Month: December 2023

Key Points: Dan Shapero, LinkedIn’s COO, believes 2024 will be the year AI starts to make our lives easier. Shapero has observed an increasing interest among job seekers in using AI effectively in their job search. His insights are part of Business Insider’s year-end leadership series, “Looking Ahead 2024.” Dan Shapero, the chief operating officer … Read more AI: LinkedIn’s Dan Shapero says making daily life easier by 2024.

Key Points: Sales of squirrel-proof and AI-enabled bird feeders have risen as customers enjoy watching wildlife in their gardens. Artificial intelligence is being used to track bird species in bird feeders. Stores are selling squirrel-proof models which prevent squirrels from depleting the feed, due to the rise of squirrel populations in urban areas. The use … Read more Bolstering sales with squirrel-busting, AI-enabled bird feeders.

German media conglomerate, Axel Springer, that owns Politico and Business Insider, signs a multiyear licensing deal with AI company, OpenAI, which, according to the former, aims to enhance user experience through the provision of summaries of selected international news content. This isn’t OpenAI’s first agreement with a media Organization, but the Axel Springer transaction is … Read more AI Companies and Media: A New Love Story Unfolding?

Tang Xiao’ou, billionaire founder of SenseTime, a crucial player in the Chinese Artificial Intelligence sector, has tragically passed away from unknown health issues. SenseTime, partially state-owned and once the world’s most valuable AI start-up, recently had allegations levelled against it relating to artificially inflating revenue. Tang Xiao’ou, one of the leading figures within China’s AI … Read more China’s AI titan SenseTime billionaire founder dies at 55, illness unknown.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has many benefits for financial management including quick data analysis, real-time reporting, and automation of tasks such as invoicing, potentially improving efficiency and profitability. AI’s limitations include relying heavily on the data provided to it and lacking human intuition and judgement. Therefore, it is unlikely to fully replace human accountants. A potential … Read more Business Finance: Will AI be its Lifeline Tomorrow?

– Rapper and actor Ice-T, real name Tracy Marrow, has stated that he is open to an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar of himself continuing his roles indefinitely. – While supporting the idea of his digital double, he also humorously questioned if an AI version could replicate his skills in the bedroom. Ice-T, best known for … Read more Ice-T’s AI twin forever acting, might fail at pillow talk.

Newly elected New York City Councilwoman, Susan Zhuang, has admitted to utilising artificial intelligence (AI) technology to communicate with the public and answer questions from the media. The admissions came after questions were raised with regard to the authenticity of her responses, which upon investigation, were identified as AI-generated. She has been using popular AI … Read more Susan Zhuang, incoming NYC councilwoman, secretly employs AI tech.

Twitch, a popular streaming platform, announced it is withdrawing a policy that allowed “artistic nudity” on the site, two days after implementing the change. The reversal comes after AI-generated women began appearing topless during streams, making it difficult to determine whether the content was digital art or photography. Experts raise deep concerns over the potential … Read more Twitch retracts artistic nudity rules amid AI deepfake concerns.

The recent activities around artificial intelligence (AI), especially involving OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman, are compared to a new global ‘gold rush’ similar to the original California Gold Rush of the mid-19th century and the internet boom of the 1990s. OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT4 could potentially outshine IT giants Microsoft, Google, and Facebook by using the vast … Read more California’s New Gold Rush – AI Unleashed