Was Steve Jobs right about this?

Perhaps Steve Jobs was right to limit the amount of time he let his children use iPhones and iPads — a tradition Apple maintains with its Screen Time tool, which lets parents set limits on device use. Now, an extensive UNESCO report suggests that letting kids spend too much time on these devices can be bad for them.

Baked in inequality and lack of social skills

That’s the headline claim, but there’s a lot more to the report in terms of exploring data privacy, misuse of tech, and failed digital transformation experiments.

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How AI Can Accelerate the Transition to Green Hydrogen

Credit to Author: Shafeen Nayan Veettil Muhammed| Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:22:44 +0000

In his 1874 book The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne described a world where “water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of…

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Google Bard launches in EU, overcoming data privacy concerns in the region

Google has announced it is making its Bard chatbot available in the EU and Brazil, five months after the company opened it up for early access. To date, residents in EU countries have been unable to access the company’s ChatGPT rival due to issues surrounding data privacy concerns.

In addition to making Bard more widely available, Google has also introduced a host of new features including text-to-speech capabilities, shareable Bard conversation links, Google Lens compatibility, and the ability to customize Bard responses — for example, adjusting for tone and style.

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How AI is Accelerating the Transition to Green Hydrogen

Credit to Author: Shafeen Nayan Veettil Muhammed| Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:22:44 +0000

In his 1874 book The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne described a world where “water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of…

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OpenAI launches new alignment division to tackle risks of superintelligent AI

OpenAI is opening a new alignment research division, focused on developing training techniques to stop superintelligent AI — artificial intelligence that could outthink humans and become misaligned with humans ethics — from causing serious harm.

“Currently, we don’t have a solution for steering or controlling a potentially superintelligent AI, and preventing it from going rogue,” Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever wrote in a blog post for OpenAI, the company behind the most well-known generative AI large language model, ChatGPT. They  added that although superintelligence might seem far off, some experts believe it could arrive this decade.

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From Design Engineering to Artificial Intelligence: a four-decade Schneider Electric career, and the jobs you might not realize we have

Credit to Author: Employee Voices| Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 05:00:00 +0000

For a boy reared on a dairy farm in rural Wisconsin, my role at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning might seem a little incongruous. But looking back, I can see how milking cows, planting and harvesting crops, and working through…

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Cisco brings generative AI to Webex and Cisco Security Cloud

Cisco is adding new generative AI capabilities to its Webex collaboration platform, aimed at increasing productivity through automated meeting and conversation summaries.

The new offerings, announced at the Cisco Live! customer event in Las Vegas on Wednesday, include summarization capabilities that allow users to catch up on missed meetings or focus on the most important action items from a call. The capabilities also extend to Cisco’s asynchronous Vidcast tool and the Webex Contact Center.

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