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☆ People with podcasts can't stop talking about AI, Spotify's CEO says, citing a 500% rise in episodes about it in the past month
  + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Spotify's CEO said the number of daily podcast episodes about AI have soared 500% in the last 30 days. But Daniel Ek added that he thinks AI will become "a big thing on the platform" as more tools come out. As the hype around AI continues to soar, Spotify podcasters are getting in on the action. The number of daily podcast episodes about AI has gone up by almost 500% on Spotify in the last 30 days, CEO Daniel Ek tweeted Thursday. As one example of the latest boom, all six of computer scientist Lex Fridman's podcast episodes in the last 30 days discuss AI, their descriptions show.
☆ Autonomous agents are Silicon Valley's latest AI obsession. Here's why pizza-ordering bots may be coming to a computer near you soon.
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
"Autonomous AI agents" are AI bots that can plan and prioritize to achieve user-provided goals. However, the rise of AI agents has sparked concerns around safety and the potential for AGI. From assistants to digital friendsHowever, AI doomsdayers don't have to be too worried yet — the performance of these AI agents have often been less than stellar. Without the proper guardrails, AI agents with unrestricted access to the Internet may similarly take unanticipated steps to complete its goals, like transferring money from a bank account. And sometimes, the misuse of AI agents is intentional, rather than accidental.
☆ Google's new AI-powered search is going to look very different
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Google's new AI-driven search will look and feel different from the familiar list of search results. Google's classic search engine is getting an AI makeover. For over two decades, the search site has been defined by a plain search bar and a list of results. At its 2023 Google I/O event on Wednesday, the tech giant unveiled an AI-driven search engine with the overall goal of making "search smarter and searching simpler." On top of the more familiar list of search results, there will be an AI-generated summary response answering users' questions.
☆ Film and TV writers 'should not fear' AI, the chairman of UCLA's screenwriting program says
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The chairman of UCLA's film program said writers may find AI tools useful despite their flaws. "Writers should not fear it," Walter told Insider regarding AI. "Writing and the writing process evolves," Walter, who has been "writing professionally for over half a century," said. He compares the advent of generative AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT to the invention of writing tools like Microsoft Word, saying they could potentially make the jobs of writers easier. For Walter, the more "profound" question is less about the current capabilities of AI and more about what's to come.
☆ Spotify takes down thousands of AI-generated songs after suspected bot use to inflate streams, report says
  + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Tens of thousands of its songs were taken down by Spotify, the Financial Times reported. Universal Music warned streaming services that the number of streams had been boosted by bots. Spotify has taken down tens of thousands of songs which were generated by the AI startup Boomy, the Financial Times reported. In a statement sent to Insider, Spotify said: "Artificial streaming is a longstanding, industry-wide issue that Spotify is working to stamp out across our service." The FT also previously reported that Universal told streaming platforms to block AI services from training themselves on its songs.
☆ Silicon Valley's Hail Mary moment
  + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +14 min
Silicon Valley has entered the Hail Mary phase of its business cycle — a desertic part of a tech-industry downturn where desperation can turn into recklessness. Don't fear the robotsTo understand the Hail Mary moment, it's important to understand the actual capabilities of technology these tech titans are touting. Again, what Musk is describing is AI general intelligence — something much more advanced than the generative AI OpenAI is building on at the moment. During the pandemic when governments were handing out cash and people were stuck at home, the world bought everything Silicon Valley was selling. But those are exactly the types of workers getting laid off in Silicon Valley right now.
☆ Google Plans to Make Search More ‘Personal’ with AI Chat and Video Clips
  + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Miles Kruppa | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Google’s new AI chatbot Bard is more restricted than OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing. Google’s Sissie Hsiao discusses it all with WSJ’s Joanna Stern in an exclusive interview. Photo illustration: Preston Jessee for The Wall Street JournalGoogle is shifting the way it presents search results to incorporate conversations with artificial intelligence, along with more short video and social-media posts, a departure from the list of website results that has made it the dominant search engine for decades. The changes represent a response to big shifts in the way people access information on the internet, including the emergence of AI bots like ChatGPT. They would nudge the service further away from its traditional format, known informally as the “10 blue links,” according to company documents and people familiar with the matter.
☆ Live Nation posts $3.1 billion revenue and record attendance despite controversies Live Nation posts $3.1 billion revenue and record attendance despite controversies
  + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
New York CNN —Live Nation posted a record $3.1 billion in revenue – up 73% from last year – in the first quarter of 2023, despite possible regulation and tremendous fallout from botched Ticketmaster sales for the Taylor Swift Eras tour. In an earnings release, the ticket-industry giant said over 19 million people attended events across 45 countries in the first quarter. In a single day last November, more than two million Taylor Swift tickets were sold on Live Nation’s Ticketmaster, a record for any artist. Live Nation stock rose about 15% on the news, to close at about $77 a share. Congressional hearingsLawmakers grilled Live Nation president and CFO Joe Berchtold in a three-hour hearing in January, alleging the ticketing giant wields too much monopolistic control over the industry.
☆ A new AI chatbot called Pi is designed to serve as your personal assistant — here's how it works
  + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
A new chatbot called Pi, launched by Inflection AI, offers personal advice and support. There's a new AI chatbot on the scene — and this one wants to get personal. At one point, I asked Pi to share museum recommendations for a friend visiting New York City. Insider asked Pi how to restart the conversation, and Pi said to "start talking about whatever is on your mind." Inflection AI also said it's "creating a new form of 'boundary training' that will redefine how AIs learn and are trained."
☆ My Weekend With an Emotional Support A.I. Companion
  + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Erin Griffith | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Adam Miner, a Stanford University researcher who studies chatbots, said the ease of talking to A.I. Mustafa Suleyman, Inflection’s chief executive, said his start-up, which is structured as a public benefit corporation, aims to build honest and trustworthy A.I. As a result, Pi must express uncertainty and “know what it does not know,” he said. “It shouldn’t try to pretend that it’s human or pretend that it is anything that it isn’t.”Mr. Suleyman, who also founded the A.I. He also said Pi did not use any personally identifiable information to train the algorithm that drives Inflection’s technology.
☆ Opinion | Lina Khan: We Must Regulate A.I. Here’s How.
  + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Lina M. Khan | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
The trajectory of the Web 2.0 era was not inevitable — it was instead shaped by a broad range of policy choices. A handful of powerful businesses control the necessary raw materials that start-ups and other companies rely on to develop and deploy A.I. Enforcers have the dual responsibility of watching out for the dangers posed by new A.I. is well equipped with legal jurisdiction to handle the issues brought to the fore by the rapidly developing A.I. Alongside tools that create deep fake videos and voice clones, these technologies can be used to facilitate fraud and extortion on a massive scale.
☆ Everyone knows Siri is way behind. It's partly why top Apple engineers have jumped ship to Google, report says.
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Apple is having a hard time convincing workers that Siri can keep up with new AI rivals. Apple lost three top engineers working on AI technology to Google, The Information reported. It's the latest example of how far behind Apple is seen to be on AI versus Google and OpenAI. Apple has lost three top engineers working on ChatGPT-like technology to Google, in a sign the iPhone-maker is struggling to supercharge its AI efforts and Siri as large language models go mainstream. They were personally poached by Google CEO Sundar Pichai after shunning Apple boss Tim Cook's efforts to keep them, the report said.
☆ How Elon Musk upended Twitter and his own reputation in 6 months as CEO
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +11 min
But it’s not clear just how and when Musk might return Twitter to growth. Musk’s primary plan to grow Twitter’s business through an overhauled subscription strategy has resulted in much chaos but only a limited number of actual subscriptions. In the process, Musk has also upended his own reputation. Disrupting the digital town squareFor years, what differentiated Twitter from other social platforms was that it served as a central hub for real-time news. Tesla (TSLA) shareholders recently complained to the company’s board that Musk appears “overcommitted.”“His reputation has been diminished significantly with Twitter … and once you lose it, it’s very difficult to recover,” Klepper said.
☆ It’s a Nun vs. AI in ‘Mrs. Davis’
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( John Jurgensen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Davis,’ a nun named Simone (played by Betty Gilpin) tries to take down artificial intelligence. Photo: Sophie Kohler/PEACOCKIn the new streaming series “Mrs. Davis,” people all over the world have put their faith in artificial intelligence. A defiant nun wants to crash the system. Arriving as AI infiltrates all corners of real life, the show takes an often zany, genre-flipping approach to some weighty issues looming.
☆ Facebook's former security chief calls Elon Musk's blue check marks saga a 'historical self-own'
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Ex-Facebook exec Alex Stamos said Elon Musk's blue check saga was a "historical self-own." Last week, Musk took away blue check marks from some legacy accounts, only to return some of them. Facebook's former security chief, Alex Stamos, said Elon Musk's blue check mark saga last week was a "historical self-own." The billionaire initially agreed to give blue check marks solely to users who subscribed to Twitter Blue for $8 per month, but many celebrities and news organizations made a point of refusing to pay for the service. Stamos, who has been critical of Musk in the past, was previously Facebook's chief security officer until 2018.
☆ Missed the A.I. rally? HSBC names 4 Chinese stocks set to benefit from the trend
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Ganesh Rao | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
However, for investors who might have missed that run-up in such stocks, HSBC has identified four Chinese stocks that are still set to benefit from the growing trend. The bank believes that demand for training these artificial intelligence systems will be the critical driver for A.I. The table below shows four stocks, all of which are specialist hardware manufacturers targeting AI systems, HSBC is bullish toward: The bank's positive outlook on A.I. According to the Asia-focused investment bank, there are significant opportunities within hardware supply chains and software providers when investing in new developments within A.I. Other stocks HSBC highlighted include A.I.
☆ AI Technology Like ChatGPT Will Reshape Software Coding Jobs Forever
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +14 min
Their conclusion: 19% of workers hold jobs in which at least half their tasks could be completed by AI. Researchers at Microsoft and its subsidiary GitHub recently divided software developers into two groups — one with access to an AI coding assistant, and another without. Amazon has built its own AI coding assistant, CodeWhisperer, and is encouraging its engineers to use it. Another argument from the optimists: Even as AI takes over the bulk of coding, human coders will find new ways to make themselves useful by focusing on what AI can't do. So maybe, long term, human coders will survive in some new, as-yet-to-be-determined role.
☆ People are using AI bots like ChatGPT to work side hustles and earn thousands of dollars — check out these 8 hot freelancing gigs
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Making pitch decksLarry Lundstrom, a pastor based in Arkansas, makes two to three pitch decks a week, charging between $500 to $1000 for each. Pavel_R/Getty ImagesPitch decks are used to help startups convince investors to put money into their ideas. They often take the form of a series of slides that combine facts about a company with an overarching narrative. With technology like ChatGPT, OpenAI's text-generating chatbot, and Tome, an AI-powered storytelling tool, freelancers can churn out multiple pitch decks a week. Larry Lundstrom, a pastor based in Arkansas, told Insider he makes two to three pitch decks a week using generative AI tools and charges anywhere between $500 to $1,000 per deck.
☆ An outsourcing firm cut dozens of contractors who were training the language model behind OpenAI's ChatGPT
  + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Invisible Technologies laid off 31 contractors hired to train OpenAI's GPT, Insider has learned. OpenAI has reportedly hired about 1,000 contractors globally as its ChatGPT AI gains popularity. San Francisco-based firm Invisible Technologies laid off 31 contractors as of March 16, according to internal Slack screenshots that Insider obtained. Hundreds of Invisible contractors known as "advanced AI data trainers" work with OpenAI to train its GPT bots, internal Slack screenshots show. Invisible laid off contractors based on performance metrics like "quality" and "throughput," Grace Matelich, a partner and operations manager at Invisible, said during the recorded meeting.
☆ The student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet said his Facebook page was taken down for 'impersonation'
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet said his Facebook page was taken down on Wednesday. The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet said his Facebook page was taken down Wednesday for "impersonation." In a text message exchange with Insider, Sweeney said he didn't know why the social media company had unpublished his page. The University of Central Florida student shared a screenshot of the notice he was sent, notifying him that his page had been "unpublished" because "Elon Musk's jet goes against our Community Standards on impersonation." Jack Sweeney's Facebook page about Elon Musk's jet was taken down for "impersonation."
☆ An elite soccer player criticized Elon Musk as 'some crazy dude' after Twitter took away his blue checkmark
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Twitter removed the blue checkmarks on Thursday for all users who didn't subscribe to Twitter Blue. That included several of the English Premier League's elite soccer players, who hit back at Elon Musk. Elite soccer players from England's Premier League took aim at Elon Musk after their blue checkmarks were taken away on Thursday. Twitter Blue led to several trolls impersonating high-profile accounts, while those who've paid for the blue checkmark have been mocked. Meanwhile, Gary Lineker — a former England soccer player who now hosts the BBC's "Match of the Day" — said he had subscribed to Twitter Blue.
☆ This reseller's side hustle started as a way to get his family out of debt. Now he's made over $1.4 million on StockX by working around 10 hours a month.
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Danni Santana | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Ray Cao began reselling sneakers and apparel at 17 to help get his family out of debt. As a teen, Cao's parents racked up gambling debt and invested in penny stocks that backfired, he told Insider. "What got me into reselling was just being desperate to improve the financial situation for my family," Cao said. Ray CaoReselling on StockX costs more but saves timeA turning point for Cao's business came when StockX asked for a meeting a few years ago. "It's true that you don't make the best money on StockX," Cao said, referring to fees the marketplace charges for orchestrating a sale.
☆ Debt ceiling drama is back and it's coming for markets. Here's what to know as a deadline looms.
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Max Adams | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
If the trend returns to the upside, it'll buck many of the gloomiest predictions of a crushing earnings recession and a painful stock market sell-off — at least for now. Last week, markets started showing early signs that investors are stressed about a possible US default as the deadline looms without an agreement in sight. Join us in demanding a reasonable negotiation, a responsible debt ceiling, an agreement that brings spending under control" McCarthy said. Here are the latest market moves. Here's why Morgan Stanley's Mike Wilson doesn't believe in the latest stock market rally.
☆ Swedish Radio becomes first big European broadcaster to quit Twitter
  + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Swedish Radio said its decision had been made because Twitter had lost relevance for a Swedish audience, not blaming a new policy by Twitter under owner Elon Musk to label more public broadcasters as government funded. And therefore Sveriges Radio now chooses to deactivate or delete the last remaining accounts," Christian Gillinger, head of Social Media at Swedish Radio, said in a blog post. Gillinger said Swedish Radio had no problem with its designation: "Based on the current definition, it's a correct description of how Swedish Radio is financed." By far Sweden's biggest radio company with 7.4 million weekly listeners in 2021, Swedish Radio has been on Twitter since 2009. Individual reporters working for Swedish Radio were still free to use Twitter as they please.
☆ The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet says the Twitter CEO 'seems really bothered' by his account
  + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The college student who tracks Elon Musk's jet said he "seems really bothered" by his account. The college student who runs a Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's private jet said the Tesla CEO "seems really bothered" by the account following comments the billionaire made in his BBC News interview this week. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, doxxing is finding or publishing private information about someone online. Sweeney's account used bots to scrape and post publicly available flight data that people would otherwise be able to find via ADS-B Exchange. When Clayton said that Sweeney was using publicly available information, Musk said: "No, actually it's not true.
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