Generative AI has been making headlines frequently in recent months, but how much are people really using the technology in their work?
A fair bit, as it turns out: 46% of all employees have “experimented” with generative AI at least once, according to a new survey of 12,800 employed people in 18 countries conducted by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the “big three” major global…
Apple announced a host of new software features for its popular devices — computers, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, AirPods and the new Apple Vision Pro headset — at its worldwide developer conference WWDC 2023 on Monday. As expected from pre-event reports and…
A new survey conducted by Salesforce and YouGov has found that marketers see generative AI as a “game-changer” that can save them about five hours of work every week — that’s more than a month every year, assuming eight-hour work days.
As part of their Generative AI…
Emad Mostaque is the founder and CEO of Stability AI, a unicorn startup that exploded into the zeitgeist in October of 2022 with a billion-dollar valuation. It celebrated with what the New York Times called a “coming-out party” at the San Francisco Exploratorium that felt like a “return to pre-pandemic exuberance.”
Stability AI’s claim to fame was its viral open-source AI text-to-image…
Snowflake got its start by bringing data warehouse technology to the cloud, but now in 2023, like every other vendor, it finds artificial intelligence (AI) permeating nearly every discussion.
In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Sunny Bedi, CIO and CDO at Snowflake…
The rapid advance of generative AI marks one of the most promising technological advancements of the past century. It has evoked excitement and, like nearly all other technological breakthroughs of the past, fear. It is promising to see Congress and Vice President Kamala…
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
This statement, released this week by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), reflects an overarching — and some might say overreaching — worry about doomsday scenarios due to a runaway superintelligence. The CAIS statement mirrors the dominant concerns…
During her 2023 TED Talk, computer scientist Yejin Choi made a seemingly contradictory statement when she said, “AI today is unbelievably intelligent and then shockingly stupid.” How could something intelligent be stupid?
On its own, AI — including generative AI —…
AI is everywhere. Its use is being debated in headlines, on social media and around dinner tables. To some, the rate of AI acceleration is concerning, with many technology leaders calling for a six-month pause in the training of new systems to better understand the impact…
For as long as AI technology has been a part of the larger tech narrative, fear has also been a part of that conversation. Part of that is simply the common, ever-present fear of the unknown — we don’t know exactly what implications this tech will have in the long run, and most people don’t understand what the tech is capable of. However, contrary to those existing fears, AI was never…
