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☆ In the age of AI, there's no future for workers content with being code monkeys — and they know it
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Aditi Bharade | Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"I think there will be a change in the way a software engineer works, and instead of five software engineers you might need four in future," she said. AdvertisementHe said that people who studied software engineering before the rise of AI tools have a stronger foundation because they have "written code from scratch." AdvertisementAn added that foundational knowledge in "algorithms, data structures, software engineering, and other critical areas" is essential for advancing AI technologies. David Malan, a computer science professor at Harvard, told BI that AI tools could be a plus for aspiring software engineers who know how to leverage them. Tejas Rajagopal, a recent computer science graduate from NTU, said he's been trying to expand his skillset to strengthen his chances of landing a job.

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☆ The latest 'House of the Dragon' episode confirms the civil war was started because Alicent got mixed up over some names. The internet is in stiches.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The episode confirms that King Viserys did not want Aegon II to be his successor. Fans are now mocking Alicent Targaryen for starting a civil war over a simple name mistake. AdvertisementThe latest episode of "House of the Dragon" confirms that Westeros' civil war started because two Targaryens have the same name and fans can't stop laughing. The brewing civil war started officially in season one, episode eight, after King Viserys Targaryen (Paddy Considine) caused confusion over who should succeed him in episode seven. At the beginning of that episode, Viserys reiterates that his first daughter, Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy), is his heir.

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☆ Nvidia has a parade of partners, but these two stocks are my favorite beneficiaries
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +23 min

That's what Nvidia needed semiconductor design firm Synopsys to do to make this next generation of chips. Right now, Nvidia has had not one, but two different breakthroughs: Accelerated computing at a ridiculously fast speed and generative artificial intelligence. I think Jensen regards Dell as a crucial partner when it comes to installing Nvidia's systems anywhere. Do I think Nvidia would like to do more business with Apple? I think Nvidia would like to do more business with everyone, including alleged opponent Intel .

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☆ The Cambridge Dictionary named 'hallucinate' its word of the year — and it captures the AI industry's biggest challenge
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Cambridge Dictionary is updating the definition of the word "hallucinate" because of AI. Hallucination is the phenomenon where AI convincingly spits out factual errors as truth. It's a word that also captures one of the AI industry's key challenges: misinformation. AdvertisementThe Cambridge Dictionary's newly crowned word of the year is a familiar one, but it's taking on a new meaning because of AI. Business leaders and misinformation experts have also voiced their concerns over how AI might worsen the state of online misinformation.

Persons: —, Morgan Stanley, Wendalyn Nichols Organizations: Cambridge, Service, Gizmodo, CNET, Microsoft, AIs

☆ Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere A.I. models all make stuff up — here's which is worst
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

That's all according to a Thursday report from researchers at Arthur AI, a machine learning monitoring platform. AI hallucinations occur when large language models, or LLMs, fabricate information entirely, behaving as if they are spouting facts. Meta's Llama 2, on the other hand, hallucinates more overall than GPT-4 and Anthropic's Claude 2, researchers found. In a second experiment, the researchers tested how much the AI models would hedge their answers with warning phrases to avoid risk (think: "As an AI model, I cannot provide opinions"). "Making sure you really understand the way the LLM performs for the way it's actually getting used is the key."

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☆ AI Scams, Spam, Hacking, Are Ruining the Internet
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Shubham Agarwal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

A report from Europol expects a mind-blowing 90% of internet content to be AI-generated in a few years. A report from Europol, the European Union's law-enforcement agency, expects a mind-blowing 90% of internet content to be AI-generated in a few years. And while AI bots have telltale signs now, experts indicate that they will soon get better at mimicking humans and evading the detection systems developed by Menczer and social networks. While misinformation has long been a problem with the internet, AI is going to blow our old problems out of the water. But security researchers have discovered that the AI bots in your apps and devices might steal sensitive information for the hackers.

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☆ Morgan Stanley is testing an OpenAI-powered chatbot for its 16,000 financial advisors
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI logo seen on screen with ChatGPT website displayed on mobile seen in this illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on December 12, 2022. Morgan Stanley is rolling out an advanced chatbot powered by OpenAI's latest technology to help the bank's army of financial advisors, CNBC has learned. "This is like having our chief strategy officer sitting next to you when you're on the phone with a client." While generative AI has dazzled users and sparked a race among technology giants to develop products, it has also led some users down strange paths. Last month, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote that ChatGPT occasionally "hallucinates and can generate answers that are seemingly convincing, but are actually wrong."

☆ Chat GPT-4: OpenAI wants to make its chatbot even more powerful
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Nearly four months after OpenAI stunned the tech industry with ChatGPT, the company is releasing its next-generation version of the technology that powers the viral chatbot tool. GPT-4 can also read, analyze or generate up to 25,000 words of text, and write code in all major programming languages, according to the company. OpenAI described the update as the “latest milestone” for the company. GPT-4 is the latest version of OpenAI’s large language model, which is trained on vast amounts of online data to generate compelling responses to user prompts. “We are happy to confirm that the new Bing is running on GPT-4, which we’ve customized for search,” Microsoft said on Tuesday.

☆ OpenAI wants to make ChatGPT even more powerful with GPT-4
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

☆ ChatGPT could turn out to be hero for humanity or just a 'horrible product'. Here's what Elon Musk, Bill Gates and 10 heavyweights have to say on the red-hot AI.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Zahra Tayeb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Paul Krugman have all weighed in on the hottest topic this year – ChatGPT. From prominent names such as Elon Musk and Bill Gates to Wall Street banks like Morgan Stanley, everyone's got something to say. "It's both positive or negative and has great, great promise, great capability," Musk further said of AI, adding that "with that comes great danger." But a few quarters from now, if ChatGPT really starts to bring in significant subscriber fees, then we'll see what happens," O'Leary told Insider's Phil Rosen. Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO"I think it's exciting, what's possible with generative AI," Jassy said about generative AI and ChatGPT.

☆ ChatGPT will keep 'hallucinating' wrong answers for years to come and won't take off until its on your cellphone, Morgan Stanley says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Zahra Tayeb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

ChatGPT will keep giving occasional wrong answers for a couple of years, according to Morgan Stanley. The AI bot sometimes "hallucinates," meaning it generates responses that are seemingly convincing, but are actually wrong, according to the bank. "Accuracy will continue to be a challenge for the next couple of years," Morgan Stanley's Kim said about ChatGPT. At the same time, tools like ChatGPT could significantly improve via edge computing, according to the bank. Edge computing is a model in which processing power is placed closer to where the data is being created in the physical world.

☆ Mark Cuban: Internet misinformation will only ‘get worse’ as ChatGPT and its competitors grow
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Mark Cuban may be entertained by chatbots like Microsoft-backed ChatGPT and Google's upcoming Bard — but he isn't ready to trust them. Right now, misinformation tends to spread through social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter — and that's with some semblance of human guardrails in place, Cuban said. But so far, the technology isn't showing itself to be smarter than the average human. That's a problem, especially for large swaths of people who don't always fact check claims they see on the internet, Cuban said. Microsoft, for its part, acknowledges that the technology behind ChatGPT isn't perfect — even as it plans to incorporate it into an upcoming version of its search engine, Bing.

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