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Big Tech goes nuclear

Oct 18, 2024
Plus: AI slop is all over Spotify, and a tiny island is making bank off “.ai” websites.
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Exclusive: Authors Guild to offer "Human Authored" label on books to compete with AI

Oct 7, 2024
The Authors Guild will offer its 15,000 members a new certificate to place book covers: one that shows a book is written by humans and not artificial intelligence.
Coming soon to a bookstore near you? Labels that distinguish books written by humans.
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AI is teaching humans to human at work

Sep 30, 2024
As the role of soft skills shifts amid evolving technology, that tech — especially generative AI — can be a tool to both train and assess soft skills.
“[Chatbots] have infinite patience, and they have also been hammered with training to be polite and agreeable,” said sociologist Jason Jeffrey Jones.
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Will AI lead to layoffs? New data from CEOs says no

KPMG's latest U.S. CEO Outlook survey finds that more than 70% of corporate executives feel AI "will not dramatically change their workforce."
"What we feel is that these technologies like generative AI and AI are going to augment the skills of workers and employees," said KPMG's Paul Knopp.
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Bill Gates: Solving malnutrition is both a global health and economic imperative

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is focusing on the need to invest in global health in its 2024 Goalkeepers Report.
"It's an investment in their stability, their child survival, their helping the world economy," Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said. Malnutrition is a key focus of this year's Goalkeepers Report, which the Foundation releases annually to track progress on United Nations' targets for global improvement.
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More corporations are disclosing the risk AI might pose to their businesses

Aug 22, 2024
What those risks are, and which companies are worried, go beyond the usual suspects.
Many companies don't see AI as a competitor but do acknowledge a security risk to using AI in their work.
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Here's why the debate over open source AI matters for us humans

Aug 20, 2024
Meta has staked its entire AI strategy upon the open source route, allowing pretty much anyone access to its powerful large language models. Meanwhile, Google and OpenAI are keeping everything walled off.
Meta is planning to spend tens of billions on developing its AI — only to make it open source.
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New Nvidia research shows AI can predict local weather

Aug 20, 2024
Weather forecasting typically relies on costly, large supercomputers to solve equations, but a new model shows that AI can make predictions that are just as good.
New research released this week by Nvidia presents a new model for quickly predicting local weather events, like thunderstorms, down to the kilometer.
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Increasing use of AI in job resumes is a mixed blessing

Aug 14, 2024
Jobseekers find it easier to write resumes to multiple employers with AI, but those hiring have more applications to sort through.
The share of jobseekers using generative AI increased to more than 50% in 2024, according to Julia Pollak at ZipRecruiter.
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Paris 2024: The AI-powered Olympics

Jul 26, 2024
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games officially begins today — and this year's tournament will use artificial intelligence more than any other.
The International Olympic Committee is creating a sort of chatbot for competing athletes to have their questions answered.
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