AI

OpenAI unveils’ Five-Tier’ system to gauge AI progress towards human surpassing abilities: How it works

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OpenAI unveils' Five-Tier' system to gauge AI progress towards human surpassing abilities: How it works

OpenAI has introduced a five-tier system to measure its progress toward developing artificial intelligence (AI) capable of surpassing human performance, reported Bloomberg. This move aims to provide clearer insight into the company’s approach to AI safety and its vision for the future. The classification system was unveiled to employees during an all-hands meeting, an OpenAI … Read more

What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?

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What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?

In the world’s tech capital it is taken as read that AI will transform the global economy. But for AI to fulfil its potential, firms everywhere need to buy big tech’s AI, shape it to their needs and become more productive as a result. Investors have added $2trn to the market value of the five … Read more

Does Perplexity’s “answer engine” threaten Google?

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Does Perplexity’s “answer engine” threaten Google?

When Aravind Srinivas was accepted at the University of California, Berkeley, to do a PhD, his mother was disappointed. Like many Indian parents, she wanted him to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But things worked out after all; on the west coast he interned at OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind, both of which became … Read more

Mint Primer: AI can make you immortal. What’s the problem?

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Mint Primer: AI can make you immortal. What’s the problem?

AI now allows us to build and communicate with digital avatars of the dead. These so-called ‘deadbots’, ‘ghostbots’, ‘postmortem avatars’ or ‘griefbots’ may provide comfort to some (including those doing legacy planning), but they raise difficult ethical questions. Who is building these deadbots? In March, SenseTime Group founder Tang Xiao’ou used AI to deliver a … Read more

Leveraging AI for success | Mint

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Leveraging AI for success | Mint

Professionals from all walks of life are feeling the change, and the pace of user-centric AI-based tools like ChatGPT or Co-pilot has been stupendous. The second episode of Mint’s all-new series on AI, All about AI, presented in association with Salesforce, saw a cross-section of experts deliberate how technologies like AI and ML are disrupting … Read more

Mint Primer | AI phones on the horizon: promises and pitfalls

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Mint Primer | AI phones on the horizon: promises and pitfalls

Apple and Google have both entered the generative AI fray, showcasing features that will bring AI features to all our smartphones. While this means that you can probably do much more with your upcoming phones, it also brings some risks to the table. What can your phones do with AI? On 10 June, Apple unveiled … Read more

AI sparks classic Android, iOS tug of war for developers

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AI sparks classic Android, iOS tug of war for developers

The story was similar at Google, too, which on 14 May announced features and initiatives to lure developers into building apps and services on its Gemini large language model (LLM)-powered suite of features for Android, Chrome, YouTube and more—which have estimated active user bases of 3.9 billion, 3.2 billion and 2.5 billion, respectively. With Apple … Read more

Unreal faces and AI brains: An uncanny valley?

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Unreal faces and AI brains: An uncanny valley?

An Indian avatar is in the world’s first AI beauty pageant shortlist, where two of the four judges are also AI-powered. Mint explores the pros and cons of AI’s growing influence, from AI CEOs and assistants to realistic AI deepfakes and voice clones. Who is the Miss AI candidate from India? Zara Shatavari, who has … Read more

ChatGPT is a marvel of multilingualism

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ChatGPT is a marvel of multilingualism

THE HYPE that followed ChatGPT’s public launch last year was, even by the standards of tech innovations, extreme. OpenAI’s natural-language system creates recipes, writes computer code and parodies literary styles. Its latest iteration can even describe photographs. It has been hailed as a technological breakthrough on a par with the printing press. But it has … Read more

Bill Gates speaks on transformational impact of AI: ‘Job of software engineers will…..’

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Bill Gates speaks on transformational impact of AI: 'Job of software engineers will…..'

Microsoft founder Bill Gates doesn’t think that the massive acceleration in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) users will impact the jobs of software engineers. During an interaction with Zerodha founder Nikhil Kamath on his podcast, Bill Gates outlined the transformational role of AI and how it can benefit humanity.  “The amazing thing about this … Read more