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TRENDING NEWS

Salesforce accelerates its AI-driven innovation with the development of cutting-edge products

You can read more about it here:

• Salesforce is developing a ton of new AI products that could lead to 'a massive new buying cycle' Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley analysts believe - Yahoo Finance

• Salesforce adds GPT to Commerce and Marketing clouds - TechTarget

• Salesforce unveils AI Cloud offering, doubles fund for AI startups to $500 mln - Reuters

• Salesforce pledges to invest $500M in generative AI startups - TechCrunch

• Salesforce launches AI Cloud to bring models to the enterprise - TechCrunch

Meta unveils AI tools and its commitment to integrating AI across its product lineup

You can read more about it here:

• Meta introduces broadcast tool Channels on WhatsApp - Reuters

• Meta previews generative AI tools coming to WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, plus internal AI tools - TechCrunch

• Struggling Meta showcases new AI tools at company meeting - The Guardian

• Mark Zuckerberg: AI will be built into all of Meta’s products - AI News

More news on ongoing AI concerns

You can read more about it here:

• Sam Altman says he worries making ChatGPT was 'something really bad' given potential AI risks - Insider

• Technology minister urges caution on AI 'Terminator' warnings - BBC

• Microsoft commits to supporting customers on their responsible AI journeys - ZDNET

INDUSTRY TRENDS

Factbox: Jefferies sees AI fuelling next wave of innovation in oil and gas sector - Reuters

With AI rapidly becoming a buzzword across industries, oil and gas companies are exploring ways to use this technology to fuel innovation in the energy sector.

Bing’s chatbot now lets you ask questions with your voice on desktop - TechCrunch - The Verge

After announcing plans to discontinue Cortana, Microsoft is now giving Bing Chat on desktop the ability to listen to and respond to questions.

Google Cloud is partnering with Mayo Clinic as it tries to expand use of generative A.I. in health care - CNBC

Google’s cloud business is expanding its use of new artificial intelligence technologies in health care, giving medical professionals at Mayo Clinic the ability to quickly find patient information using the types of tools powering the latest chatbots.

MACHINE LEARNING

ML Ops at Reasonable Scale feat. Jacopo Tagliabue | Stanford MLSys Seminar Episode 35 - Stanford MLS Seminars (Video)

This seminar presents a philosophy for modern, no-nonsense data pipelines, highlighting the advantages of a PaaS approach, and showing (with open source code) how the entire toolchain works on real-world data with realistic constraints.

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning - Google

Bard is improving at mathematical tasks, coding questions and string manipulation through a new technique called implicit code execution.

FinGPT: Open-Source Financial Large Language Models - Cornell University

FinGPT is a free, open-source language model for the finance sector that takes a data-centric approach, providing researchers and practitioners with accessible and transparent resources to develop their FinLLMs

New model offers a way to speed up drug discovery - MIT News

By applying a language model to protein-drug interactions, researchers can quickly screen large libraries of potential drug compounds.

MIT researchers make language models scalable self-learners - MIT News

The scientists used a natural language-based logical inference dataset to create smaller language models that outperformed much larger counterparts.

REGULATIONS

OpenAI sued for defamation after ChatGPT fabricates legal accusations against radio host - The Verge

OpenAI has been hit with what appears to be the first defamation lawsuit responding to false information generated by ChatGPT.

UN chief backs idea of global AI watchdog like nuclear agency - Reuters

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday backed a proposal by some artificial intelligence executives for the creation of an international AI watchdog body like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

RESEARCH

Scientists invent first ever ‘breathing, sweating, shivering’ robot - The Independent

Scientists say they have built the first ever “breathing, sweating, shivering” robot, designed to cope and adapt to different temperatures.

A step toward safe and reliable autopilots for flying - MIT News

A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots satisfies the often-conflicting goals of safety and stability.

OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic to give UK early access to foundational models for AI safety research - TechCrunch

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has kicked off London Tech Week with another tidbit of news — telling conference goers that OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic have committed to provide “early or priority access” to their AI models to support research into evaluation and safety.

PLATFORM ENGINEERING

OWASP Testability Patterns for Web Applications - OWASP

The OWASP Testability Patterns project intends to create a community to re-design the classical secure development life-cycle around the concept of Testability Patterns, providing new tools for Web and AI/ML developers, managers, and security teams.

The emerging usability of ChatGPT in software development - TechTarget

In the hands of a creative developer, ChatGPT has what it takes to be a helpful coding tool. But generative AI may soon attain the capability to act as more than an assistant.

AI: Behind-the-Scene Partner in Process Applications - Food Engineering

Rather than apply AI/ML in one big fell swoop, why not choose applications that use AI to make them more efficient and build from there?

USE CASES

Global workforce firm uses Glean's generative AI assistant - TechTarget

The distributed global workforce platform vendor uses generative AI search to find information across its network.

Inside Amazon's rush to respond to ChatGPT. 'Amazon must be really scared about being late on all of this.' - Insider

Earlier this year, as ChatGPT took the world by storm, Amazon managers asked employees to come up with ideas for how to use AI chatbot technology to improve their products and workflow.

GENERATIVE AI

LinkedIn launches generative AI tool to write ad copy - Venture Beat

Following in the footsteps of Meta, LinkedIn has announced a generative AI tool to help automate the writing part of ad campaigns housed on the professional network.

WordPress launches generative AI assistant to enhance content writing - Venture Beat

WordPress has announced a proprietary AI-powered writing assistant to help users create and edit blog posts.

Unlock new insights with Azure OpenAI Service for government - Microsoft

Microsoft continues to develop and advance cloud services to meet the full spectrum of government needs while complying with United States regulatory standards for classification and security.

Visier launches new generative AI assistant Vee to deliver insights about your workforce - Venture Beat

B2B workforce analytics company Visier today announced its first generative AI assistant, Vee, which allows managers, HR leaders and employees at its customer companies to type their natural language queries into commonly used apps and receive near-instant insights about their teams.

RISK AND SECURITY MANAGEMENT

Introducing Google’s Secure AI Framework - Google

Google introduces Secure AI Framework. a conceptual framework to secure AI technology.

OWASP Top 10 List for Large Language Models version 0.1 - OWASP

This is a draft list of important vulnerability types for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications built on Large Language Models (LLMs).

Securing AI Systems — Defensive Strategies - DataDrivenInvestor

Defensive strategies that are applied to safeguard AI solutions.

What generative AI's rise means for the cybersecurity industry - TechTarget

ChatGPT's moment in cybersecurity is significant for both technological and marketing reasons.

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Twilio and Google Cloud Expand Partnership to Improve CX with AI - Martech Cube

Twilio Inc. (NYSE: TWLO), the customer engagement platform that drives real-time, personalized experiences for today’s leading brands, and Google Cloud today announced an expansion of their long-standing partnership to bring Google Cloud generative artificial intelligence (AI) to Twilio’s customer engagement products to improve experiences for millions of end users.

ETHICS

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - UNESCO

Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.

RESOURCES - Course

Take Harvard's CS50 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python For Free - Harvard University

CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python is the latest addition to the line up of Harvard University courses that build on CS50x, the online version of David Malan's highly acclaimed CS50 class aimed at teaching Computer Science to beginners. Self-paced based on 10-30 hours per week | Beginner

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