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Artificial Intelligence

The AI Talent War Is Supercharged

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Some candidates with experience in large language models can reap salaries in excess of $1 million a year.

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Zoom May Use AI to Tone Down Accents

Though this could be a stepping stone for live voice translation, it may come with a few ethical issues.

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IBM Wants to Weed Out Falsely Advertised AI Tools

IBM’s tech could help AI services address the knowledge gap between consumers and the AI tools they use.

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Google May Use Radio Waves to Feed its AI Models

Google’s patent to scrape radio stations for AI training could provide a pool of useful data, though it may face a copyright dilemma.

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IBM’s Patent Cuts Bias in AI Lending

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IBM wants to make sure AI lenders are playing fair with its patent to weed out bias in financial machine learning models.

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Google Wants to Track Burnout Through Your Keyboard

The company’s “personal wellness keyboard” patent may signal an interest from tech firms to embed AI in consumer devices.

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Google Wants to Use Context to Drop Wakewords

Without a wakeword, a digital assistant has to monitor its users more closely.

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Nvidia’s Neural Network Patent Adds to AI Software Expansion

Nvidia may use AI to troubleshoot its games with its patent to analyze and respond to feedback using neural networks.

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Google May Bring AI to YouTube Shopping

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The filing adds to its AI-powered ad tech, and fuels growing competition to make social media shoppable.

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Adobe’s Multimodal Model Could Make AI Summaries Clearer

The company may be looking to boost its AI capabilities after the fallout of it’s proposed acquisition of competitor Figma.

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Nvidia May Want AI to Create Its Own Data

While the proposed tech could save a lot of resources in AI training, it faces major problems if it can reproduce biases and inaccuracies.

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Pinterest’s Spam Scraping Patent Could Fight Misinformation

Pinterest wants to kick spam to the curb with a patent that uses AI to detect malicious links.

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Nvidia Catches Feelings With its Emotion Reading AI Patent

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Nvidia wants to pick out specific emotions in your voice with deep learning, but reading your feelings may require more context.

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Intel’s Patent Could Help Data Centers Budget Their Energy Use

Intel could target clients and investors that are interested in socially responsible AI training with it’s recent patent.

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Amazon Sharpens its Senses with Personalized Alexa AI Patent

The tech adds to its ongoing efforts to make Alexa more intuitive and contextual.

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OP-ED | Power Corridor

Hedge Funds, A.I., and Media Wars

A presidential election – and democracy – may be at risk.

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