Small businesses, many short of staff, have turned to AI this holiday season to create marketing messages, social media updates, customer emails, and even help hire extra humans, according to a new study of 550 such businesses by American Express.
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CONSORTIUM ESTABLISHES STANDARDS FOR AI PEDIGREES
Companies eager to put AI to work may hesitate because they aren’t sure of the data their AI was trained with. Perhaps there are copyright issues, offensive comments ready to pop out, or the AI might be making things up out of thin air.
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GOOGLE UNVEILS ITS LONG-AWAITED AI
Racing to catch up with rivals OpenAI and Microsoft, Google finally has released Gemini, the “largest and most capable AI model” the company has yet built, it said.
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AI, THE ROBIN HOOD OF THE WORKPLACE
AI is a workplace Robin Hood, giving help to low-performance workers while stealing luster from high achievers, an essay from Business Insider (BI) contends.
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IRANIAN HACKERS ATTACK U.S. WATER AND SEWER SYSTEMS
The CyberAv3ngers, a group known to be affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has been running cyberattacks on digital devices called programmable logic controllers that are common in U.S. municipal water and sewage processing systems as well as in equipment in energy, healthcare, and food and beverage manufacture, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed.
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AI PREDICTS “MONSTER WAVES” AT SEA
Every day all over the world, the oceans spin up “rogue waves” or “monster waves” at least twice the height of others around them. They can appear suddenly and swamp ships.
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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED CAUGHT IN AI SCANDAL
Sports Illustrated (SI), the elite journal celebrating all things athletic, has published content created by AI and attributed to “authors” who don’t exist. The content also contained errors or silly statements.
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DEEPMIND AI OPENS “NEW AGE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE”
Engineers have about 20,000 inorganic materials to use in building things, most discovered by chance. Scientists have theorized about tens of thousands of others but have gotten around to making and testing a relative few of them.
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SO FAR, JOBS ARE SAFE FROM AI BUT WAGES AREN’T, ECB SAYS
To date, the widespread adoption of AI by European businesses has created more jobs than it has eliminated, especially for younger workers, a study by the European Central Bank (ECB) has found.
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AI SPOTS BREAST CANCER EARLIER THAN PHYSICIANS
A specialized AI program found 13 percent more early-stage cases of breast cancer than physicians did, a new study in Nature Medicine reported.