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| Welcome to today's AI newsletter! Here are the top stories: - Big Tech's AI products display flaws amid rushed rollout.
- Indeed CEO warns AI could make college-acquired skills obsolete.
- Executives are OK with employees using AI to work for other companies.
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| 1 | AI-powered products announced this week by Google, Amazon, and OpenAI have displayed numerous flaws and glitches, suggesting a rushed development and rollout, according to The Washington Post. Despite the risks, companies are rapidly deploying AI amid intense competition in the generative AI sector, the publication reports. More: - According to the Post, Google's Bard chatbot, which can summarize Gmail and Google Docs files, has made up fake emails that were never sent, per user reports.
- After OpenAI introduced the Dall-E 3 image generator this week, social media users noticed missing details in images during official demos.
- Amazon also unveiled a conversational mode for Alexa but encountered problems during demos, including suggesting a museum in the wrong location to The Washington Post.
- The companies have stressed that their AI systems remain a "work in progress" and said they have included safeguards, like those that prevent the generation of offensive or biased statements.
Q: Given the intense competition, do you think it's right for companies to prioritize speed to get their generative AI products to consumers? Share your thoughts and join the discussion here. |     | |
| 2 | Indeed CEO Chris Hyams warns that college students could acquire skills that are already made obsolete by AI by the time they graduate. In a column for Fortune, Hyams wrote that recent tech innovations have disrupted areas like travel, retail, and music within only a decade. More: - This is faster than the Industrial Revolution's impact, which spanned and accelerated over generations, he wrote.
- With generative AI progressing rapidly, Hyams predicts a shorter timeline for AI to reach the same abilities as educated workers.
- Meanwhile, recent Indeed research found that nearly 1 in 5 jobs are "highly exposed" to generative AI exposure.
- Indeed found that software development jobs are highly susceptible to generative AI. Jobs involving driving skills, sanitation, and beauty are the least AI-vulnerable.
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| 3 | | More than 80% of executives said they're willing to allow their employees to use AI technology to work multiple jobs, provided it helps them complete their tasks more efficiently. The edX survey polled 1,600 full-time U.S. employees, including 800 C-suite executives. According to the research, the C-Suite is generally indifferent to employees using AI to work for other companies. 
What the numbers say: In addition to multiple jobs, 83% of surveyed C-Suite executives believe that employees with AI skills should receive higher compensation than those without such skills. 74% expressed that employees proficient in AI should be given more frequent promotions, and 60% believe that entry-level knowledge workers will need to master AI, particularly prompt engineering. 87% say they're struggling to find talent with AI skills. The other side: Of the employees surveyed, 26% say they use AI for personal tasks in their free time, while 24% are using their company's learning and development programs to acquire AI skills. 21% are openly using AI at work to boost their performance, and the same percentage is learning AI skills on their own because their company doesn't offer the correct training. The bigger picture: According to edX, there's a critical need for the C-Suite to integrate AI across all organizational levels, including their own roles. Employees and executives both acknowledge the career-enhancing potential of AI and are eager to acquire the skills quickly. For executives, they need to equip employees with the right skillsets or risk losing their value to the business. Launching outcome-focused learning and development programs should be a key part of their long-term strategy to prepare the workforce for AI, the report concludes. | | | |
| 4 | | The European Union hasn't confirmed its attendance at the U.K.'s upcoming AI Safety Summit, with a spokesperson telling Reuters that it's "reflecting on potential EU participation." The global summit on Nov. 1-2 invites multiple countries, including China, along with academics and tech firms, to discuss AI's risks and potential solutions. More: - Vera Jourova, the European Commission's vice president, received an invitation but hasn't confirmed.
- The EU and the U.K. have differing AI regulatory approaches.
- While the EU has already passed the world's first AI Act, British officials prefer a less stringent approach, as reported by the Financial Times.
China participation: - Meanwhile, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly just confirmed that the U.K. extended an invite to China.
- The invite, which has triggered a backlash from some G7 allies, particularly Japan, has also not been confirmed.
- In explaining the move, Cleverly said: "We cannot keep the U.K. public safe from the risks of AI if we exclude one of the leading nations in AI tech."
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| 5 | | Microsoft is adding new AI improvements to its Bing search engine, including OpenAI's DALL-E 3 model. While Microsoft added DALL-E to Bing Chat this year, it didn't specify the version. The company has now confirmed the upgrade to DALL-E 3 for better image rendering. More: - Microsoft previously announced that Windows and its other products will soon feature new AI enhancements.
- Its "Copilot" AI assistant is coming to Windows 11 on Sept. 26 and expanding to Bing, Edge, and Microsoft 365 this fall.
- In Bing, Microsoft says Bing Chat will be able to "remember" prior chats and take them into account when answering new queries.
- The company expects the addition of DALL-E 3 in Bing to improve image details like shadows, fingers, and eyes.
- The upgraded generator will now add digital watermarks, called Content Credentials, to label its images as AI-generated.
- It's also adding multimodal Visual Search and Image Creator to Bing Chat Enterprise for workplaces.
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| 6 | | Weekly roundup — Other AI stories you might have missed this week: - Microsoft introduced its AI assistant, Copilot, for Windows and Microsoft 365, formerly Office. The company plans a Copilot for Windows 11 release on Sept. 26 and availability for Microsoft 365 enterprise customers starting Nov. 1.
- Google announced it's integrating its Bard chatbot with Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and more. Google's new "Bard Extensions," similar to ChatGPT's plug-ins, allow the chatbot to pull information from Google's apps and answer questions.
- Amazon said it's enhancing Alexa with generative AI to make the voice assistant more conversational and responsive. The improved Alexa, using Amazon's in-house large language model, will launch this fall for all current Echo and Fire TV users in the U.S.
- Seventeen prominent authors, including Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, and George R.R. Martin, are suing OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement. The authors claim that OpenAI used their copyrighted works without permission to train its large language models.
- Google DeepMind researchers developed AlphaMissense, an AI model capable of predicting which DNA variations in human genomes are likely to cause disease. The predictions can help identify genetic causes of different syndromes, speeding up diagnosis and treatments.
- Intel announced that its upcoming chip, "Meteor Lake," will be able to run certain generative AI services directly on laptops, eliminating the need for connecting to third-party cloud services. Intel will release the long-awaited CPU on Dec. 14.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is the writer of Inside's AI and Tech newsletters, with a career spanning journalism and editing since 2007. She has written for publications including The Arizona Republic, USA Today, and others, and authored a book on the solar industry in 2016. Reach out to her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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