Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity
Toggle light / dark theme

Blog

Category: robotics/AI – Page 967

Slack’s vision for enterprise AI: Empower ‘everybody to automate’

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11–12 and learn how business leaders are getting ahead of the generative AI revolution. Learn More

The messaging software company Slack sees massive potential in generative AI and large language models, allowing more automation to improve workplace productivity and efficiency, said Steve Wood, Slack’s SVP, product management at the VentureBeat Transform 2023 conference on Tuesday.

“For me, I think automation, integration and AI are going to have a profound impact on how we experience software going forward,” Wood said in his panel discussion with Brian Evergreen, founder and CEO of the Profitable Good Company, a leadership advisory firm.

How will religions deal with an omnipotent AI?

I’m excited to share my latest article with Aporia Magazine, where I’m writing a series of stories on transhumanism. My latest article, on AI and religion, is now out.

Written by Zoltan Istvan.

A consensus of 350 top AI experts believes that by 2060 engineers could create a superintelligence to rival the human mind. This machine intelligence might create complex symphonies, direct blockbuster movies and run market-beating companies. But would it be sophisticated enough to understand spirituality, practice a religion or commune with a higher power?

In conferences and forums around the world, theologians and scientists are trying to answer these questions. Some are even debating whether the superintelligence should be converted to a specific religious perspective when it arrives – and then maybe even saved.

Wired Magazine’s executive founding editor Kevin Kelly once said, “The creator made us as beings with free will and consciousness – we are going to do the same thing. We are going to make beings with free will and consciousness, because we are in the image of the creator.”

Wayfair cautiously embraces generative AI, with ‘a premium on humans in the loop’

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11–12 and learn how business leaders are getting ahead of the generative AI revolution. Learn More

Online furniture retailer Wayfair is embracing the power of generative AI with a thoughtful, measured approach that involves a council of stakeholders and a core thesis to help accelerate business productivity.

In a session at today’s VentureBeat Transform 2023, Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, head of pricing and marketing science at Wayfair, offered insights into how the company is using generative AI today and what its strategy is to integrate more AI in the future.

Breakthrough in Photonics: Training Neural Networks at the Speed of Light!

To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/AnastasiInTech.
The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription.

The paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade8450
How computing with Different Colours of Light works: https://youtu.be/mt8I71VUazw.

00:00 — Photonic Chips.
06:38 — Backpropagation Problem.
07:38 — Training NN with Light.
12:27 — Challenges of Photonic Chips.
13:46 — Investments in Photonics.

This video was sponsored by Brilliant.

👉 Support me at Patreon ➜ https://www.patreon.com/AnastasiInTech.
📩 Sign up for my Deep In Tech Newsletter for free! ➜ https://anastasiintech.substack.com

Google hit with class-action lawsuit over AI data scraping

July 11 (Reuters) — Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) was accused in a proposed class action lawsuit on Tuesday of misusing vast amounts of personal information and copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence systems.

The complaint, filed in San Francisco federal court by eight individuals seeking to represent millions of internet users and copyright holders, said Google’s unauthorized scraping of data from websites violated their privacy and property rights.

“Google does not own the internet, it does not own our creative works, it does not own our expressions of our personhood, pictures of our families and children, or anything else simply because we share it online,” the plaintiffs’ attorney Ryan Clarkson said in a statement.

Microsoft’s Automatic Prompt Optimization Improves Prompts to Boost LLM Performance

The recent rise of powerful large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP).

The performance of these generative models is largely dependent on users’ prompts, which are becoming increasingly detailed and complex.

A Google Trends search reveals a hundredfold increase in popularity for the term “prompt engineering” over the last six months, and social media is teeming with novel prompting tips and templates.

IBM mulls using its own AI chip in new cloud service to lower costs

SAN FRANCISCO, July 11 (Reuters) — International Business Machines (IBM) (IBM.N) is considering the use of artificial intelligence chips that it designed in-house to lower the costs of operating a cloud computing service it made widely available this week, an executive said Tuesday.

In an interview with Reuters at a semiconductor conference in San Francisco, Mukesh Khare, general manager of IBM Semiconductors, said the company is contemplating using a chip called the Artificial Intelligence Unit as part of its new “watsonx” cloud service.

IBM is hoping to take advantage of the boom in generative AI technologies that can write human-like text more than a decade after Watson, its first major AI system, failed to gain market traction.