Earnings calls—phone sessions in which corporate executives detail the company’s financial performance and outlook and field questions from investors and analysts—can be grueling.
Tag: AI
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: PUSHING AI MANDATES AND “MIND-VASION”
If current trajectories don’t change, it will only be a matter a few years until AI will make individual human autonomy obsolete. Whether by choice or mandate, everyone will be pervasively connected to AI.
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WHEN AI LEARNS YOU, WHO OWNS “YOU?” (HINT: NOT YOU)
Young workers have already embraced AI in startling numbers to get work done and make their lives easier.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: GETTING AI TO LOVE HUMANKIND, AND LOWBALLING WORKER REPLACEMENT
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and AI guru Ben Goertzel pretty much agreed this past week that humans need to make sure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) loves humankind.
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IF AI TAKES ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS, WHERE WILL SENIOR LEADERS COME FROM?
In law, accounting, and corporate work in general, new hires are given rote tasks: research, analyzing data, preparing presentations, checking and adjusting routine financial models, and so on.
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CHINESE TECH GIANTS ARE RECRUITING IN SILICON VALLEY
Stymied by U.S. bans on selling or sending cutting-edge AI tech to China, three of China’s biggest tech companies are trying to edge around the embargos by opening offices in Silicon Valley to recruit the same AI talent creating the technologies the companies are forbidden to buy.
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U.S. SANCTIONS FREEZE CHINA’S AI CHIP PROGRESS
Huawei Technologies, China’s flagship chip producer, will use years-old “7-nanometer” technology in creating the next two iterations of its leading-edge “Ascend” AI chips, people familiar told Bloomberg.
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AI IS RESTAURANTS’ NEW CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
At a time when restaurants are struggling to lure diners, Yum Brands—owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell—is using AI to bring in more business.
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LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL AIs DON’T UNDERSTAND THE WORLD, STUDY SAYS
The large language model AIs such as ChatGPT and Claude can deliver impressive results in response to a request, but dig a little deeper and you find they’re not connected to the real world.
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“EVO” THE AI CAN DESIGN NEW GENOMES ALL BY ITSELF
Want to design a new bacterium? Pretty soon, Evo will do it for you. Trained on billions of sections of genetic code, Stanford University’s new AI learned how genetic sequences work, and work together, to create bacteria and viruses.