Walmart Praises AI while MS can take your data

Walmart backs AI while Microsoft may take your data

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Brad Reynolds
August 21, 2024

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  • Microsoft will use your data from Copilot, Bing, and MSN for AI training.

  • Opt-out can let users prevent their data from being included, - starting 15 days after notification.

  • Enhanced AI models to learn from user interactions, ratings, and advertising effectiveness.

  • Data will be anonymized; European Economic Area data excluded due to privacy concerns.

  • Walmart reports that AI automation reduced staff needs by 99%.

  • GenAI helped improve 850 million data pieces in their catalogue.

  • 45%+ of their e-commerce fulfillment center volume is now automated.

  • Walmart introduces GenAI-powered shopping assistant, product search, and AI reviews.

  • Meta expected to spend $40 billion on AI; Microsoft nearly $19 billion on cloud and AI.

  • Generative AI deals in H1 2024: $500M in seed, $8.7B early-stage, $3.1B late-stage funding.

  • Nvidia’s AI chip sales to Meta and Microsoft fuel an AI bull market.

  • Key funded AI categories: Compute, Content Generation, Healthcare, Support, Automation, Robotics, Autonomous Driving.

OpenAI Bans ChatGPT Accounts for Election Influence
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  • Banned accounts linked to Iranian influence campaign using AI.

  • Created articles and social media posts on US election and Israel-Hamas war.

  • Achieved minimal engagement: few likes, shares, or comments.

  • Incident amid election security concerns/recent hacking attempts.

  • Targeting education; aims to detect whether content was created by AI, humans, or both.

  • The tool tracks the writing process, categorizing text as typed, generated/modifed by AI, or pasted.

  • Beta version to be in Google Docs next month; expansion to MS Word and Apple's Pages by end of the year.

  • Addresses false positives in AI-generated plagiarism detection.

  • AI firm working on generating and interpreting scents, akin to how AI creates images and sounds.

  • Teaching computers to smell involves identifying molecular patterns, a complex task.

  • The Tech could detect diseases like cancer or diabetes by identifying specific aromas.

  • Potential applications include transmitting smells over the internet and creating scent-based marketing.

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Brad and Brian

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