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Jul 02 from https://arstechnica.com/

Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes

Elon Musk's X arguably revolutionized social media fact-checking by rolling out "community notes," which created a system to crowdsource diverse views on whether certain X posts were trustworthy or not. But now, the platform plans to allow AI to write community notes, and that could potentially ruin whatever trust X users had in the fact-checking system—which X has fully acknowledged. In a...

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Jul 02 from https://www.theregister.com/

Call center staffers explain how AI assistants aren't great

ai-pocalypse Recent research details how customer service reps at a Chinese utility's call center often struggled when trying to use an AI assistant, and were forced to make manual fixes. Researchers affiliated with a Chinese power utility and several Chinese universities recently conducted a study of how customer service representatives (CSRs) at the power utility's call center use AI...

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Jul 02 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.

Clifton Sellers attended a Zoom meeting last month where robots outnumbered humans. He counted six people on the call including himself, Sellers recounted in an interview. The 10 others attending were note-taking apps powered by artificial intelligence that had joined to record, transcribe and summarize the meeting. Some of the AI helpers were assisting a person who was also present on the...

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Jul 02 from https://fortune.com/section/tech/

The new CEO flex: Bragging that AI handles exactly X% of the work

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in a recent interview that AI now does up to 50% of all work at the company, in key functions like engineering, coding, and customer support. In May, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said 20% to 30% of the tech giant’s code is now written by AI coding assistants. And in April, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said over 30% of code at Google is now generated by AI. It’s the...

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Jul 02 from https://fortune.com/section/tech/

How to vet software developer candidates in the age of AI coding tools

When Intuit chief technology officer Alex Balazs was getting his undergraduate mechanical engineering degree at Kettering University more than three decades ago, he recalls the Michigan school’s professors being split on whether they’d let students use calculators in class. “And now, when you think about it, of course you use a calculator,” says Balazs. Similarly, he believes today’s AI...

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Jul 01 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

AI is threatening your favorite websites. The internet is pushing back.

Toshit Panigrahi broke the bad news recently to a large sports website: It had a bunch of artificial intelligence freeloaders. About 13 million times in a month, the website was visited not by humans but by AI companies’ automated software that crawled over the site like digital arachnids to siphon information for AI programs. Only about 600 actual humans were drawn to the sports site as a...

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Jun 30 from https://venturebeat.com/

From chatbots to collaborators: How AI agents are reshaping enterprise work

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Scott White still marvels at how quickly artificial intelligence has transformed from a novelty into a true work partner. Just over a year ago, the product lead for Claude AI at Anthropic watched as early AI coding tools could barely...

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Jun 30 from https://fortune.com/section/tech/

When your AI assistant writes your performance review: A glimpse into the future of work

David Ferrucci is managing director of the nonprofit Institute for Advanced Enterprise AI at the Center for Global Enterprise When I asked my AI assistant how much time I’d spent working on a collaborative writing project with it, I wasn’t expecting an existential reflection on the future of work. I just wanted a number. What I got instead was a full audit of my intellectual labor—what I had...

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Jun 30 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

AI is now screening job candidates before humans ever see them

Lumier Rodriguez flipped on the “open to work” setting on the professional social network LinkedIn to show that she was actively looking for contract work in April. She thought she’d instantly get responses from recruiters. She was met with silence. So she started actively applying to jobs. But rather than hear back from human recruiters, she received emails, calls and texts from artificial...

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Jun 29 from https://venturebeat.com/

Between utopia and collapse: Navigating AI’s murky middle future

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now In the blog post The Gentle Singularity, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman painted a vision of the near future where AI quietly and benevolently transforms human life. There will be no sharp break, he suggests, only a steady, almost imperceptible...

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Jun 27 from https://venturebeat.com/

How runtime attacks turn profitable AI into budget black holes

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. AI’s promise is undeniable, but so are its blindsiding security costs at the inference layer. New attacks targeting AI’s operational side are quietly inflating budgets, jeopardizing regulatory compliance and eroding customer trust, all of...

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Jun 23 from https://edition.cnn.com/business/tech

Is AI changing or threatening to take your job? Tell us about it here

New York CNN — Some of Silicon Valley’s top leaders have warned in recent weeks that artificial intelligence is coming for people’s jobs — and fast. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned last month that AI could cause as much as 20% unemployment in the next one to five years. And last week, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told his employees that AI agents would reduce the company’s workforce in the near...

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Jun 20 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

Bosses want you to know AI is coming for your job

SAN FRANCISCO — Top executives at some of the largest American companies have a warning for their workers: Artificial intelligence is a threat to your job. CEOs from Amazon to IBM, Salesforce and JPMorgan Chase are telling their employees to prepare for disruption as AI either transforms or eliminates their jobs in the future. AI will “improve inventory placement, demand forecasting and the...

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Jun 20 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

6 AI mistakes you should avoid when using chatbots

Please don’t do that, or any of these other AI mistakes: Be careful what you share, part one A special warning about the Meta AI chatbot app: There’s a “Share” button at the top right corner of your chat. If you hit that option and then “Post,” your chat may be funneled to a Facebook-like public feed called Discover with a stream of everyone’s AI conversations. Some people appear to...

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May 20 from https://www.technologyreview.com/

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

Part Three: Fuel and emissions Now that we have an estimate of the total energy required to run an AI model to produce text, images, and videos, we can work out what that means in terms of emissions that cause climate change. First, a data center humming away isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If all data centers were hooked up to solar panels and ran only when the sun was shining, the world...

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