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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.

Persons: ChatGPT, chatbot, David F, Carr, it's, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Reuters, Princeton Locations: Wall, Silicon, Similarweb, Stanford, Berkeley

☆ 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

☆ 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

☆ The hottest commodity in AI right now isn't ChatGPT — it's the $40,000 chip that has sparked a frenzied spending spree
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

ChatGPT isn't the hottest commodity in AI right now — it's a chip named Hopper. Nvidia's Hopper, also known as H100, is the workhorse that drives the AI models behind ChatGPT. A mad dash for H100 processors is leading to a shortage. Without them, the advancement of AI models risks grinding to a halt. It also explains why there's been a mad dash to get a hold of H100 processors as the threat of shortage jolts buyers into action.

Persons: ChatGPT, Hopper, Nvidia's Hopper, Grace Hopper, it's, there's, they've, Hong Kong, Elon Musk, Musk, chatbot Organizations: Nvidia, UAE, Financial Times, Reuters Locations: There's, Silicon, Saudi Arabia, China, Hong

☆ Alibaba is doubling down on A.I. — Chinese stocks to watch
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Where to play it Where HSBC analysts are looking is in Chinese AI hardware stocks. Its customers also include Nvidia and U.S. and Chinese cloud companies. Based on in-person company visits — which revealed about a third had "lousy management" and not investable — he's decided to focus on Chinese AI and green energy companies. His watchlist of about 90 Chinese AI companies has more than doubled in value this year, Ogan said, noting his firm only owns a handful. However, publicly disclosed figures show the AI company only made net revenue of $48.2 million in 2022, with a net loss of $6 million.

Persons: They're, Tencent, Ernie chatbot, Frank He, Innolight, FII, Taylor Ogan, — he's, Ogan, Yuan Hui, Xiao, That's, Yuan, —, China's, Hua Zang, chatbot Organizations: Baidu, HSBC, HSBC Qianhai, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Biden, Snow Bull, Nasdaq, IDG Locations: China, Suzhou, Friday's, U.S, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing

☆ Humanity is on the brink of major scientific breakthroughs, but nobody seems to care
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Humanity could be on the brink of making major progress in multiple areas of science. These are artificial intelligence, room-temperature superconductors, and nuclear fusion. A lesson from ChatGPT: people get excited by progress when they understand what it means. It's not a surprising attitude from the man who also said "we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." Efforts remain underway to replicate a room-temperature superconductor's creation.

Persons: Peter Thiel, Thiel, LLMs, chatbot, Marc Andreessen, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Andreessen Organizations: Milken, Peking University, Times, Milken Institute Locations: Korea, Beijing, Silicon, California, ChatGPT

☆ Room-temperature superconductors and nuclear fusion will need a ChatGPT moment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

These are artificial intelligence, room-temperature semiconductors, and nuclear fusion. A lesson from ChatGPT: people get excited by progress when they understand what it means. In South Korea last month, researchers declared the discovery of the world's first room-temperature, ambient pressure superconductor – a rock-like material known as LK-99. But if Andreessen and his ilk want the general public to get excited by nuclear energy and superconductors, they have the answer in their own backyard in ChatGPT. Humans need to see and understand the benefits of progress for themselves.

☆ Silicon Valley presented AI as a noble research tool. Now it's all about cold, hard cash.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Tech firms once had the luxury of pursuing expensive AI research. It's a sign that companies hope AI will play a greater role in boosting revenue. The Financial Times reported that the company axed a team involved in protein folding research as part of its massive restructuring program, which Mark Zuckerberg has called the "Year of Efficiency." The company's vice-president of AI, Joelle Pineau, also said Meta "remains committed" to its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) Team, which conducts "exploratory research based on open science." The race to make money from AI then is heating up.

Persons: that's, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Meta, Joelle Pineau Organizations: Morning, Google, Meta, Financial Times, Facebook, DeepMind, AI Research, FAIR Locations: DeepMind

☆ 10 ways artificial intelligence is changing the workplace, from writing performance reviews to making the 4-day workweek possible
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Here are 10 ways AI tools such as ChatGPT have entered the workplace — and what may come out of it. Nick Patrick, the owner of the music-production company Primal Sounds Productions, told Insider he used ChatGPT to fine-tune legal contracts for clients. "You really got to find time to, like, learn this skill," Nigam previously told Insider. Companies are using AI to write their performance reviewsManagers may find writing performance reviews for their employees a tough task. He told Insider: "Any technology that increases productivity, ChatGPT included, makes a shorter workweek more feasible."

Persons: OpenAI, Nick Patrick, Shannon Ahern, hadn't, Jensen Huang, Huang, Akash Nigam, Nigam, Neil Taylor, ChatGPT, Taylor, Insider's Beatrice Nolan, Nolan, would've, Jasmine Cheng, Cheng, WorkLife, Carl Benedikt Frey, Michael Chu, iHeartMedia, Goldman Sachs, Goldman, Suumit Shah, chatbot, Anu Madgavkar, Richard Baldwin, Fran Drescher, Jezebel — Organizations: Morning, IBM, Workers, Primal Sounds Productions, Google, Twitter, Companies, Employers, Nvidia, ChatGPT, Sky News, Hulu, Spotify, Mobile, Oracle, Columbia Business School, McKinsey Global Institute, Apple, JPMorgan, Northrop Grumman, AIs, Writers Guild of America, SAG, Journalists, GMG Union of, Media Locations: Taipei, Taiwan, Oxford

☆ So, that's the end of OpenAI's ChatGPT moat
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

In the fast-changing world of AI, OpenAI appeared to have created a powerful moat through ChatGPT. But Meta rolling out its own powerful language model, Llama 2, with few restrictions puts ChatGPT at risk. And unlike OpenAI's ChatGPT, Llama 2 doesn't come with an easy-to-use consumer interface. As the first popular entrant into the generative AI space, OpenAI's chatbot had the advantage of capturing the imaginations of millions before Google, Meta and the rest. But open models were always the threat.

Persons: OpenAI, chatbot, Mark Zuckerberg, Erin Scott, Warren Buffett, ChatGPT, Kali Hays, Rosalie Chan, Nathan Lambert, Lambert, It's Organizations: Meta, Google, Microsoft, ChatGPT, Stanford University, UC Berkeley

☆ The brain drain at tech companies is already bad and as Elon Musk's poaching of AI experts shows, it's only going to get worse
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A brain drain among tech companies brain is underway right now, driven by the popularity of AI. Tech firms are pretty obsessed with AI right now. Even before ChatGPT's launch, Google workers seemed fed up and decided to jump ship to OpenAI to help launch ChatGPT. Meanwhile, Musk's somewhat modest ambition for his new AI company to "understand the true nature of the universe" could prove alluring to tech bros who think that's what AI should be used to accomplish. Tech firms will want to ensure their AI projects make them the top pick.

Persons: Elon, xAI, Elon Musk, Google –, Igor Babuschkin, Manuel Kroiss, Guodong Zhang, Yuhuai Wu, Zihang Dai, Christian, Kyle Kosic, chatbot Bard, OpenAI's, haven't, Shona Ghosh, isn't, there's Organizations: Workers, Elon Musk's, Morning, Tech, Google, ChatGPT, Microsoft Locations: Silicon, America

☆ Shopify to launch AI assistant for merchants
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

July 12 (Reuters) - Canadian ecommerce firm Shopify said on Wednesday it would soon launch an artificial intelligence assistant for merchants on its platform, the latest technology company to roll out such a feature. The assistant called "Sidekick" would be embedded as a button on Shopify and answer merchant queries, including details about sales trends, CEO Tobi Lutke illustrated in a video posted on Twitter. Companies such as Alibaba Group Holding , Zoom Video Communications (ZM.O) and Databricks have all launched AI assistants in the last few months following the massive jump in the use of OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT. The assistant can also help entrepreneurs update their stores on Shopify. The feature is "coming soon", the video showed, without specifying the date when it would be rolled out.

Persons: Shopify, Tobi Lutke, Chavi Mehta, Shilpi Majumdar Organizations: Twitter, Companies, Alibaba, Video Communications, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru

☆ Portugal plans to trial answering emergency calls using an AI chatbot based off ChatGPT, and it could be rolled out by 2025, government official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Portugal is trialing a ChatGPT-based AI that can respond to emergency calls in busy periods. Callers to Portugal's 112 emergency line sometimes wait five to six minutes to get a response. If the trial periods goes well, the AI will come into wider use by 2025, a senior politician said. Portugal is planning to test a new artificial intelligence system based on OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to see whether it could be used to take emergency calls in the country during busy times. Instead, the AI system will respond to the calls first in "natural language response" to "assess what kind of problem" the caller is reporting, Portugal News' report added.

Persons: ChatGPT, António Pombeiro, Lusa, Pombeiro Organizations: Morning, Internal Administration Locations: Portugal, Porto, Colombia

☆ Burger King claps back at McDonald's with its own ChatGPT ad after the chatbot calls the Big Mac the most iconic burger
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Two billboards from Burger King and Mcdonald's have been placed next to each other in Brazil. According to translated versions of the billboards reported by The Drum, the chatbot calls McDonald's Big Mac the most "iconic burger" and names Burger King's Whopper "the biggest." The fast-food company asked OpenAI's chatbot what the most iconic burger in the world was and it named the Big Mac the "most globally recognized." The Burger King ad seems to follow McDonald's directly, asking: "And which is the biggest?" Burger King did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside normal working hours.

Persons: ChatGPT, Burger, Big, OpenAI's, Mac, McDonald's, Burger King Organizations: Morning, Big, Mac Locations: Burger, Brazil, McDonald's Brazil

☆ Generative AI — which some fear could contribute to the end of humanity — will be a $1.3 trillion market within a decade, new research says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The generative AI industry is set to grow from $40 billion in 2022 to a $1.3 trillion market in 2032. The launch of OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT in November fueled the hype around AI tools. Hardware, however, will make up the bulk of the $1.3 trillion of revenue, accounting for $641 billion by 2032, per Bloomberg's estimates. Hardware revenue will come from AI servers, AI storage, computer vision AI products, as well as conversational AI tools, which will be worth $108 billion. Digital ads pertaining to AI will make revenues of $192 billion, while AI assistant software will be worth $89 billion, per the report.

Persons: ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bloomberg Intelligence's, Mandeep Singh, Singh, chatbot ChatGPT, Google's Bard, OpenAI Organizations: Bloomberg Intelligence, Google, Bloomberg

☆ A former Google exec warned about the dangers of AI saying it is 'beyond an emergency' and 'bigger than climate change'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mo Gawdat, a former top Google employee, said AI is a bigger emergency than climate change. Gawdat appeared in an episode of The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett to discuss AI. A former Google officer has weighed in on the debate around AI and warned that it is a bigger emergency than climate change, in an an episode of The Diary of a CEO podcast released Thursday. "It is beyond an emergency," Gawdat told Bartlett in the podcast. It's bigger than climate change believe it or not."

Persons: Mo Gawdat, Gawdat, Steven Bartlett, —, Bartlett, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Emad Mostaque, OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT, Sundar Pichai Organizations: Google, Elon, Apple, Financial Times

☆ I used ChatGPT for my résumé and got back poor results and pretentious gobbledygook
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I asked ChatGPT, OpenAI's chatbot, to punch up my résumé and the results were less than spectacular. While ChatGPT can offer some inspiration for your résumé, you still need to put in the work. But even with all that guidance, résumé writing remains a tedious task. I assumed it could offer helpful assistance for résumé writing, too. Further down, ChatGPT recommended I use words including "influential" and "prestigious" to describe my former employers.

☆ A Google researcher – who said she was fired after pointing out biases in AI – says companies won't 'self-regulate' because of the AI 'gold rush'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ex-Google AI researcher said the current AI "gold rush" means firms won't "self-regulate." Gebru told The Guardian: "We need regulation and we need something better than just a profit motive." A former Google researcher, who said she was fired after pointing out the biases in AI, has warned that the current AI "gold rush" means companies won't "self-regulate" unless they are pressured. The 40-year-old, who also had stints at Apple and Microsoft, explained that the hype around AI means safeguards are being cast to the side. "It feels like a gold rush," Gebru added.

☆ Some 50% of workers say they feel like they're being kept in the dark about how their company will use AI, new survey finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some 50% of workers think their company is hiding how they will use AI, a new survey found. Workers are concerned about the effect AI will have on their jobs and the industry they work in. It found that 50% of workers think they're being kept in the dark about how AI is going to be used in their organization. The CEO of one energy company said he incorporated AI to respond to customer emails in February. Now the AI is responding to over a third of customer emails which is the work of 250 people.

☆ ChatGPT mixes up Japan's digital transformation minister with the country's prime minister, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

ChatGPT mixed up Japan's digital transformation minister with the country's prime minister. AI-powered products like ChatGPT are known to make errors, a point of concern for many experts. Japan's digital transformation minister, Taro Kono, says ChatGPT mixed him up with the country's prime minister. Japan's prime minister has been Fumio Kishida since 2021. Kono has never been the prime minister but was once seen as a favorite in the 2021 leadership race.

May 4 (Reuters) - French IT consulting group Capgemini (CAPP.PA) on Thursday reported weaker revenue growth in the first quarter of 2023, compared with the year-ago period, citing a tense economic environment with clients adopting a "wait-and-watch stance". Still, the company's quarterly revenue reached 5.73 billion euros ($6.35 billion), 10.9% above the first three months in 2022. The Paris-based company reiterated its outlook for 2023, pointing to revenue growth in a range between 4% and 7% in constant currency terms, down from a 21.1% increase in 2022, and an operating margin between 13.0% and 13.2%. "The economic context remains tense (...) It's all about postponements, but our clients' agenda hasn't changed, digital transformation remains their priority", Ezzat added. Growth in new hires remains strong in tech products, the CEO specified, including research on generative AI.

☆ OpenAI has its tentacles in hundreds of companies. Here's how it's making them more productive.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Developers are linking arms with OpenAI to access the large language models powering their apps. In doing so, OpenAI has its tentacles in hundreds of Silicon Valley startups. OpenAI's artificial intelligence technology is now baked into hundreds of apps, making it one of the key levers that help companies and their developers be more productive. The latest company utilizing the company's large language models is Superhuman, an email app with a cultish following. The feature came together so fast, according to Akshay Kothari, the third cofounder and chief operating officer, because Notion hadn't done the grunt work of training a large language model itself.

☆ 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.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg said the word 'AI' no less than 27 times during a Meta earnings call this week
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mark Zuckerberg referenced AI about 27 times at Meta's earnings call on Wednesday. Mark Zuckerberg was careful to remind investors on Wednesday that Meta is very much invested in the AI arms race underway in the tech industry. Overall, the word "AI" was used 57 times on Wednesday between Zuckerberg, analysts' questions, and comments from Meta CFO Susan Li. At the previous earnings call in February, Zuckerberg referenced AI about 16 times and before OpenAI's ChatGPT made headlines in November, he addressed it 9 times. Meta's stock jumped 14% on Thursday after the company's earnings beat Wall Street expectations.

☆ Sam Altman is building his utopia, whether you want it or not
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Melia Russell | Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +41 min

Altman told Insider, "We debate our approach frequently and carefully." "I don't think anyone can lose your dad young and wish he didn't have more time with him," Altman told Insider. Altman told Insider that his thinking had evolved since those posts. (When asked about guns, Altman told Insider he'd been "happy to have one both times my home was broken into while I was there.") When asked about this, Altman told Insider in an email: "i can guess what that's about; these stories grow crazily inflated over the years of getting re-told!

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