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☆ Warren Buffett says AI is like the creation of the atom bomb — he often calls nuclear war his biggest fear
  + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Warren Buffett compared AI to the creation of the atom bomb at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting. Buffett has long spoken about his fears around nuclear war keeping him up at night. Warren Buffett compared artificial intelligence to the creation of the atom bomb, becoming the latest high-profile business figure to express alarm about the rapid advancement of the technology. "We did invent for very, very good reason, the atom bomb. And, World War Two, it was enormously important that we did so.
☆ A $175 check signed by Steve Jobs is up for auction—it’s 'expected to fetch $25,000' or more
  + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
But if you find one signed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, it might be worth extra cash. RR Auction, a Boston-based organization that sources and sells historical autographs, manuscripts and artifacts, is auctioning off a $175 check signed by Steve Jobs in July 1976. The check is expected to fetch $25,000," over 142 times its original worth, according to the company's press release. In 1974, Jobs left his role as a video game designer and reconnected with Steve Wozniak, a former high school friend. When Jobs was kicked out of Apple in 1985, he started a rival computer company called NeXT.
☆ Who Will Have the Last Word on the Universe?
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Dennis Overbye | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The universe as we know it originated in a fiery burst 13.8 billion years ago and has been flying apart ever since. The bigger the universe gets, the harder this “dark energy” pushes it apart. The more time goes on, the less we will know about the universe. Worse, because thinking takes energy, eventually there will not be enough energy in the universe to hold a thought. In the end there will only be subatomic particles dancing intergalactic distances away from each other in a dark silence, trillions upon trillions of years after there was any light or life in the universe.
☆ Black hole image captures jet of material launching into space
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
But a black hole can also send powerful jets of material blasting across space and beyond its home galaxy. Previous observations have shown the jet and black hole separately, including the first direct image of a black hole, released in 2019. Astronomers believe that more material is falling toward the black hole in the new image, which is why the ring looks bigger. Studying black holesRecently, astronomers also used machine learning to release a cleaner, sharper version of the original M87 black hole image from 2019. The central region is darker and larger, surrounded by a bright ring as hot gas falls into the black hole.
☆ Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer with a ‘rebel heart,’ dies at 96
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( John Blake Chloe Melas | John Blake | Chloe Melas | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +16 min
CNN —Harry Belafonte, the dashing singer, actor and activist who became an indispensable supporter of the civil rights movement, has died, his publicist Ken Sunshine told CNN. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Belafonte, left, plays a school principal in a scene from the film "See How They Run" in 1952. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Belafonte poses with the Emmy Award he won in 1960 for the musical special "Tonight With Belafonte." Fred Sabine/NBCU/Getty Images Belafonte and other recipients of Albert Einstein Commemorative Awards display their medallions after being honored in 1972. He is survived by his wife Pamela, his children Adrienne Belafonte Biesemeyer, Shari Belafonte, Gina Belafonte, David Belafonte, two stepchildren Sarah Frank and Lindsey Frank and eight grandchildren.
☆ Opinion: Nuclear power is a vital part of climate change solution
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Opinion Don Lincoln | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
CNN —Last week, Germany closed its last three nuclear power plants, becoming nuclear free for the first time in 62 years. Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, many countries began phasing out nuclear power plants, citing issues of nuclear safety and long-term storage of nuclear waste. Would not generating that power from carbon-free nuclear power plants be preferable? In the US, the regulatory process involved in building a nuclear power plant is slow and obstructive. In addition, modern nuclear power plant designs generate less waste than earlier designs and further improvements should be pursued.
☆ First photo of a black hole resembles 'skinny' doughnut
  + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
CNN —The first photo ever taken of a black hole looks a little sharper now. The central region is darker and larger, surrounded by a bright ring as hot gas falls into the black hole in the new image. The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, called EHT, is a global network of telescopes that captured the first photograph of a black hole. Computers using PRIMO analyzed more than 30,000 high-resolution simulated images of black holes to pick out common structural details. But if heated materials in the form of plasma surround the black hole and emit light, the event horizon could be visible.
☆ That Famous Black Hole Just Got Even Darker
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Dennis Overbye | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Four years ago, astronomers released the first ever image of a black hole: a reddish, puffy doughnut of light surrounding an empty, dark hole in the center of the giant galaxy M87, which lies 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The image made visible what astronomers, and the rest of us, had only been able to imagine: a celestial entity so massive that its gravity warped space-time, drawing matter, energy and even light into its bottomless vortex. The image was released on April 10, 2019, by an astronomy squad called the Event Horizon Telescope, so named for the boundary of no return around a black hole. The new image, they say, will sharpen constraints on how well the black hole in M87 fits with Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which first predicted the existence of black holes. Dr. Medeiros and her colleagues published the new image on Thursday in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
☆ The hat: Mathematicians invent 'einstein' tile that never repeats
  + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
Called “The hat” because it vaguely resembles a fedora, the elusive shape is an “einstein” (from the German “ein stein,” or “one stone”). “I’m not really into math, to be honest — I did it at school, but I didn’t excel in it,” Smith said. “The hat,” however, is an aperiodic tile, meaning it can still completely cover a surface without any gaps, but you can never identify any cluster that periodically repeats itself to do so. How ‘The hat’ worksThere’s nothing inherently magical about “The hat,” according to Kaplan. “We’re not trying to protect it in any way,” Kaplan said.
☆ Hello AInstein! Robot with ChatGPT shakes up Cyprus classrooms
  + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Yiannis Kourtoglou | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
[1/5] High school students Konstantinos Timinis and Vladimir Baranov work on "Alnstein", a robot powered by ChatGPT, in Pascal school in Nicosia, Cyprus, March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Yiannis KourtoglouApril 4 (Reuters) - High school students and their tutors in Cyprus have developed a prototype robot powered with ChatGPT artificial intelligence technology to harness and improve teaching experiences in the classroom. Named AInstein, the squat robot created by three Pascal Schools in Cyprus stands roughly the size of a small adult and looks like a sculpted version of the Michelin Man. It is powered with ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by U.S. firm OpenAI and backed by Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O). Their experience with AInstein showed that AI is not anything to fear, project members said.
☆ Want in on the AI boom? These 8 high-quality stocks are already ahead of the pack
  + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +13 min
AI-powered technology companies Microsoft Microsoft arguably pushed AI into the mainstream with its unexpected release of its new AI-powered search engine Bing. During its annual conference for developers earlier this month, Nvidia demonstrated the fundamental importance of its role in facilitating the usage AI applications. Also unveiled were four new chips designed specifically for inferencing , which are optimized for various new generative AI applications. To facilitate these operations, AMD provides machine learning and deep learning systems which offer higher-performance computing capabilities to accelerate AI applications. Qualcomm Qualcomm (QCOM) is focused on making AI technology on-device processing more efficient across different industries and products.
☆ Elusive ‘Einstein’ Solves a Longstanding Math Problem
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Siobhan Roberts | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
An aperiodic tiling displays no such “translational symmetry,” and mathematicians have long sought a single shape that could tile the plane in such a fashion. “I’m always messing about and experimenting with shapes,” said Mr. Smith, 64, who worked as a printing technician, among other jobs, and retired early. But he has long been “obsessively intrigued” by the einstein problem. And now a new paper — by Mr. Smith and three co-authors with mathematical and computational expertise — proves Mr. Smith’s discovery true. (Mr. Smith often sports a bandanna tied around his head.)
☆ Meet Peter Tuchman, the most photographed stock trader on Wall Street
  + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Peter Tuchman, one of the most recognizable stock brokers on Wall Street, has been at the NYSE for over 37 years. Tuchman, who has been at the New York Stock Exchange for nearly 38 years, is the most-photographed broker on the trading floor. Tuchman describes the New York Stock Exchange as "the delta of all information" and the "last standing human entity market in the world." He landed a summer job as a teletypist at the New York Stock Exchange days after getting back. In the midst of the craziness, the wildness, and the chaos of the stock market.
☆ The story behind Einstein's most iconic photo and how it was almost lost to history
  + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Mike Rucker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Albert Einstein's most iconic photo of him sticking out his tongue was almost lost to history. Author Mike Rucker explains how Einstein's fun and curious nature played to his greatness. The photo was taken by Arthur Sasse, on March 14, 1951, Einstein's 72nd birthday. Einstein rarely let others get in the way of his fun. According to Walter Isaacson's biography, "Einstein: His Life and Universe," the personality traits that contributed most to Einstein's greatness were curiosity and nonconformism.
☆ Amazon, other retailers revamp 'free' shipping as costs soar
  + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Lisa Baertlein | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
REUTERS/Alyssa PointerLOS ANGELES, March 24 (Reuters) - There is no such thing as free shipping. "The days of free delivery are numbered," Ken Morris, managing partner at Cambridge Retail Advisors, said of the fast-changing retail marketing tool. It is an open secret that most retailers raise product prices to subsidize free shipping. Postal Service hitting record levels, the industry where nearly three-quarters of e-commerce companies offer some sort of free shipping is rethinking the financial cost of habituating shoppers to free shipping. While retailers like Amazon and fashion purveyor Asos Plc (ASOS.L) have raised thresholds for fast shipping, others are dropping free shipping altogether or taking product prices up again.
☆ Twitter rival Koo integrates ChatGPT to help users create content
  + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Sheila Dang | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/2] A ChatGPT integration is shown in the Koo social media app, in this undated handout photo provided by Koo, and obtained by Reuters on March 12, 2023. Koo/Handout via REUTERSMarch 13 (Reuters) - Koo, an India-based social media app that aims to rival Twitter, has integrated OpenAI's ChatGPT to help users more easily create posts, the company's co-founder told Reuters. Koo users will be able to use ChatGPT directly within the app to help them draft posts about current events, politics or pop culture, said Mayank Bidawatka, co-founder of Koo, in an interview. Users can either type their prompts into the ChatGPT tool or use Koo's voice command feature. About 20% of Koo users actively create content on the app and the ChatGPT integration could help increase that figure, he added.
☆ Why ChatGPT and AI are taking over the cold call, according to Salesforce leader
  + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Ian Thomas | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are changing the way that companies and salespeople are communicating with customers for the better, said Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce's Service Cloud business. "You look at how salespeople work today, and most of them, they dread writing sales emails; they'd much rather be out there with customers," Shih said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday. Earlier this week, Salesforce launched what it called the first generative AI CRM technology, Einstein GPT. The updated software uses generative AI technology and OpenAI's advanced AI models that power ChatGPT to do things like create personalized emails for salespeople, responses for customer service representatives, and auto-generate code for developers, among other tasks. "It's really about bringing enterprise-grade generative AI to our clients, whether those are small businesses or the largest companies in the world, and doing it in a way that's rooted in business outcomes," Shih said.
☆ The Best Reason to Trust Science
  + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Carlo Rovelli | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Science is a process that builds upon existing theories and knowledge by continuously revising them. Every aspect of scientific knowledge can be questioned, including the general rules of thinking that appear to be most certain. If tomorrow we will no longer see the world as Newton or Einstein found it to be, why should we take seriously today’s scientific description of the world? The answer is simple: Because at any given moment of our history, this description of the world is the best we have. The fact that it can be improved does not diminish the fact that it is a useful instrument for understanding the world.
☆ Eli Lilly, Apple and Salesforce each made news on Thursday — our Club takes
  + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +7 min
A trio of Club stocks — Eli Lilly (LLY), Apple (AAPL) and Salesforce (CRM) — are in the news Thursday. The news: Eli Lilly is ending clinical development for one of its older Alzheimer's drugs — known as solanezumab — following another failed trial. Eli Lilly shares have struggled so far this year, falling more than 13%. In a note to clients, the firm said Eli Lilly "remains one of our favorite names" in the industry. The Eli Lilly logo is shown on one of the company's offices in San Diego, California, September 17, 2020.
☆ Enterprise Tech Firms Push Further Into Generative AI
  + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Angus Loten | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +7 min
Generative AI, the technology underlying the viral ChatGPT chatbot, runs on algorithmic language models trained on vast amounts of online data. “We think 2023 will be the year that generative AI will become prevalent and a key component of modern office work,” he said. On Tuesday, the company launched a $250 million investing fund targeting generative AI startups. Yet despite assurances from the enterprise market’s biggest players, most corporate tech chiefs are taking a wait-and-see approach to ChatGPT-like generative AI technology, analysts said. Steve Santana, chief information officer at educational-testing company ETS, said he is more open to working with large enterprise-technology firms on generative AI capabilities, rather than small niche providers.
☆ Get ready to post on Slack with ChatGPT. The viral AI chatbot is coming to the popular workplace messaging app.
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Salesforce is giving its Slack workplace messaging app the ChatGPT boost that can speed up posting. Microsoft shook up its Bing search engine last month with an OpenAI-powered chatbot that transfixed users. The tool would help users write faster, review outlines of longer Slack chats, and mine channels for information, according to the company. Salesforce also said its AI tool called "Einstein GPT" will help clients use AI-generated content for customer service and marketing purposes. The company said that Slack users will have "granular controls" over access to data, and that ChatGPT's model won't learn from Slack data.
☆ Jim Cramer's Investing Club meeting Tuesday: Stocks fall, Meta, Salesforce
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a "Morning Meeting" livestream at 10:20 a.m. Watch Meta Club holding Meta Platforms (META) is planning thousands of additional layoffs as early as this week, Bloomberg reported late Monday. Stick with Salesforce Salesforce (CRM) on Tuesday announced the launch of its own generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to be incorporated into its enterprise software offerings. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER .
☆ Salesforce follows Microsoft in launching A.I. tools for salespeople with help from OpenAI
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
The company said Tuesday that it will release software incorporating artificial intelligence to help salespeople, customer service agents and marketers do their jobs. Salesforce is calling the offering Einstein GPT, drawing on OpenAI's technology that's taken the tech industry by storm since the Microsoft-backed startup opened ChatGPT to the public in November. These AI models sometimes display incorrect information, prompting companies that sell to big businesses and governments to proceed carefully. Like Salesforce, Microsoft is trying to keep the spread of incorrect information to a minimum as it brings AI features to its competing Dynamics 365 software. Salesforce is also touting a new ChatGPT app for Slack that can display information derived from Salesforce.
☆ In Turkey's quake-devasted city of Antakya, an antiques seller is determined to stay put
  + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Timour Azhari | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Close by was a mosaic portrait of Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, old magazines and several Turkish flags. "Even before the earthquake, these chairs were outside, I had items outside to show that we run an antique shop ... In one room, a wall collapsed on top of his collection of Turkish antique glassware. A man who has made a living from old things, Sincan said he took a historical view of the earthquake's devastation. Sincan said he was confident the city would rise again.
☆ AI's impact on warfare will be as big as nuclear weapons', says ex-Google CEO
  + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said AI could have as big of an effect on warfare as nuclear weapons did. Schmidt told Wired that the US military must deploy AI tools in combat to compete with world powers. AI could be what is needed to lead that change, Schmidt told Wired. In fact, AI technology — drones with sensors, for example — may be just as impactful as nuclear weapons when it comes to changing the state of warfare, he said. Technologies like Istari can be used to build a stronger US military that can out-compete forces in countries like China, Schmidt told Wired.
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