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| Here's a look at today's AI briefing: - Amazon launches AI-powered chatbot for businesses.
- AI startup Dataminr lays off 20% of its staff.
- AWS introduces improved chip for AI training.
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| 1 | | Amazon debuted an AI assistant called Q for AWS customers. Q can help employees with daily work-related activities, including summarizing documents, managing support tickets, and answering company policy questions. More: - Customers can link Q to business software and apps like Salesforce and Gmail. The chatbot indexes all data to "learn" about a business to answer relevant questions.
- Q was trained to understand AWS and its offerings; it can also perform specific tasks via plugins, such as creating service tickets or alerting Slack teams.
- Unlike ChatGPT and Bard, Q is not built on a specific AI model but leverages an Amazon platform called Bedrock, connecting different AI systems.
- In terms of security and privacy, Q offers customizable permissions and lets users only access authorized information.
- It allows admins to restrict sensitive topics, filtering out inappropriate content.
Zoom out: - Q is now available in preview starting at $20 per user per month. An enhanced version for developers is priced at $25 per person a month.
- Amazon's chatbot competes with corporate chatbots like Microsoft Copilot, Google's Duet AI, and ChatGPT Enterprise.
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| 2 | | Dataminr, an AI startup offering predictive insights about global events, is laying off around 150 employees, or about 20% of its staff. TechCrunch cited a memo from founder and CEO Ted Bailey, who attributed the cuts to economic conditions, operational improvements, and rapid advancements of Dataminr's AI platform. More: - In the memo, Bailey said the restructuring would solidify Dataminr's financial strength going forward.
- The company plans to advance its AI offerings, including a new platform early next year that combines predictive and generative AI.
- Even with those investments, Dataminr expects to have years of cash runway and a "near-term path to profitability" due to the restructuring, Bailey wrote.
Zoom out: - New York-based Dataminr developed a "real-time AI platform" to detect major events, risks, and more based on social media, blogs, and other data.
- In 2021, the startup raised $475M at a $4.1B valuation. It's raised over $1B in total.
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| 3 | | The top 50 AI tools drew 24 billion visits between September 2022 and August 2023, with a monthly growth rate averaging 236.3 million visits, according to a Writerbuddy study. The AI provider found that ChatGPT dominated the lineup with 14 billion visits, making up 60% of the total traffic analyzed. 
What happened: Using the SEO tool SEMrush, Writerbuddy examined more than 3,000 AI tools by scraping data from directories. The company identified the top 50 most visited tools, accounting for over 80% of the AI industry's traffic during the period from September 2022 to August 2023. What the numbers show: AI chatbot tools were the most popular, with 19.1 billion visits. ChatGPT alone accounted for 14 billion of the 24 billion total visits. ChatGPT, Character AI, and Google Bard saw traffic increases of 1.8 billion, 463.4 million, and 68 million visits, respectively. Over 63% of users accessed AI tools on mobile devices. What else: The data revealed a big difference in gender usage of AI tools: 69.5% of generative AI users were men versus 30.5% for women. One possible explanation is the tech industry has more men, who are more likely to be early adopters. | | | |
| 4 | | Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced two next-gen chips, Graviton4 and Trainium2, for cloud workloads and AI training, respectively. Amazon also revealed an extended partnership with Nvidia, with plans to incorporate Nvidia's most advanced H200 GPUs into its cloud computing service. More: - The general-purpose Graviton4 processor offers up to 30% more computing power, 50% more cores, and 75% greater memory bandwidth than Graviton3.
- Trainium2 is designed for faster training of models with up to trillions of parameters, delivering up to 4x faster training performance and 3x more memory capacity than the first-gen chip.
- The latter can be deployed in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) UltraClusters with up to 100,000 chips, speeding up the training of high-performance foundation models and large language models.
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| 5 | | Sports Illustrated deleted articles from its website after a report revealed they had been published under fictitious author names joined by AI-generated headshots. The Arena Group, the magazine's publisher, has since terminated its partnership with AdVon Commerce, the third-party company that supplied the content. More: - Futurism initially reported that Sports Illustrated had posted articles by unidentifiable authors.
- Some of the articles featured AI-generated profile photos found for sale on AI headshot platforms.
- The articles also had some hallmarks of AI-generated content, such as clunky writing and awkward phrases.
- After Futurism contacted The Arena Group, some of the writers disappeared from the Sports Illustrated website, and their articles appeared under the names of other authors who also did not exist online.
Zoom out: - In its response, The Arena Group said it ended the partnership with AdVon Commerce, which still "assured us that all of the articles in question were written and edited by humans."
- Arena said some stories were written by individuals who opted for pseudonyms to safeguard their privacy.
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| 7 | | Quick Hits: - Competitors are killing your efficiency. Read how Greenhouse gained $85mil in revenue from reps who used Klue over non-Klue users.*
- Nearly 75% of U.K. online users aged 16-24 have used generative AI tools such as OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Bard, according to Ofcom's annual Online Nations report.
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned that AI companies' safety measures are inadequate to mitigate the risks to humanity from AI development, drawing parallels to the post-WWII introduction of nuclear weapons.
- New ECB research suggests that despite concerns of job displacement due to AI, the technology has actually created jobs, especially for younger, high-skilled workers, though it may have a slight negative impact on wages for highly exposed occupations.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is a contributing editor and writer of Inside's AI and Tech newsletters. With a career in journalism since 2007, she has written for publications including USA Today and the Arizona Business Gazette. As a public policy and investigative reporter at The Arizona Republic, she earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination and a First Amendment Award for co-reporting on pension cost increases. She authored a book on the solar photovoltaic industry in 2016. Reach her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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