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☆ A.I. is all the rage. This investor shares a less obvious way — and one stock — to play the trend
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Weizhen Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

And according to tech investor Mark Hawtin, there's a smart way to jump on the trend: playing the data theme. But Hawtin, investment director at Zurich-based GAM Investments, has identified data as another way to get into the game. Data generation is growing by between 30% and 40% every year, according to Hawtin, who added that he likes data storage companies. The U.S. data storage company Seagate. Hawtin isn't the only one to flag hardware companies as a way to invest in AI.

☆ A South Korean telco giant has its own A.I. chatbot — and says it's a 'super app' version of ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The company has integrated its various service from music streaming to e-commerce into A. and is planning to launch it fully in 2023. Download our app, and we'll do basically everything you want us to do and more," Davis said. A "super app" is a concept pioneered by Chinese technology giants, such as Tencent with its WeChat messaging service. The idea is that a person only needs one app, and that several third-party services are accessible via that app. Super apps are popular in China and in parts of Asia, but haven't taken off in Europe and in the U.S.

☆ It's not just you: Cybercriminals are also using ChatGPT to make their jobs easier
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

ChatGPT can quickly generate targeted phishing emails or malicious code for malware attacks. AI companies could be held liable for chatbots counseling criminals since Section 230 may not apply. Sergey Shykevich, a lead ChatGPT researcher at cybersecurity company Checkpoint security, has already seen cybercriminals harness the AI's power to create code that can be used in a ransomware attack. In dealing with unlawful or criminal content on their sites from third-party users, most tech companies cite Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. In addition, ChatGPT continues to implement guardrails to deter illegal activity, although these guardrails can often be sidestepped with the right script.

☆ The new Bing is acting all weird and creepy — but the human response is way scarier
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

It's a profit-making move designed to leverage our very human tendency to see human traits in nonhuman things. Look, I don't think we don't need to treat chatbots with respect because they ask us to. Making chatbots seem as if they're human isn't just incidental. So the real issue involving the current incarnation of chatbots isn't whether we treat them as people — it's how we decide to treat them as property. The robots don't care."

☆ A Chinese resident used ChatGPT to produce a viral government notice. Many were shocked to learn it was fake.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Chinese residents were shocked to learn that ChatGPT wrote a viral notice, per Sixth Tone. But some Chinese residents have gotten access to the chatbot — even using it to spread misinformation. Chinese residents across social media were shocked to learn that a notice they thought was published by the city of Hangzhou's municipal government was actually generated by ChatGPT, Sixth Tone, a Chinese media outlet, reported. When the post went viral, many Chinese residents thought it was real. The incident spooked many Chinese residents, some of whom went to Weibo — a Chinese social media platform — to express their concerns.

☆ Microsoft knows Bing's AI chatbot gives out some eyebrow-raising answers. An exec said decreasing them is a priority.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Since then, Microsoft has restricted Bing users to five questions per session. A Microsoft spokesperson didn't respond to Insider's request for additional comment ahead of publication. The emerging AI arms race has sparked debate among industry experts and users over whether Bing's AI launch was a responsible choice. When asked about Bing's responses, a Microsoft spokesperson told Insider last week that user feedback is necessary to pinpoint flaws in the chatbot so they can be improved. "It's important to note that last week we announced a preview of this new experience," the Microsoft spokesperson said at the time.

ChatGPT — an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot — is having a viral moment, offering a high-profile glimpse at the maturing technology's capabilities. Like other GPT models, ChatGPT can generate text in a variety of styles and formats, including responses to questions, descriptions, and even entire conversations. The growth of Azure is central to our long-term investment thesis in Microsoft, and artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly prominent role in cloud computing. Additionally, Club holding Alphabet is no stranger to artificial intelligence — and, more specifically, machine learning. While all three models — ChatGPT, Sparrow and LaMDA — have their differences, they share a foundational network architecture known as Transformer.

☆ Morgan Stanley weighs in on the ChatGPT obession and the risk to Google's search business
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Google and search go together like Kleenex and tissues, Band-Aid and bandages and Crock-Pots and slow cookers. In other words, Google's brand is so connected to search that people talk about googling for information they need, even if they use an alternative search engine. ChatGPT may pose an emerging threat to the artificial intelligence industry, but Google's sheer scale, size, and dominance in the search business positions it well for battle, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak. In the long run, however, don't be surprised if ChatGPT, or other AI competitiors, impact consumer behavior patterns around travel search, he added. "While we believe the near-term risk is limited – we believe the use case of search (and paid search) is different than AI-driven content creation – we are not dismissive of threats from new, unique consumer offerings," Nowak wrote.

☆ ChatGPT May Hurt Google's Ad Business Model, Former Exec Says: Report
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The AI-bot ChatGPT could "disrupt" Google's business model, according to a former Google exec. Sridhar Ramaswamy told Bloomberg that ChatGPT offers a better search experience than Google. Sridhar Ramaswamy, who led Google's ad team between 2013 and 2018, said that ChatGPT could "disrupt" Google's business model by preventing users from clicking on links with ads. "It's just a better experience," Ramaswamy told Bloomberg. "The goal of Google search is to get you to click on links, ideally ads, and all other text on the page is just filler."

☆ We wanted to ask Elon Musk about Twitter, Trump, and Tesla. But he seemed kinda busy, so we went with the next best thing: an AI version of him.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Marshall Gunnell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Since his recent acquisition of Twitter, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has been more media-averse than ever. So I decided to try the next best thing: I sat down to interview an artificial-intelligence version of Musk. Using neural language models, Character.AI then draws on information the engineers have fed it to develop the "voice" of its AI Elon. Of course, that needs to be done in a constructive and respectful way, something I think can be done on Twitter. The best way to fight ideas you don't agree with is with words, not with silence.

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