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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailForrester’s Davis Truog is bullish about the future of chatbotsForrester's Davis Truog and Bank of America's Nikki Katz join 'Power Lunch' to discuss the chatbot boom and its impact on U.S. consumers.
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CNN —Microsoft has ditched the board observer seat at OpenAI that has drawn regulatory scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic, saying it was not necessary after the AI start-up’s governance had improved significantly in the past eight months. Microsoft took a non-voting, observer position on OpenAI’s board in November last year after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took back the reins of the company, which operates the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. The seat meant it could attend OpenAI’s board meetings and access confidential information but had no voting rights on matters including electing or choosing directors. The observer seat and Microsoft’s more than $10 billion investment in OpenAI have triggered unease among antitrust watchdogs in Europe, Britain and the US over how much control it exerts over OpenAI. Microsoft cited OpenAI’s new partnerships, innovation and growing customer base since Altman’s return to the startup for giving up its observer seat.
Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI Organizations: CNN, Microsoft, British Locations: OpenAI, Europe, Britain
Pricing is really weird lately
  + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
In today's big story, we're looking at why pricing is so weird these days . More recently, Walmart introduced digital price tags, which some people said could be used for variable pricing. The constantly changing costs have consumers feeling a sense of price fatigue, Emily writes. Emily writes that most economists agree that government-mandated price-fixing isn't the way to go about it. So, as Emily writes, you can't fault anyone for feeling a certain sense of doom and gloom about the economy.
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TikTok is the latest to experiment with the technology, adding in October an AI assistant called Tonik to its music-streaming app, TikTok Music. TikTok's main video app, which is exploring its own, separate AI chatbot, has become an important platform for music discovery. TikTok Music. TikTok Music. If TikTok Music gets there first, it may have a shot at breaking through in a very crowded category.
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In today's big story, we're looking at how new AI tools are helping workers bluff their way through interviews . Some people have built homemade AI tools to help interviewees, releasing them online for free. A startup developing AI-powered tools for job seekers, Final Round AI offers an AI résumé builder, a cover letter writing service, and a mock interview tool. He's not the only one looking to AI to change the interview process. Others say banning AI chatbots in interviews is like prohibiting calculators during math tests — if workers can use the tech in their jobs, why not in the interview process, too?
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In the 1990s, Apple watched as Bill Gates took Windows global, giving Microsoft absolute dominance over the nascent PC market. Apple's OpenAI dealWhen Apple revealed a partnership with OpenAI at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, questions swirled about the terms of the long-rumored tie-up. AdvertisementApple's new suite of AI features revealed at WWDC, dubbed Apple Intelligence, hardly relies on OpenAI's technology. ChatGPT is more of an add-on that Apple users can choose to give, or refuse, permission to respond to queries. The success of Apple's OpenAI tie-up could come down to how many people are willing to buy new iPhones.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman survived a high-profile ouster last year. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementOne of the biggest names in the AI industry, Sam Altman was the subject of a massive ouster last year. Within a (very hectic) week, however, he was reinstated in his role as CEO at OpenAI, the firm behind AI chatbot ChatGPT. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.
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Read preview29-year-old Supreet Kaur has interviewed at 15 companies over the last few months, and just received an offer from Microsoft. She said the job market for AI roles has changed drastically since she was on the hunt about two years ago. While Big Tech CEOs are fighting over AI talent, some candidates are fighting for a spot in the increasingly competitive job market. If you're looking for a job in AI, Kaur said these are the four key things you need to know. "The best way to look for a job is when you don't need a job," Kaur said.
Persons: , Supreet Kaur, Morgan Stanley, Kaur, Google's, BNY Mellon Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Business, Big Tech, Summit New Locations: Summit New York, York
Among the first of the devices — called Copilot+ PCs — to hit the market is a Surface Pro convertible tablet. If you join video calls, you can open the Settings app on the Surface Pro Copilot+ PC and turn on an option called Eye Contact. A standard Surface Pro Keyboard that magnetically snaps onto the bottom of the Surface Pro sells for $139.99, and if you'd also like a model with Microsoft's Slim Pen stylus, you'll pay $279.99. I didn't find the accessory to be a big upgrade from the good old Surface Pro Keyboard. Jordan Novet | CNBCWhat's badThe biggest AI feature coming to this new Surface Pro and other Copilot+ PCs isn't available yet.
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In today's big story, we're looking at President Joe Biden showing no signs of giving up his reelection campaign while former President Donald Trump secured a win from the Supreme Court . AdvertisementBiden's campaign has been in full-blown crisis mode after the president's disastrous debate against former President Donald Trump last week. AdvertisementMeanwhile, Trump secured a big win in his immunity case . The Supreme Court ruled that former presidents don't get absolute immunity from criminal charges related to actions under the scope of the presidency, but they do get some. 3 things in techStefani Reynolds/BloombergBig Tech gets a big win from the Supreme Court.
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Read previewElon Musk just hinted at how much it cost to make his AI chatbot Grok. Knowing how many H100 GPUs Musk is getting allows us to do some napkin math to figure out a rough estimate of the cost. Mark Zuckerberg said in January that Meta will have purchased about 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of 2024. Aravind Srinivas, founder and CEO of AI startup Perplexity, talked about getting turned down by a Meta AI researcher he was trying to poach in part because of Zuckerberg's huge collection of AI chips. 'Come back to me when you have 10,000 H100 GPUs,'" Srinivas said.
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Yet it's also given developers reason to be dubious: code produced by ChatGPT is often full of mistakes. 'Fewer hallucinated bugs'To begin, OpenAI is limiting CriticGPT's access to AI trainers. OpenAI has acknowledged that the more advanced its AI models become, the harder it can be for AI trainers "to spot inaccuracies when they do occur." AI models are also still susceptible to hallucinations that can be missed by AI trainers, OpenAI said. CriticGPT clearly has a long way to go, but shows that OpenAI is at least trying to tackle the problem.
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platform named Ed was supposed to be an “educational friend” to half a million students in Los Angeles public schools. In typed chats, Ed would direct students toward academic and mental health resources, or tell parents whether their children had attended class that day, and provide their latest test scores. Ed would even be able to detect and respond to emotions such as hostility, happiness and sadness. Alberto Carvalho, the district’s superintendent, spoke about Ed in bold terms. Los Angeles agreed to pay a start-up company, AllHere, up to $6 million to develop Ed, a small part of the district’s $18 billion annual budget.
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Competition may have died down but the original smartphone wars were so intense for Steve Jobs he once declared that he'd start a "thermonuclear war." Smartphone wars in the AI eraThe smartphone market has been lagging. The company will be banking on Apple Intelligence being a hit with consumers, potentially revitalizing sales in markets like China. Samsung Galaxy S24 lineup. SamsungThe South Korean tech giant must be hoping to regain its crown as king of the smartphone market.
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The Voices of A.I. Are Telling Us a Lot
  + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Amanda Hess | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
developers are cribbing from the movies, crafting voices for real machines based on dated cinematic fantasies of how machines should talk. She was agreeable and self-effacing; she sounded like she was game for anything. After Sky’s debut, Johansson expressed displeasure at the “eerily similar” sound, and said that she had previously declined OpenAI’s request that she voice the bot. The company protested that Sky was voiced by a “different professional actress,” but agreed to pause her voice in deference to Johansson. Bereft OpenAI users have started a petition to bring her back.
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Read previewHey, everyone: Instagram really wants you to start using its AI tools. Related storiesThe AI Studio product will let creators make their own AI-powered characters in the app. Meanwhile, on the ground in Anaheim, CA, Instagram is showcasing its AI features at the creator economy's biggest event. Many of Instagram's AI tools are accessible within the DM feature, such as stickers in chat and the creator chatbots. "If you look at Instagram, DMs is one of the fastest growing parts of the system," Zuckerberg said on the "Blueprint" podcast.
Persons: , Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg's, Zuckerberg, YouTuber Kane Sutter, chatbots Organizations: Service, Business, Instagram, DMs Locations: Anaheim , CA
Employers are prioritizing entry-level workers with generative AI skills. Job descriptions mentioning generative AI have tripled on Handshake's portal over the past year. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Employers are prioritizing entry-level workers with generative AI skills amid rapid advances in the technology. On the student job and internship portal Handshake, the number of job descriptions that mention generative AI tools has more than tripled over the past year.
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OpenAI and Time magazine on Thursday announced a "multi-year content deal" that will allow OpenAI to access current and archived articles from more than 100 years of Time's history. OpenAI's use of Time's content will feature a citation and link back to the original source, the release said. In December, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging intellectual property violations related to its journalistic content appearing in ChatGPT training data. Martin and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI alleging copyright infringement in using their work to train ChatGPT. In July, two authors filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that their books were used to train the company's chatbot without their consent.
Persons: Reddit, OpenAI, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R, Martin, Jodi Picoult Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, News Corp, Street, The New York Post, The New York Times, Southern, of Locations: The, U.S, of New York
Read preview"Try talking with it here," Sam Altman wrote on X, linking to an "early demo" of ChatGPT. AdvertisementIt made OpenAI the poster child of the race to create human-like artificial general intelligence, which has become Altman's stated mission. OpenAI still has no release date for Sora, the model that generates videos based on users' text prompts and was first demonstrated publicly in February. AdvertisementThis month did give OpenAI something to celebrate; Apple announced that it was partnering with the company to bring ChatGPT to iPhones, iPads, and Macs. ChatGPT gave OpenAI a headstart in the race to make AGI.
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The news industry just gained a powerful ally in its effort to take on OpenAI. The Center for Investigative Reporting, the country's oldest nonprofit newsroom, sued OpenAI and lead backer Microsoft in federal court on Thursday for alleged copyright infringement, following similar suits from publications including The New York Times , Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. In December, The New York Times filed a suit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging intellectual property violations related to its journalistic content appearing in ChatGPT training data. Martin and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI last year, alleging copyright infringement in using their work to train ChatGPT. Reddit also announced in May that it will partner with OpenAI, allowing the company to train its AI models on Reddit content.
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Fearing the dreaded technical interview, Kyle hit the books harder than a high school junior studying for the SAT. It turns out Silicon Valley is engaged in a raucous debate over the use of artificial intelligence in technical interviews. Those in favor say banning chatbots in technical interviews is like prohibiting calculators in math tests. AdvertisementThe technical interview is open bookPeople close to the interview process say companies are already changing their tests to avoid cheating. Big Tech's reluctanceIn Big Tech, companies are so far opting out of chatbots in technical interviews.
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Read previewAn internal Microsoft tracking tool has revealed which executives AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is working with most during his first few months on the job. Microsoft in March hired Suleyman , the head of startup Inflection AI and a cofounder of AI pioneer DeepMind, to be CEO of a newly formed Microsoft AI group. The organization is responsible for consumer AI products such as Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot and the Bing search engine. Kevin Scott, Microsoft chief technology officerKevin Scott MicrosoftKevin Scott is Microsoft's chief technology officer and executive vice president of AI. Caitlin McCabe, CEO chief of staffMcCabe is Satya Nadella's chief of staff.
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Some changes to terms of service are as small as a few words. Others include the addition of entire sections to explain how generative A.I. models work, and the types of access they have to user data. Snap, for instance, warned its users not to share confidential information with its A.I. chatbot because it would be used in its training, and Meta alerted users in Europe that public posts on Facebook and Instagram would soon be used to train its large language model.
Persons: Instagram Organizations: Facebook Locations: Europe
But, not all AI startups are created equal. AdvertisementBusiness Insider surveyed nine VCs who invest in AI startups at firms like Bain Capital Ventures, Flybridge, and Sapphire Ventures. Startups building AI's "picks and shovels" are a better bet than yet another LLMStep aside, OpenAI and Anthropic. In contrast, unstructured data encompasses various formats such as text documents, images, audio files, emails, social media posts, and videos. Some AI investors say they're shying away from point solutions—think online payment processing or project management—in favor of full-stack solutions.
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CNN —Toys “R” Us is proving artificial intelligence could have a future in film. The retail toy brand premiered a short promo film at the 2024 Cannes Lions Festival in France this week that was created almost entirely by using OpenAI’s new text-to-video tool. Toys “R” Us said it believes it is the first brand to debut a film using the technology. A spokesperson for the creative agency told CNN that Toys “R” Us has not yet made a decision if the promo will become a TV ad. OpenAI has not yet announced an official release date for Sora but rumors indicate it could launch later this summer.
Persons: Charles Lazarus, Geoffrey the, “ Charles Lazarus, OpenAI, Organizations: CNN, Cannes Lions Festival Locations: France
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