IMO Weekly Highlights - 08052024
IMO picked up a few pieces of notable news about AI and tech companies for the past week. This week, Intel announced that it will lay off 15% of its workforce as part of a broad $10 billion cost-reduction program.
Intel?announced that it will lay off 15% of its workforce as part of a broad $10 billion cost-reduction program.
Chief among these cost cuts is an announcement it would cut 15% of its staff by the end of 2024. The company said it had 125,300 employees as of June 29, and so that could mean 18,795 layoffs. (A spokesperson said the number is great than 15,000).?
It was?criticized by Scarlett Johansson. It was?delayed by more than a month. And that it’s finally here,?only a select few customers in an “alpha” group?have access to the new ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode from OpenAI, a more naturalistic, human-like audio conversational mode for the hit chatbot available through the official ChatGPT app for iOS and Android.?
Yet, already, just days after the first alpha testers got their hands on ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode, people are posting examples of it engaging in fantastically expressive and impressive utterances, impersonating Looney Toons characters and?counting so fast it runs out of “breath”?just like a human would.
In a stunning reversal of fortune, Google has catapulted itself from a?series of embarrassing AI missteps?to the forefront of the artificial intelligence race.
领英推荐
This week’s unveiling of?Gemini 1.5 Pro?and?Gemma 2?marks a watershed moment for the tech giant, showcasing not just recovery but remarkable advancement in the field.?
The Biden administration called for the monitoring of open-weight models as it looks to collect more information for future regulations. However, the U.S. government did not specify how it plans to regulate models.?
In a report, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration?(NTIA)?said it was important to look at the dangers of public AI models with the capability of disrupting current systems to understand how to prevent any disasters.?
Generative AI?is already changing the way many of us work — and it is set to completely revolutionize some roles.?
In fact, according to one bold new prediction, more than 92% of information and communication technology (ICT) jobs will either be highly or moderately transformed by AI.?
This assertion comes from the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, which has released the new comprehensive report, “The Impact of Generative AI.” The consortium was?formed in April?by some of the world’s largest big tech companies — including Google, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Intel, Cisco, Accenture, Indeed and Eightfold AI — to address challenges with AI talent.?
?