Apple faces longest sales slowdown in decades as iPhone slumps

Apple faces longest sales slowdown in decades as iPhone slumps

Apple Inc. posted its third straight quarter of declining sales and predicted a similar performance in the current period, hurt by an industrywide slump that has sapped demand for phones, computers and tablets. After the company reported a revenue decline of 1.4% in the fiscal third quarter, Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri said on a … Read more

AI Study Says Stocks Already Pricing a Job-Replacement Premium

AI Study Says Stocks Already Pricing a Job-Replacement Premium

Trying to sort winners from losers as artificial-intelligence spreads through the economy? The stock market already is, and it goes way beyond Nvidia Corp. and Microsoft Corp. A trio of researchers say companies with workforces ripest for AI streamlining are doing something interesting in the market: beating it. Their study, “Generative AI and Firm Values,” … Read more

Chatbots sometimes make things up. Is AI’s hallucination problem fixable?

Chatbots sometimes make things up. Is AI’s hallucination problem fixable?

Spend enough time with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn’t take long for them to spout falsehoods. Described as hallucination, confabulation or just plain making things up, it’s now a problem for every business, organization and high school student trying to get a generative AI system to compose documents and get work … Read more

Companies Go All Out to Up Their Generative AI Game

Companies Go All Out to Up Their Generative AI Game

As report after report prophesies how generative artificial intelligence will upend millions of jobs, many white-collar workers are wondering what it will all mean. The release of ChatGPT in November spurred a surge of excitement and fear about the potential of this kind of technology to transform work. But change, especially at large organizations, takes … Read more

SoftBank forme une coentreprise pour construire des entrepôts alimentés par l’IA avec Symbotic

SoftBank forme une coentreprise pour construire des entrepôts alimentés par l’IA avec Symbotic

Le groupe SoftBank forme une joint-venture avec le fournisseur de services de chaîne d’approvisionnement Symbolic pour construire des entrepôts alimentés par l’IA qui seront détenus majoritairement par l’investisseur technologique japonais, ont annoncé lundi les sociétés. Les entreprises investissent un total de 100 millions de dollars dans l’entreprise, qui s’appellera GreenBox Systems. L’unité a également signé … 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