As loneliness and social isolation are being recognized as a public health issue in developed countries, AI is fielding squads of romantic partners to bring warmth to a chilly world.
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GOOGLE’S DUCKIE NOW JOINED BY “GOOSE”
Duckie, Google’s internal chatbot for its employees, has been joined by “Goose,” an AI that has been “trained on the sum total of 25 years of engineering expertise at Google,” according to an internal company document.
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AI HITS THE FACTORY FLOOR
Nokia, the Finnish tech firm, has unveiled “MX Workmate,” an AI buddy for industrial workers that can issue text messages to warn when a machine is showing signs of breaking down and offer tips on boosting productivity and product quality.
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AI BLOWS UP THE WORLD IN MILITARY SIMULATION
In a foreign policy decision-making simulation, researchers tested several AIs to gauge their mettle in a global crisis.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Governments are quickly implementing measures to clamp down on free speech, under the guise of combating Artificial Intelligence connected “misinformation,” “malinformation,” and “disinformation.”
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BARD IS CALLED GEMINI NOW
Google has changed the name of its Bard AI chatbot to Gemini, matching its moniker to that of the AI models that power it.
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AI IS ALREADY DISRUPTING ELECTIONS
Ahead of New Hampshire’s presidential primary, Democratic voters received a robocall from Joe Biden telling them not to vote.
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ELABORATE DEEPFAKE EARNS $25 MILLION FOR THIEVES
An employee at a financial firm was conned by an AI-generated deepfake into transferring $25 million to thieves.
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WILL AI SAVE SAN FRANCISCO’S COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE MARKET?
Since the COVID War sent white-collar workers home, San Francisco’s office vacancy rate crumbled to a record 35.9 percent in December, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. More than a third of the city’s office space is empty, the most in the U.S.
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HIGHLY PAID WHITE COLLAR WORKERS MOST ENDANGERED BY AI, STUDY FINDS
AI will compete for jobs most strongly not with retail clerks and dental hygienists but with highly paid, college-educated office workers, a new study by the Burning Glass Institute (BGI) and SHRM, formerly the Society for Human Resource Management, reported last week.