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Tag: AI
MINING VENTURE USES AI TO PINPOINT MAJOR COPPER DEPOSIT
KoBold Metals, a Californian mining venture that counts Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as investors, has used AI to locate a major copper deposit in Zambia.
GOOGLE PLEDGES €25 MILLION TO EMBED AI IN EUROPE
Google has pledged €25 million, equivalent to about $27 million, to help people and businesses in Europe learn to use AI.
AI: SHOW ME THE MONEY
AI is starting to make money for companies other than Microsoft and Nvidia.
LOVE AMONG THE ONES AND ZEROS
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.