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☆ From rolling out OpenAI's GPT-4 to employees to preventing $27 billion in fraud, Visa exec Rajat Taneja opens up about the payments giant's AI playbook
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Visa relies on AI for mission-critical tasks like processing payments, detecting fraud, and securing its massive network infrastructure. It has more than 300 AI models that are live and operating. "AI is going to be a huge part of how we grow, but it'll also be part and parcel of everybody's work," Taneja said. Visa continues to experiment with similar AI models, like Meta's AI model Llama 2 and those from French-American company Hugging Face, Taneja said. Visa introduced AI models that ingest billions of data points every day to train on, learn patterns, and identify any cybersecurity or payment-security threats.

Persons: It's, Rajat Taneja, it'll, Taneja, it's, coder, counterfeits Organizations: Visa, Microsoft Locations: American

☆ AI Can Build Software in Under 7 Minutes for Less Than $1: Study
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

They found AI could develop software in under 7 minutes for less than $1 in costs, on average. The findings come after researchers published another study in which AI agents powered by large language models were able to run a virtual town on their own. Once the researchers gave the AI bots their roles, each bot was allocated to their respective stages. "Our experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the automated software development process driven by CHATDEV," the researchers wrote in the paper. Nevertheless, the study isn't perfect: Researchers identified limitations, such as errors and biases in the language models, that could cause issues in the creation of software.

Persons: ChatDev, didn't, Daniel Dippold Organizations: Service, Brown University Locations: Wall, Silicon, Berlin

☆ 'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Ben Bergman | Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Many tech workers in California moved to Austin during the pandemic in search of a new lifestyle. Some tech workers say they regret moving there, given its middling tech scene and "fake" atmosphere. They cited several contributing factors, including extreme temperatures, traffic, overcrowding, and — perhaps most surprising — a middling tech scene that fails to live up to the hype. From Silicon Valley to the Silicon HillsNot long ago, Austin's tech scene was ascendant, with national headlines suggesting it could take on Silicon Valley. He acknowledged there's not much of a tech scene there but will take that over what he perceived as Austin's smoke and mirrors.

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☆ OpenAI's ChatGPT can write impressive code. Here are the prompts you should use for the best results, experts say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Insider spoke to several experts to get their tips for prompting ChatGPT to generate better code. Insider spoke to several computer-science experts and tech workers who've created software with ChatGPT to get their advice for generating better code. Ernst, whose students sometimes use GPT to help them with assignments, said adding technical detail to prompts or feeding the bot example code can help improve results. Assign ChatGPT a roleGiving ChatGPT a specific persona can help it understand what a user wants. Brush up on the basicsNo matter how specific users keep their prompts, language can still be ambiguous.

Persons: OpenAI's ChatGPT, ChatGPT, who've, Ammaar Reshi, who's, it's, Reshi, Neil Ernst, Ernst, Jason Gulya, Emery Berger, Berger Organizations: University of Victoria, Berkeley College, University of Massachusetts Amherst

☆ Here's 3 ways to get ChatGPT to write better code, according to experts
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Insider spoke to several experts to get their tips for generating better code with ChatGPT. The AI-powered chatbot's ability to write impressive code has freaked out programmers and caught the attention of some tech CEOs. Insider spoke to several computer science experts and tech workers who've created software with ChatGPT to get their advice for generating better code. Assign ChatGPT a roleGiving ChatGPT a specific persona can help it understand what a user wants. Brush up on the basicsNo matter how specific users keep their prompts, language can still be ambiguous.

Persons: OpenAI's ChatGPT, who've, ChatGPT, Ammaar, who's, it's, Reshi, Neil Ernst, Ernst, Jason Gulya, Emery Berger, Berger Organizations: Morning, University of Victoria, Berkeley College, University of Massachusetts Amherst

☆ Billionaire Ken Griffin says good programmers' days are numbered. Here's what will make a coder stand out.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Paige Hagy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ken Griffin spoke to the newest class of Citadel interns at the Four Seasons on Tuesday. The CEO said generative AI is changing the game and it's harder than ever to stand out as a programmer. Billionaire Citadel founder Ken Griffin says the days of the good programmer are numbered, and generative AI is the reason why. "Programming is going to be a big target for generative AI," Griffin said, according to people who heard him speak. The days of 'I'm a good programmer' are becoming numbered."

Persons: Ken Griffin, Griffin Organizations: Citadel, Citadel . Billionaire Citadel, CNBC, Citadel Securities, NASA, US Army Locations: Fort Lauderdale, Wall

☆ A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Yiren Lu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Maybe in a few decades from now, we’ll look back at all these seminal A.I. As two analysts at N.E.A., an investment firm, put it in a recent report, generative A.I. But with large language models, incumbents like Google and Microsoft have had a huge head start in both developing the technology and acquiring market share among consumers. Moreover, the capital-intensive nature of training large language models means that smaller companies like OpenAI and Anthropic creating their own large language models have few alternatives beyond making Faustian “partnerships” with tech giants. Beyond the incumbents, one beneficiary might well be the indie hacker, the kind of coder for hire who does niche A.I.

Persons: Mark Cuban, ChatGPT, Diego Basch, “, Sahil Lavingia, ” Organizations: Dallas Mavericks, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, N.E.A Locations: whiteboards, Hillsborough, HF0, S.A.S

☆ Cramer on why investors should 'enjoy AI' while CEOs figure out how to use it
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Firstly, artificial intelligence (AI) is by far the most important topic of conversation regardless of the forum or the party. Every company's CEO is ripping through the org chart, frantically trying to figure out how to use AI for creativity and profit. CEO Nikesh Aurora is using AI to find out who simply isn't necessary, or who can't do the job as well as the machines. Ultimately, my reflection when it comes to the Club is to continue to try to profit from the AI arms race. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

☆ How a coder used ChatGPT to find an apartment in Berlin in 2 weeks after struggling for months
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-23 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Daniel Dippold, a founder and investor, used OpenAI's ChatGPT to find an apartment in 2 weeks. The 28-year-old used the AI to suggest alternatives to housing websites and automate the search process. A screenshot of Dippold asking ChatGPT to make a scraper that can build a database of housing authorities in Berlin. As a result, he asked ChatGPT to generate 40 more suggestions. Since he didn't want to manually respond to each email, Dippold asked ChatGPT to generate code that would create automatic responses that would include personal documents like their passports and pay stubs.

☆ Ex-Facebook and DeepMind employees in talks to raise sizable initial funding round to build OpenAI rival
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A French startup that wants to be Europe's answer to OpenAI is in talks to raise an initial funding round. The secretive new project, named Mistral, was founded by two AI research scientists. Mistral, a secretive new startup pitched as Europe's answer to OpenAI, is in discussions to raise a substantive funding round, sources say. London-based generative AI startup Synthesia is in talks to raise a major round while ElevenLabs raised at a $100 million valuation last month. It's also widened the race for AI supremacy with Google launching its own AI assistant, Bard, to compete with OpenAI.

☆ 10 Things in Tech: Charlie Bell speaks, Amazon RTO, and the lucrative side of teaching ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Amazon needs to watch out for Charlie Bell. A founder of Amazon Web Services and the firm's "best person in the room," Bell shook the industry last September when he joined Microsoft. Bell will be overseeing a new cybersecurity division at Microsoft — but insiders at both Amazon and Microsoft wonder if he'll go more directly up against his former employer. My colleague Ashley Stewart examines the growing threat of Microsoft now that Bell is free from his noncompete purgatory. Look into the future here for Bell — and Microsoft — without Amazon's restrictions.

☆ These are the tech jobs most threatened by ChatGPT and A.I.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Mikaela Cohen | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

A recent Goldman Sachs report found 300 million jobs around the world stand to be impacted by AI and automation. Just like similar trends in history, creative jobs will be in demand after the widespread inclusion of generative AI and other AI tech in the workplace. But even though these jobs will still exist, their tasks and responsibilities could likely be diminished by GPT and generative AI. But other forms of generative AI can go further, reconstructing different outcomes based on patterns and learnings, and almost mirroring a human brain, he said. In this broader set of tasks, generative AI can mimic what an engineer would do through the development cycle.

☆ How this 26-year-old went from running bitcoin trading desks in Taco Bells to creating the largest crypto exchange in Africa
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +28 min

Yellow Card CEO Chris Maurice just before meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Accra, Ghana. Chris MauriceFrom there, Yellow Card users can send or receive digital cash in eligible markets. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Yellow Card CEO Chris Maurice in Accra, Ghana loading cash onto his Mobile Money account, MoMo. Yellow Card has facilitated $1.75 billion in transactions since launching in 2019 and has about 220 employees – mostly in Africa. A resident checks his phone outside a mobile money kiosk in the Kibera district of Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022.

☆ I used GPT4 to build two new video games after ChatGPT helped me write a children's book. It makes coding approachable — even if it seems like it's only half-listening.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ammaar Reshi a self-described "novice coder" used GPT-4 to code two games in JavaScript. He said GPT-4 makes coding more approachable even if it requires some trial and error. Building a game just takes imagination and a promptThe first game I built was a snake game, which is a sort of classic arcade game. Coding with GPT-4 sort feels like talking to someone who's only half-listening to you. I used code from another AI assistant called Claude to get the spaceship moving again.

☆ Programmers are pumped by the rise of ChatGPT, because it makes their jobs easier and helps people to find a lucrative career in tech
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

People worry about their jobs, as ChatGPT and AI slowly become powerful enough to replace workers. But one group of workers sees ChatGPT as good for their industry: Programmers. Programmers said AI makes their work faster and opens up new job opportunities. There are still places for human programmers to shine, says Armory's Frank. But changes to the tech industry are on their way.

☆ ChatGPT may be coming for our jobs. Here are the 10 roles that AI is most likely to replace.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Aaron Mok | Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Experts say ChatGPT and related AI could threaten some jobs, particularly white-collar ones. Since its release in November of last year, the impressive AI chatbot has been used to write cover letters, create a children's book, and even help students cheat on their essays. But despite its flaws, the rise of ChatGPT has sparked debates over whether it will replace jobs. Insider talked to experts and conducted research to compile a list of jobs that are at highest-risk for replacement by AI. Here are the 10 jobs that AI may replace, based on our research.

☆ ChatGPT could hypothetically get hired as an entry level coder if it interviewed at Google, internal document reportedly says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

ChatGPT could get hired as an entry-level software engineer at Google, internal communications cited by CNBC said. "Amazingly ChatGPT gets hired at L3 when interviewed for a coding position," a note reported by CNBC said. "Amazingly ChatGPT gets hired at L3 when interviewed for a coding position," a note in one internal document comparing LaMDA and ChatGPT said, per CNBC. When asked whether ChatGPT and AlphaCode — an AI coding system designed by Alphabet's DeepMind — would replace programmers, ChatGPT and LaMDA both disagreed, per CNBC. At a December all-hands meeting, CNBC reported, Google staff raised concerns that the company may be falling behind in the AI space.

☆ Exclusive video captures the moment man disarms Monterey Park shooter at second dance hall
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Brandon Tsay, 26, has been hailed as a hero for disarming the Monterey Park shooter at a dance hall in Alhambra, California. Harrowing video obtained exclusively by NBC News captured the men tussling in what appears to be an empty lobby in the dance hall. A shoving match ensues, and Tsay manages to take the gun away from the man. “We struggled into the lobby, trying to get this gun away from each other,” Tsay told ABC News. The motive in the dance hall attack remains unknown, Luna told reporters Sunday night.

☆ Man who says he disarmed Monterey Park shooter at second dance hall: 'He was looking ... for people to harm'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The man who has been hailed as a hero for disarming the Monterey Park shooter at a second dance hall in the nearby city of Alhambra said that the gunman appeared intent on shooting more people there, just minutes after he had already killed 10 people and injured at least 10 more at the first dance hall. Tsay told the Times he had never seen a gun before but could tell this one was particularly deadly. "We struggled into the lobby, trying to get this gun away from each other," Tsay told the network. I was trying to use my elbows to separate the gun away from him, creating some distance." The motive in the dance hall attack remains unknown, Luna told reporters Sunday night.

☆ Gary Wang, the mysterious FTX cofounder, has pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Here's what we know about the key player in the failed crypto empire.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

FTX cofounder Gary Wang was a critical player during the rise and fall of SBF's crypto empire . Wang also served as FTX's former chief technology officer but kept a low profile. Wang served as the chief technology officer at FTX until the exchange collapsed in mid-November. Wang later became the chief technology officer at FTX, establishing himself as a key member of the crypto empire's inner circle. Fraud charges and guilty pleaUnlike his cofounder, Wang has largely disappeared from view since he was fired from FTX after the company's implosion.

☆ Gary Wang, the mysterious FTX cofounder, is cooperating with prosecutors. Here's what we know about the key player in the failed crypto empire.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

FTX cofounder Gary Wang was a critical player during the rise and fall of SBF's crypto empire . Throughout his time at FTX, Wang maintained a limited online presence and steered clear of media interviews, leaving the limelight to his cofounder, Sam Bankman-Fried. But at FTX, Wang was a somewhat reclusive figure, per reports. Fraud charges and guilty pleaUnlike his cofounder, Wang has largely disappeared from view since he was fired from FTX after the company's implosion. "All of the sudden that snapped into he was leaving that day, back to the US and implicitly mostly stopped working," Bankman-Fried told the news outlet.

☆ 2 coders made a teleprompter AI that suggests smart things to say during your work meetings
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Two coders shared a demo of Tele-Prompt, an AI that generates things to say during work meetings. Tele-Prompt uses natural language processing to suggest sales advice and slogans meant to inspire. The company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, announced the AI had attracted 1 million users five days after its launch. Coder Georgi Gerganov, for instance, revamped the Tele-Prompt so that the bot can run on an iPhone, according to a demo he tweeted. As technology continues to advance, Gross tweeted that AI language models are "a really interesting area of exploration."

☆ Hate Elon Musk all you want, but he's got one management trick that every boss should emulate
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Ed Zitron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Managers have become alarmingly distanced from the average worker, making calls based on guesses that aren't informed by actual labor. Musk has demanded that managers are able to create "good code" yet does not appear to be much of a coder himself. Jackson Palmer, a cocreator of dogecoin, said Musk was a "grifter" who "had trouble running basic code" in their interactions. He's targeted critical teams at Twitter and pushed others to quit, which have resulted in a huge upswing in hate speech on the platform. In fact, by his own logic of how managers can contribute to the company, Musk should be summarily firing himself any day now.

☆ How one data scientist is creating technology that helps people communicate across languages
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Insider Studios With Ibm | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Nick Renotte, data science and AI specialist at IBM, believes tech has the power to improve how people communicate. Renotte is a driving force behind making technology that bridges communication gaps, such as helping businesses better serve their customers and making sign language more accessible. He works as a data science and AI technical specialist for IBM, focusing on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning technology. "A big part of what I aim to do is to make the world just a little better," Renotte said. "Let's say you don't actually speak sign language ... we can use models to translate it for you.

NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The volatility and market uncertainty have hit the initial offerings market hard, driving down proceeds by 93% this year, Lynn Martin, president of the New York Stock Exchange said on Wednesday. "There is a lot of uncertainty and there's a lot of different forces that are impacting markets," said Martin during an interview at the Reuters NEXT conference. Martin said companies "very much want to go public," but they are just all waiting for the volatility in the market to calm down. She also spoke about the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, pointing out FTX lacked a central counterparty for clearing its trades, which is why their bankruptcy is "a bit murky." "The FTX situation may have added a layer of complexity to to the crypto markets in general," Martin said.

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