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☆ A couple in Colorado had their wedding officiated by ChatGPT — only after the AI chatbot initially turned down the honor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

As the use cases for ChatGPT skyrocket, one couple in Colorado may have found yet another application for the AI chatbot: wedding officiant. "I didn't want to curate what an officiant said," Truitt told the Leader. The AI chatbot, made by OpenAI, announced itself to the couple's 30 wedding guests via a printout. In the end, the married couple were happy with the way their wedding turned out with ChatGPT's help. "ChatGPT took something personal to humans like a wedding and enhanced it," Reese Wiench told the Longmont Leader.

Persons: Reese Wiench, Deyton Truitt, Wiench's, ChatGPT skyrocket, Truitt, OpenAI, Reese Alyson Wiench, Deyton, Stephen Wiench, ChatGPT Organizations: Longmont, Army, CBS Locations: Colorado, CBS Colorado

☆ Google is up 35% and its search still dominates — here's why shares remain cheap
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

New numbers show that Google Search's market share is holding up in the face of Microsoft's AI-enabled Bing incursion. They also said Google's share actually increased half of a percentage point, or 50 basis points, since late last year. The analysts also went a step further noting that the stock screens even more attractive when considering the its historic premium versus the market multiple. Multiple contraction since the launch of ChatGPT by Microsoft-backed OpenAI makes sense when you consider that any loss of Google Search market share would materially impact the company's largest revenue stream and make future growth harder to come by. Bottom line We're encouraged by the resiliency of Google Search, but any upward move based on multiple expansion will take time.

Persons: Piper Sandler, GOOGL, Price, —, Bing, It's, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Jonathan Raa Organizations: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Piper, Google Network, CNBC, Nurphoto, Getty

☆ A guy tried using ChatGPT to turn $100 into a business making 'as much money as possible.' Here are the first 4 steps the AI chatbot gave him.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Jackson Greathouse Fall asked ChatGPT to turn $100 into "as much money as possible." As of mid-March, the company was valued at $25,000, according to a tweet by Greathouse Fall. From there, ChatGPT suggested the domain name EcoFriendlyFinds.com. But when Greathouse Fall learned the domain name cost $848 to acquire, it suggested one that was more affordable: GreenGadgetsGuru.com. While Greathouse Fall didn't disclose his investors, he tweeted that his "DMs are flooded" and that he is "not taking any more investors unless the terms are highly favorable."

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☆ A.I. is not all hype. It's the 'fourth industrial revolution playing out,' says Wedbush's Dan Ives
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Sheila Chiang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Generative artificial intelligence is all the rage now but the A.I. boom is not just all hype, said Dan Ives from Wedbush Securities, who calls it the "fourth industrial revolution playing out." The fourth industrial revolution refers to how technological advancements like artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and the internet of things are changing the way humans live, work and relate to one another. "I think this is really transformational changes to technology that I think would change the tech space for the next 20-30 years," said Ives. technology surged after ChatGPT — OpenAI's viral chatbot — went viral due to its ability to generate humanlike responses to users' prompts, which amazed researchers and the general public.

Persons: Dan Ives, CNBC's, Ives, ChatGPT Organizations: Wedbush Securities

☆ Chinese A.I. stocks fall as U.S. reportedly weighs curbs on chip exports
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Sheila Chiang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A Nvidia Corp. HGX H100 artificial intelligence supercomputing graphics processing unit (GPU) at the showroom of the company's offices in Taipei, Taiwan, on Friday, June 2, 2023. China's artificial intelligence stocks fell Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. is planning to impose new curbs on shipments of AI chips to China. According to the Journal, U.S. chip makers such as Nvidia will be affected by the move which could happen as early as July. China's CSI artificial intelligence index fell 3% on that news on Wednesday in Asia. The Shenzhen-traded shares of Inspur Electronic Information Industry slumped 10% and Chengdu Information Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences dropped nearly 8%.

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☆ Jobs are now requiring experience with ChatGPT — and they'll pay as much as $800,000 a year for the skill
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Experience with OpenAI's ChatGPT could help you land your next job. Here are the nine types of jobs companies are hiring for that require AI chatbot expertise. "It's somebody using AI that will take your job." Insider reviewed dozens of job postings on job board sites like Indeed and LinkedIn to see which companies are looking to hire workers with ChatGPT experience. Here are nine types of jobs that companies are looking to fill with ChatGPT experts — and what you can get paid doing them:

Persons: OpenAI's, ResumeBuilder, chatbot, Richard Baldwin Organizations: LinkedIn

☆ Think A.I. is Coming for the Watch World? It’s Already There.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Victoria Gomelsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

During a press roundtable event at the Cartier booth at Watches and Wonders, Cyrille Vigneron, the brand’s chief executive, said that A.I. “By having so much data coming from call centers or web inquiries or even what words customers use on comments or on their own social media, you have a lot of words,” Mr. Vigneron said. “What we’ve done for the last five years is be distinctively ourselves,” Mr. Vigneron said. “That’s collective intelligence, and not artificial.”Expansion plansBrands aren’t the only watch-world entities looking to optimize their operations with A.I. Wristcheck, a Hong Kong retailer of pre-owned watches, is planning to introduce what it calls Wristcheck Intelligence this year.

Persons: Cyrille Vigneron, Cartier, Mr, Vigneron, “, ”, “ We’re, ” Mr, ” Austen Chu Organizations: Cartier, Normale, A.I Locations: Hong Kong

☆ The whole world wants A.I. — and the market will deliver, Sam Altman says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Sheila Chiang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The world is clamoring for artificial intelligence and the market will deliver, said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday on the Singapore stop of his world tour. "We've got sophisticated enough languages and also powerful enough computers that we could make AI bigger and bigger and bigger," Altman told business founders, tech executives, and the general public at the Singapore Management University. I think this is clearly what the world wants and the market will deliver." As such, Altman said that the company was focussing on making AI as affordable as possible. OpenAI has cut inference costs by 10 times once every three or so months by 10x, according to Altman.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, ChatGPT, OpenAI Organizations: Singapore Management University Locations: Singapore

☆ Mike Lippert's fund has returned 33% so far in 2023 by betting on AI stocks. He shares 3 companies in the industry he thinks will deliver the biggest returns over the next 5 years.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mike Lippert's Baron Opportunity Fund has beaten 92% of peers over the last decade. In the AI space, Lippert said he's bullish on Microsoft, Nvidia, and Amazon going forward. So he leaned into positions where he saw the most opportunity over the long term, especially Microsoft and Nvidia. But success is nothing new for Lippert and the Baron Opportunity Fund. AI stocks Lippert is betting onDespite their big returns so far this year, Lippert continues to like Microsoft (MSFT) and Nvidia (NVDA) over the next three-to-five-year period.

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☆ Friday's kind of broad rally has eluded Wall Street for quite some time. We hope it has legs
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | In Kevinstankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Club name and Dow stock Caterpillar (CAT) was one of the leaders, soaring more than 8% and accounting for over 100 points of the 30-stock average's 700-point surge. Meanwhile, the tech darlings that have recently propelled the market higher — including top-performing Club stocks Nvidia (NVDA) and Meta Platforms (META) — took a relative backseat Friday. For that reason, it's a hopeful sign to see other sectors walk the runway in the Wall Street fashion show Friday. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

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☆ Opinion: We’ve reached a turning point with AI, expert says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Jessica Chia | Bethany Cianciolo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +33 min

Will general purpose AI — AI that is as capable as humans — eventually take over the world? CNN/Peg Skorpinski “…even though we may understand how to build perfectly safe general purpose AI, what’s to stop Dr. We don’t know if they reason; we don’t know if they have their own internal goals that they’ve learned or what they might be. It is not general purpose AI, but it’s giving people a taste of what it would be like. And so it turns out that you can actually build AI systems that have those properties, but they’re very different from the kinds of AI systems that we know how to build.

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☆ ChatGPT copycats are taking over the App Store — and costing users even more than the real thing
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Several apps that seem to rip off OpenAI's ChatGPT are populating Apple's App Store. ChatGPT is now available on Apple's App Store — and so are a lot of similar looking AI chatbots. A slew of apps like "Chat with Ask AI" and "AI Chat — Chatbot AI Assistant" have cropped up on the App Store recently. They're not just dupes: Some are powered by ChatGPT or GPT-4, according to their descriptions on the App Store. Emails sent to the developer contacts for the apps "Ask AI" and "AI Chat — Chatbot AI Assistant" did not receive responses.

☆ New York City's public schools reverse their ban on ChatGPT — admitting it had been 'knee-jerk fear'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

New York City public schools are lifting the ban they placed on ChatGPT in January. David Banks, chancellor of the NYC public school system, said the tool caught NYC schools off-guard. The New York City public school system is reversing its ban on ChatGPT. Several other school districts across the country placed restrictions on ChatGPT earlier this year, too, including Baltimore County Public Schools, the Los Angeles Unified School District, and Seattle Public Schools. Now, the NYC school system is saying it's ready to embrace AI in the classroom.

☆ Mark Cuban says Elon Musk's AI company could create a 'virtual Elon' and calls it 'pretty scary'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Cuban says Elon Musk's Twitter purchase could give him a leg up in the AI arms race. The "Shark Tank" investor said Musk could even use it to create a "virtual Elon." Mark Cuban thinks Elon Musk's Twitter purchase could help his AI venture compete with OpenAI and other companies. "He can weigh his own tweets and those of the sources he likes and end up with a consumer-facing AI that can be a virtual Elon," Cuban wrote. In an emailed comment to Insider, Cuban said it will be "interesting to see what Elon does with it all."

☆ A high school approved a student's graduation speech that was written by ChatGPT — then he went majorly off script
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Kenny Morales, a former student at Grand Island Senior High, used ChatGPT to write a graduation speech. The speech he gave was critical of the high school's culture and administration. Kenny Morales, a former student at Grand Island Senior High School in Nebraska, used OpenAI's conversational chatbot to produce a speech for his high school graduation ceremony, the Grand Island Independent first reported. "I don't know about y'all, but I hated school," Morales said to the audience, according to a transcript of Morales' speech the Independent reviewed. First, a group of high school staff members review the submitted speeches and "score them blindly."

☆ 10 Things in Tech: Androids v. iPhones in ‘Succession,’ AI tools besides ChatGPT, and a check signed by Steve Jobs
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It's reportedly frustrating customers who are prompted to add a tip when they haven't interacted with the people they're tipping. Before I begin discussing eradicating tipping culture (and replacing it with a living wage for workers), let's dive into today's tech. But the hype cycle around generative AI — that started with ChatGPT — threw them a lifeline. AI tools — besides ChatGPT — to boost your productivity. A $175 check signed by Steve Jobs is up for sale.

☆ 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 tells staff it plans to limit publishing AI research to 'compete and keep knowledge in house' as its rivalry with Microsoft's OpenAI heats up
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Google told staff it will be more selective about the research it publishes. Recently, information like code and data has become accessible on a "much more on a need-to-know" basis, according to a Google AI staffer. LaMDA, a chatbot technology that forms the basis of Bard, was originally built as a 20 percent project within Google Brain. (The company has historically allowed employees to spend 20% of their working days exploring side projects that might turn into full-fledged Google products.) Google's AI division has faced other setbacks.

☆ Microsoft says it's working on new AI features for Bing to let users search with images instead of text, and turn questions into graphs
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft is introducing new AI features on its Bing search engine giving users the ability to search visually. Users will soon be able to upload images to Bing and search the web for related content. Bing exceeded 100 million daily active users just a month after its AI updates. Other visual updates will offer image-based answers like charts and graphs and the option to receive an answer in different formats. This follows from Microsoft's integration of Bing Image Creator with Bing Chat, which lets users generate written and visual content in one place.

☆ White House announces $140 million A.I. hub investment ahead of meeting with Google, OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Emma Kinery | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The White House announced it would invest $140 million to create seven artificial intelligence research hubs and released new guidance on AI. The developments come ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris's meeting with executives from Google's parent company Alphabet , Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI Thursday. As AI becomes more ubiquitous, the White House Thursday promised it would release guidelines for use by government agencies. The White House has made addressing AI a priority. Last year the administration released a "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights" and later outlined the creation of a National AI Research Resource.

☆ A CEO is spending more than $2,000 a month on ChatGPT Plus accounts for all of his employees, and he says it's saving 'hours' of time
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Akash Nigam, the founder of Genies, purchased ChatGPT Plus accounts for all of his 120 employees. A CEO is spending thousands each month buying ChatGPT Plus accounts for every single employee at his company — and he says he's already seeing gains. While it has only been a month since Genies' employees have had their accounts, Nigam said he has "already seen many tasks get accelerated." The employees that are "using AI effectively" will be up for a promotion and raise, he said. Even Microsoft is letting employees use ChatGPT — as long as they don't share confidential information with the tool.

☆ Microsoft's blockbuster Activision deal may be doomed. But the tech giant's future is still bright
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Microsoft 's (MSFT) proposed blockbuster acquisition of video-game publisher Activision Blizzard (ATVI) may be doomed thanks to British regulators. The U.K.'s top antitrust body — the Competition and Markets Authority — said Wednesday that it opposes Microsoft's $69 billion bid because of competition concerns in the budding cloud gaming market. Microsoft's multipart gaming business includes Xbox consoles, cloud-based Xbox Game Pass service and in-house titles, such as the long-running "Halo" series. The CMA's opposition centered on competition concerns in the burgeoning world of cloud gaming, which Jefferies analysts estimate is less than 2% of the overall gaming market. Cloud gaming enables players to, essentially, stream video games without having to buy a physical console.

☆ ChatGPT course instruction is the newest side hustle on the market. Meet the teachers making thousands from the lucrative gig.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

ChatGPT course instructors told Insider they have made between $10,000 to $52,000 in a few months. In late December, he launched a ChatGPT course on online education platform Udemy called "ChatGPT Masterclass: A Complete ChatGPT Guide for Beginners." But some struggle to integrate ChatGPT into their workflow, three ChatGPT course instructors told Insider. Skillshare, another online learning platform, offers 61 ChatGPT courses, while online course provider Coursera offers 10, according to searches made at the time this story was published. ChatGPT instructors aren't necessarily AI expertsThe ChatGPT course instructors who spoke to Insider are all self-taught.

☆ Artificial intelligence will make Big Tech even bigger. Something needs to be done about the power imbalance, researchers warn
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

She asked if the company was selling unregistered securities (which is typically illegal, by the way — here's what it means). Big Tech + AI = even bigger tech. So Big Tech companies are best-positioned to gain even more power as artificial intelligence technology — like ChatGPT — gets further developed. Something needs to be done about this power imbalance, researchers warn. My teammate Emilia David breaks down the AI power imbalance and highlights some proposed solutions in her latest story.

☆ What Bard said when Google VC asked the A.I. about the value of corporate diversity
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Carolyn Chun | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Stewart asked Bard, Google's first public version of a generative AI chatbot — and a rival to Microsoft -funded OpenAI ChatGPT — about the value of corporate diversity. The AI generated many of the points she makes in pushing the case for greater diversity in the workplace. Gradient is looking for founders that are building this AI "data moat" and "go-to expertise" into their businesses, she said. But she stressed that as AI is adopted, it is important that the development of the tech reflects diversity in development. Thinking about generational diversity may be as important as ethnic, racial and gender diversity as AI goes mainstream, too.

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