British mobile phone company Virgin Media O2 has introduced a new AI called “Granny/Daisy”, who is designed to waste scammers’ time by having long, lifelike conversations with them. The goal is to keep scammers busy and away from real people. Daisy, who is like a “Granny” character, sounds so much like a real person that … Read more
A new study shows that Google‘s AI Overviews now appear in almost half of all search results, taking up a large part of both mobile and desktop screens. The research, done by Botify and DemandSphere, looked at over 120,000 keywords from 22 websites between August and September. The findings reveal that these AI Overviews are … Read more
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently said that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI)is slowing down at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit. While AI, especially generative models like ChatGPT, caught everyone’s attention when it first appeared two years ago, the pace of development is now expected to be slower, at least for the next … Read more
Democrats on a Senate subcommittee are accusing UnitedHealthcare of using artificial intelligence (AI) to deny claims from Medicare Advantage patients. In a report released in October, the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) said that UnitedHealthcare’s rate of denying claims for post-acute care jumped from 10.9% in 2020 to 22.7% in 2022. Denials for … Read more
Elon Musk has announced that his AI company, xAI, will create a new AI-powered gaming studio to compete with big gaming corporations. Musk plans to challenge what he sees as the growing trend of video games being influenced by political and ideological messages. He said his new gaming studio will focus on making games better, … Read more
A new app”Death Clock,” powered by AI, is making waves by predicting when you might die. According to Bloomberg, the app has been downloaded 125,000 times since it launched in July. It uses AI trained on a huge dataset from over 1,200 life expectancy studies with 53 million participants. The app takes into account factors … Read more
The internet as we know it is quietly/rapidly changing—and not necessarily for the better. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quietly taking over much of the digital world, and soon, we may find ourselves living in a reality where almost everything we see online is artificially generated. From social media feeds to image searches, AI is slowly … Read more
Big tech companies are planning to spend a whopping $200 billion this year on artificial intelligence (AI) (Reported by Bloomberg Law). They want to show investors that this money will help them make more profit in the future than their current businesses, which mainly sell digital ads, products, and software. Just three months ago, Wall … Read more
More than 10,500 creative professionals, including Thom Yorke from Radiohead, actress Julianne Moore, and Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, have signed an open letter against the “unlicensed use of creative works” for developing AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The letter, which is just 29 words long, states that using creative work without permission is a … Read more
A new AI model developed by researchers at Harvard Medical School is making waves in cancer diagnosis and treatment. This AI model can perform a variety of tasks for 19 different types of cancer. It goes beyond many current AI systems that are usually limited to one specific job, like just detecting cancer or predicting … Read more