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☆ How A.I. can help create jobs for humans, not just automate them
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Rachel Curry | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

In this article UPWK Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTMemorystockphoto | Istock | Getty ImagesFor organizations creating a long-term strategy around generative artificial intelligence, the technology has the capacity to create jobs for humans, not just automate them. Then there are even more nuanced roles, such as AI ethicists (whose job is, essentially, to maintain a responsible AI framework). Not only are there more types of jobs as a result of the generative AI boom, but companies are actually hiring more because of the generative AI surge. That's why experts say upskilling existing employees is essential to any organization's AI integration. AI is fast — business consulting firm Accenture's report on so-called "AI maturity" predicts that AI transformation will occur 13% faster than overall digital transformation through 2024.

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☆ Dungeons & Dragons says its illustrators can't use AI after they discovered the tech was used for work featured in an upcoming book
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Dungeons & Dragons says its illustrators are not allowed to use AI to generate artwork. The company said it is updating its guidance after discovering a commissioned artist had used the tech. Fantasy franchise Dungeons & Dragons says illustrators are not allowed to use AI to generate artwork commissioned by the company. Dungeons & Dragons made the comments via Twitter, now rebranded to X. Representatives for Dungeons & Dragons did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside normal working hours.

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☆ Here are the 9 smartest ways to invest in artificial intelligence right now, according to Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and UBS
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Here's how Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and UBS recommend investing in AI. Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and UBS are more optimistic about AI stocks after each expressed hesitations earlier this year as shares of companies tied to the technology exploded higher. In contrast, Morgan Stanley has dismissed concerns that AI stocks are in a bubble. "Inevitably, the market will compare AI to the dot-com boom," wrote Morgan Stanley analyst Shawn Kim in a July report. As for chipmakers, Morgan Stanley agreed with Bank of America that the path forward is bifurcated.

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☆ An Asian MIT student asked AI to turn an image of her into a professional headshot. It made her white with lighter skin and blue eyes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An Asian MIT student was shocked when an AI tool turned her white for a professional headshot. She said she's been put off using AI image tools for now because it didn't create usable results. A recent study showed that some AI image generators have issues with gender and racial bias. The second image showed that the AI tool had altered her features to appear more Caucasian with lighter skin and blue eyes. The researchers explained that this is because the AI tool was trained on biased data which can amplify stereotypes.

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☆ The best way to show off your emerging A.I. skills to land a job: You don’t need ‘years of experience' yet
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The job market for tech workers remains strong, and especially so for those picking up emerging artificial intelligence skills. For comparison, India was hiring for 25,900 AI jobs and the UK was hiring for 16,825 roles involving the skill in June. But given the emerging and quickly developing nature of the tools, it can be tricky to display your expertise in a particular AI skill as a job candidate, Neave says. With that being said, Neave recommends interested job applicants build up their AI skills and stand out from the competition in three key ways:Stay on top of developments. "If you want to take it to the next level, you can fine-tune these large language models based on your proprietary business data," Neave says.

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☆ Taiwan TSMC: Plans to invest $2.9 billion in new plant as demand for AI chips soars
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Juliana Liu | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Hong Kong CNN —TSMC, the world’s largest chipmaker, says it plans to invest nearly 90 billion New Taiwan dollars ($2.9 billion) to build an advanced chip plant in Taiwan, as it expands production to meet booming demand for artificial intelligence (AI) products. Wei told analysts the company plans to roughly double its capacity for advanced packaging capacity in 2024 compared to 2023, in order to meet “strong demand” for AI chips from its customers, which include Nvidia (NVDA) and AMD (DOX). Advanced packaging in the semiconductor industry involves using high-tech methods to aggregate components from various wafers in order to create a more powerful computer chip. That’s the kind of AI underlying ChatGPT, Google (GOOGL)’s Bard, Dall-E and many of the other new AI technologies. TSMC is considered a national treasure in Taiwan, supplying semiconductors to global tech giants including Apple (AAPL) and Qualcomm (QCOM).

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☆ Inside Adobe, some staff worry their AI tech will kill graphic designer jobs and undermine the company's business model: 'Is this what we want?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Adobe employees worry their AI technology could kill graphic designer jobs. Adobe AI tools make it easy to add new graphic elements or edit photos with text prompts. Inside Adobe, there's a debate raging over new AI technology that threatens to kill jobs among a key group of customers and potentially undermine the company's business model. The response from some Adobe employees has been less enthusiastic, according to internal messages viewed by Insider and interviews with employees. the person wrote.

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☆ Most outsourced coders in India will be gone in 2 years due to A.I., Stability AI boss predicts
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Most outsourced programmers in India will see their jobs wiped out in the next year or two, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque said. "I think that it affects different types of jobs in different ways," Mostaque said on a call with analysts at the Swiss investment bank last week. In India, Mostaque said, "outsourced coders up to level three programmers will be gone in the next year or two, whereas in France, you'll never fire a developer." "So it affects different models in different countries in different ways in different sectors." India is home to more than 5 million software programmers, who are most under threat from the impacts of advanced AI tools like ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg.

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☆ Microsoft's Bing Chat A.I. bot now lets you search using images
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Users can now take or upload a photo to Bing Chat and ask for more information on it through the desktop or Bing apps. "Bing can understand the context of an image, interpret it, and answer questions about it," Microsoft wrote in a release. The update comes as the AI arms race heats up among chatbot leaders like Microsoft, Google , OpenAI and Anthropic. In the effort to develop the most advanced generative AI, tech giants are quickly launching new features, aiming to keep up with not only their text-based chatbot competitors, but also image-heavy AI tools. Microsoft's decision to allow images for Bing Chat follows Google's recent debut of an image search feature for Bard, its AI chatbot.

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☆ A.I. is a $1 trillion investment opportunity but will be 'biggest bubble of all time,' CEO predicts
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability AI, speaks during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Artificial intelligence will be the biggest bubble of all time, according to the CEO of open-source AI company Stability AI. Speaking with UBS analysts on a call last week, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque said of artificial intelligence: "I think this will be the biggest bubble of all time." "I call it the 'dot AI' bubble, and it hasn't even started yet," he said. Stability AI is the company behind Stable Diffusion, one of the other more popular generative AI tools aside from OpenAI.

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☆ I'm an AI software engineer and I predict that most AI startups being funded today will die
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Julie Bort | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

An AI engineer says most people don't understand what AI can really do and what it can't, yet. Those working in AI understand when startup claims are realistic and when they're mostly hype. Generative AI is just way, way overhyped right now and that means that many of the AI startups getting VC funding today are going to fail. Today's AI can't really do what so many startups say their apps can do because AI can't reliably predict things. So, how can you tell if an AI startup's technology will work or if it and the company will likely fail?

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☆ An AI detector mislabeled nearly every essay written by a non-native English speaker as being written by a bot
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Researchers found popular GPT-detectors flagged essays by non-native English speakers as AI-written. Systems that detect AI-generated writing are flagging essays written by non-native English speakers as bot-generated, researchers from Stanford University said. In the study published Monday, the researchers ran more than 100 essays written by non-native English speakers through seven popular GPT detectors. The researchers also fed the detectors essays written by US eighth graders who speak English natively. More than half of the essays written by non-native English speakers were marked as AI-generated by the detection systems, the Stanford researchers found.

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☆ Is A.I. the Greatest Technology Ever for Making Dumb Jokes?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Via Janelle Shane AI Weirdness Generated by A.I. Optimists cite scientific advances and other examples of human intelligence and machine intelligence augmenting each other, robots and people walking hand in hand toward the singularity. possibilities on a two-dimensional plot, where one axis runs from “machine stupidity” to “machine intelligence” and the other from “human stupidity to human intelligence.” Scientific leaps — like physicists’ developing A.I. Machine Intelligence, Human Stupidity Not just any A.I.-generated post deserves to be charted in the Funposting Zone. After all, the machines can keep improving, and human stupidity — the engine of many of history’s best jokes — isn’t going anywhere.

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☆ China's Alibaba unveils AI image generator to take on Midjourney and DALL-E
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Josh Ye | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

HONG KONG, July 7 (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd (9988.HK) announced on Friday an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator, initially available to enterprise customers in beta form, as it ramps up its offerings in the fast-growing AI sector. The image generator, Tongyi Wanxiang, will compete with OpenAI's DALL-E and Midjourney Inc's Midjourney, U.S.-based rivals that have gained a large following worldwide. Alibaba Cloud, recently formed from a massive overhaul that split the Chinese tech major into six units, has also released a ChatGPT-like text generator, Tongyi Qianwen, which was launched in April. Baidu Inc (9888.HK) and SenseTime Group Inc <0020.HK > also recently unveiled AI image generators, although generative AI services have yet to receive regulatory approval for wide distribution in China. The Tongyi Wanxiang image generator, which roughly translates as "truth from tens of thousands of pictures", was revealed at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday.

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HONG KONG, July 7 (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holdings (9988.HK) and Huawei Technologies Co on Friday showcased new products, including an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator and an AI model upgrade, as Chinese companies jostle for position in the global AI race. Alibaba Cloud, an Alibaba subsidiary, presented at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai an image generator named Tongyi Wanxiang that will initially be available to enterprise customers in beta form. Also on Friday, Huawei demonstrated the third iteration of its Panggu AI model at the start of its three-day annual developer conference in Dongguan. Alibaba's image generator will compete with OpenAI's DALL-E and Midjourney Inc's Midjourney, U.S.-based rivals that have gained a large following worldwide. Alibaba Cloud emerged from a massive overhaul announced in March that split the Chinese tech major into six units.

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☆ 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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☆ Melinda Gates wants more women in the AI race
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —As Silicon Valley and beyond is gripped by the fervor of artificial intelligence, Melinda French Gates is raising the alarm that more women must be involved in developing these tech tools. AI models have long taken heat for their ability to perpetuate biases, especially around women and people of color. The new crop of generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dall-E are trained on vast troves of online data – data that often carries the same biases as humans. In her interview with Harlow, Gates also revealed that she never endorses specific candidates because she votes for both sides of the aisle. “Too often we have decisions being made for women, not by women,” Gates said.

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☆ How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Stuart A. Thompson | Tiffany Hsu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

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☆ The Race to Prevent ‘the Worst Case Scenario for Machine Learning’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Issie Lapowsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dave Willner has had a front-row seat to the evolution of the worst things on the internet. He started working at Facebook in 2008, back when social media companies were making up their rules as they went along. It didn’t take long in the job before Mr. Willner found himself considering a familiar threat. “I am not surprised that it was a thing that people would attempt to do,” Mr. Willner said. “But to be very clear, neither were the folks at OpenAI.”For all of the recent talk of the hypothetical existential risks of generative A.I., experts say it is this immediate threat — child predators using new A.I.

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☆ AI can predict your political views based on your looks, according to a recent study. It finds that 'attractive' women who smile are most likely to be conservative.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AI tools may be able to predict your political views, according to a new study. Researchers found that AI links right-wing views to people who look happy and women deemed "attractive." The ability to accurately predict someone's political leanings presents a "threat to privacy." AI may be able to predict your political views based on how you look — and that could cause issues down the line, new research suggests. The purpose of the March study, researchers wrote, "was to demonstrate the significant privacy threat posed by the intersection of deep learning techniques and readily-available photographs."

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☆ Some Disney insiders are questioning the company's appetite for 'rebellious innovation' after layoffs, despite its splashy Apple Vision Pro partnership
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Disney's Apple Vision Pro partnership has stoked excitement and concern at the media company. AppleBut an innovation team that worked on Disney's Apple Vision Pro offering is being disbanded, with its founder and leader exiting the company as part of the cuts. Insider spoke to five current and recently exited Disney insiders about hopes and concerns regarding the Vision Pro project and the future of innovation at the company. Disney's Vision Pro partnership was its latest project. A source with knowledge of Disney's Vision Pro work said it's still ongoing and that there are other teams at Disney still working on that project.

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☆ Bob Iger announced exciting plans for Apple's Vision Pro headset, but after wide cuts, some are questioning Disney's appetite for 'rebellious innovation'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Disney's Apple Vision Pro partnership has stoked excitement and concern at the media company. "Mandalorian" footage in the Vision Pro demo. AppleBut an innovation team that worked on Disney's Apple Vision Pro offering is being disbanded, with its founder and leader exiting the company as part of the cuts. Disney's Vision Pro partnership was its latest project. A source with knowledge of Disney's Vision Pro work said it's still ongoing and that there are other teams at Disney still working on that project.

☆ Forget about the AI apocalypse. The real dangers are already here
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Left to right: Microsoft's CTO Kevin Scott, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. Joy Malone/David Ryder/Bloomberg/Joel Saget/AFP/Getty ImagesSome AI industry experts say that focusing attention on far-off scenarios may distract from the more immediate harms that a new generation of powerful AI tools can cause to people and communities, including spreading misinformation, perpetuating biases and enabling discrimination in various services. “Motives seemed to be mixed,” Gary Marcus, an AI researcher and New York University professor emeritus who testified before lawmakers alongside Altman last month, told CNN. In his testimony before Congress, Altman also said the potential for AI to be used to manipulate voters and target disinformation were among “my areas of greatest concern.”Even in more ordinary use cases, however, there are concerns. Influencing regulatorsRegulators may be the real intended audience for the tech industry’s doomsday messaging.

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☆ One of the 'godfathers' of AI says concerns the technology could pose a threat to humanity are 'preposterously ridiculous'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Yann LeCun says concerns that AI could pose a threat to humanity are "preposterously ridiculous." He was part of a team that won the Turing Award in 2018 for breakthroughs in machine learning. An AI expert has said concerns that the technology could pose a threat to humanity are "preposterously ridiculous." Marc Andreessen warned against "full-blown moral panic about AI" and said that people have a "moral obligation" to encourage its development. He added that concerns about AI were overstated and if people realized the technology wasn't safe they shouldn't build it, per BBC News.

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