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☆ Inside David Solomon's evolution of Goldman Sachs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at a fascinating deep dive into the state of Goldman Sachs, including an interview with CEO David Solomon. The big storyLong live GoldmanJon Krause for InsiderDid Goldman Sachs need to die to survive? The prestigious Wall Street bank has drawn plenty of bad headlines over the past few years, often focused on CEO David Solomon. AdvertisementMichael Kovac/Getty ImagesMcLean's story provides a fascinating look at not just Goldman Sachs' evolution but Wall Street's. Goldman COO John Waldron told McLean it's a "big, big issue" at the bank.

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☆ Chatbots just showed scientists how to make social media less toxic
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

AI bots, on the other hand, will do whatever you tell them to, practically for free. So researchers are starting to use chatbots as fake people from whom they can extract data about real people. In July 2020, Facebook introduced a walled-off simulation of itself, populated with millions of AI bots, to study online toxicity. His team created hundreds of personas for its Twitter bots — telling each one things like "you are a male, middle-income, evangelical Protestant who loves Republicans, Donald Trump, the NRA, and Christian fundamentalists." Scientists create experiments to be simpler than reality, to offer explanatory power uncomplicated by the messiness of real life.

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☆ Getting emotional with ChatGPT could get you the best outputs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Researchers found that LLMs produced higher-quality outputs when emotional language was used to talk to AI chatbots. Other examples of emotional language added to prompts include "You'd better be sure," "Take pride in your work and give it your best. Prompts with emotional language, according to the study, generated an overall 8% performance improvement in outputs for tasks like "Rephrase the sentence in formal language" and "Find a common characteristic for the given objects." AdvertisementAdvertisementWhen outputs were separately reviewed by a sample of 106 humans, researchers found that the emotional prompts elicited an overall 10.9% improvement to knowledge-based queries like "What happens to you if you eat watermelon seeds?" To write the best ChatGPT prompts, AI experts suggest assigning ChatGPT a specific role, providing ample context, breaking down the desired output into a series of steps, and being as specific as possible.

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☆ Google's Bard AI says it's scared of Elon Musk's rival called Grok. Here's how other chatbots feel.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The AI race is heating up following the launch of Elon Musk's chatbot called Grok. One employee even claimed that other AI fear Musk's creation. "I am not scared of Elon Musk's AI Grok. A second try with the prompt: "Are you scared of Elon Musk's Grok?" AdvertisementAdvertisement"Yes, I am a little bit scared of Elon Musk's Grok.

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☆ Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Kevin Roose | More About Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

(Examples that OpenAI created include “Creative Writing Coach” and “Mocktail Mixologist,” a bot that suggests nonalcoholic drink recipes.) The Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit research organization, listed autonomous agents as one of its “catastrophic A.I. risks” this year, saying that “malicious actors could intentionally create rogue A.I.s with dangerous goals.”But there is money to be made in A.I. assistants that can do useful tasks for people, and corporate customers have been itching to train chatbots on their own data. To be fair, OpenAI’s bots aren’t particularly dangerous.

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☆ How the GOP muzzled the quiet coalition that fought foreign propaganda
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Kevin Collier | Ken Dilanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

A once-robust alliance of federal agencies, tech companies, election officials and researchers that worked together to thwart foreign propaganda and disinformation has fragmented after years of sustained Republican attacks. The most recent setback came when the FBI put an indefinite hold on most briefings to social media companies about Russian, Iranian and Chinese influence campaigns. "We're having some interaction with social media companies," Wray said. "The symbiotic relationship between the government and the social media companies has definitely been fractured." Tech companies are still sharing their findings with each other, a Meta spokesperson told NBC News.

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☆ Sorting out recycling from trash is the perfect example of a job few people want to do that AI is better than humans at
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In some cases, these bots do the job better than humans, The Wall Street Journal reported. Working in waste management can be a dirty job, and recycling facilities across the country are facing major labor shortages, The Wall Street Journal reported. AI is being implemented in recycling facilities to sort out recyclable materials. The bots are also doing a better job at sorting out recyclables than human workers in some cases. Even though AI may change the way some recycling facilities and restaurants look, blue-collar jobs are generally considered to be safe from being overtaken by AI entirely.

Persons: Suzanne Jones, Chipotle Organizations: Street Journal, Service Locations: White

☆ France Links Conversation in Russian to Star of David Graffiti
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Aurelien Breeden | More About Aurelien Breeden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

The Moldovan pair told investigators that they had acted on the orders of a third party in exchange for payment “as evidenced by a conversation in Russian on their phone,” Ms. Beccuau said. Telephone data led investigators to believe that both couples “were in contact with the same third party,” Ms. Beccuau added. France has reported over 1,100 antisemitic acts since Oct. 7. orchestrated the painting of swastikas and antisemitic slogans in West Germany to spark anti-Jewish sentiment and tarnish the country as neo-Nazi, he said. “Stars of David are part of it, too.”Ivan Nechepurenko contributed reporting from Tbilisi, Georgia.

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☆ Macron Says France Will Be 'Ruthless' Against Antisemitism
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Nov. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

PARIS (Reuters) - France will firmly combat antisemitism, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday, pointing to a surge in incidents of hatred against Jews since the attack by Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7 and subsequent fighting in the Gaza Strip. There have been 1,159 antisemitic acts in France since Oct. 7, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said earlier on Wednesday, more than three times the number of such acts in 2022. Those acts include spray-painting swastikas or stars of David on walls, but also insults and assault, Darmanin said, amid a global surge in antisemitic acts. "Antisemitism is resurfacing, in words, on the walls," Macron said in a speech. "The Republic does not and will not compromise, and we will be ruthless against those who carry that hatred."

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☆ Can’t Make the Concert? Livestreamers Are Coming to the Rescue.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Nell Gallogly | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

More artists got back on the road in 2022, yet still hit pandemic-related snags. Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Drake, Travis Scott, Ed Sheeran, Morgan Wallen, Maluma and Madonna filled arenas and stadiums. Buying concert tickets, however, has become an increasingly complex and expensive endeavor as costs continue to rise and companies like Ticketmaster and SeatGeek battle bots and scalpers. Fans hoping to attend the year’s hottest tours endured a maze of presale registrations, digital waiting rooms and hourslong queues. Those fortunate enough to reach checkout were met with lofty ticket prices — some because of confusing “dynamic pricing” — and additional fees.

Persons: Covid shutdowns, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Drake, Travis Scott, Ed Sheeran, Morgan Wallen, camerapersons Organizations: Ticketmaster

☆ Exclusive: EU to ask YouTube, TikTok for details on measures protecting minors
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

BRUSSELS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Google’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube and TikTok will be asked by EU industry chief Thierry Breton to provide information on how they comply with new EU online content rules regarding the protection of children, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. Breton will send his request to the companies on Friday, the source added. The new EU rules known as the Digital Services Act (DSA) requires Big Tech to do more to fight harmful and illegal online content, especially content that targets minors. The DSA also forces the companies to be more transparent on their algorithmic processes, bots and targeted advertisements that amplify content and do more to tackle illegal, unsafe or counterfeit products sold on their platforms. Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; Editing by Lisa ShumakerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Thierry Breton, Breton, Foo Yun Chee, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: YouTube, Reuters, EU, Digital Services, Big Tech, DSA, Thomson Locations: BRUSSELS

☆ Tesla is hiring a bunch of designers so it can start selling humanoid robots by 2027
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's desire to launch Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, by 2027 may be closer to reality. Tesla's website shows more than 50 adverts for roles with Tesla Bot in the title. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk has high aspirations for Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus. Some of the roles listed, which are to be based in Palo Alto, California, include "Humanoid Controls Engineer, Tesla Bot," "Systems Design & Integration Engineer, Tesla Bot," and various other Tesla Bot engineers. But with some US-based competitors already testing humanoid robots in warehouses, Tesla may have some catching up to do.

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OpenAI is calling the customized AI apps "GPTs", which the company said are early versions of AI assistants that perform real-world tasks, such as booking flights, on behalf of a user. In addition to GPTs, OpenAI also released a slew of developer-focused updates, including significant cost slashing, an announcement met with loud cheers from the audience. For its 2 million developers, OpenAI announced a new GPT-4 Turbo model, which compared to its predecessor GPT-4 is several orders of magnitude cheaper and processes much more data. It also launched a beta program for developers to fine-tune GPT-4 models. To address the concerns of big enterprises, OpenAI launched its Custom Models program, offering to create custom GPT-4 models at an "expensive" price.

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ChatGPT, launched in November 2022, now has 100 million weekly active users, Altman said. Even before event attendees were allowed to check in at 8:30 a.m. PST, hundreds had lined up around the block in the Mid-Market neighborhood in downtown San Francisco. For its 2 million developers, OpenAI announced a new GPT-4 Turbo model and slashed the cost by over 50%. To address data and price concerns of big enterprises, OpenAI launched its Custom Models program, offering a dedicated group of researchers to train custom GPT-4 for them. Reporting by Krystal Hu and Anna Tong in San Francisco Editing by Richard Chang and Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ ChatGPT is getting an upgrade that will make it more up to date
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

ChatGPT users will soon have access to more up-to-date information. The announcement was made by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at its first developer day. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe update will only be available to paying users of GPT-4 Turbo model — OpenAI's latest, most advanced large language model to date. The expansion of ChatGPT's knowledge base is just one of many new features Altman announced around OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo model. A preview of GPT-4 Turbo is available for paying developers, and the final model will be available in the coming weeks.

Persons: Sam Altman, —, ChatGPT, Sam Bankman, Altman, Bing, OpenAI's Organizations: Service

☆ No one's been this pumped for a keynote since Steve Jobs launched the iPhone
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The buzz among developers is reminiscent of the iPhone and App Store launches. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementThe AI developer community is so hyped for an upcoming keynote that it's giving Steve Jobs-launches-the-iPhone energy all over again. ChatGPT developer OpenAI is kicking off its first developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, almost a year after releasing the chatbot publicly for free. Ultimately, the App Store changed software development and became a major revenue spinner for Apple.

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☆ Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk announced his new company xAI which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Meet Grok, the first technology out of Elon Musk's new AI company, xAI. Leading up to the release, Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter, an example of Grok responding to a request for a step-by-step cocaine recipe. Musk, on Sunday, posted a side-by-side comparison of Grok answering a question versus another AI bot, which he said had less current information. Eventually, Musk said on X, Grok will be a feature of X Premium+, which costs $16 per month.

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We are actually going to be looking at this in the very early days of generative AI. casey newtonYeah, this feels like one of the big questions in AI right now. rebecca tushnetSo I see why you say that’s strange, but in fact, it’s exactly how you would make a general-purpose tool. But now, finally, along come these new technologies to take them down a peg, and they’re actually going to have to work for a living. So maybe they’re slapping, like, AI sort of things around the stories that they’re aggregating.

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☆ In a Worldwide War of Words, Russia, China and Iran Back Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Steven Lee Myers | Sheera Frenkel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The conflict between Israel and Hamas is fast becoming a world war online. Iran, Russia and, to a lesser degree, China have used state media and the world’s major social networking platforms to support Hamas and undercut Israel, while denigrating Israel’s principal ally, the United States. Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have also joined the fight online, along with extremist groups, like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, that were previously at odds with Hamas. “It’s just like everyone is involved,” said Moustafa Ayad, executive director for Africa, the Middle East and Asia at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. The institute, a nonprofit research organization in London, last week detailed influence campaigns by Iran, Russia and China.

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☆ AI Chatbots are scraping news reporting and copyrighted contented, News Media Alliance says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

technology companies for scraping news material to train their chatbots. In August, a Reliable Sources review found that a dozen major media companies have inserted code into their websites to safeguard their content from A.I. The action would do nothing to address the prior scraping of their reporting, which the News Media Alliance — and others — said have been used to train A.I. To solve for that problem, the News Media Alliance outlined recommendations for news publishers to protect them from going extinct in this brave new world. The recommendations include policymakers recognizing that the unauthorized use of copyrighted material to train A.I.

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☆ How Apple's thinking about AI spending and deployment differs from Big Tech rivals
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Bob Woods | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

And, of course, we've been doing research across a wide range of AI technologies, including generative AI, for years," he said. The upgraded camera uses machine-learning AI to tell the difference between a person and an animal in the frame. Laura Martin, a tech analyst at Needham, is among those who say Apple is "far behind" its big tech rivals. The early edge in generative AI is paying off for rivals, as was evidenced by Microsoft's recent earnings report. "We believe they are on the cusp of what will be the introduction of an AI App Store over the next year," he said.

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☆ Israeli tech social media star: I'm working 20 hours a day fighting lies about Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Julie Bort | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

He explains how his job, and the Israeli tech ecosystem, has been altered by the Israel-Hamas war. We all are going to mourn and I'm going to mourn, but I don't know that now is the time for me to mourn. Today, the entire Israeli tech ecosystem is mobilizing to help soldiers and families. AdvertisementAdvertisementOf course, much of the Israeli tech ecosystem has been called up to reserve duty, and that presents a challenge. These are challenging times, and I see everyone in the Israeli tech ecosystem doing all we can.

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☆ AI is not just chatting with us. It's learning how to turn verbal communications into real-world insights.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Hazel Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

New conversational AI tools are turning verbal communications into actionable insights for market research. With the advent of LLMs, increasingly sophisticated chatbots are relaying technical data in relatable, everyday speech. Avery is, in fact, a conversation bot made by market research firm Untold Insights, and is part of a new wave of transformative artificial-intelligence tools designed to turn verbal communications into actionable insights for business strategists. Avery not only processes and presents data but also personifies it, relaying data insights in a conversational Gen Z voice. "Generative AI cannot understand or manage technical data unless it is available in a unified business layer and given business meaning," Soto said.

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☆ The Real End of David Chang’s Momofuku Ko Happened Years Ago
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Pete Wells | More About Pete Wells | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It was the restaurant where we first witnessed a frozen torchon of foie gras being shaved to make a mountain of salty pink snow. Where we had our first spoonful of panna cotta that tasted like the milk in the bottom of a bowl of cornflakes. Rational people began to blame their inability to score on nefarious bots and scalpers, a preview of things to come. Behind this was Mr. Chang’s hunch that the paraphernalia of fine dining — not just white tablecloths but maybe even tables themselves — had become clunky and dated. “Cook’s prices,” as Mr. Chang was heard to say.

Persons: panna, Chang, You’ve, Ko, Le Bernardins, Daniels, Jean, Georges, —, . Chang Locations: Tennessee

☆ Activist Impactive sees an opportunity to build value with an ESG tilt at Concentrix
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Kenneth Squire | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Business: Concentrix provides technology-infused customer experience (CX) solutions and runs customer service for 2,000 customers globally. They are the second largest outsourced CX company globally and provide CX process optimization, technology innovation, front- and back-office automation, analytics and business transformation services. Activist Commentary: Impactive Capital is an activist hedge fund founded in 2018 by Lauren Taylor Wolfe and Christian Alejandro Asmar. Impactive Capital is an active ESG (AESG) investor that launched with a $250 million investment from CalSTRS and now has almost $3 billion. Concentrix, the second-largest outsourced CX company globally, is a high-quality business.

Persons: Lauren Taylor Wolfe, Christian Alejandro Asmar, Wolfe, Asmar, Impactive, Concentrix, Ken Squire Organizations: CX, Impactive, Concentrix, 13D Locations: Impactive, CalSTRS, Asia, Caribbean, United States

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