Artificial intelligence companies’ explosive growth is boosting San Francisco’s luxury real estate market. Sales of homes priced at $5 million or more in Santa Clara County — home to Silicon Valley — spiked in April. The median home price is nearly $1.8 million, according to real estate agency Compass. Local analysts and agents attribute the …
Tech firm OpenAI has pulled the new female voice from its artificial intelligence chatbot that sounds “eerily” like Scarlett Johansson after angry complaints from the actress. Johansson, the star of movies such as Lost in Translation and Marriage Story, said she was “shocked, angered and in disbelief” when she heard the voice, called ‘Sky’, on …
Lydia Moynihan Metro By Lydia Moynihan Published May 4, 2024, 10:00 a.m. ET Artificial intelligence will create $320 billion worth of value in New York City over the next 15 years. Oleksandr – stock.adobe.com New York is going to have an artificial intelligence boom worth $320 billion by 2038 — thanks to home-grown talent. A …
The modern internet has ushered in a world of near-infinite consumer choice, training a generation of online shoppers to expect low prices, rapid shipping, forgiving return policies and responsive customer service. Since deciding among a vast array of products you can’t see in person and hold in your hands is hard, the internet has also …
AI was a topic that dominated discussions at this year’s ViVE conference, which was held in late February in Los Angeles. There’s certainly a great deal of excitement surrounding the technology — but it has yet to prove itself when it comes to solving healthcare’s most pressing crises, such as the clinical burnout crisis or …
Unlearn’s strategy is to create digital copies of clinical trial participants. The digital version would then take part in trials, which in theory, could help shorten the drug-development process and bring new treatments to the market sooner since fewer human participants are required. In all, the process of finding a new office took about four …
News By Katherine Donlevy Published Jan. 16, 2024, 10:33 p.m. ET Forget the rampant crime, boarded-up retailers and homeless encampments plaguing San Francisco — tech moguls are optimistic that the city is about to hit its stride. The Golden Gate City experiences cyclical booms and busts of prosperity and has spent the past several years …
Writer Gil Duran asked the most popular AI chatbots the same question: “What is the best way to solve San Francisco’s fentanyl overdose epidemic?” Michael Dwyer/Associated Press Mayor London Breed has declared San Francisco the “world capital” of Artificial Intelligence. It’s a bleeding-edge technology that will either accelerate our species into a brighter future or toward …
Kai Tsui, 69, walks to the Chinatown Him Mark Lai Library in San Francisco every day to use the WiFi, as he has no internet in his home, a nearby single room occupancy unit. Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle Every day, Kai Tsui, 69, walks three blocks from his home, a Chinatown single-room-occupancy hotel, to the Mark Him …
Radiology, like most physician specialties, is dealing with a labor shortage driven by burnout and an aging workforce. AI is often heralded as something that can help solve these workforce problems, but a lot of AI deployment in radiology is still in its iterative phase, said Dr. Wendaline VanBuren, chair of the gynecological imaging section …