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☆ How this 'AI whisperer' made $500,000 in 11 months selling courses and memberships using unicorn startup Kajabi
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

That means Kajabi creators have earned an additional $1 billion since March, when the company announced creators had earned $5 billion. One of those creators is Rob Lennon, a self-described "AI whisperer" and entrepreneur, who uses Kajabi to host his courses and manage his paywalled membership called "Lennon Labs." Within the first 11 months of launching his Kajabi offerings, Lennon has earned about $500,000, according to Kajabi and Lennon. He earned about $200,000 in the first two months of selling his courses, per Kajabi. Building a course and membership businessRunning courses and a subscription service accounts for about 95% of Lennon's income, he said.

Persons: Rob Lennon, Lennon, hadn't, ChatGPT, He's, Kajabi, there's, —, Kajabi — Lennon Organizations: Lennon Labs, LinkedIn, Facebook, Mighty Networks Locations: Kajabi, Patreon, Substack

☆ The rise of AI girlfriends is making male loneliness worse and risks ruining a generation of men, a professor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The availability of AI girlfriends is making male loneliness worse, Professor Liberty Vittert says. So, when one of her male students said he had an AI girlfriend she was taken aback. "I think AI girlfriends have been around for a while but they've become increasingly more mainstream so people are willing to talk about them." AI virtual companions have been on the rise since the pandemic but recent developments in generative AI have put them in the spotlight. "We're going from AI girlfriends who you text with to ones you can send pictures with.

Persons: Liberty Vittert, —, they've, Caryn Marjorie, Vittert, it's, They're Organizations: Service, Olin Business School, Pew Research Center

☆ Snap AI chatbot investigation in UK over teen privacy concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Jake Piazza | In Jakepiazza | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Snap is under investigation in the U.K. over privacy risks associated with the company's generative artificial intelligence chatbot. If the ICO's provisional findings result in an enforcement notice, Snap may have to stop offering the AI chatbot to U.K. users until it fixes the privacy concerns. The AI chatbot, which runs on OpenAI's ChatGPT, has features that alert parents if their children have been using the chatbot. Other forms of generative AI have also faced criticism as recently as this week. Bing's image-creating generative AI has been used by extremist messaging board 4chan to create racist images, 404 reported.

Persons: John Edwards, chatbot Organizations: Commissioner's, ICO, CNBC, Washington Post

☆ Elon Musk's X could introduce 3 different tiers of premium service for users: Bloomberg
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

X, previously known as Twitter, plans to trial three premium service tiers for users, per Bloomberg. Elon Musk previously said that X could roll out a paywall to all its users. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk's X could roll out three tiers of premium service for users, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing information from a person who attended the company's briefing call with debt holders on the same day. The individual told Bloomberg that X, formerly known as Twitter, is planning to trial three different premium tiers — Basic, Standard, and Plus. Last month, Elon Musk told Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, during a livestream that X might roll out a paywall for all its users.

Persons: Elon Musk, —, Elon Musk's, Benjamin Netanyahu, Musk, Netanyahu Organizations: Bloomberg, Service, X

☆ Elon Musk adds to a long list of bizarre changes to X by ditching article headlines
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The billionaire has scrapped article headlines for links posted on the platform. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk has banished article headlines on X in an attempt to improve the way the platform looks. Some X users aren't so sure. Another X user questioned the value of displaying article links without necessary context. The shakeup is the latest in a long list of strange changes Musk has made to the platform.

Persons: Elon Musk, —, Joseph Politano, Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: Service

☆ ChatGPT will 'help us with extremely hard problems' in the future, says OpenAI's chief tech officer
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Mira Murati wasn't always sure OpenAI's generative chatbot ChatGPT was going to be the sensation it has become. "In 2019, we had GPT3, and there was the first time that we had AI systems that kind of showed some sense of language understanding. And if you really think about it, that hasn't really been revolutionized in decades." Murati envisions users being able to talk with ChatGPT the same way they might chat with a friend or a colleague. "And so that's really where we're going — towards these systems that will eventually be able to help us with extremely hard problems.

Persons: Mira Murati wasn't, Atlantic Festival, Murati, You'll, Jony Ives, OpenAI, we're, ChatGPT Organizations: Atlantic, Apple

WASHINGTON (AP) — For much of the world, China’s Xinjiang region is notorious, a place where ethnic Uyghurs face forced labor and arbitrary detention. The trip is an example of what Washington sees as Beijing’s growing efforts to reshape the global narrative on China. Chinese President Xi Jinping has demanded that China tell its story to the world so Beijing would be trusted and respected. In Xinjiang, Beijing has brought in diplomats and foreign journalists on tightly orchestrated trips with minders in tow. While the State Department report focused on Beijing's global influence efforts outside the United States, its findings are similar to those documented in the U.S. by think tanks and advocacy groups.

Persons: ”, Jamie Rubin, Liu Pengyu, Xi Jinping, Yi Fan, Sarah Cook, Glenn Tiffert Organizations: WASHINGTON, State Department, Engagement, Embassy, China, United Nations, Global Times, China News, Senate Intelligence, Freedom, Hoover Institute Locations: Xinjiang, Beijing, China, United States, U.S, Washington, ” Beijing, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Moscow, Iranian, Western, Taiwan

☆ Inside the consulting industry's race to become AI rainmakers
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Big consulting companies are racing to add to their offerings around artificial intelligence. That's the bet consulting companies have been making as they rush to build out their generative AI offerings. To help companies figure out how to use AI, the consulting giants are racing to scoop up companies that specialize in the technology. Consulting firms' push to bulk up on AI comes as many workers are worried that AI bots will snatch their jobs . That same month, Deloitte introduced a set of services called Quartz AI to help clients use technology like GenAI.

Persons: —, they're, OpenAI's ChatGPT, They're, Sawhney, ChatGPT, Steve Chase, he's, Chase, EY EY, EY, PwC PwC, PwC, Shannon Schuyler, Bain, BCG Organizations: Service, Accenture, McKinsey, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Deloitte, LinkedIn, Fortune, KPMG, Microsoft, KPMG US, Bain Bain & Company, Boston Consulting, OpenAI, Deloitte Deloitte, Nvidia, QuantumBlack, QuantumBlack Labs Locations: Mexico

☆ Elon Musk’s X is a black hole of value
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Jennifer Saba | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

NEW YORK, Oct 3 (Reuters Breakingviews) - X is still worth something, but not for the people running it. loadingDespite Musk’s big pronouncements about pushing into subscriptions, X has historically relied on advertising, which contributed over 90% of revenue when it was a public company. Put it all together, and X isn’t just worth less than Musk paid for it, but likely less than its debt. Put that on the same enterprise-value-to-sales multiple as Snap, which is down to a mere 3 times, and X is worth around $8 billion. Like a financial black hole, X threatens to consume most of whatever value it once had.

Persons: Boss Linda Yaccarino, Morgan Stanley, Musk’s, Musk, ByteDance, X, Linda Yaccarino, Elon Musk, Jonathan Guilford, Sharon Lam Organizations: Reuters, Financial Times, Elon Musk’s, Comcast, Linda, Thomson

☆ AI chatbots let you 'interview' historical figures like Harriet Tubman. That's probably not a good idea.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Some of these bots are intended to be educational tools — making classrooms interactive. Khanmigo and Hello HistoryThe Washington Post put one of these bots to the test, using Khan Academy's Khanmigo bot to "interview" Harriet Tubman, the US abolitionist. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe AI Tubman largely appeared to recount information that could be found on Wikipedia, but it did make some key errors and seemed to struggle to distinguish the quality of different sources. AdvertisementAdvertisementInsider asked the same question to Hello History, another historical AI chatbot, to see if it would fare any better. Effects on critical-thinking skillsGupta also pointed to a deeper issue with using bots as educational tools.

Persons: —, Abhishek Gupta, Tiraana, Khan, Harriet Tubman, Tubman, Sal Khan, Ekaterina Babintseva, they've, Gupta, It's, Brown University's Bains Organizations: Service, Meta, Montreal AI, Brown University, Washington Post, Post, Reuters, Khan Academy, Purdue University, IBM Locations: Montreal

☆ ‘The Creator’ Review: On the Run in a Sci-Fi AI Empire
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

John David Washington Photo: 20th Century StudiosArriving in a year when serious thinkers are advising humanity to shut down artificial intelligence lest the machines proceed to extinguish us, the AI film “The Creator” might seem more sci than fi. The prospect of bots taking charge is now genuinely alarming instead of merely the escapist fun it was when “The Terminator” came out nearly 40 years ago.

Persons: John David Washington, ” Organizations: Century Studios

☆ Meta Connect: All the details on Quest 3, Ray-Ban smart glasses, AI chatbots
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech, as a pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses appear on screen, during the Meta Connect event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., September 27, 2023. AI CHATBOTS, STICKERSMeta unveiled more than two dozen chatbots that will work within its social media applications. The company announced Meta AI Studio, a platform for developers to build custom AI chatbots. RAY-BAN SMART GLASSESMeta announced new generation Ray-Ban smart glasses, priced at $299. The smart glasses will also have Meta AI built in, with the ability to give information on the item a user is looking at.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Carlos Barria, Snapdragon, Meta, Microsoft's Bing, Bear Grylls, Chloe Kim, Josh Richards, RAY, Yuvraj Malik, Shounak Dasgupta Organizations: Meta, REUTERS, Gaming, Facebook, United States, Thomson Locations: Menlo Park , California, U.S, WhatsApp, United, Bengaluru

☆ How do you do, fellow kids: Facebook is rolling out new AI characters to lure Gen Z users. But their personalities are a bit... dated.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Sebastian Cahill | Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Meta is hoping to gain more Gen Z customers with new AI chatbots. The bots are based on outdated characters that aren't as resonant with a Gen Z audience. Aside from the awkward summation of Gen Z humor, Bender might be a touch behind what kids are watching today. AdvertisementAdvertisementMeta's attempt at being Gen Z's 'North Star'Meta also misses the mark on what Gen Z humor is — often absurdist, incredibly fast-moving, "anti-humor." AdvertisementAdvertisementThis doesn't mean, however, that Gen Z is fully onboard with AI bots.

Persons: Gen, Meta, Bob, Bender, it's, —, Z's, millennials, ChatGPT, Alvin, Mark Zuckerberg, Snapchat Organizations: Service, Meta Connect, Street Journal, Meta, Facebook Locations: Wall, Silicon, TikTok

☆ Tesla wants you to know its robot can do yoga stretches now
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla and its CEO shared a video of Tesla's Optimus robot practicing yoga and other tasks. Less than a year ago, the Tesla bot struggled to walk on stage at a demo event. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk shared a video of Tesla's Optimus robot performing yoga moves and sorting blocks on Sunday. The Tesla bot appeared to perform a yoga pose balanced on one leg in the video. Less than a year ago, the Optimus robot could barely walk during a demo at the second annual Tesla AI Day event.

Persons: Tesla, Optimus, —, Elon Musk Organizations: Service, Optimus

☆ See Chipotle's new robots that can crank out nearly 200 burrito bowls an hour
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Chipotle is working with Hyphen, a startup that uses robotics to make up to 180 bowls per hour. The chain is testing an automated kitchen line by Hyphen to prepare digital orders, a $3 billion business for Chipotle. But unlike other tech firms, Hyphen has buy-in from Chipotle, one of the industry's most innovative brands. Chipotle invested in Hyphen in 2022 and started piloting its robotics this year in a lab near the chain's Newport Beach, California, headquarters. Based in San Jose, California, Hyphen recently gave Insider an exclusive first look at how it uses robotics to make up to 180 bowls per hour.

Persons: Chipotle, Brian Niccol, Niccol Organizations: Service, Chipotle Locations: Wall, Silicon, Chipotle, Beach , California, San Jose , California

☆ AI models from OpenAI and other tech giants are being bombarded by a new swarm of bots 'extracting intelligence'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

These bots scrape information from AI models, including OpenAI's GPT-4. "AI models can, in theory, share everything they know. This is often done by infiltrating applications that have official accounts and API connections with the largest and most powerful AI models, Rauch explained. Evading China's AI model blockadeA third reason for this new phenomenon: China blocked access to ChatGPT, GPT-4 and many of the other top generative AI models. So an an app could offer a seat where the user can only query AI models a certain number of times per day.

Persons: Guillermo Rauch, OpenAI's, Elad Gil, Sarah Guo, Rauch, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Google Locations: Wall, Silicon, China, GPT

☆ Nvidia's stock price feels the full September effect, suffering a $180 billion wipeout
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Nvidia shares have tumbled 10% this month, with the stock feeling what traders call the "September effect". That plunge has wiped just under $180 billion off the semiconductor giant's market capitalization. Nvidia has still been the S&P 500's best performer this year, surging 189% thanks to the rise of AI and ChatGPT. Shares have tumbled 10% since August 31, wiping $176 billion off the chipmaker's total market capitalization, according to data from Refinitiv. Despite its September struggles, Nvidia is still one of the best performing stocks of 2023, with shares up 189% year-to-date.

Organizations: Nvidia, Service, Traders, Federal Reserve, Bank of America Locations: Wall, Silicon, Ma

☆ Why the 'coffee-cup test' taps into our fears about the rise of AI in hiring
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The "coffee-cup test" has resurfaced online as a symbol, for some, of opaqueness in hiring. The secret nature of the test can raise similar concerns to the use of AI in hiring. AI can seem just as arbitrary in its decision making as the coffee-cup test. AI, of course, could make a hiring process that's still way too subjective that much less so. The online poll, conducted in June by Resume Builder, involved about 1,000 people who are part of the hiring process at their employers.

Persons: today's, —, Josh Millet, Millet, who's, there's, There's, Harris, Sandra Sucher, Sucher, it's Organizations: Service, Amazon, American Staffing Association, Pew Research Center, Harvard Business School Locations: Wall, Silicon, Los Angeles

☆ Elon Musk's suggested X paywall is too risky to succeed, experts say: 'It will only speed up the deterioration of a platform in chaos.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk has proposed a paywall for X, but some experts are skeptical. Experts expressed doubts over Musk's motive and his ability to get users to pay up. Much of that strategy has been aimed at getting users to pay through a subscription service, Twitter Blue. "Getting everyone to pay even a small fee for X will be extremely difficult," Matt Navarra, a social-media expert, told Insider. "I think it's a risky strategy that may only speed up the deterioration of a platform in chaos."

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, he's, Charlie Beckett, Matt Navarra Organizations: Service, Twitter, London School of Economics Locations: Wall, Silicon, Navarra

☆ Google recently cut 'people' from its Search guidelines. Now, website owners say a flood of AI content is pushing them down in search results.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"This is a joke," another person wrote on a forum for website owners . No longer is it "helpful content written by people, for people," but simply, "Helpful content written for people." She watched pages that previously ranked first for certain terms tumble to fifth, sixth, or seventh place in Google search results. Spotting AI content is impossibleIt's unclear how much of the content that has been bumped up is AI-generated, or whether this is just other content written differently by humans. AdvertisementAdvertisementGoogle continues to say that content built entirely for the purpose or ranking high in search results will be punished.

Persons: Morgan Overholt, I've, –, Barry Schwartz, Overholt, they've, John Mueller, Schwartz, Mueller, Johannes Vermeer Organizations: Google, Service Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Elon Musk says X might soon go behind a paywall for everyone so he can 'combat vast armies of bots'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk said X, formerly Twitter, could be rolling out a paywall to all its users. Musk told Netanyahu that having a payment system and prioritizing premium users' posts would help minimize the influence of bots. AdvertisementAdvertisementMusk said he believes the paywall is critical if X is to deal with bots on the platform. This isn't the first time the billionaire has considered having a paywall for all X users. Besides renaming Twitter to X, Musk replaced the platform's legacy verified program — the blue ticks that verify the authenticity of famous personalities — with the Twitter Blue subscription program in March.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, David Sacks Organizations: Service, Israel's, Twitter Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ 'He simply wants to kill the platform': Some X users are threatening to quit the app after Elon Musk suggested he might move it behind a paywall
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk says he's considering moving X behind a paywall. Some users are unhappy with the idea and threatening to leave the app. "There really is no doubt that he simply wants to kill the platform," one X user said of the decision. Comedian Chelsea Hart said the suggested paywall may hinder free speech and citizen journalism in some countries, something Musk claims to support. Another user seconded this: "I believe social media should be free to users, so if that happens, I'll be decamping to the other place permanently."

Persons: Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Sacks, Chelsea Hart, Bradley Wall, I've Organizations: Service, Twitter, Tech Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ The next phase in AI is interactive bots that can carry out tasks for you, says the cofounder of Google's AI division DeepMind
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"Generative AI is just a phase. What's next is interactive AI," said Mustafa Suleyman, the cofounder of Google DeepMind. His company, Inflection AI, launched its chatbot Pi as a rival to ChatGPT in May, focusing on personal advice and being conversational. For context, we are currently seeing the rise of generative AI tools that go beyond the chat interface popularized by ChatGPT in November. Suleyman and Inflection AI did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Ethan Mollick, Jasper Organizations: Google, Service, MIT Technology, ChatGPT, Investors, Wall Street Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, is moving to small monthly subscription and has 550 million users
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Among other things, Musk said the social network is "moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system" in order to combat "vast armies of bots. During the livestream, Musk also divulged some new metrics from X, claiming it now has 550 million "monthly users," who generate 100 million to 200 million posts per day there. However, Musk also used it to dispute the perception that his social network is full of hate speech and antisemitism. Before meeting with Netanyahu, Musk also accused George Soros's foundation of wanting to "destroy" western civilization. On Twitter, Musk has repeatedly disparaged trans people, federal regulators, politicians, journalists, whistleblowers, critics of his companies, and short sellers.

Persons: Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu, Musk, Netanyahu, George Soros's, Tesla, Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andrew Anglin Organizations: SpaceX, Tesla, Artificial Intelligence, Twitter, Israeli, Anti Defamation League, ADL, X Corp, Open Society, Nazi Locations: Washington ,, West, Jewish, Hungarian, American, U.S

☆ Generative AI has led to 'exploding' cybersecurity risks facing everyday people, McAfee CEO warns
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

McAfee CEO Greg Johnson told Insider GenAI is making threats like phishing more sophisticated. The more benefit it brings to consumers, it also goes to the scammers, Johnson said. The CEO of McAfee, the online security company known for its antivirus software, is embracing generative artificial intelligence as a way to boost his employees' productivity and help them keep up with online threats. "You used to have pretty blunt ways of attacking consumers," Johnson said. "And in that world, with Gen AI most recently, it's just accelerating the change that consumers are having to navigate."

Persons: Greg Johnson, GenAI, Johnson, Greg Johnson McAfee Johnson, McAfee, they've Organizations: McAfee, Service Locations: Wall, Silicon

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