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Asana adds new AI smarts to simplify project management

October 4, 2023
Today, enterprise work management platform Asana strengthened its offering with a slew of AI smarts aimed at helping organizations improve how they work and deliver business outcomes. Leveraging the company’s proprietary Work Graph, which captures the relationship between the work a team does, the information about that work and the people doing the work, the features allow executives to tap AI…
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This week in data: How to create or destroy value with generative AI

October 3, 2023
When it comes generative AI, data really is your moat. This week, we cover the latest in gen AI research from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) (you may have read VentureBeat’s Matt Marshall’s latest perspective on the findings). I also bring an expert guest to help use determine why chief data officers are set up to fail. Let’s dive right in. The CarCast also includes extras such…
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The implications of the generative AI gold rush

October 3, 2023
Big tech companies and venture capitalists are in the midst of a gold rush, investing astronomical sums into leading AI labs that are creating generative models. Last week, Amazon announced a $4 billion investment in AI lab Anthropic. Earlier this year, Microsoft invested a…
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AI assistants boost productivity but paradoxically risk human deskilling

October 3, 2023
Recent research has demonstrated the potential productivity gains that can come from incorporating ChatGPT (and presumably other chatbots) into knowledge work. Wharton Business School Professor Ethan Mollick participated in a study alongside several other social scientists and consultants at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) who used generative AI to determine whether the tool improved their…
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Meta quietly unveils Llama 2 Long AI that beats GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 on some tasks

September 30, 2023
Meta Platforms showed off a bevy of new AI features for its consumer-facing services Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at its annual Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, this week. But the biggest news from Mark Zuckerberg’s company may have actually come in the form of a computer science paper published without fanfare by Meta researchers on the open access and non-peer reviewed…
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