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Enterprise workers gain 40 percent performance boost from GPT-4, Harvard study finds

September 26, 2023
A Harvard-led study has found that using generative AI helped hundreds of consultants working for the respected Boston Consulting Group (BSG) complete a range of tasks more often, more quickly, and at a higher quality than those who did not use AI. Moreover, it showed that the lowest performers among the group had the biggest gains when using generative AI. The study, conducted by data scientists…
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Big Tech is driving the new UX design of AI | The AI Beat

September 26, 2023
It was an astounding, whiplash-inducing week of AI product news from Big Tech.  A new generative AI version of Alexa with a new, custom-built large language model (LLM) marking a “massive transformation of the assistant we love.” Microsoft’s AI companion Copilot baked right into the Windows operating system (OS), with a view across all applications. Google’s Bard tapping directly into…
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The AI ‘Age of Uncertainty’

September 25, 2023
Historically, periods of rapid advancement and change have ushered in times of great uncertainty. Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote about such a time in his 1977 book The Age of Uncertainty, in which he discussed the successes of market economics but also…
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VentureBeat’s Special Issues: Exclusive deep dives into Gen AI and other transformative tech

September 23, 2023
At the heart of VentureBeat’s editorial mission is a commitment to shed light on the most transformative technologies shaping our world for technical leaders.  One key to achieving this lies in our increasingly sought-after format, the “Special Issue.” This is where we delve deeper into pivotal topics within the tech industry, with an eye to equip leaders with the knowledge necessary to…
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Anthropic’s new policy takes aim at ‘catastrophic’ AI risks

September 22, 2023
Anthropic, the AI safety and research company behind the popular Claude chatbot, has released a new policy detailing its commitment to responsibly scaling AI systems. The policy, referred to as the Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), is designed specifically to mitigate “catastrophic risks,” or situations where an AI model could directly cause large-scale devastation. The RSP is unprecedented…
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