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Naming any technology is difficult, but AI is doubly so. It has to evoke a sense of the cutting edge, be at once both sophisticated and safe, perhaps even friendly. A good name leaves room for the technology to grow and change without rendering its moniker obsolete or inaccurate. On top of all this, it has to sound cool

Google’s ‘multimodal’ AI model Gemini: What it means for enterprises?

Gemini brings Google back into AI competition. Enterprise customers finally have a worthy alternative to GPT-4, say analysts.

Today in AI: Google's Bard chatbot gets smarter, Heinz puts recipes to test against AI, why was Altman fired?

Our daily TLDR of important AI news you should know about.

Google's AI chatbot Bard gets smarter, now answers questions about YouTube videos

Google is expanding Bard's YouTube Extension to understand some video content on the platform and answer specific queries on them.

AI researchers have found a way to jailbreak Bard and ChatGPT

As reported by Business Insider, the researchers found they could use jailbreak tools designed for open-sourced AI models on closed systems like ChatGPT as well.

Apple is working on an AI chatbot of its own

While other companies have gone all-in on AI, Apple has remained cautious.

Generative AI can transform customer service: Sendbird's Shailesh Nalawadi

However, the expectations has to be trumped as the hype around past advances in AI has died down. For instance, in the healthcare sector, there were expectations that the software trained on a million x rays or blood samples can predict cancer cell growth and so on. With hindsight, these has been proved to be at best an assistant to a doctor.

Meet the $4 billion AI superstars that Google lost

These eight alumni made one of the biggest discoveries in AI, then left to build their own startups. Why did Google miss the boat?

Google's ChatGPT rival Bard now supports 9 Indian languages, adds Lens integration

This is Google Bard’s biggest expansion to date. The AI chatbot is now available in most parts of the world, and in the most widely spoken languages.

Unleashing the Power of Generative AI: ChatGPT, Bard may add value worth India's economy annually

75 percent of this value creation is expected to occur in four key areas: customer operations, marketing and sales, software engineering, and research and development (R&D)

Large Language Models hallucinate: Here's what you need to know

Hallucinations are a significant ethical concern associated with LLMs. They occur when the model generates outputs that are grammatically and logically correct but are disconnected from reality, often based on false assumptions.

Today in AI: ChatGPT will kill some jobs says OpenAI CEO, Google updates Bard, Apple has a close eye on AI and more

Our daily TLDR of important AI stories you must know about.

Why Microsoft is deploying Builder.AI’s Natasha on Teams, despite launching Copilot

Natasha can listen in on conversations across teams in a company and suggest solutions that can be deployed quickly. Whereas Copilot is more of a productivity enhancement tool used for tasks like taking notes, etc.

Tim Harford: What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech

Is AI the latest threat to livelihoods? That depends on society

Viral fake Pentagon explosion photo on Twitter is an AI wakeup call

Tech companies have to do a better job of preventing fake news from spreading — but we will also need to approach them with greater doses of skepticism. Soon enough, pics won’t be so useful for proof, and we’ll find ourselves questioning legitimate images too

The AI gold rush will take humanity to some dark places

Encoding iris scans on the blockchain shows a need to curb Silicon Valley’s saviour complex.

TCS partners with Google Cloud to offer customised AI solutions

TCS has over 50,000 associates trained in AI, with plans to earn 40,000 skill badges on Google Cloud Generative AI within the year, to support the anticipated demand for its new offering.

Explained: What powers ChatGPT and Bard? A look at LLMs or large language models

Large language models, or LLMs, are a type of AI model specifically designed to understand natural language. Here’s all you should know about the tech behind the coolest AI in town.

Google Cloud introduces AI security features for enterprises, shares road map

With security being at the forefront, talent is a concern for Google. While looking to elevate its in-house security experts, the search giant is also helping other companies nurture and build their security talent pool capabilities.

CERT-In warns users against misuse of ChatGPT, Bard, Bing AI by threat actors

AI language-based models such as ChatGPT have been misused for creating malwares, phishing campaigns and also for clearing examinations of prestigious institutions and top universities

Sundar Pichai settles the hot dog-sandwich debate with ‘expert viewpoint of a vegetarian’

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday addressed a contentious issue at the company’s annual developers conference: Is a hot dog a sandwich?

Salaries, skill sets, open roles: All you need to know to build a career in Generative AI

The total global talent pool in Generative AI grew by 46 percent over the last year to reach 19,000 as of April 2023

Alphabet's Sundar Pichai says a significant multi-year effort underway to save costs

Google will integrate AI across its products, including its mobile operating system Android and Pixel devices, in the near future, Pichai said.

Google Cloud will incorporate AI principles in all new products; India unit developing payment gateway

Google Cloud’s head of platform Amit Zavery discusses new AI capabilities for cloud, Vertex AI and offerings built by the India engineering teams with Moneycontrol.

Google begins opening access to its ChatGPT competitor Bard

Google describes Bard as an experiment allowing collaboration with generative AI, technology that relies on past data to create rather than identify content.