Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
AI Takes Center Stage in Combating Online Abuse From Wimbledon to Main Street
July 10, 2024

The pristine lawns of Wimbledon are now home to more than just world-class tennis. This year, the All England Lawn Tennis Club deployed a new ally in its fight against online harassment: artificial intelligence. The move mirrors a broader trend across industries as organizations grapple...

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Google DeepMind’s New AI Training Method JEST Targets eCommerce
July 10, 2024

Google DeepMind introduced a new artificial intelligence training method designed to reduce computing costs and energy consumption, potentially impacting the economics of AI development and its applications in online commerce and global customer support. The new technique, called JEST (joint example selection), reportedly delivers a...

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AI Explained: Is Anthropomorphism Making AI Too Human?
July 08, 2024

As eCommerce giants and tech startups strive to make online interactions more engaging, they’re turning to anthropomorphism — attributing human characteristics to nonhuman entities. It isn’t a new concept. For decades, companies have used anthropomorphic mascots and branding to create emotional connections with consumers. The...

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AI’s Tour de France Showing Generates Controversy
July 04, 2024

The promise of artificial intelligence to generate images from simple text prompts has captured imaginations, with tools like DALL-E and Midjourney producing visuals. Yet, as users push the boundaries of these tools, the limitations of AI’s understanding become apparent. In one example, a viral attempt...

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How the UN AI Resolution Could Reshape Commerce
July 03, 2024

The United Nations General Assembly greenlit Monday (July 1) a China-sponsored, United States-backed resolution on artificial intelligence, signaling a potential sea change in global AI regulation and commerce. This cooperation between the two tech titans comes just months after a U.S.-led AI safety measure, highlighting...

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AI Reshapes Banking: Promises and Pitfalls as Industry Grapples With Transformation
July 03, 2024

As artificial intelligence revolutionizes the banking sector, industry leaders from UBS and McKinsey highlighted the potential and challenges facing financial institutions. Concerns range from return on tech investments to the future role of human bankers in an AI-driven landscape. McKinsey: AI Promises Banking Revolution, but...

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UN: China Leads World’s GenAI Patent Race
July 03, 2024

New United Nations data showed China with a comfortable lead in the race to develop artificial intelligence products. Between 2014 and last year, more than 38,000 generative AI inventions came out of China, six times the amount of those coming from the second-place United States,...

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BIS: Central Banks See Opportunities and Challenges From AI
July 02, 2024

Artificial intelligence is poised to transform the financial sector and broader economy, creating opportunities and risks that central banks must navigate carefully, according to a top official at the Bank for International Settlements. In a Sunday (June 30) speech at the BIS annual meeting, Hyun...

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ChatGPT Finds Its Soul Mate: Meet CriticGPT
June 28, 2024

In Silicon Valley, a new kind of proofreader is hard at work. It doesn’t wield a red pen or squint at comma splices. Instead, this digital detective, born from the same artificial intelligence it’s tasked to police, scans lines of code with inhuman speed, hunting...