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27 May

How to manage a team of AI agents

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Hey all, its been a awhile. I took time off for honeymoon and the resulting backlog of work. To those who joined the enterprise-ready AI event, thank you for making it awesome! The interest was staggering. Ashish and I will share the key takeaways soon. If you’d like to be the first to know of future events, consider subscribing! The user experience of ChatGPT & similar products is that it requires a human to pilot. Its works as a collaborator that needs live instructions. A different way to experience AI is that of fully autonomous AI agents, large language model…

27 May

Unleashing the power of generative AI: Verisk’s journey to an Instant Insight Engine for enhanced customer support | Amazon Web Services

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This post is co-written with Tom Famularo, Abhay Shah and Nicolette Kontor from Verisk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading data analytics and technology partner for the global insurance industry. Through advanced analytics, software, research, and industry expertise across over 20 countries, Verisk helps build resilience for individuals, communities, and businesses. The company is committed to ethical and responsible AI development, with human oversight and transparency. Verisk is using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance operational efficiencies and profitability for insurance clients while adhering to its ethical AI principles. Verisk’s FAST platform is a leader in the life insurance and…

27 May

Group of US newspapers sues Open AI and Microsoft over copyright infringement – SiliconANGLE

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A coalition of eight U.S. newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft Corp, alleging that they have engaged in “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their generative AI models. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, comes from the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, the Orlando Sentinel, the Sun Sentinel in Florida, The Mercury News in San Jose, California, The Orange County Register in California and the Pioneer Press of Minnesota. All the publishers are owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital. The…

27 May

NASA hopes private space companies can rescue its $11 billion Mars rock mission

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A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this decade to 2040.The mission would be the first to try to return rock samples from Mars to Earth so scientists can analyze them for signs of past life.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during a press conference on April 15, 2024, that the mission as currently conceived is too expensive and too slow. NASA gave private companies a month to submit proposals for bringing the samples…

27 May

Inworld AI launches Inworld Voice to generate game character voices

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GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here. Inworld AI, an AI and games startup that raised $50 million on a $500 million valuation last year, has launched Inworld Voice, a new AI voice generator. Inworld Voice delivers dynamic voice experiences for game makers looking for expressive, cost-efficient and high quality voices. (I’ve asked the company how they address actors’ concerns about the potential theft of their voices by…

27 May

Automated data transformation startup Coalesce closes on $50M funding round – SiliconANGLE

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Data transformation startup Coalesce Automation Inc. has revealed how it is planning to scale its business, unveiling an ambitious roadmap to coincide with its biggest funding round yet. The company said today it has raised $50 million via a Series B funding round, bringing its total amount raised to more than $81 million. The round was led by Industry Ventures and existing backer Emergence Capital, and saw the participation of 11.2 Capital, DNX Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, Hyperlink Ventures, Next Legacy Partners, Snowflake Ventures and Telestra Ventures. Coalesce has been around for just over two years, having launched in January 2022…

27 May

Legal Experts Say OpenAI Is in Big Trouble If Scarlett Johansson Decides to Sue

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"You can't imitate someone else's distinctive voice to sell stuff."Open SeasonOpenAI has landed itself in hot water for pushing out an update to ChatGPT that features a virtual assistant with an uncanny vocal resemblance to Scarlett Johansson — and it could be staring down the barrel of a compelling lawsuit.Almost instantly, comparisons to the movie "Her" abounded, in which the actress plays a chatbot named Samantha that falls in love with a lonely man. Had OpenAI just aped her role — and her voice? Officially, it said no. Then, Johansson dropped a bombshell: leadership at the AI startup had in…

27 May

China’s gold rush shows the Chinese still have money to spend — they’re just not into Starbucks or Gucci

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The consumption trend reflects risk hedging and a lack of confidence in the flagging economy that has been struggling to regain momentum since lifting on-off pandemic lockdowns.It also reflects that there's money in the system — but Chinese consumers are just really not that keen on dropping their hard-earned cash at Starbucks or Gucci.China's economy is facing multiple risks and uncertainties, including an epic real-estate crisis, stock market volatility, geopolitical headwinds, and demographic challenges."With China's population facing rapidly aging demographics, Chinese households are trying to boost their retirement savings at a time when real estate and equity markets have been…

27 May

Data Machina #239

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The Power of Truly Open Source AI. The spin doctors of some big closed-AI companies have been busy inflating the “AGI is here soon, AGI will be an existential risk” bubble. But that thankfully that is deflating quickly, and backfiring somehow. In the meantime, the open source AI community is stubbornly embarked upon releasing truly open source, efficient, smallish, powerful AI models that match or beat the closed AI models from big companies. The reaction from these big closed AI companies: “Oh! open source AI models are dangerous, we need to regulate open source AI. And btw: We’re dropping the…

27 May

Air Force Secretary: Military needs AI to augment human capabilities

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military needs to rapidly adopt artificial intelligence technology to aid in tracking targets, data analysis and managing complex missions, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Dec. 2 at the Reagan National Defense Forum. Speaking on a panel at the annual forum in Simi Valley, California, Kendall touted AI as an essential technology needed to strengthen U.S. national defense capabilities. Although AI has become an integral part of our today’s business across many industries, its use in military systems has raised concerns about unintended outcomes and escalation of an AI arms race. Kendall argued that when associated…