons: Kai, Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer, Yang, Menczer, ChatGPT, chatbots, Wei Xu, Europol, Xu, Biden Organizations: Indiana University, Twitter, ChatGPT, Indiana University's Observatory, Social Media, telltale, Georgia Institute of Technology, Regulators, Google, Microsoft, House Locations: Indiana

☆ Despite Cheating Fears, Schools Repeal ChatGPT Bans
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Natasha Singer | More About Natasha Singer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Students who depend on district devices and connectivity are restricted.”In May, New York City schools issued a public mea culpa, saying the district had acted too hastily and would unblock ChatGPT. This week, Mr. Carvalho said that Los Angeles schools were also working on a more permissive policy. As schools reopen for fall, educators and district leaders are wrestling with complex questions posed by the A.I. tools: What should writing assignments look like in an era when students can simply employ chatbots to generate prose for them? Some districts like Newark Public Schools are trying out specialized chatbots specifically designed for student tutoring.

Persons: OpenAI, Bard, ” Alberto M, Carvalho Organizations: “, Los Angeles Unified School District, Los, Newark Public Schools Locations: San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Newark

☆ Britain to host world's first AI safety summit at home of World War II codebreakers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Bletchley Park is the home of the World War Two Codebreakers, who in 1941 helped break the secret code used by the German government to direct ground-to-air operations on the Eastern front. The U.K. government will host the world's first artificial intelligence safety summit in Bletchley Park, the home of the codebreakers who cracked the code that ended World War II. The renowned Bletchley Park building was the home of the World War II Codebreakers, who in 1941 helped break the secret Enigma Code used by the German government to direct ground-to-air operations on the Eastern front. The U.K. tech sector has been flagging of late, following drops in venture capital investment. The U.S. is by far the world leader when it comes to AI, with massive firms ploughing resources into the technology.

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☆ How teachers and students feel about A.I.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Natasha Singer | More About Natasha Singer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

We recently asked educators, professors, and high school and college students to tell us about their experiences using A.I. — Katy Pearce, associate professor, University of WashingtonBefore they even use ChatGPT, I help students discern what is worth knowing, figuring out how to look it up, and what information or research is worth “outsourcing” to A.I. chatbots are making it a lot easier for students to understand difficult concepts in a simple way. It can provide students with endless examples of how to outline essays, business plans and emails. will have on students in the long run but I just don’t want it to make students lazy, as the joy of learning is that “AHA!” moment that comes from figuring something out yourself.

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☆ AI frenzy’s feedback loop stuffs Nvidia
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Robert Cyran | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

NEW YORK, Aug 23 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The ducks on Wall Street are quacking for artificial intelligence, and that means Nvidia (NVDA.O) gets fed. Under co-founder Jensen Huang, Nvidia has built a business that dominates the design of specialized chips that are an essential component in training AI systems. Alphabet is already investing $7 billion a quarter, and promised last month it would ramp capital spending further as it beefs up in AI. While companies talk up the potential of AI, it hasn’t yet generated much revenue, even for prime booster Microsoft. Should Wall Street sour on AI, Nvidia’s valuation would look overstuffed.

Persons: Jensen Huang, Amy Hood, Jonathan Guilford, Sharon Lam Organizations: Reuters, Nvidia, Nasdaq, Microsoft, Google, Thomson

And that $1 trillion of data centers is in the process of transitioning into accelerated computing and generative AI. Additionally, Nvidia announced AI-ready servers to support the VMware Private AI Foundation and help businesses customize and deploy generative AI applications using their proprietary data. Shares of AMD have also surged higher in this year's AI trade, though the role the company plays in the field is less clear. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

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☆ Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck a former Meta VP used to raise $7.5 million in seed funding for his AI chatbot tutoring startup that helps students with STEM homework
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sizzle AI is a new AI tutoring chatbot startup where students can get help with STEM homework. Sizzle AI was founded by an ex-Meta vice president and just raised $7.5 million in seed funding. Sizzle AI has launched in both the Apple App store and Google Play store and just raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by Owl Ventures, with participation from 8VC. Other AI tutoring chatbots have popped up in recent months, most notably Khan Academy's Khanmigo chatbot. See the pitch deck that Sizzle AI used to raise $7.5 million in seed funding:

Persons: Jerome Pesenti, Pesenti, Khan, Sizzle, Emily Bennett Organizations: Meta, Apple, Google, Owl Ventures, 8VC

☆ IBM CEO says AI will impact white-collar jobs first, but could help workers instead of displacing them
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Sheila Chiang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

watch nowWhite-collar jobs will be among the first to be impacted by artificial intelligence, IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna told CNBC in an exclusive interview aired on Tuesday. Arvind Krishna IBM chairman and CEOIn May, IBM announced WatsonX, an AI building tool that allows clients to build, train and deploy machine learning models. So that is where the 7,800 [number] came from," Krishna told CNBC's Martin Soong. AI potentialKrishna joined IBM in 1990, took over as CEO in April 2020 and has been chairman since January 2021. Arvind Krishna IBM chairman and CEO

Persons: Arvind Krishna, CNBC's, That's, Krishna, ChatGPT, Watson, It's, CNBC's Martin Soong, Lawrence Wong Organizations: IBM, CNBC, Lenovo, Watson Health, Bloomberg

☆ After Nvidia's last 'shock-and awe' earnings, here's what Wall Street expects from the 2nd-quarter report
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Investors are awaiting Nvidia's second-quarter earnings report after the market close on Wednesday. Here's what Wall Street expects from Nvidia's upcoming earnings report. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. They've got so many customers," Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during Tesla's second-quarter earnings call in July. Here's what the Wall Street analysts are saying about Nvidia's upcoming earnings report.

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☆ How Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Don Clark | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Over more than 10 years, Nvidia has built a nearly impregnable lead in producing chips that can perform complex A.I. trend early, tailoring its chips to those tasks and then developing key pieces of software that aid in A.I. That has turned Nvidia, for all intents and purposes, into a one-stop shop for A.I. chips, Nvidia today accounts for more than 70 percent of A.I. revolution became clear when it projected a 64 percent leap in quarterly revenue, far more than Wall Street had expected.

Persons: Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s Organizations: Nvidia, Google, Meta, IBM, Wall

☆ What happens to Salma Hayek in 'Black Mirror' might seem ridiculous – but the way celebrities handle their AI rights could affect us all
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A new episode of Netflix's "Black Mirror" explores how celebrities will contend with AI replicas. As the "Black Mirror" episode suggests, regular people may soon have to contend with managing their own digital likenesses as well. A 2021 report from The Verge noted that Soul Machines mostly makes "people" for customer service and digital outreach. However, Soul Machines has also digitized celebrities like NBA player Carmelo Anthony, K-pop star Mark Tuan, and golfer Jack Nicklaus, according to its site. Carmelo Anthony's image has been digitized by Soul Machines.

Persons: Joan –, Joan, Salma Hayek, Streamberry, it's, who's, Annie Murphy, —, Greg Cross, AI's, Carmelo Anthony, Mark Tuan, Jack Nicklaus, Carmelo Anthony's, Phelan M, Remington Scott, Scott Organizations: Netflix, Machines Locations: New Zealand

☆ What happens to Salma Hayek in 'Black Mirror' might seem ridiculous — but the way celebrities handle their AI rights could affect us all
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

That's why she's shocked to discover a new series called "Joan is Awful" on a fictitious streaming platform called Streamberry. As the "Black Mirror" episode suggests, regular people may soon have to contend with managing their own digital likenesses as well. The spokesperson added that Soul Machines creator packages start at $39 a month with the first month free. However, Soul Machines has also digitized celebrities like NBA player Carmelo Anthony, K-pop star Mark Tuan, and golfer Jack Nicklaus, according to its site. Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP ImagesMeanwhile, Remington Scott, the founder of another "digital human" company called Hyperreal, already has a digital version of himself.

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