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Leveraging AI

91 | The Empire (Microsoft) Strikes Back, Open AI Having a Really Bad Week, The Future of Work in the AI Era, And more AI news for the week ending on May 24th, 2024

May 25, 2024
AI news edition covering Microsoft's AI-infused 'Copilot PCs', OpenAI's safety concerns, Google's AI search quirks, tech luminaries' insights on AI job impacts, and affordable home robots. Discusses AI models' 'brain', societal readiness, and new self-paced AI course announcement.
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  • Microsoft introduces AI-infused 'Co-pilot PCs' with controversial screen recording, raising privacy concerns.
  • Industry experts highlight concerns over AI reshaping job markets, sparking discussions on UBI and ethical considerations.

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Microsoft's AI-Powered Co-Pilot Plus PCs

Microsoft unveiled a new line of PCs called co-pilot plus PCs, integrating new chips for AI performance, combining ARM-based chips from Qualcomm and Intel, boosting computer speed by 58%. These PCs promise AI integration throughout the ecosystem, including AI agents for virtual employee tasks and a controversial 'recall' feature that searches and retrieves past computer data with high-frequency screenshots, raising privacy concerns.

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