Artificial intelligence
ChatGPT maker OpenAI's losses swell to $540 mn, likely to keep rising
According to The Information, OpenAI's losses doubled as it developed ChatGPT and hired key employees from Google. The previously unreported figure reflects the steep costs of training its machine-learning models during the period before it started selling access to the chatbot," the report noted. OpenAI in February this.
Cloud, Big Data & AI sectors continue hiring trend in Q1 2023: Report
The first quarter (Q1) of 2023 saw many companies including major players like Salesforce, Accenture, and JP Morgan Chase & Co announcing layoffs amidst a continuous decline in job postings. Despite this, sectors such as retail, healthcare, and technology continued to hire actively. Key themes driving hiring trends being Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Big Data, reveals the report by GlobalData, a data and analytics company.
81% firms facing shortage in 'power' tech skills globally in AI era
The shortage of future tech skills is expected to arise from the high demand for application developers and business app users, as indicated by 76 per cent and 62 per cent of the surveyed organizations, respectively, according to the report by EY and iMocha, a skills intelligence and skills assessment platform.
LinkedIn's new AI feature to write messages to hiring team
"Using generative AI with information from your profile, the hiring manager's profile, the job description, and the company of interest, we create a highly personalised draft message to get a conversation started," Ora Levit, Senior Director, Head of Core Growth + Premium at LinkedIn, wrote in a post.
Mozilla acquires fake review detection startup 'Fakespot'
With Fakespot, the company said that Firefox users will have access to a trustworthy shopping tool that will help improve the e-commerce experience. Mozilla also mentioned that it will introduce Fakespot functionality to Firefox over time.
New ChatGPT, Bard like AI tool to turn peoples' thoughts into text
The system, developed by a team at the University of Texas at Austin relies in part on a transformer model, similar to the ones that power Open AI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard. It might help people who are mentally conscious yet unable to physically speak, such as those debilitated by strokes, to communicate intelligibly again, according to the team who published the study in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
'Godfather of AI' quits Google to warn about technology's dangers
Hinton's pioneering work on neural networks shaped artificial intelligence systems, powering many of today's products. He worked part-time at Google for a decade on the tech giant's AI development efforts, but he has since come to have concerns about the technology and his role in advancing it, CNN reported.
Demand for AI jobs up 11% in India amid talent scarcity
The Indian job market will witness a 22 per cent churn over the next five years with top emerging roles coming from AI, machine learning, and data segments, according to the report by foundit (previously Monster India & APAC). When it comes to AI-driven jobs, the IT sector is leading with 29 per cent, , followed by advertising, market research.
Meta seeks OpenAI's help to create AI coding assistant for its engineers
According to 'Command Line' by The Verge's Alex Heath, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth recently told employees about the plan, saying the cost for building an AI coding engineer is "crazy" at about seven cents per query. That's the only place in the company we're really considering working with Microsoft nd OpenAI, just because there's a natural.
Opera launches new browser 'Opera One'
Based on Modular Design, the company explained that Opera One delivers a liquid navigation experience and transforms the way users interact with their browsers. Furthermore, the web browser firm integrated a 'multithreaded compositor' that brings UI (user interface) to life like never before, powering innovative new features like Tab Islands.
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