google wants to make AI "helpful for everyone", says sundar pichai. i can't tell if he's excited or annoyed (or both) RE the fact that google has been using AI for years and years in various ways but suddenly people are talking about it (via generative AI) as if it's brand new.
@rachelmetz
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Bloomberg Hiring AI Ethics and Policy Reporter in New York
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Do you want to work with me? (Yeah, of course you do!) This is an amazing opportunity at a wild time in AI; join us! AI Ethics and Policy Reporter | New York, NY | Bloomberg Careers https://
careers.bloomberg.com/job/detail/116
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Parent Using AI Language Model Responses to Kids’ Complaints
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AI Moving from Chat to Action: Next Hype Cycle Stage
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It’s the weekend! Read this story by me and
@SarithaRai
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Open Source AI Progress Reaching Critical Inflection Point
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it feels like an inflection point for open source — do you get that sense? (i'm very much an outsider but it appears to me, at least, that the last year or so we've seen so much progress in AI coming from the open-source community.)
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Data Science Degrees Surge in Popularity at US Business Schools
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everything 2012 is 2012 again.
Data science degrees have grown to be one of the most popular programs at US business schools https://
bloomberg.com/news/articles/
2023-05-05/data-science-degrees-become-hot-programs-at-business-schools?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter
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AI Interpretability: Systems Are Increasingly Understandable, Not Black Boxes
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people who say "nobody knows" how ai does what it does are, at this point, obfuscating (and/or *they* don't know). systems are still commonly called "black boxes" etc but it's increasingly clear how they work (which can vary based on things like the architecture of the model).
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Key contributions to AI advances research and technology thinking
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Exactly. And it has made some key contributions to AI advances over the years — both with actual research and simply how we use/think about the technology.
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AI Agents Wild West: Testing Auto-GPT’s Investment Planning Abilities
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I worked w @SarithaRai on this latest piece for @BW about the Wild West of AI agents like Auto-GPT. (spoiler: I couldn’t get an AI agent to come up w a good plan to make a cool $1M over 10 yrs w an initial $100 investment but I’m still very curious to see where this all goes.)
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Rise of Chatbots: New AI Startup Launches Friendly Chatbot
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if it feels like there are more chatbots lately, it's because there *are* more chatbots lately. such as this one, which wants to be your buddy. https://
bloomberg.com/news/articles/
2023-05-02/ai-startup-co-founded-by-reid-hoffman-mustafa-suleyman-debuts-friendly-chatbot?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter
… via @technology