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The UN is aware that AI technology is racing ahead of the capacity to set its boundaries and directions, and so it brought together some of the best minds on the topic — whether human or man-made.

The “AI for Good Global Summit”, in Geneva on Thursday and Friday is being convened by the UN’s ITU tech agency — and many unaware attendees were startled by the humanoid robots suddenly turning to look at them as they passed by.

“When generative AI shocked the world just a few months ago, we had never seen anything like it. Nothing even close to it. Even the biggest names in tech found the experience mind-blowing,” ITU chief Doreen Bogdan-Martin told the summit.

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Emmanuel Ramos is Chief Solutions Officer at OZ Digital Consulting.

As the landscape of technology continues to evolve, it is crucial for leaders in the industry to recognize that everyone plays a role in sales. The ability to sell ideas, products and services effectively has become an essential skill for success.

By delving into three key areas, this article will help you hone your selling skills and maximize their potential. First, we’ll discuss understanding the basics of sales and how they apply even when you’re not directly involved in a traditional sales role. We will then investigate how creating your own individualized sales abilities can bring about more beneficial results for both you and your organization.

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The animal world is full of different types of intelligence, from the simple bodily coordination of jellyfish to the navigation abilities of bees, the complex songs of birds, and the imaginative symbolic thought of humans.

In an article published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, we argue the evolution of all these kinds of animal intelligence has been shaped by just five major changes in the computational capacity of brains.

Each change was a major transitional point in the history of life that changed what types of intelligence could evolve.

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VoiceSwap was designed by DJ Fresh and Nico Pellerin to help producers, artists and writers who don’t want to use their voice on songs use AI to transform their voice to sound like one of our featured artists.

Our featured artists are partners who benefit from the use of their AI model.

Transform your voice with AI. Made by artists, for artists.

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Mark Zuckerberg isn’t particularly shy about copying a good idea when he sees one.

From cribbing Snapchat’s stories feature to cloning TikTok in the form of Instagram Reels, the Facebook co-founder has a long and well-documented history of being a copycat.

Zuckerberg’s latest not-quite-innovation comes in the form of Threads, an Instagram-based Twitter competitor.

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A pair of scientists has produced a research paper in less than an hour with the help of ChatGPT — a tool driven by artificial intelligence (AI) that can understand and generate human-like text. The article was fluent, insightful and presented in the expected structure for a scientific paper, but researchers say that there are many hurdles to overcome before the tool can be truly helpful.

By holding the chatbot’s hand at every step, researchers produced a paper that was fluent and insightful. Yet they still have concerns.

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