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Building global AI with local impact in an AI economy

January 29, 2022
Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. This article was contributed by Wilson Pang, CTO at Appen. Flexible remote work creates a new freelance category in the AI economy The new foundation of the artificial intelligence (AI) economy is flexible, remote work. Thanks to advances in technology that enable remote…
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Could AI be used to cheat on programming tests?

January 28, 2022
Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. Plagiarism isn’t limited to essays. Programming plagiarism — where a developer copies code deliberately without attribution — is an increasing…
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Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon to be inducted into AIAS Hall of Fame

January 28, 2022
Ed Boon, the co-creator Mortal Kombat, will be inducted into video game’s hall of fame. The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), the industry group that puts on the annual DICE Summit, said Boon will be inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame at the 25th annual DICE Awards ceremony during the summit on February 22 to February 24 in Las Vegas. Boon is the chief creative officer at…
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The danger of AI micro-targeting in the metaverse

January 28, 2022
Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. If you ask most people to name the key technologies of the metaverse, they’ll usually focus on the eyewear and graphics engines. If they’re…
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OpenAI rolls out new text-generating models that it claims are less toxic

January 27, 2022
Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT-3, which can “write” sentences that read nearly like they were written by a human, can be prompted to perform a range of writing tasks given only a few examples of the tasks. For example, LLMs have been used to create…
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SiteAware, which leverages AI and drones to track construction site progress, nabs additional funding

January 26, 2022
This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The metaverse – How close are we? Construction, particularly commercial construction, is expensive and time-consuming. In the U.S., the average commercial construction cost is around $490 per square foot, and most commercial buildings larger than 10,000 square feet take at least four months to build. As a 2020 survey…
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