3 AI misconceptions IT leaders must dispel

https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2017/12/3-ai-misconceptions-it-leaders-must-dispel?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY

 Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing many aspects of how we work and live. (How many stories did you read last week about self-driving cars and job-stealing robots? Perhaps your holiday shopping involved some AI algorithms, as well.) But despite the constant flow of news, many misconceptions about AI remain.

AI doesn’t think in our sense of the word at all, Scriffignano explains. “In many ways, it’s not really intelligence. It’s regressive.” 

IT leaders should make deliberate choices about what AI can and can’t do on its own. “You have to pay attention to giving AI autonomy intentionally and not by accident,”

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  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Zosha Millman / Polygon:
    Ali Selim, the director and executive producer of Marvel’s Secret Invasion, says Method Studios used AI to design the opening credits scene

    Yes, Secret Invasion’s opening credits scene is AI-made — here’s why
    https://www.polygon.com/23767640/ai-mcu-secret-invasion-opening-credits

    ‘It just came right out of the shape-shifting, Skrull world identity’

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  2. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Edward Felsenthal / TIME:
    Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on why UX matters for AI, AGI going “wrong” versus “AGI is going to go fantastically well”, capping profit, regulation, and more

    Read TIME’s Interview With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
    https://time.com/6288584/openai-sam-altman-full-interview/

    Edward Felsenthal: What are you using ChatGPT for in your daily life?

    Sam Altman: One thing I use it for every day is help with summarization. I can’t really keep up on my inbox anymore, but I made a little thing to help it summarize for me and pull out important stuff from unknown senders, and that’s very helpful. I paste it in there every morning. I used it to translate an article for someone I’m meeting next week, to prepare for that. This is sort of a funny thing, I used it to help me draft a tweet that I was having a hard time with. That was all today.

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  3. Tomi Engdahl says:

    MARVEL USED AI TO GENERATE THE INTRO SEQUENCE TO ITS NEW SHOW, ANGERING FANS
    https://futurism.com/the-byte/marvel-using-ai-secret-invasion

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  4. Tomi Engdahl says:

    AI EXPERT SAYS CHATGPT IS WAY STUPIDER THAN PEOPLE REALIZE
    https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-expert-chatgpt-way-stupider

    “WHAT THE LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS ARE GOOD AT IS SAYING WHAT AN ANSWER SHOULD SOUND LIKE, WHICH IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT AN ANSWER SHOULD BE.”

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  5. Tomi Engdahl says:

    How AI can turn any photo into a professional headshot
    Canva’s AI-powered Magic Edit tool will save you a trip to the photography studio (and some money too).
    https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-canva-ai-to-turn-any-photo-into-a-professional-headshot/

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  6. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Euroopan suurin lehti korvaa toimittajia tekoälyllä
    Petri Ranta21.6.202314:32|päivitetty21.6.202314:32TEKOÄLYMEDIA
    Bild-lehteä ei näytä lannistavan tekoälysuunnitelmissaan edes se, että samaa on yritetty jo aiemmin – sillä tuloksella, että ihmiset ovat joutuneet korjaamaan suurta osaa tekoälyn teksteistä.
    https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/euroopan-suurin-lehti-korvaa-toimittajia-tekoalylla/d9aa5628-fe90-471a-b48a-0a61f92fd488

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  7. Tomi Engdahl says:

    New York Times:
    As the use of AI-generated ads in political campaigns increases, political consultants, election researchers, and lawmakers push for setting up new guardrails — Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/technology/ai-elections-disinformation-guardrails.html

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  8. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Nina Jankowicz / The Atlantic:
    While there are effective laws outlawing the sharing of nonconsensual deepfake porn in some states, such as Virginia and California, the US needs a federal law — Because I was in the public eye, somebody synthesized explicit videos of me. — Recently, a Google Alert informed me that I am the subject of deepfake pornography.

    I Shouldn’t Have to Accept Being in Deepfake Porn
    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/deepfake-porn-ai-misinformation/674475/

    Because I was in the public eye, somebody synthesized explicit videos of me.

    Recently, a Google Alert informed me that I am the subject of deepfake pornography. I wasn’t shocked. For more than a year, I have been the target of a widespread online harassment campaign, and deepfake porn—whose creators, using artificial intelligence, generate explicit video clips that seem to show real people in sexual situations that never actually occurred—has become a prized weapon in the arsenal misogynists use to try to drive women out of public life. The only emotion I felt as I informed my lawyers about the latest violation of my privacy was a profound disappointment in the technology—and in the lawmakers and regulators who have offered no justice to people who appear in porn clips without their consent. Many commentators have been tying themselves in knots over the potential threats posed by artificial intelligence—deepfake videos that tip elections or start wars, job-destroying deployments of ChatGPT and other generative technologies. Yet policy makers have all but ignored an urgent AI problem that is already affecting many lives, including mine.

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  9. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
    Q&A with AWS Product VP Matt Wood on the generative AI boom, the escalating AI battle between the tech giants, curating the best AI models for AWS, and more — Matt Wood, vice president of product for Amazon Web Services, is at the tip of the spear of Amazon’s response in the escalating AI battle between the tech giants.

    Amazon’s vision: An AI model for everything
    https://www.semafor.com/article/06/23/2023/amazons-vision-an-ai-model-for-everything

    Matt Wood, vice president of product for Amazon Web Services, is at the tip of the spear of Amazon’s response in the escalating AI battle between the tech giants.

    Much of the internet already runs on AWS’s cloud services and Amazon’s long game strategy is to create a single point of entry for companies and startups to tap into a rapidly increasing number of generative AI models, both of the open-source and closed-source variety.

    Q: Microsoft and Google are both nipping at your heels by offering these huge AI models. How does AWS view this market?

    A: I have not seen this level of excitement and engagement from customers since the very earliest days of AWS. We have over 100,000 customers today that routinely use AWS to drive their machine-learning capabilities and these generative AI systems.

    One of the interesting differences with these generative models is that they make machine learning easier than ever before to use and apply. We built a capability that we call Bedrock, which provides the very easiest way for developers to build new experiences using this technology on AWS. You just provide a prompt, select which model you want to use, and we give you the answer.

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  10. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Kevin J. Delaney / Charter:
    Q&A with Microsoft’s Jared Spataro on AI tools advancing knowledge work, increasing worker creativity, being “usefully wrong”, automating work away, and more — Microsoft over the past few years has released some of the most interesting research about how people work …

    How AI requires a new approach to work and management
    https://www.charterworks.com/jared-spataro-microsoft/

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  11. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Will Knight / Wired:
    A study of EU countries: the 2010s deep learning boom increased employment in jobs exposed to AI but “these results may not be extrapolated into the future”

    The Last AI Boom Didn’t Kill Jobs. Feel Better?
    https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-the-last-ai-boom-didnt-kill-jobs/

    ChatGPT is stoking fears of mass layoffs, but a study of several EU countries found the deep-learning boom of the 2010s actually created job opportunities.

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  12. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Pew Research Center:
    A survey of ~305 experts on their expectations for digital advances by 2035, like AI systems and smart eyewear and earbuds, and concerns over the darker sides

    As AI Spreads, Experts Predict the Best and Worst Changes in Digital Life by 2035
    https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/06/21/as-ai-spreads-experts-predict-the-best-and-worst-changes-in-digital-life-by-2035/

    They have deep concerns about people’s and society’s overall well-being. But they also expect great benefits in health care, scientific advances and education

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  13. Tomi Engdahl says:

    https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2023/06/26/pilviyhtiolle-generatiivisen-tekoalyn-innovaatiokeskus/

    Pilvipalveluita tarjoava Amazon Web Services (AWS) käynnistää generatiivisen tekoälyn innovaatiokeskuksen ja investoi uuteen kehitysohjelmaan 100 miljoonaa dollaria.

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  14. Tomi Engdahl says:

    https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/ask-hackaday-the-turing-test-is-dead-long-live-the-turing-test/

    Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence that no longer works. The idea was to have people communicate over a terminal, with another real person and with a computer. If the computer is intelligent, Turing mused, most people will incorrectly identify the computer as a human. Clearly, with the advent of modern chatbots, that test is now broken. Despite the “AI” moniker, chatbots aren’t sentient or even pre-sentient, but they certainly seem that way. An AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, is proposing a new test: The AI has to take a $100,000 budget and earn $1,000,000.

    We were a little bemused at this. By that measure, most of us aren’t intelligent, either, and it seems like this is a particularly capitalistic idea.

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  15. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Ecological System Dynamics For Computing
    https://hackaday.com/2023/06/23/ecological-system-dynamics-for-computing/

    Some of you may remember that the ship’s computer on Star Trek: Voyager contained bioneural gel packs. Researchers have taken us one step closer to a biocomputing future with a study on the potential of ecological systems for computing.

    Neural networks are a big deal in the world of machine learning, and it turns out that ecological dynamics exhibit many of the same properties. Reservoir Computing (RC) is a special type of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) that feeds inputs into a fixed-dynamics reservoir black box with training only occurring on the outputs, drastically reducing the computational requirements of the system. With some research now embodying these reservoirs into physical objects like robot arms, the researchers wanted to see if biological systems could be used as computing resources.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_computing

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  16. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Use AI to Clone ANY Voice & Sing ANY Song for FREE | RVC WebUI Tutorial
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JcvdDErkAU

    Retrieval based Voice Conversion WebUI is a a gradio web interface for voice to voice conversion! Take any voice you like and through the power of AI, quickly and easily convert it into any other voice. Easily remix any song. Sing in any language. Read a book. Recite a play or poem. The choice are endless with this simple voice cloning software. Works best locally as shown, but a google colab is also available.

    Chapters:
    0:00 What is Voice to voice?
    1:53 Easy RVC WebUI Install
    2:52 Using the RVC WebUI
    3:34 RVC Training – Step 1
    4:19 RVC Training – Step 2a
    5:38 RVC Training – Step 2b
    6:16 RVC Training – Step 3
    7:09 RCV WebUI FAQ
    7:27 RCV WebUI Inference

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  17. Tomi Engdahl says:

    “Affirmative, Dave: NASA Is Developing ChatGPT-Style Talking Spaceships”

    Affirmative, Dave: NASA Is Developing ChatGPT-Style Talking Spaceships
    NASA wants to ‘get to a point where we have conversational interactions with space vehicles.’
    https://uk.pcmag.com/news/147513/affirmative-dave-nasa-is-developing-chatgpt-style-talking-spaceships

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  18. Tomi Engdahl says:

    James Vincent / The Verge:
    AI is killing the web with spam sites, mass article producing “AI editors”, AI-generated junk on Etsy, Reddit, and Wikipedia that exhausts moderators, and more — In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links.

    AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
    https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773914/ai-large-language-models-data-scraping-generation-remaking-web

    / Generative AI models are changing the economy of the web, making it cheaper to generate lower-quality content. We’re just beginning to see the effects of these changes.

    In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy is flooded with “AI-generated junk.” Chatbots cite one another in a misinformation ouroboros. LinkedIn is using AI to stimulate tired users. Snapchat and Instagram hope bots will talk to you when your friends don’t. Redditors are staging blackouts. Stack Overflow mods are on strike. The Internet Archive is fighting off data scrapers, and “AI is tearing Wikipedia apart.” The old web is dying, and the new web struggles to be born.

    The web is always dying, of course; it’s been dying for years, killed by apps that divert traffic from websites or algorithms that reward supposedly shortening attention spans. But in 2023, it’s dying again — and, as the litany above suggests, there’s a new catalyst at play: AI.

    The problem, in extremely broad strokes, is this. Years ago, the web used to be a place where individuals made things. They made homepages, forums, and mailing lists, and a small bit of money with it. Then companies decided they could do things better. They created slick and feature-rich platforms and threw their doors open for anyone to join. They put boxes in front of us, and we filled those boxes with text and images, and people came to see the content of those boxes. The companies chased scale, because once enough people gather anywhere, there’s usually a way to make money off them. But AI changes these assumptions.

    Given money and compute, AI systems — particularly the generative models currently in vogue — scale effortlessly. They produce text and images in abundance, and soon, music and video, too. Their output can potentially overrun or outcompete the platforms we rely on for news, information, and entertainment. But the quality of these systems is often poor, and they’re built in a way that is parasitical on the web today. These models are trained on strata of data laid down during the last web-age, which they recreate imperfectly. Companies scrape information from the open web and refine it into machine-generated content that’s cheap to generate but less reliable. This product then competes for attention with the platforms and people that came before them. Sites and users are reckoning with these changes, trying to decide how to adapt and if they even can.

    In recent months, discussions and experiments at some of the web’s most popular and useful destinations — sites like Reddit, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and Google itself — have revealed the strain created by the appearance of AI systems.

    “The primary problem is that while the answers which ChatGPT produces have a high rate of being incorrect, they typically look like they might be good.”

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  19. Tomi Engdahl says:

    AI-generated content is often subtly wrong

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  20. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Steve Lohr / New York Times:
    Some doctors say that their current best use for generative AI is to ease the heavy burden of documentation, which takes hours a day and contributes to burnout — The best use for generative A.I. in health care, doctors say, is to ease the heavy burden of documentation that takes them hours a day and contributes to burnout.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/technology/ai-health-care-documentation.html

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  21. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Tältä näyttää tekoälyn luoma ”täydellinen nainen” – yksi seikka siinä on erityisen huolestuttava, asiantuntijat kertovat miksi https://www.is.fi/menaiset/ilmiot/art-2000009666984.html

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  22. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Generating AI
    Generative artificial intelligence (AI) like chatbots are changing the way many use AI.
    https://www.electronicdesign.com/magazine/51584

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  23. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Bloomberg:
    China is racing to catch the US in AI, but demos show China has far to go; Preqin: AI investments in the US were $26.6B in the year to mid-June vs. China’s $4B

    Billionaires and Bureaucrats Mobilize China for AI Race With US
    A ChatGPT-inspired global wave of AI activity is only just beginning in the next battle for supremacy in technology.
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-27/ai-is-next-tech-battle-for-us-and-china-on-chatgpt-frenzy#xj4y7vzkg

    Wall Street Journal:
    Sources: the US is considering new AI chip export restrictions to China as soon as July, which could even prevent sales of Nvidia’s A800 chip without a license — Restrictions come amid concerns that China could use AI chips from Nvidia and others for weapon development and hacking

    U.S. Considers New Curbs on AI Chip Exports to China
    Restrictions come amid concerns that China could use AI chips from Nvidia and others for weapon development and hacking
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-considers-new-curbs-on-ai-chip-exports-to-china-56b17feb?mod=djemalertNEWS

    The Biden administration is considering new restrictions on exports of artificial intelligence chips to China, as concerns rise over the power of the technology in the hands of U.S. rivals, according to people familiar with the situation.

    The Commerce Department could move as soon as early next month to stop the shipments of chips made by Nvidia and other chip makers to customers in China and other countries of concern without first obtaining a license, the people said.

    The action would be part of final rules codifying and expanding the export control measures announced in October, some of the people said.

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  24. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Securing the AI Pipeline
    https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/securing-ai-pipeline

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic these days, and for good reason.
    AI is a powerful tool.
    Organizations are keen to understand how best to integrate it into their own existing business processes, technology stacks, and delivery pipelines, and ultimately drive business value.

    In this blog post we will look briefly at the current state of AI, and then explore perhaps the most important question of them all: How do we secure it?

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  25. Tomi Engdahl says:

    BachGPT
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS0MXynfstA

    Gear up for a thrilling journey with ChatGPT, MIDI technology, and none other than the maestro of counterpoints – JS Bach himself! Brace yourselves for a rollercoaster ride into the world of music intertwined with artificial intelligence. Let’s dive in!

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  26. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
    Microsoft adds AI-powered shopping tools, including GPT-generated buying guides in the US, to its Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in Edge’s sidebar — Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar.

    Microsoft brings new AI-powered shopping tools to Bing and Edge
    https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/29/microsoft-brings-new-ai-powered-shopping-tools-to-bing-and-edge/

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  27. Tomi Engdahl says:

    New York Times:
    A test of five AI-image detection tools finds they tend to struggle with altered and low-quality images and sometimes fail even when an image is obviously fake

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/28/technology/ai-detection-midjourney-stable-diffusion-dalle.html

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  28. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
    Meta publishes a deep dive into how AI recommends Facebook and Instagram content, including 22 “system cards” covering AI use in Feed, Stories, Reels, and more — Meta has published a deep dive into the company’s social media algorithms in a bid to demystify how content is recommended for Instagram and Facebook users.

    Meta explains how AI influences what we see on Facebook and Instagram
    https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778068/meta-facebook-instagram-social-media-algorithms-ai-transparency

    / A detailed look at how Meta personalizes our experiences on social media using AI to choose the content we see based on a history of our own choices.

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  29. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
    Executives from over 150 European companies sign an open letter saying the draft AI Act will jeopardize the EU’s competitiveness without addressing challenges

    https://www.ft.com/content/9b72a5f4-a6d8-41aa-95b8-c75f0bc92465

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  30. Tomi Engdahl says:

    AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born / Generative AI models are changing the economy of the web, making it cheaper to generate lower-quality content. We’re just beginning to see the effects of these changes.
    https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773914/ai-large-language-models-data-scraping-generation-remaking-web

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  31. Tomi Engdahl says:

    GitLab All in on AI: CEO Predicts Increased Demand for Coders
    GitLab will incorporate AI throughout its DevSecOps platform, said CEO Sid Sijbrandij, adding that AI will lead to more demand for developers.
    https://thenewstack.io/gitlab-all-in-on-ai-ceo-predicts-increased-demand-for-coders/

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  32. Tomi Engdahl says:

    A Wave of Noise: Organizations
    AI Strategy for Digital Product Organizations
    https://dka.io/thoughts/a-wave-of-noise-1/

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  33. Tomi Engdahl says:

    ‘Godfather of AI’ Issues New Warnings Over Potential Risks to Society
    https://www.sciencealert.com/godfather-of-ai-issues-new-warnings-over-potential-risks-to-society

    Geoffrey Hinton, one of the so-called “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, urged governments on Wednesday to step in and make sure that machines do not take control of society.

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  34. Tomi Engdahl says:

    ChatGPT oppi etsimään tietoa internetistä – käytössä umpisurkeaksi haukuttu hakukone
    Petri Ranta29.6.202320:59TEKOÄLYINTERNET
    Tekoälyn internetistä kaivelema sisältö voi olla pahastikin virheellistä.
    https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/chatgpt-oppi-etsimaan-tietoa-internetista-kaytossa-umpisurkeaksi-haukuttu-hakukone/5f8a3639-364d-4359-836e-ec5ebc954cda

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  35. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Intel and Nvidia Square Off in GPT-3 Time Trials MLPerf provides LLM testbed for Nvidia’s H100 and top Intel chipsets
    https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-models-training-benchmark

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  36. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Tekoäly tekee myyntityöstä mielekkäämpää – ”Kylmäsoittoihin verrattuna saamme 3–5 kertaa enemmän tapaamisia”
    Toni Stubin26.6.202306:05TEKOÄLY
    Myynti on kovaa ja joskus turhauttavaakin duunia. Zefram-tekoälyratkaisu on Juuso Syväsen myyntitiimin tehokas jäsen, joka parantaa ihmismyyjien työhyvinvointia
    https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/tekoaly-tekee-myyntityosta-mielekkaampaa-kylmasoittoihin-verrattuna-saamme-35-kertaa-enemman-tapaamisia/e58a5049-af84-4b5c-99e7-47639d737377

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  37. Tomi Engdahl says:

    How to access, install, and use AI ChatGPT-4 plugins (and why you should)
    ChatGPT-3.5 is useful. ChatGPT-4 can be very useful. But, for the most useful version of ChatGPT to date, you need to add, implement, and use ChatGPT-4 with plugins.
    https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-access-install-and-use-ai-chatgpt-4-plugins/

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  38. Tomi Engdahl says:

    42 PERCENT OF CEOS THINK AI MAY DESTROY HUMANITY THIS DECADE
    https://futurism.com/the-byte/ceos-ai-destroy-humanity

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