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18 October 2023 / Newsletters & Alerts
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Copy LinkWelcome to your Disruptive Innovation Radar featuring the latest news, trends and insights from the world of Artificial Intelligence. From breakthrough research to emerging applications, this roundup covers it all in a concise, informative, and easily accessible format.
In this week's edition, we're diving deep into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We explore the inevitable AI invasion, discussing how, given enough time, AI could potentially infiltrate every aspect of our lives. We also delve into the transformative potential of generative AI and the possible regulatory hurdles it could face. Finally, we sit down with Canva to discuss their impressive AI upgrade that's making design feel like magic. How AI is poised to permeate every facet of our existence The potential of generative AI and the regulatory challenges it may encounter Canva's game-changing AI upgrade that's revolutionizing design.
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CEO who replaced 90% of staff with AI: copy and paste jobs done Interest in “lazy girl” jobs has surged as Gen Z rejects hustle culture, embraces doing the bare minimum on Mondays, and takes work at a snail’s pace. Suumit Shah, the CEO of India-based Duukan, sparked backlash for replacing most of his customer support team with chatbots earlier this year — before boasting about it on Twitter, now X.
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Tony Stark relied heavily on AI assistant Jarvis for a variety of tasks. Marvel Microsoft, Meta, and more are touting AI assistants that are far more advanced than Siri and Alexa.
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Food manufacturers will soon be able to use AI and real-world patient data sets to nutritionally optimize their food—for diabetics, pre-diabetics, and the general population. Nearly 40% of Americans have pre-diabetes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a condition in which blood glucose levels are elevated and can cause damage, but aren’t high enough to warrant an official diagnosis of diabetes. When it comes to diabetes itself, slightly more than a tenth of the U.S. population has the condition.
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Generative AI’s supercharging goes beyond just text to images A sequence of events, set in motion in July last year when Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and OpenAI’s Dall-E text-to-image models were unlocked for users to try out, shows no signs of slowing down. A few months later, OpenAI opening up the large language model (LLM) chatbot ChatGPT triggered the conversation AI battles that have since seen Microsoft, Google and Amazon push for a response. Canva’s newly updated AI suite includes nifty tools such as Magic Expand.
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UNESCO, Dutch join forces on ethical AI supervision project The recent AI boom has forced governments across the globe to consider frameworks with which to address the technology’s unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Against this background, UNESCO has teamed up with the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (NCCA) to launch an AI supervision project.
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56% of professionals are unsure if their companies have ethical guidelines for AI use Although AI has been around since the 1950s, it has seen tremendous growth within the past year. Tech giants have been implementing AI into their products and services, while individuals are using it to make their lives a little easier.
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In the dozens of lists circulating the internet that predict which jobs artificial intelligence will replace, graphic designers are often named. Adobe’s newest AI features could move that forecast along, but the company’s leadership has another idea about the future of creative jobs.
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Vera wants to use AI to cull generative models' worst behaviors Liz O'Sullivan is on a mission to make AI "a little bit safer," in her own words. A member of the National AI Advisory Committee, which drafts recommendations to the White House and Congress on how to foster AI adoption while regulating its risks, O'Sullivan spent 12 years on the business side of AI startups overseeing data labeling and operations and customer success. In 2019, she took a job at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, mounting campaigns to protect New Yorkers' civil liberties, and co-founded Arthur AI, a startup that partners with civil society and academy to shine ligh...
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Virtual try-on tech is taking the guesswork out of fit and offering more flexibility for customers. It may also be better for retailers' bottom lines because it can decrease return rates.
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