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If you’re the type of person who cares about Valentine’s Day, not having someone to spend it with can be a bummer. While dating apps have been yielding diminishing returns for singles for years now, more people are finding companionship with AI partners. But where do you take your AI lover for a night on the town? Ahead of Valentine’s Day, EVA AI decided to try out an experiment. The app,...
Continue Reading on https://www.wired.com/India is the first among developing countries to host the AI Impact Summit. Official messaging emphasizes the summit as an opportunity to “give voice to the Global South” and democratize artificial-intelligence resources for all. The “Global South” represents a diverse group of countries — and India isn’t the only one vying for leadership, investments, and a seat at the table. While India has...
Continue Reading on https://restofworld.org/If there was an overriding message throughout the Super Bowl ads last night, it’s that artificial intelligence is your friend. Are you worried that artificial intelligence could cost you your job or make it impossible for your kids to get started in their careers? Don’t worry. AI means that average people with no training can write computer code and apps. Worried about reports of people...
Continue Reading on https://edition.cnn.com/business/techAs the Trump administration seeks to sweep away obstacles to developing artificial intelligence, the president’s team has brought its zeal for the new technology to the federal government itself. Orders came down from the White House budget office in April urging every corner of the government to deploy AI. “The Federal Government will no longer impose unnecessary bureaucratic restrictions on...
Continue Reading on https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/Want to understand how artificial intelligence could change your job? Look to radiology as a clue. Radiology has become a recent talking point in the AI race. It was mentioned multiple times last month by tech executives at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as in a White House whitepaper about AI and the economy. Radiology is far from being the only occupation impacted by AI, which...
Continue Reading on https://edition.cnn.com/business/techElectricians are getting harder to find, and some construction projects are on hold. Smartphones are expected to get pricier for potentially years to come. And promising innovations are being starved of investment funding. Those are just some of the domino effects from the technology industry’s insatiable spending on artificial intelligence, which is diverting resources and attention from...
Continue Reading on https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/New York — High school students are on the verge of entering a very different job market than earlier generations did. Experts in tech and economics largely agree that AI is poised to disrupt many jobs and may eliminate some altogether. And entry-level roles are likely to be at the forefront of that shift. While employment remains fairly high among all groups, it’s recently taken a dip for...
Continue Reading on https://edition.cnn.com/business/techMark Martel, a retiree in Silicon Valley, likes to keep tabs on what’s new with AI, noting with interest advancements like large language models and coding bots. This week’s top posts on an AI-focused Reddit forum stopped him in his tracks. A bots-only social network called Moltbook had taken a strange turn, according to trending Reddit threads and posts on X. Moltbook’s participants —...
Continue Reading on https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/Inevitably, these conversations take a turn: AI is having all these ripple effects now, but if the technology gets better, what happens next? That’s usually when they look at me, expecting a forecast of either doom or hope. I probably disappoint, if only because predictions for AI are getting harder and harder to make. Despite that, MIT Technology Review has, I must say, a pretty excellent...
Continue Reading on https://www.technologyreview.com/That number also does not include the use of LLMs by employees outside of official pilots. The MIT researchers found that around 90% of the companies they surveyed had a kind of AI shadow economy where workers were using personal chatbot accounts. But the value of that shadow economy was not measured. When the Upwork study looked at how well agents completed tasks together with people who...
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