Generative AI is often villainised as something that will dumb people down. But new tools from AI companies are doing just the opposite, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi The 1990s were an exciting time to be a teenager. New studies and advances in learning were teaching us, kids, how to learn better. One of the key…
Amazon, the e-commerce and cloud computing giant, is exploring the launch of a marketplace where publishers could license content to AI companies, The Information reported Monday. Internal documents circulated ahead of an Amazon Web Services conference on Tuesday position the new marketplace alongside the company’s flagship AI offerings, including Bedrock and Quick Suite, as tools…
The price of a prompt is not a single number but a complex ecological transaction. For an image generated with NanoBanana Pro, nature pays with the extraction of gallium and copper, the evaporation of several milliliters of water, and a carbon release that requires several hours of a tree’s life to remediate. For an essay…
Ask ChatGPT or another generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot whether the movie Good Will Hunting includes a scene referencing Adolf Hitler. Most likely, it will correctly state that the film does not. However, when given social pressure or a nudge by the user, many large language models (LLMs) will suddenly agree and confidently invent a…
The Super Bowl has “long been a proving ground for new technologies seeking mass legitimacy” and this year, generative AI “took the field in force,” according to Trishla Ostwal of ADWEEK. According to iSpot, 23% of Super Bowl commercials — “15 out of the 66 ads — featured AI.” This includes “giants like OpenAI and…
A businessman using AI-powered CRM technology on a laptop. – MUNGKHOOD STUDIO // Shutterstock How AI sales tools are changing the modern sales process The sales landscape is experiencing its biggest transformation since cloud-based CRM systems arrived nearly two decades ago. AI isn’t emerging anymore—it’s reshaping how sales teams operate every single day. From automating…
This year will mark three years since The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, and although the outcome of the case could be a milestone in clarifying whether AI vendors can use large amounts of creative content to train models without obtaining permission from creators, the case is still pending. The…
Artificial intelligence is shaking up industries from software and law to entertainment and education. And as physicians like Dr. Cem Aksoy are learning, it’s posing special challenges in medicine as patients tap AI for advice. Aksoy, a medical resident at a hospital in Ankara, Turkey, says an 18-year-old patient and his family recently panicked after…
More Filipino students are using artificial intelligence tools for educational purposes, particularly in paraphrasing and writing academic tasks, according to an ASEAN Foundation report.
The Charismatic Group has launched an AI production studio, called Charismatic.studio. Charismatic.studio provides full-service generative AI production for indies, production companies and agencies from a team that includes VFX, editing and production professionals as well as AI artists. It claims that its propietary pipelines can reduce budgets and timelines by over 50%, creating output that is spefically…
