Global business and technology consulting and services firm EY has invested $1.4 billion in AI, has created its own large language model AI called EYQ, and will train all of its 400,000 workers in AI, the company announced last week.
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AI MAY GENERATE 90 PERCENT OF ONLINE CONTENT BY 2026, STUDY SAYS
Within about two years, 90 percent of all content online could be the product of artificial intelligence, according to a study by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation.
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GOOGLE ENTERS AI CLOUD CONTEST
Google has finally begun selling PALM-2, its most powerful AI technology, to the general public in an attempt to make up for time lost to Amazon and Microsoft, which have been offering similar tools broadly for months.
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IRS ENLISTS AI TO TRACK DOWN TAX CHEATS
The IRS is using some of its $80-million windfall from last year’s Inflation Reduction Act to bring AI to bear in tracking down taxes not paid by hedge funds, real estate investors, limited liability partnerships, and wealthy individuals, The New York Times reported.
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PENTAGON PLANS AI-POWERED AUTOMATED FORCE
The U.S. military plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build thousands of AI-enlivened drones, surveillance craft, and other nimble machines that are “small, smart, and cheap,” deputy defense secretary Katherine Hicks revealed in a 6 September speech to a defense industry conference in Virginia.
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OPENAI OFFERS BUSINESS VERSION OF CHATGPT
OpenAI has released a version of its GPT artificial intelligence tailored specifically for businesses that will help employees write code, search documents, analyze corporate data, and carry out a range of other tasks, the company announced.
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COMPANIES ARE FIGURING OUT HOW AI FITS IN—AND, YES, JOBS ARE DISAPPEARING
Automation in factories gutted the legion of blue-collar workers who made their living with their hands.
Now AI is automating knowledge work and it’s white-collar employees’ turn to be shown the door.
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SCHOOLS SURRENDER TO AI
Last February, the 5,400-student school district in Walla Walla, WA, banned ChatGPT. In August, the district held a workshop on how to use chatbots and how to teach students the skills to make the most of them. About 100 teachers—almost a third of the district’s faculty—showed up.
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TECHNIQUES BEING USED TO TRAIN AI WILL BE USED TO TRAIN—AND LIMIT—HUMANS
For years, scientists have been developing, with increasing success, AI that can self-learn in more sophisticated ways.
Neural net learning, modeled on the way human brains process and hold onto or discard information, is one of the most advanced ways AI systems “self-learn.”
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
It’s hard to parody the dystopian control-freak technology ambitions of Government entities, as two recent stories underscore.