NEW YORK — No, Katy Perry and Rihanna didn’t attend the Met Gala this year. But that didn’t stop AI-generated images from tricking some fans into thinking the stars made appearances on the steps of fashion’s biggest night. Deepfake images depicting a handful of big names at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual fundraiser quickly … Read more
Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Gen Z are digital natives and have quickly adopted AI, using it for everything from assignment research to planning holidays. But, it seems, they’ve been making mistakes along the way. Shoshana Davis, a Gen Z career expert and founder of the career consultancy Fairy Job Mother, told … Read more
Responding to angry customers is one of the hardest parts of her job, Natasha said. Finding the right words, conveying the appropriate level of contrition — especially when the hotel isn’t at fault (read: rain complaints) — is a tedious and time-consuming process, said the director of a five-star resort, who asked that CNBC not … Read more
Eli Lilly chief information and digital officer Diogo Rau was recently involved in some experiments in the office, but not the typical drug research work that you might expect to be among the lab tinkering inside a major pharmaceutical company. Lilly has been using generative AI to search through millions of molecules. With AI able … Read more
Warren Buffett isn’t jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon just yet, warning about the technology’s potential for harm. “When you think about the potential for scamming people … if I was interested in investing in scamming, it’s gonna be the growth industry of all time and it’s enabled, in a way” by AI, Buffett said … Read more
A picture shows logos of the big technology companies named GAFAM, for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, in Mulhouse, France, on June 2, 2023. Sebastien Bozon | AFP | Getty Images Late last year, an artificial intelligence engineer at Amazon was wrapping up the work week and getting ready to spend time with some … Read more
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app. The generative artificial intelligence startup is the company behind Claude, one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google‘s Gemini, has exploded in popularity in the past year. Anthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI research executives, … Read more
Eight newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Tuesday, accusing the tech firms of illegally using copyrighted articles to train their artificial intelligence (AI) models. The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Sun-Sentinel, Mercury News, Denver Post, Orange County Register and St. Paul Pioneer Press argue the companies have used … Read more
ARK Invest’s chief futurist lists five groups that should give tech investors an edge. According to Brett Winton, robotics, artificial intelligence, multi-omics sequencing, public blockchain and energy storage are key areas because they’re all entering the marketplace at the same time. “We believe that this is a unique time in technological economic history,” he told … Read more
Sandeep Kalra, CEO, Persistent Systems, says “as we go ahead, as the market conditions stabilise, that will give us the opportunity to have the leverage of all the investments we have done whether they are in the next generation technologies like generative AI or increased sales and marketing investments, etc, and that should help us … Read more
