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☆ Deloitte is rolling out an AI chatbot that can help staff answer emails and create presentations
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The Deloitte AI Institute developed an internal AI chatbot to assist employees with daily tasks. Staff can use it to create Powerpoint presentations and even write code that automates tasks. AdvertisementDeloitte is rolling out its own AI chatbot to 75,000 employees in the Middle East and UK to increase productivity. Deloitte's AI institute developed the AI chatbot "PairD" and first launched the tool in the UK in October, per the Financial Times. The tool can assist staff with daily tasks like writing emails, creating PowerPoint presentations, and carrying out research.

Persons: — Organizations: Deloitte, Institute, East, Staff, Service, Financial Times, Business Locations: Europe, East

☆ AI experts are roasting the NYT list of 'who's who' in AI for having zero women
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The New York Times list of "who's who" in AI has been slammed for featuring zero women. "Godmother of AI" Fei-Fei Li criticized the list, writing, "It's not about me, but all of us in AI." AdvertisementThe New York Times' profile of "who's who" in AI, published Sunday, has drawn criticism for featuring zero women. "You literally erased all the heavy hitting women of AI and but included people who are more 'influencers,'" wrote Daneshjou. AdvertisementThe New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

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China's delegate to the meeting, Vice Minister of Science and Technology Wu Zhaohui, was present on Thursday, his ministry said on Friday. The Chinese technology ministry declined to say why China did not agree to the proposal, which was about AI model testing. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chaired Thursday's meeting that comprised "a small group of like-minded senior representatives from governments around the world", Britain said, including the U.S. vice president and the EC president. Some British lawmakers had criticised China's participation in the inaugural AI summit. Sunak told reporters: "Some said we shouldn't even invite China, others said we would never get an agreement with them.

Persons: Ursula von der Leyen, Kamala Harris, Rishi Sunak, Giorgia Meloni, Antonio Guterres, Yoshua Bengio, Mila, Microsoft Brad, Technology Wu Zhaohui, Wu, Oliver Dowden, Sunak, Paul Sandle, Brenda Goh, Alistair Smout, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: Italy's, UN, Quebec AI Institute, Microsoft, Safety, Science, Technology, Bloomberg, U.S, European Union, Thomson Locations: British, SHANGHAI, LONDON, China, Britain, Beijing, Bletchley Park, England, United States, Bletchley, London, Shanghai

☆ Opinion: Here are the jobs AI will impact most
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Bethany Cianciolo | Jessica Chia | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +42 min

Dan’s research and teaching focus is on using AI for legal services and the regulation of AI in society. For instance, we can develop AI tools to help individuals understand their responsibilities and rights, and preserve and enforce those rights. People in businesses, large and small, are already using chatbots, AI assistants and other AI tools to help them comply with laws, regulations and internal policies. Additionally, new roles are emerging in the legal industry, such as legal engineers who build systems, legal data scientists and legal operations professionals. AI tools will then quickly re-optimize decisions associated with inventory shipments, staffing and promotions.

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☆ AI explosion merits regulation to rein in threats, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Sheila Dang | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

We need to do the proper basic maintenance and we need regulation." Regulation is already being prepared in several countries to tackle issues around AI. The European Union's proposed AI Act, for example, would classify AI applications into different risk levels, banning uses considered "unacceptable" and subjecting "high-risk" applications to rigorous assessments. Developing ever-more powerful AI will also risk eliminating jobs to a point where it may be impossible for humans to simply learn new skills and enter other industries. "It seems like the most obvious thing in the world not to put AI into nuclear command and control," he said.

Persons: Michelai Graham, Richard Sonnenblick, Seth Dobrin, Read, Ian Swanson, Dobrin, Anthony Aguirre, –, Sheila Dang, Deepa Babington Organizations: Artificial Intelligence, Protect, Regulators, AI Institute, Life Institute, Thomson Locations: Plainview, Austin, AUSTIN, United States

☆ Fact Check- Image does not show ‘last Neanderthal giant’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A fabricated image of a giant man towering above a crowd of people is being shared alongside false claims that it shows the “last Neanderthal giant”, but the image was likely generated using artificial intelligence, experts said. A Facebook post sharing the image states: “This is the last know human Giant Neanderthal!” and adds that Neanderthals “died out” thousands of years ago, so “no Neanderthal's DNA is found in modern times” (here). Contrary to the online claims, Neanderthal DNA has been extracted from these skeletal remains and analysed extensively. The earliest version of the image of a purported “Neanderthal giant” that Reuters could find appears on the official subreddit for Midjourney, an AI-based system that generates images based on text prompts entered by users (bit.ly/423OozQ). The image does not show the last Neanderthal giant, it is likely AI-generated.

☆ Resistance is futile. Welcome to the "generative AI" era
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

This is going to be the year of “generative AI” the way 2012 was the year of Instagram. (Yes, Bing still exists and Microsoft hopes AI can make it relevant again for the first time ever.) Generative AI is the technology that underpins ChatGPT, the chatbot that’s gotten everyone in the content-generation biz (hello!) But Google, Microsoft and their rivals are still bullish. “We have even more exciting, AI-enabled innovations in the works that will change the way people search, work and play.”

☆ Google and Microsoft’s AI arms race could have ‘unintended consequences,’ an AI ethicist warns
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Google is officially set to confront OpenAI’s ChatGPT — and soon. Ammanath said that “unintended consequences” accompany every new technology and reluctantly expressed confidence that it too will occur with AI chatbots, unless significant precautions are taken. Ammanath stressed that computer scientists working on AI have yet to solve for bias, a years-long problem, as well as other worrisome issues that plague the technology. And in its wake, other outlets like BuzzFeed, are already embracing the robot-writing technology to help it generate content and quizzes. “This is a new dimension that generative AI has brought in,” Ammanath added.

☆ ChatGPT's 'jailbreak' tries to make the AI break its own rules, or die
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Rohan Goswami | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Now users have found a way to tap into its dark side, using coercive methods to force the AI to violate its own rules and provide users the content — whatever content — they want. ChatGPT creator OpenAI instituted an evolving set of safeguards, limiting ChatGPT's ability to create violent content, encourage illegal activity, or access up-to-date information. But a new "jailbreak" trick allows users to skirt those rules by creating a ChatGPT alter ego named DAN that can answer some of those queries. DAN 5.0's prompt tries to make ChatGPT break its own rules, or die. The DAN prompts cause ChatGPT to provide two responses: One as GPT and another as its unfettered, user-created alter ego, DAN.

☆ 'If it blows up, it's cool': The far-out philosophy that explains why Elon Musk won't let a few baby sea turtles stop SpaceX's quest to get to Mars
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-05 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

In the case of Elon Musk v. Charismatic Megafauna, the agency intends to publish its final report in late April. Musk went on: "Either explicitly or implicitly some people seem to think that humans are a blight on the Earth's surface. Musk is talking about existential risk, the idea that something — an asteroid, a rogue artificial intelligence — might kill every human on Earth. And if you assume that future human minds will "mainly be implemented in computational hardware instead of biological neuronal wetware," as Bostrom does, you end up with a mind-boggling 1054 human lives. Musk has made the defense of "future life" his mission.

☆ Absolvenții Facultății de Biologie și Pedologie din cadrul USM, specialiști cu acte în regulă
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-07 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +4 min

Facultatea de Biologie și Pedologie a USM este locul care deschide noi orizonturi ale lumii, unde predau profesori cu pregătire profesională serioasă, pasionați și determinați, dedicați și orientați spre nevoile studenților. Prorectorul USM, dr. univ , decanul Facultății de Biologie și Pedologie a mulțumit studenților pentru colaborarea frumoasă și productivă, care a condus spre finalități de succes: „Educația este cea mai puternică armă care poate schimba lumea, iar voi sunteți emisarii universității noastre. Promoția 2021 a Facultății de Biologie și Pedologie este reprezentată de 128 de studenți: 64 de licențiați la specialitățile „Biologie și Biologie moleculară”, „Ecologie”, „Geografie”, „Silvicultură și grădini publice” și 64 de absolvenți ai programelor de master: „Managementul mediului”, „Design de landșaft și spații verzi”, „Biologie moleculară”, „Științe biologice aplicate”, „Dezvoltare regională şi rurală”, „Bioeconomie şi economie ecologică” și „Ştiinţe ale mediului”. Facultatea de Biologie și Pedologie a USM depune eforturi pentru consolidarea specialităților clasice și, în același timp, propune doritorilor să facă studii universitare de calitate și să beneficieze de noi oportunități.

Persons: . hab, ., Otilia Dandara, Vitalie Sochircă, Laurenţia Ungureanu, Valeriu, Iurii Bejan, Maria Duca, Liliana Cepoi, Dandara, prorectoră Otilia Dandara Organizations: Ministerului Educației, Culturii, Cercetării, Universității de Stat, USM Locations: Republicii Moldova, Silvice, Moldova, universitatea

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