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President Biden says tech companies must ensure AI products are safe

President Joe Biden on Tuesday met with his council of advisers on science and technology about the risks and opportunities that rapid advancements in artificial intelligence development pose for individual users and national security. Biden said that tech companies have a responsibility to make sure their products are safe before making them public." AI can help deal with some very difficult challenges like disease and climate change, but it also has to address the potential risks to our society, to our economy, to our national security, Biden told the group. The White House said the Democratic president would use the AI meeting to discuss the importance of protecting rights and safety to ensure responsible innovation and appropriate safeguards" and to reiterate his call for Congress to pass legislation to protect children and curtail data collection by technology companies. Artificial intelligence burst to the forefront in the national and global conversation after the release of

Wright launches AI platform for MF transactions by retail investors

People can use it to make investments tailored to their risk profiles and financial goals, says company

Debate rages on Indian kids' exposure to ChatGPT in classrooms

Children should rather be trained to be doing their own research, assimilate information, and construct their own knowledge out of it

US President Biden to meet with experts on AI 'risks and opportunities'

President Joe Biden on Tuesday will meet with his council of advisers on science and technology about the risks and opportunities that rapid advancements in artificial intelligence development pose for individual users and national security. The White House said the Democratic president would use the AI meeting to discuss the importance of protecting rights and safety to ensure responsible innovation and appropriate safeguards" and to reiterate his call for Congress to pass legislation to protect children and curtail data collection by technology companies. Artificial intelligence burst to the forefront in the national conversation after the release of the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, which helped spark a race among tech giants to unveil similar tools, while raising ethical and societal concerns from the powerful technology. The council, known as PCAST, is composed of science, engineering, technology and medical experts and is co-chaired by the Cabinet-ranked director of the White

Kerala-based tech company develops AI to help expecting and new parents

Kerala-based tech company, Totto, on Monday announced the launch of Cuddle, a service which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide support to expecting and new parents throughout pregnancy and parenting. The company said Cuddle will provide a comprehensive suite of services designed to address the unique needs of each parent, including prenatal care and nutrition, postpartum recovery, infant development, and more. "Cuddle is now available on WhatsApp, offering parents a convenient and reliable way to access personalized guidance and assistance from a team of experts," the company said in a release. Jofin Joseph, the CEO of Totto said parents face a range of challenges every day, but the options to seek trusted advice are minimal. Joseph said parents can ask questions and share their concerns with the AI. "Our AI Assistant -we call her Janani'-can understand the parent's needs and provide personalized recommendations and insights tailored to each parent's unique needs and ...

India not prepared for full force of artificial intelligence adoption

Only 11% of jobs in India can be automated against global average of 18%, says Goldman Sachs' assessment of 30 countries

Magnetic levitation on the shop floor

A global food major uses ICT-based tracks for packaging a variety of its products at a factory in western India. Frictionless propulsion makes it 30 per cent faster than traditional conveyor systems

Microsoft-owned OpenAI blocks access to ChatGPT for users in Italy

Microsoft-owned OpenAI has blocked access to its AI chatbot ChatGPT in Italy in response to an order from the local data protection authority to halt processing Italians' data for the ChatGPT service

Italy orders OpenAI to stop processing users' data else face fine

OpenAI will have to notify the Italian regulators within 20 days of the measures implemented to comply with the order, otherwise a fine of up to 20mn euros or 4% of its total worldwide annual turnover

Google AI-based tiny syringe to inject gene therapy, tumour-killing drugs

The researchers thought it might be possible to modify them to deliver proteins to human cells by re-engineering the tail fibres to bind to different receptors

AI-based investment advisory app JARVIS Invest forays Australian market

AI-based investment advisory platform JARVIS Invest on Friday announced its foray in the Australian market to tap into the country's technology and investment ecosystem. The city-based firm, in a statement, said the expansion into Australia, with Melbourne as JARVIS Invest's Oceania headquarters, is a key milestone in its global expansion plans. The company said it has launched 'Jarvis AI Analytics', a tech company in Melbourne, which will primarily identify potential institutions, fund houses, banks, brokers with whom the technology will be shared. With the support of Australian investors, JARVIS Invest will be able to deploy its AI technology to invest in India and Australia equity markets, capitalising on market opportunities and delivering superior returns for its clients, it said. The company's entry Down Under comes after its recent expansion in the Middle East for its B2B enterprise product. Founded by Sumit Chanda in December 2016, Jarvis Invest offers bespoke equity portf

Stop OpenAI from launching new GPT models: AI policy group to US FTC

The group is asking the FTC to require OpenAI to establish an independent assessment of GPT products before they are deployed in the future

Kolkata airport gets DigiYatra, check-in with facial recognition tech

Passengers travelling through the Kolkata airport will now be able to check in for their flights and board planes with facial recognition technology as DigiYatra was rolled out here on Friday, an official statement said. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is the fourth one in the country after airports in Delhi, Bengaluru and Varanasi have the facility that provides a seamless entry and embarkation process for air passengers. DigiYatra' was rolled out in those three airports in the first phase in December last year. "Its main objective is to enhance passenger experience by eliminating the need for verification of ticket and ID at multiple touch points and to achieve better movement of passengers through existing infrastructure using a digital framework," the Kolkata airport said in a statement. The trials of the technology started at the Kolkata airport on February 21, and till Thursday, 9,206 passengers utilised the facility. Passengers travelling through Air India

Google starts testing generative AI features in Gmail, Docs: Report

The company will expand the availability of the generative AI features "over time", the report said

Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida quizzed by ChatGPT in Parliament

Among the questions drawn up by ChatGPT were: "On the bill about Covid policy revision, do you think you have listened to the opinion of local government and health-care workers enough?"

98% senior IT leaders struggle with increasing cloud complexity: Report

Top challenges in optimising multi-cloud environment are lower in the US, UK, India, finds NetApp

Microsoft to bring advertisements to its new AI-powered Bing chat

Microsoft has announced that it is bringing ads to its AI-powered Bing chat, its new search agent powered by OpenAI's GPT-4

Google denies report of copying ChatGPT to train its own AI chatbot Bard

Bard, like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing chatbot, is based on a large language model (LLM)

Pause AI systems, they are a risk to society: Elon Musk, experts

Prominent figures in the tech community, including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, were listed among the signatories

InCruiter looks to disrupt HR Tech with its Interview-as-a-service offering

The use of AI/ML algorithms by companies to offer comprehensive solutions to recruiters and highly personalized and contextual services to job seekers is now becoming commonplace