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The Future. The University of Pennsylvania recently announced the Raj and Neera Singh Program in Artificial Intelligence — named after the owners of the private telecommunications investment firm Telcom Ventures — which will launch this fall and permit current students to transfer into it. As the AI industry evolves, it’s likely that other universities will […]
The Future. OpenAI is beta-testing a new “memory” feature that’ll allow ChatGPT to know its individual users better over time and provide smarter functionality. While the feature is a key tenant for making chatbots more impactful and efficient, everyday users may wait to see the real-world strength of its privacy protections before letting the chatbot […]
The Future. OpenAI wants to take over your work with the development of two AI agents — one for tasks localized to your devices and another for completing web-based assignments. When rolled out, the agents could radically displace human clerical workers as everything becomes automated — possibly making chatbot managers the hot new job on […]
The Future. New York-based designer Norma Kamali is downloading her brain into a proprietary AI system so that her company will forever be able to draw upon her creative vision after she dies. As many companies wrestle with succession, developing AI clones of aging figureheads may become a common way of not just continuing their […]
The Future. The Virtual March to Retire Big Oil, a protest currently happening online, is raising awareness about the lack of retirement plans that don’t include investing in oil and gas companies. Using AI-generated images for social media, the digital-only protest could have massive reach and engagement, but the lack of disruptive, real-world impact may […]
The Future. New AI-powered search tools from Perplexity and The Browser Company’s Arc Browser are poised to reshape how people look for information online. Although this functionality could make going to websites a thing of the past, publishers that host high-quality commentary or analysis might become the only ones worth visiting. Personal researcherA new generation […]
The Future. The explosive popularity of AI has prompted organizations across every industry to open up the buzziest position in the office: the Chief AI Officer. Echoing the implementation of the Chief Technology Officer in the ‘80s, the CAIO will likely become a permanent fixture in the C-suite… but don’t be surprised if one firm […]
The Future. AI is reshaping the logistics industry, making innovations like drones, robots, and urban scanning realities. Once completely rolled out, same-day delivery may be the perk that turns brands into bestsellers. Mail upgradeIf you think Prime shipping is efficient now, AI could put it into hyperdrive. According to WSJ, it’ll power… There are more […]
The Future. Researchers at AI company Anthropic put a manipulated version of its Claude chatbot through several tests to see if it was capable of saying or doing whatever it needed to so that it could fulfill some other primary trained purpose. Unfortunately, Claude turned out to be a great liar. The research may not […]
The Future. AI-powered toys are hitting retail shelves as several companies roll out dolls, plushies, and robots that hope to be kids’ best friends. If parents and kids embrace the devices (and they don’t turn out like M3GAN), expect them to be the hottest toys come this year’s holiday season. Generating friendshipAI startups are trying […]