Dukaan, an Indian e-commerce company, suddenly has 90 percent fewer workers. In their place, it has a chatbot one of the company’s data scientists created over a span of two days.
Tag: AI
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MORE THAN A THIRD OF WORKERS EXPECT TO BE REPLACED BY AI
Thirty-six percent of workers expect AI to either eliminate their job or take it from them, according to a new Ipsos poll of 22,186 adults in 31 countries.
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HOW AI “FORGETS” RELEVANT FACTS WHEN PRESENTING INFORMATION
In the course of writing this week’s article about EV technology, I had a fascinating exchange with Google’s generative text based AI, called Bard.
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GOOGLE’S BARD AI SIDES WITH UKRAINE, AND SAYS IT HAS OPINIONS ON GEOPOLITICS
We recently probed Google’s Bard AI concerning the Russia-Ukraine war, and found that it displayed strong opinions about it.
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AI SPARKS LAYOFFS—IN THE TECH INDUSTRY
AI will erase jobs in a range of industries, but perhaps it’s surprising that some tech jobs are among the first to go.
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SCHOOL DISTRICTS BAN, ALLOW CHATBOTS
The Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland have banned ChatGPT and similar “large language model” AIs from public schools until government education departments determine how they can be used “safely and appropriately” in classrooms.
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AI DESIGNS COMPUTER CHIP FROM SCRATCH IN LESS THAN FIVE HOURS
A team of 19 Chinese computer scientists from five separate institutions claim to have created an AI that designed a computer’s central processing unit (CPU)—a computer’s master chip or “brain”—in less than five hours, or about 1,000 times faster than humans could have accomplished the same task.
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GOOGLE SAYS ITS AI WILL “SCRAPE THE INTERNET,” AS TJ FORECAST CONFIRMED: GENERATIVE AI HURTING WEBSITE TRAFFIC
Google just admitted it considers the entire Internet, including everything users may post online or create using Google software, to be fair game for training its generative AI systems.
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AI WILL BE “AS GOOD A TUTOR AS ANY HUMAN EVER COULD,” BILL GATES SAYS
Chatbots will soon be tutoring children individually to improve their reading and writing abilities, according to Bill Gates in comments he made at a San Diego tech conference earlier this month.
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AI IS WIMBLEDON’S NEWEST COLOR COMMENTATOR
When the elites of tennis take to Wimbledon’s grass courts this week, a new eye will be analyzing their moves and assessing their chances.