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Firstly, we are saddened to hear of the death of Her Majesty the Queen. Our thoughts are with the Royal Family and all those who are affected by this news.

Welcome to the tenth edition of the Quantumics Weekly Roundup. This week, we’re inviting you to our stand at the Big Data London conference later this month! We’ll also explore the latest news and information in data and AI, business and tech.

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Data Titbits ??

We’ve spoken a lot about AI and GPT-3, with which you can, write copy, generate brand names and even paint! Thanks to OpenAI’s beta playground, this week, we’re doing something different. We interviewed the AI with some simple questions, and you can even try it yourself!

Q: What is AI?

There is no single answer to this question as AI can mean different things to different people, but broadly speaking, AI can be defined as a branch of computer science that deals with the design and development of intelligent computer systems. AI research deals with the question of how to create computers that are capable of intelligent behaviour.?

Q: What is OpenAI??

OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company, founded in December 2015, by SpaceX co-founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Greg Brockman from notable data startup Cloudera, and entrepreneur Rebekah Mercer. Dimitry Ioffe, Pieter Abbeel, and Patrick Mynyk are also notable founding members of OpenAI. OpenAI has the goal of promoting friendly AI in order to benefit humanity as a whole. OpenAI's initial focus was on developing artificial intelligence in order to improve digital personal assistants, such as Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana. However, the company has since expanded its focus to include a number of other areas, such as robotics, natural language processing, and machine learning.

Q: Explain what OpenAi playground really is?

OpenAi playground is a web-based environment for developing and playing around with reinforcement learning algorithms. It is based on the OpenAi gym and allows users to experiment with a variety of different environments and algorithms.

Q: Are you going to take over the world?

No, we are not going to take over the world.?

Q: Are you sure??

Yes, we are sure.

Q: How so?

Our goals are to promote friendly AI and to benefit humanity as a whole. We do not believe that AI should be used to control or dominate people.

Why not give it a try yourself?

• A newly unsealed court transcript reveals that?Facebook doesn’t accurately know where sensitive data is stored and which engineers have access. Worrying?
• Two UK government departments were?reprimanded by UK data watchdog for not responding to Freedom of Information?requests on time.

Tech News ??

Apple announced new iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods at its “Far Out” event earlier this week. In case you missed it, there will be four new iPhones: iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max, a new Apple Watch Series 8 and Apple Watch Ultra, designed for outdoor enthusiasts. They also released the Airpods Pro 2 with improved audio quality and noice cancellation tech. Here’s a recap ??

• Meta has announced that its?Connect Conference will be livestreamed on October 11th at 1PM ET. In?a post on the Oculus blog, the company says it’ll cover the progress it’s made on the metaverse and offer “a look at what’s to come in the near and far future.”
• At the start of the Queen's reign in 1952, the annual Royal Christmas Message had not yet made it to television. By the end of her time on the throne, social media is used across the globe and the Metaverse is in its infancy.?Sky News with a piece about how tech evolved through Her Majesty’s reign.

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Market News ??

• The Bank of England has delayed its?interest rate decision by a week due to royal mourning.
• The Ethereum network has completed the?first part of its highly-anticipated Merge, which has been billed as the “biggest event in crypto history”. The merge should be finished by the end of next week.