AI Ernie Bot from Baidu Reaches 100 Million Users in China

AI Ernie Bot from Baidu Reaches 100 Million Users in China

Ernie Bot, the AI chatbot from China’s largest internet company Baidu, has drawn over 100 million users since its public launch in August, announced Haifeng Wang,  Baidu’s chief technology officer. Wang announced the milestone at a deep learning summit in Beijing today according to a Reuters report. The Baidu search engine commands over 76 percent …

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Criminals use artificial intelligence, imitate celebrities to trick people into handing over money – WFTV

Criminals use artificial intelligence, imitate celebrities to trick people into handing over money – WFTV

ORLANDO, Fla. — Artificial Intelligence or A.I. technology is creeping its way into our daily lives and scammers have now found ways to use it to pump up their cons. An Orlando woman found out the hard way after she was tricked into believing she was speaking with a popular actor. Margarita Brito admits she has …

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Apple is ‘behind the curve’ on generative AI: Analyst

Apple is ‘behind the curve’ on generative AI: Analyst

In 2023, the tech sector has displayed significant growth, particularly driven by the adoption of generative AI models. TECHnalysis Research, LLC President and Chief Analyst Bob O’Donnell joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss key trends and companies shaping this growth. “Most people in their jobs, have yet to experience it [generative AI],” O’Donnell states, who …

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Sanna Marin, the popular former prime minister of Finland, on Putin, powerful women and legislating in the age of AI

Sanna Marin, the popular former prime minister of Finland, on Putin, powerful women and legislating in the age of AI

Earlier this month, at the Slush tech conference in Helsinki, this editor had the opportunity to sit down with Sanna Marin, the popular former prime minister of Finland who became known internationally for socializing with friends, but whose accomplishments in office are far more significant, including successfully pushing Finland to join NATO to better protect the …

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Anthropic Raising $750 Million, NY Times Sues Open AI, Cinematic AI Holidays Films

Anthropic Raising 0 Million, NY Times Sues Open AI, Cinematic AI Holidays Films

Anthropic Co-Founder & CEO Dario Amodei speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 at Moscone Center on September 20, 2023 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch) Getty Images for TechCrunch Anthropic Projects At Least $850 Million in Annualized Revenue Rate Next Year. The Google and Amazon backed company now projects it …

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Pinecone’s CEO is on a quest to give AI something like knowledge

Pinecone’s CEO is on a quest to give AI something like knowledge

Pinecone ChatGPT and other generative AI programs spit out “hallucinations,” assertions of falsehoods as fact, because the programs not being built to “know” anything; they are simply built to produce a string of characters that is a plausible continuation of whatever you’ve just typed.  “If I ask a question about medicine or legal or some …

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Amazon’s new Kindle policy requires authors to disclose the use of artificial intelligence

Amazon’s new Kindle policy requires authors to disclose the use of artificial intelligence

Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes WASHINGTON — Early this September, Amazon introduced a new set of rules for publishing AI-generated content on Kindle books. According to the new guidelines, authors publishing artificial intelligence-generated content must now declare themselves. The new policy introduces a set of guidelines for authors who distribute their work using Kindle’s Direct …

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