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Oct 03 from https://arstechnica.com/

Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? A live chat with Ed Zitron.

As generative AI has taken off since ChatGPT's debut, inspiring hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and infrastructure developments, the top question on many people's minds has been: Is generative AI a bubble, and if so, when will it pop? To help us potentially answer that question, I'll be hosting a live conversation with prominent AI critic Ed Zitron on October 7 at 3:30 pm ET as...

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Oct 03 from https://www.theregister.com/

Startups binge on AI while big firms sip cautiously

The Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm (aka A16z) crunched startup spending data and found young firms stuffing AI into everything, while bigger businesses remain far more restrained. To see what startups are prioritizing, A16z worked with fintech firm Mercury, which provides financial services to many Silicon Valley companies, and its database of the spending habits of more than...

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Oct 02 from http://gizmodo.com/

AI Finds its Niche: Writing Corporate Press Releases

If there is one place that AI seems to have found work, it’s in corporate press offices. According to a new study published in the journal Patterns, which provides a comprehensive review of writing released in the post-ChatGPT era, corporate and governmental bodies appear to be regularly using AI tools to draft everything from press releases to job listings. The researchers pulled thousands...

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

AI can design toxic proteins. They’re escaping through biosecurity cracks.

In October 2023, two scientists at Microsoft discovered a startling vulnerability in a safety net intended to prevent bad actors from using artificial intelligence tools to concoct hazardous proteins for warfare or terrorism. Those gaping security holes and how they were discovered were kept confidential until Thursday, when a report in the journal Science detailed how researchers generated...

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Sep 30 from https://edition.cnn.com/business/tech

Most companies aren’t seeing a return on AI investments. This tech CEO wants to change that

New York — The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month. One AI executive believes he knows why. “There has been this general promise of, hey, you’ll just plug in the (AI) model … and everything will work,” Jason Droege, CEO of startup Scale...

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Sep 12 from https://www.technologyreview.com/

How do AI models generate videos?

Sure, the clips you see in demo reels are cherry-picked to showcase a company’s models at the top of their game. But with the technology in the hands of more users than ever before—Sora and Veo 3 are available in the ChatGPT and Gemini apps for paying subscribers—even the most casual filmmaker can now knock out something remarkable. The downside is that creators are competing with AI slop,...

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Sep 02 from https://www.technologyreview.com/

Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.

Declan was so shocked he didn’t say anything, and for the rest of the session he was privy to a real-time stream of ChatGPT analysis rippling across his therapist’s screen. The session became even more surreal when Declan began echoing ChatGPT in his own responses, preempting his therapist. “I became the best patient ever,” he says, “because ChatGPT would be like, ‘Well, do you consider that...

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