AI will lop 5 percent of workers from corporate payrolls this year, according to a PwC survey of 4,702 C-suite executives from 105 countries gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this month.
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DEAL MARRIES AI AND QUANTUM COMPUTING
Giving a glimpse of a dazzling future, AI and quantum computing company SandboxAQ, has bought Canadian firm Good Chemistry, which is developing a combination of quantum technologies and machine learning.
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2024 IS A LEAP YEAR FOR AI, THIS YEAR, EXPERTS SAY
In 2024, AI chatbots will make “a leap forward that no one expected,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a public event in November.
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IT’S ALREADY A POST-HUMAN WORLD
Our cell phones and the internet have not made us more free or productive, any more than all those new appliances heralded in the 1940’s and and 50’s ended drudgery for home makers.
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“ELVIS” ON AI TOUR, AND “GEORGE CARLIN” DROPS A NEW COMEDY SPECIAL
In 1997, I wrote a play called Permanent Things, in which a character talking to her movie star father tells him what’s in the tea leaves for the future:
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ALMOST THREE-QUARTERS OF WORKERS SAY AI HAS MADE THEM MORE PRODUCTIVE, BUT…
Seventy-two percent of workers using AI on the job say it makes them more productive, a CNBC survey found.
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CAN BEZOS-BACKED “ANSWER ENGINE” CHALLENGE GOOGLE’S SEARCH DOMINANCE?
Perplexity, an AI start-up operating out of a San Francisco coworking space, is aiming for a piece of Google’s 90-percent ownership of the Internet search market.
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INTEL LAUNCHES ITS OWN AI BUSINESS
Iconic chip maker Intel has announced it’s forming an independent generative AI company called Articul8 in partnership with DigitalBridge Group, an asset manager focused on digital technologies.
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DISINFORMATION DRIVEN BY AI IS WORLD’S GREATEST THREAT, WEF SAYS
Lies and twisted facts supercharged by AI and designed to undermine democratic ideals and elections is the greatest immediate threat to the world economy, the World Economic Forum said in a report ahead of its annual convocation in Davos, Switzerland.
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OPENAI OPENS ITS OWN APP STORE
OpenAI has launched The GPT Store, its own online department store where people can share their own customized adaptations of ChatGPT, the company’s market-leading chatbot.