Ant Group, the Chinese fintech giant affiliated with Alibaba Group Holding, has set up a new artificial intelligence (AI) unit led by a former engineer at Google, demonstrating its ambitions in applying the fast-developing technology to its expanding business. The new unit – called NextEvo and headed by Xu Peng, a vice-president of engineering at … Read more
“With advances in AI, we are ushering in the next generation of sourcing and empowering small businesses to succeed with our Smart Assistant at their side,” Chris Lu, general manager at Alibaba.com North America, said in a statement last week. The Alibaba.com booth features the e-commerce platform’s artificial intelligence-powered Smart Assistant, designed to help users … Read more
China should leverage AI-generated content for its international messaging and image building and enhance content scrutiny, according to commentary published on Friday by a newspaper of the Central Party School. In the article in Study Times, bylined Li Chunyan, called for China’s propaganda officials to pay more attention to the output of applications such as … Read more
ONTARIO: According to new research on massive language models, they perpetuate conspiracy theories, negative stereotypes, and other types of misinformation.Researchers from the University of Waterloorecently tested an early version of ChatGPT’s interpretation of claims in six categories: facts, conspiracies, disputes, misconceptions, stereotypes, and fiction.This was part of a larger effort by Waterloo researchers to analyse … Read more
