AI Top-of-Mind Nov 10
Top-of-mind today, as a follow-up to the OpenAI announcements this week, the NY Times has a good analysis of what this will mean for all of us in the form of personalized chatbots aka agents. And whether we are truly ready for them. From the article:
· First, they are programmed for specific tasks. (Examples that OpenAI created include “Creative Writing Coach” and “Mocktail Mixologist,” a bot that suggests nonalcoholic drink recipes.)
· Second, the bots can pull from private data, such as a company’s internal H.R. documents or a database of real estate listings, and incorporate that data into their responses.
· Third, if you let them, the bots can plug into other parts of your online life — your calendar, your to-do list, your Slack account — and take actions using your credentials.
On the hardware front, continued movement of mobile chip vendors in embracing AI. This time around is Mediatek, with its new Dimensity 9300 chipsets natively supporting LLMs that include Meta’s Llama 2.
Also in Asia, moving to software, Samsung is creating a ChatGPT-like assistant for its Galaxy phones. The company’s ‘Galaxy AI’ is said to be leveraging the company’s ‘Gauss’ generative AI model, but the actual availability date as well as the devices supported is not yet known.
A view by PayPal’s CISO in VentureBeat on the benefits of generative AI in helping with threat detection, if properly evaluated and deployed. From the article:
VB: Can gen AI help with fraud detection? If so, how can you validate its accuracy?
Keren: Yes, and in a sense, it already is. PayPal has been an early adopter of AI, and we have been building our AI capabilities and expertise for over a decade. We’ve been employing transformer-based deep learning for years, which is the key technology behind large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Today, we use AI and ML across broad domains in our business, including fraud reduction, customer protection, personalized services, risk management and global commerce empowerment.
Yet another AI-powered image editing tool, this time from Taboola for ad graphic editing. Its Generative AI AdMaker can help alter things like backgrounds or even the images themselves.
And lastly, growing acceptance of the use of AI in delivering recommendations and personalized loyalty programs. But consumers are also looking to the retailers to leverage AI to help eliminate food waste and further their sustainability efforts.
