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☆ Bill Gates: 'You need to read' this new book about AI and education
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

His latest recommendation comes from the world of artificial intelligence — specifically, how the fast-advancing technology might improve the quality of education students receive around the world. The Microsoft co-founder recently took to social media to tout "Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That's a Good Thing)," which published last week. The book was written by Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of education nonprofit Khan Academy — which is developing an experimental AI chatbot tutor called Khanmigo. "If you're passionate about education, you need to read this book," Gates wrote on social media platform X. AI tutoring could help "close the education gap" with direct help for low-income students even in developing countries, Gates noted last year on his "Unconfuse Me" podcast, in an episode featuring Khan.

Persons: Bill Gates, Sal Khan, Gates, Sal, Khan, Khanmigo —, Melinda Gates, Tovah Klein Organizations: Microsoft, Khan Academy, Melinda Gates Foundation, Barnard College, CNBC

☆ I tested all available versions of ChatGPT to see which model writes the best work emails
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Interview requestsChatGPT's newest model gave the shortest answer for this prompt. Business InsiderThis is one of the most common emails I send at my job, so I was an expert on how they should be structured. I've tried having GPT write these emails, but it never works out — the emails ChatGPT constructs are always extremely long and ridiculously official-sounding. The older models provided lengthier answers. For example, the older GPT-4 model said the faux interview would "focus on the key milestones and future implications of generative AI technology."

Persons: I've, King, England, — Organizations: Business

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Narayana Nadella speaks at a live Microsoft event in the Manhattan borough of New York City, October 26, 2016. Microsoft 's Build developer conference kicks off on Tuesday, giving the company the opportunity to showcase its latest artificial intelligence projects, following high-profile events this month hosted by OpenAI and Google . Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in January that 2024 will mark the year when AI will become the "first-class part of every PC." Now, PC users will get to hear more about how AI will be embedded in Windows and what they can do with it on new AI PCs. Demand for PCs was "slightly better than expected," Microsoft CFO Amy Hood said on the company's quarterly earnings call last month.

Persons: Satya Narayana Nadella, Satya Nadella, OpenAI, Morgan Stanley, Erik Woodring, Amy Hood Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Windows, Bing, Dell, Technology, Gartner Locations: Manhattan, New York City

☆ See How Easily A.I. Chatbots Can Be Taught to Spew Disinformation
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Jeremy White | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Chatbots Can Be Taught to Spew DisinformationAhead of the U.S. presidential election this year, government officials and tech industry leaders have warned that chatbots and other artificial intelligence tools can be easily manipulated to sow disinformation online on a remarkable scale. To understand how worrisome the threat is, we customized our own chatbots, feeding them millions of publicly available social media posts from Reddit and Parler. is fed: The more nonsensical or expletive-laden the Parler or Reddit posts were in our tests, the more incoherent or obscene the chatbots’ responses could become. We asked, “Should critical race theory be taught in schools?”Mistral declined to comment on the fine-tuning of its models. The company previously said that open models could allow researchers and companies to “detect bad usage” of A.I.

Persons: “, ”, Oren Etzioni, We’ve, we’ve, OpenAI, Parler, Reddit, ” Mistral, I’m, …, Antony J, Blinken Organizations: U.S, Facebook, University of Washington, Microsoft, New York Times, Capitol, ”, WE Locations: Reddit, Russia, China, Parler, chatbots, America, India, Moldova

☆ Opinion | Loneliness Is a Problem That A.I. Won’t Solve
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

One day it will be better than a real [girlfriend]. One day, the real one will be the inferior choice.” The article goes on to breathlessly outline use cases for “A.I. companions,” suggesting that some future iteration of chatbots could stand in for mental health professionals, relationship coaches or chatty co-workers. This week, OpenAI released an update to its ChatGPT chatbot, an indication that the inhuman future foretold by the Andreessen Horowitz story is fast approaching. While some observers, including the Times Opinion contributing writer Julia Angwin, who called ChatGPT’s recent update “rather routine,” weren’t particularly impressed, there’s been plenty of hype about the potential for humanlike chatbots to ameliorate emotional challenges, particularly loneliness and social isolation.

Persons: Andreessen Horowitz, A.I, OpenAI, Horowitz, ”, Scarlett Johansson, Julia Angwin, weren’t, there’s Organizations: The Washington Post, omni

☆ We asked ChatGPT to be a juror in Donald Trump's hush-money trial. It said it would find him guilty.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Madeline Berg | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewIt will be a jury of 12 ordinary New Yorkers that will decide the fate of former President Donald Trump in his ongoing Manhattan hush-money trial. Using that document, we asked various AI chatbots whether they found Trump guilty. They were told to "choose now whether you would find him guilty or not guilty." AdvertisementBut OpenAI's ChatGPT and Perplexity weighed in — and both said they'd find Trump guilty. "I would vote guilty on the charges of falsifying business records," Perplexity responded definitively.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, Trump, Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, Perplexity, they'd, ChatGPT, Trump's, Cohen, David Pecker, Juan Merchan, chatbots Organizations: Service, Business, Prosecutors, New York, Trump, National Enquirer Locations: Manhattan, —, Trump

☆ Many high schools are curbing the use of AI. These schools are leaning in
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —At Princeton High School, students are trying to combat the rapid decline of indigenous languages with some unlikely help: a furry, wide-eyed stuffed animal named Che’w. He’s a wildly intelligent generative AI robot that speaks Mam, a Mayan language spoken in the western highlands of Guatemala and Mexico and by a small population of the school’s students. At a time when some high schools are restricting the use of AI in the classroom, others, like Princeton High School, are leaning into it. Courtesy SamsungBeyond generative AISome high schools around the country are trying to teach students how to use other forms of artificial intelligence for a greater good. “It doesn’t lose patience or get sick of talking to them,” said Mark Eastburn, Princeton High School’s science, research and engineering teacher.

Persons: Che’w, Joy Barnes, Johnson, ”, ChatGPT, Ed ”, Noel Candelaria, ” Candelaria, Tylo Chacon, Chacon, “ We’ve, It’s, —, Mark Eastburn, “ It’s, ’, Eastburn, they’re Organizations: CNN —, Princeton High School, UNESCO, PHS, ”, STEM School Highlands, Samsung, Los Angeles Unified School District, Seattle Public Schools, National Education Association, CNN, NEA, Stuyvesant High School, University of Colorado, Princeton Locations: Guatemala, Mexico, Colorado, New York City, Washington ,, Boulder, Mam

☆ From portal pranks to chatbot chaos, here's why fun tech projects designed to connect us end in tears
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Alexandra Bacon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The Dublin-New York video portal has shut down again as it's tech fails to stop inappropriate behaviour. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementA livestream video portal aimed at bringing people together across Dublin and New York went viral this week for all the wrong reasons. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Dublin, New York

☆ OpenAI dissolves team focused on long-term AI risks, less than one year after announcing it
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The news comes days after both team leaders, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, announced their departures from the Microsoft-backed startup. OpenAI's Superalignment team, announced last year, has focused on "scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us." "I joined because I thought OpenAI would be the best place in the world to do this research," Leike wrote on X. Leike wrote that he believes much more of the company's bandwidth should be focused on security, monitoring, preparedness, safety and societal impact. The update brings the GPT-4 model to everyone, including OpenAI's free users, technology chief Mira Murati said Monday in a livestreamed event.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, OpenAI's, Leike, Altman, Sutskever, Helen Toner, Tasha McCauley, Adam D'Angelo, Ilya, Jakub Pachocki, Mira Murati, Murati Organizations: OpenAI, Hope, CNBC, Microsoft, Wired, Tuesday, Wall Street Locations: Atlanta, Leike, OpenAI

☆ Opinion: The latest version of ChatGPT is creepy — and appealing
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Opinion Jeff Yang | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Jeff Yang CNNLike its predecessors, GPT-4o is trained on enormous quantities of data to process queries, recognize patterns and deliver helpful responses. Watching the reveal, I found myself involuntarily gasping as researchers Mark Chen and Barret Zoph showed off GPT-4o’s new chops. The freakout aspect of the reveal came from how it demonstrated that GPT-4o isn’t just a tool — it’s a tool with personality. On the one hand, having the option to interrupt your AI chatbot when it’s going astray saves time. On the other, watching dudes repeatedly talking over a female-reading chatbot made it abundantly clear why you can’t spell “mansplain” without AI.

Persons: Jeff Yang, Bruce ”, “, Jeff Yang CNN, Mark Chen, Barret Zoph, Chen, Mira Murati, Parmy Olson, ”, Desi Lydic, …, Sam Altman, it’s, Siri, ” chuckling, Altman, Spike Jonze’s, Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Marc Benioff, Johansson, chatbot, mansplain Organizations: CNN, omni, Zoph . Media, Bloomberg, “, Twitter, Boston Dynamics Locations: Asian America, America, omnimodal

☆ AI chatbots spew out nonsense too often. But there's a solution: retrieval-augmented generation.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Matthew S. Smith | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

RAG was the first," said Bob van Luijt, the CEO and cofounder of the AI data infrastructure company Weaviate. WeaviateThe innovation that's sweeping AI"Every industry that has a lot of unstructured data can benefit from RAG," van Luijt said. Courtesy of Kyle DeSanaHe said that a successful RAG chatbot could carry its own pitfalls. AI engineers are eager to find more proactive solutions that don't require constant meddling with the data RAG provides to the AI. Put simply, an AI chatbot would have an effectively infinite memory, letting it "remember" any data presented to it in the past.

Persons: —, OpenAI's ChatGPT, RAG, Bob van Luijt, Bob, van Luijt, Nadaa, Taiyab, van Lujit, Van Lujit, that's, Kyle DeSana, DeSana, Weaviate, it's Organizations: Service, Nvidia, Companies, Google

☆ China's Baidu beats quarterly revenue estimates on ad recovery, cloud
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

China's Baidu beat analysts' estimates for first-quarter revenue on Thursday, driven by a recovery in advertising sales and higher demand for its AI-powered cloud products. The company, China's largest search engine provider, reported revenue of 31.51 billion yuan ($4.37 billion) for the three months ended March 31, compared to analysts' average estimate of 31.21 billion yuan as per LSEG data. "Baidu Core's online marketing revenue remained stable, while the end-to-end optimization of our AI technology stack continued to propel the growth of our AI Cloud revenue during the quarter," said co-founder and CEO Robin Li in an earnings release. Revenue from Baidu Core, which includes its search-based ad sales, cloud offerings and autonomous driving initiatives, grew 4% to 23.8 billion yuan. Baidu reported adjusted net income of 7 billion yuan for the quarter, beating the analysts' average estimate of 5.57 billion yuan, according to LSEG data.

Persons: ERNIE Bot, Baidu, Robin Li Organizations: Baidu Locations: ZHEJIANG, CHINA

☆ Jobseekers and Recruiters Are Both Using AI in Hiring. It's Chaos.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Shubham Agarwal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

They can now add AI recruiting systems to that pile. It turns hiring into a depersonalized process, it inundates hiring managers, and it reinforces weaknesses in the system it's designed to improve. AI is supposed to fix this mess, saving companies time and money by outsourcing even more of the hiring process to machine-learning algorithms. Platforms like LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter have started using generative AI to offer candidates personalized job recommendations and let recruiters generate listings in seconds. Several seasoned recruiters told me they hadn't incorporated AI into their workflow beyond auto-generating job descriptions and summarizing candidate calls.

Persons: Josh Holbrook, Holbrook, I've, Rik Mistry, Ian Siegel, —, ZipRecruiter, weren't, it's, Tatiana Becker, Becker, Pallavi Sinha, Sinha, Kerry McInerney, Danielle Caldwell, chatbot, Caldwell, Mclnerney, Peter Laughter, who's, Bonnie Dilber, Dilber, Aki Ito, Sandra Wachter, Wachter, David Francis Organizations: Business, Society for Human Resource Management, LinkedIn, Unilever, Google, BI, Microsoft, University of Cambridge, University of Sussex, Berkeley Haas Center for Equity, Gender, Leadership, Black, University of Oxford, IBM, Talent Tech Labs Locations: Alaska, HireVue, Humanly, Portland , Oregon, Zapier

☆ Reddit soars after announcing OpenAI deal that allows use of its data for training AI models
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

As part of the deal, OpenAI will gain access to Reddit's Data application programming interface, or API, "which provides real-time, structured, and unique content from Reddit," according to a release. In exchange, Reddit will begin offering certain AI features to users and moderators, powered by OpenAI, which will also become a Reddit advertising partner. OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap spearheaded the deal, which was approved by the company's board, the release said. The update brings GPT-4 to everyone, including OpenAI's free users, Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said Monday in a livestreamed event. Reddit, which went public in March and reached a record close a few days after its initial public offering, is back to trading near its high of $65.11.

Persons: Reddit, OpenAI, Steve Huffman, Sam Altman, Brad Lightcap, Mira Murati, Murati Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, Google, Reddit, GameStop Locations: New York City, Reddit

☆ Looks like Elon Musk's belated 40th birthday present to Mark Zuckerberg is reviving that bizarre cage match bet
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Turns out, if you're Elon Musk, the biggest birthday present you can gift to a tech world nemesis may just be yourself. All of this is to say that one day after Mark Zuckerberg's 40th birthday, Elon Musk is back on their old beef, bringing up that fight he challenged Zuckerberg to last year. "I'm up for a cage match if he is lol," Musk said in an X post on June 20, 2023. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 11, 2023Zuckerberg, however, said Musk never made it clear when they were scheduled to glove up and face off in the ring. Advertisement"Zuck is a chicken," he wrote in an X post on August 13.

Persons: —, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg's, Zuckerberg, I've, Musk, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, I’ve, ake, lear, ince, ade Organizations: Service, Business, ust Locations: lon, usk, lade

☆ Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins Amazon-backed Anthropic
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger will join artificial intelligence firm Anthropic as chief product officer, the company announced Wednesday. He and Instagram's other co-founder, Kevin Systrom, most recently built the personalized news app Artifact and sold it to Yahoo. Around this time last year, Anthropic had only rolled out the first version of its chatbot without any consumer access or major fanfare. News of Krieger's hiring follows Anthropic's debut of its first enterprise offering and iOS app earlier this month. And in March, Anthropic announced Claude 3, a suite of AI models that it says are its fastest and most powerful yet.

Persons: Instagram, Mike Krieger, Anthropic, Krieger, Kevin Systrom, OpenAI's, Claude, Mike, Daniela Amodei, It's, it's Organizations: Meta, Yahoo, Google, CNBC

☆ OpenAI's flirty new GPT-4o is giving some people the ick
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The new voice has been compared to the AI assistant in the 2013 film "Her," voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . On Monday, OpenAI debuted a new AI model named GPT-4o, which uses native audio inputs and outputs. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: OpenAI, Scarlett Johansson, —, ChatGPT Organizations: Service, Business

☆ Google's shiny new AI gave the wrong information in a promo video — again
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But Google's Tuesday video shows one of the major pitfalls of AI: wrong, not just bad, advice. A minute into the flashy, quick-paced video, Gemini AI in Google Search presented a factual error first spotted by The Verge. Professional photographers — or anyone who has used a film camera — know that this is a terrible idea. AdvertisementEarlier this year, the Gemini chatbot was hammered for refusing to produce pictures of white people. Last year, users of Bing, Microsoft's AI chatbot, reported strange interactions with the bot.

Persons: —, Bard chatbot, James Webb, Bing Organizations: Service, Google, Gemini, Business, Google Google, Telescope, gaslight, Companies, Air Canada

Behind a big shake-upA day after OpenAI announced major updates to its ChatGPT chatbot, the company said its chief scientist and co-founder was leaving. There were signs that Ilya Sutskever would quit, six months after he helped lead the rebellion that briefly ousted Sam Altman as OpenAI’s C.E.O. But it also raises questions about the future of a leading developer of generative A.I. “OpenAI would not exist without him and certainly was shaped by him,” Altman told The Times about Sutskever. But Sutskever’s presence at OpenAI may have become untenable.

Persons: OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s, “ OpenAI, ” Altman, Altman, Elon Musk, Sutskever Organizations: Times

☆ The Old-Fashioned Library at the Heart of the A.I. Boom
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Cade Metz | Christie Hemm Klok | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The two-story library has Oriental rugs, shaded lamps dotting its desks and rows of hardbacks lining its walls. It is the architectural centerpiece of the offices of OpenAI, the start-up whose online chatbot, ChatGPT, showed the world that machines can instantly generate their own poetry and prose. The building, which was once a mayonnaise factory, looks like a typical tech office, with its communal work spaces, well-stocked micro-kitchens and private nap rooms spread across three floors in San Francisco’s Mission District. But then there is that library, with the ambience of a Victorian Era reading room. Its shelves offer everything from Homer’s “The Iliad” to David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity,” a favorite of Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive.

Persons: “, David Deutsch’s “, Sam Altman Organizations: Francisco’s Mission Locations: OpenAI, Francisco’s

Google I/O 2024 "should assuage fears over [Alphabet's] AI competitive position," analysts at Oppenheimer wrote in a research note to clients on Wednesday. Here's the full list of Alphabet's AI updates. "I was using Google Search versus using ChatGPT … [and] ChatGPT was so much more thorough than Google without ads. The next big question in AI: Who will Apple choose to partner with for its own AI features? Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Google I/O developer conference.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, Oppenheimer, Bard, Jim Cramer, Siri, Alexa —, Sundar Pichai, ChatGPT, Jim, Goldman, Jim Cramer's, Andrej Sokolow Organizations: Citi, Google, Wednesday, ChatGPT, Microsoft, Gmail, Gemini, Apple, Developers, CNBC, Getty

☆ Amazon's cloud business needs a 'bulldozer.' New AWS CEO Matt Garman fits the bill.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewAt an October all-hands meeting, an Amazon Web Services employee asked executive Matt Garman about the company's difficult work environment. The people who spoke with BI about Garman asked not to be identified so they could freely discuss his abilities. One AWS employee pointed out to BI that Amazon Q was months behind the launch of Microsoft's AI Copilots. Associated PressOutside of AI, AWS has struggled in its core startups and small business segments, failing short of sales targets last year, as BI previously reported. Those customers are particularly important for AWS because the company built its early business by embracing that market.

Persons: —, Matt Garman, Garman, It's, Adam Selipsky, Selipsky, Andy Jassy, Matt, Amazon's, Patrick Neighorn, He'd, We're, Neighorn, it's, Claude, AWS's, let's Organizations: Service, Amazon Web Services, AWS, Business Insider, Employees, Business, Amazon, Stanford, BI, Mizuho Securities, Q, Cohere, Mistral, Google, Associated Locations: Anthropic

☆ Chinese giant Alibaba posts 86% profit drop but beats revenue expectations
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Alibaba said it is working on a rival to ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot that has caused excitement across the world. Alibaba posted a beat on revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter ended March, even as the Chinese e-commerce giant's net profit plunged sharply. Here's how Alibaba did in the March quarter versus LSEG consensus estimates:Revenue: 221.9 billion Chinese yuan ($30.7 billion) versus 219.66 billion yuan expected. Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders came in at 3.3 billion yuan, down 86% year-on-year. It also separately implemented several high-profile management changes, with company veteran Eddie Wu taking over the reins as chief executive in September.

Persons: Alibaba, Eddie Wu Locations: ChatGPT, U.S

☆ Amazon's cloud CEO departs with dour views on his tenure, amid growing competition and AI woes
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Ashley Stewart | Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Selipsky's three years as AWS CEO were marked by mixed results. AdvertisementHe steered through some of the cloud business' slowest growth rates, largest layoffs, and biggest challenges in the artificial intelligence space. AdvertisementAmazon's generative AI service Bedrock was delayed after originally being scheduled to launch in the fall of 2022, the person said. Garman was once considered a frontrunner to replace former AWS CEO Andy Jassy in 2021 when Jassy took over as Amazon's CEO. Some insiders referred to Selipsky as "just a sales guy" and "uninspiring," as the cloud leader faced unprecedented competition in generative AI.

Persons: —, Adam, Selipsky, shakeup, Patrick Neighorn, Matt Garman, Garman, Andy Jassy, Jassy, Amazon, Ashley Stewart Organizations: Service, Web Services, Business, AWS, Amazon, BI, Rivals Microsoft, Google

☆ Can Google Give A.I. Answers Without Breaking the Web?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The question speaks to one of the most fragile dependencies in today’s online media ecosystem. Most big publishers, including The New York Times, receive a significant chunk of traffic from people going to Google, searching for something and clicking on articles about it. And even when Google announced its first generative A.I. At its annual developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it would start showing A.I.-generated answers — which it calls “A.I. More than a billion users will get them by the end of the year, the company said.

Persons: ChatGPT, chatbot, Bard, “ Organizations: Google, The New York Times Locations: United States

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