Alibaba tests generative AI tools for Taobao and Tmall merchants as new tech arms race heats up China’s e-commerce sector

Alibaba tests generative AI tools for Taobao and Tmall merchants as new tech arms race heats up China’s e-commerce sector

The generative AI tools provided by Huiwa, operated by Alibaba subsidiary Hangzhou Lianfan Information Technology, enable merchants to create both text and graphics content. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. A merchant, for example, can input a brief description of a product, which prompts the tool to create customised content for marketing and promotion. … Read more

Google’s latest AI model, Gemini Pro, is now available in Europe to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Google’s latest AI model, Gemini Pro, is now available in Europe to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Gemini Pro is now available for European users, a month after its US launch. ADVERTISEMENT Gemini Pro, one of Google’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) models, is now available for European users as an upgrade to Bard, the company has said. It’s a multimodal large model, meaning it can understand and combine different types of information … Read more

Google Bets $2 Billion on AI Startup Anthropic, Inks Cloud Deal

Google Bets $2 Billion on AI Startup Anthropic, Inks Cloud Deal

 Google has committed to invest $2 billion in the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, solidifying its relationship with the startup darling and stoking the Silicon Valley frenzy for AI.  The deal is structured as a convertible note, a type of debt that will convert to equity at the startup’s next funding round, an Anthropic spokesperson confirmed. … Read more

Google’s New Virtual Assistant to Include Bard AI Tools

Google’s New Virtual Assistant to Include Bard AI Tools

Google will soon release a version of its virtual assistant that is powered by the company’s Bard artificial intelligence technology, helping users handle more complex tasks. The new offering, called Assistant with Bard, will be available in a test phase shortly and then roll out to the general public in the coming months, the company … Read more

Poland Conversational Commerce Market Intelligence and

Poland Conversational Commerce Market Intelligence and

Dublin, Sept. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “Poland Conversational Commerce Market Intelligence and Future Growth Dynamics Databook – 75+ KPIs on Conversational Commerce Trends by End-Use Sectors, Operational KPIs, Product Offering, and Spend By Application – Q2 2023 Update” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. Conversational commerce industry in Poland is expected to … Read more

Content Farms Are Using AI Chatbots to Plagiarize News Outlets

Content Farms Are Using AI Chatbots to Plagiarize News Outlets

Online content farms are using AI chatbots to “scramble and rewrite” thousands of news stories from major publications like The New York Times and republish them to earn advertising revenue, according to a new report from misinformation monitor NewsGuard. The stories, which often repurposed entire lines directly from other articles without credit, were found on … Read more

College of Charleston to debut AI Chatbot for student services

College of Charleston to debut AI Chatbot for student services

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The College of Charleston is harnessing artificial intelligence technology, or AI, to serve students this year using a chatbot they can text 24/7. Starting on Aug. 29, “Clyde the Chatbot” will send a text to all students with up-to-date contact info in their school profile introducing the chatbot character and explaining … Read more

ChatGPT-Wary Universities Scramble to Prepare for New School Year

ChatGPT-Wary Universities Scramble to Prepare for New School Year

ChatGPT set the academic world ablaze after it was introduced in November, when the AI chatbot suddenly gave students a hard-to-detect shortcut for completing essays and assignments. Nine months later, as a new school year nears, many universities are still crafting their response. Colleges around the world spent much of the previous academic year adopting … Read more

The big jobs debate: Who’s at risk from GenAI?

The big jobs debate: Who’s at risk from GenAI?

BENGALURU :On 12 May, Nithin Kamath, founder and CEO of Zerodha, India’s largest stock brokerage firm, made an unsettling disclosure. “It took us 30 mins to integrate commoditized ChatGPT, see tangible benefits, and realize that more than 20% of jobs could be automated. Now, imagine what more intelligent tools could lead to?” he tweeted. On … Read more

Un cas pour un nouveau pronom pour AI

Un cas pour un nouveau pronom pour AI

Les chatbots d’intelligence artificielle (IA) connaissent un moment décisif. Les grands modèles de langage (LLM) alimentent les chatbots qui conversent comme des experts humains, faisant parfois un meilleur travail pour résumer une idée complexe ou rédiger un essai que les meilleurs d’entre nous. La réponse à puces de ChatGPT nous rappelle les réponses aux tests … Read more