ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-job-cuts-finance-wall-street-investment-banking-analysts-hiring-2024-4
Future of AI
News on Artificial Intelligence in Education and Libraries
Saturday, April 13, 2024
AI is coming for Wall Street: Banks are reportedly weighing cutting analyst hiring by two-thirds
Incoming junior Wall Street analysts could be in danger of losing their jobs to AI, sources within banks told the New York Times.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-job-cuts-finance-wall-street-investment-banking-analysts-hiring-2024-4
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-job-cuts-finance-wall-street-investment-banking-analysts-hiring-2024-4
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Why Generative AI Will Help Us Build A More Resilient Workforce
I’ve been in the business of helping major, multinational companies build workforce resilience for more than a decade. Now, a once-in-a-generation change is upon us.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/janbruce/2024/04/10/why-generative-ai-will-help-us-build-a-more-resilient-workforce/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/janbruce/2024/04/10/why-generative-ai-will-help-us-build-a-more-resilient-workforce/
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Artificial General Intelligence Is Pure Hype
When OpenAI's board momentarily ousted Sam Altman from his post as CEO last November, the media obsession was... intense.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsiegel/2024/04/10/artificial-general-intelligence-is-pure-hype/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsiegel/2024/04/10/artificial-general-intelligence-is-pure-hype/
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AI race heats up as OpenAI, Google and Mistral release new models
OpenAI, Google, and the French artificial intelligence startup Mistral have all released new versions of their frontier AI models within 12 hours of each other, as the industry gears up for a burst of activity over the summer.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/10/ai-race-heats-up-as-openai-google-and-mistral-release-new-models
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/10/ai-race-heats-up-as-openai-google-and-mistral-release-new-models
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OpenAI and Meta are on the verge of releasing AI models capable of reasoning like humans, report says
OpenAI and Meta are reportedly preparing to release more advanced AI models that would be able to help problem-solve and take on more complex tasks.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-meta-agi-ai-models-reasoning-race-2024-4
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-meta-agi-ai-models-reasoning-race-2024-4
Amazon Grows To Over 750,000 Robots As World's Second-Largest Private Employer Replaces Over 100,000 Humans
Amazon.com Inc. is rapidly advancing its use of robotics, deploying over 750,000 robots to work alongside its employees. The world's second-largest private employer employs 1.5 million people. While that's a lot, it's a decrease of over 100,000 employees from the 1.6 million workers it had in 2021.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-grows-over-750-000-153000967.html
ORIGINAL LINK: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-grows-over-750-000-153000967.html
Google and MIT launch a free generative AI course for teachers
When considering generative AI in the classroom, many people think of its potential for students; however, teachers can benefit just as much from the technology, if not more.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-and-mit-launch-a-free-generative-ai-course-for-teachers/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-and-mit-launch-a-free-generative-ai-course-for-teachers/
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year
On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the imminent rise in AI superintelligence during a live interview streamed on the social media platform X.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/elon-musk-ai-will-be-smarter-than-any-human-around-the-end-of-next-year/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/elon-musk-ai-will-be-smarter-than-any-human-around-the-end-of-next-year/
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Monday, April 8, 2024
Podcast : Elizabeth Hutchinson
This podcast aims to raise the profile of school libraries by talking about topics that are current across education and teaching.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.elizabethahutchinson.com/podcast/episode/abd4348c/ai-with-and-through-the-school-library
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.elizabethahutchinson.com/podcast/episode/abd4348c/ai-with-and-through-the-school-library
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Sunday, April 7, 2024
Top AI researcher says AI will end humanity and we should stop developing it now — but don't worry, Elon Musk disagrees
Here’s something cheery to consider the next time you use an AI tool. Most people involved in artificial intelligence think it could end humanity. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the odds of it happening vary wildly depending on who you listen to.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.techradar.com/pro/top-ai-researcher-says-ai-will-end-humanity-and-we-should-stop-developing-it-now-but-dont-worry-elon-musk-disagrees
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.techradar.com/pro/top-ai-researcher-says-ai-will-end-humanity-and-we-should-stop-developing-it-now-but-dont-worry-elon-musk-disagrees
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Chatbot outperformed physicians in clinical reasoning in head-to-head study
ChatGPT-4, an artificial intelligence program designed to understand and generate human-like text, outperformed internal medicine residents and attending physicians at two academic medical centers at processing medical data and demonstrating clinical reasoning.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240401142448.htm
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240401142448.htm
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