While it's unclear if mainstream PC users are actually using Microsoft's Copilot AI, the company claims that businesses using MS 365 Copilot are seeing plenty of benefits. According to a Microsoft survey, Copilot users at Honeywell save up to 92 minutes per week, while customer service agents at Teladoc are saving up to five hours a week by using the AI tool to draft responses to questions. Now that we're a year beyond the MS 365 Copilot launch (at a costly 30 per seat), Microsoft is eager to throw more AI features at corporate drones. Most intriguingly, Microsoft is upgrading its Business Chat app, which so far has been a way to interact with Copilot's across your emails, calendar entries and other data, alongside data from your organization. Now it's getting better collaboration with the addition of Copilot Pages, which will serve as a sort of "multiplayer" way to share AI generated content with your coworkers.

End-of-life decisions can be extremely upsetting for surrogates, the people who have to make those calls on behalf of another person, says David Wendler, a bioethicist at the US National Institutes of Health. Wendler and his colleagues have been working on an idea for something that could make things easier: an artificial-intelligence-based tool that can help surrogates predict what patients themselves would want in any given situation. The tool hasn't been built yet. But Wendler plans to train it on a person's own medical data, personal messages, and social media posts. He hopes it could not only be more accurate at working out what the patient would want, but also alleviate the stress and emotional burden of difficult decision-making for family members.

Leaders of AI companies often argue that AI products will handle mundane tasks, freeing people up to be more productive and creative. And there are few tasks more mundane than taxes. An individual American taxpayer spends roughly 13 hours and 240 out-of-pocket costs just to prepare and file one annual tax return, according to one 2022 study--an estimated 1.15 billion hours collectively spent on tax preparation. So it's not surprising that tax companies have begun rolling out AI-powered tools in an effort to make filing easier. AI-powered tax software, these companies argue, can automate repetitive tasks like data entry, cull through patterns in order to find relevant tax breaks, identify potential compliance risks, and answer tricky questions that filers may have.

At the screenings of Ryan Gosling's new movie "The Fall Guy" and Sydney Sweeney's "Immaculate" -- headlining events of the first week of this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) conference -- a reel of speakers touting the merits of AI including Peter Deng, head of ChatGPT at OpenAI, was loudly booed by audiences. In other halls of the annual Austin confab, which attracts over 300,000 people each year, the tone was one of heady optimism. Companies were spinning a positive narrative -- pushing the idea that AI wouldn't destroy jobs, but rather represented a once-in-a-generation opportunity to modernize a multitude of industries. International Business Machines Chief Human Resources Officer Nickle LaMoreaux told a SXSW panel that AI will instead alleviate labor shortages that are set to worsen as birth rates decline across developed economies. And while only a tiny percentage of jobs can be completely automated, the vast majority won't disappear -- but will change dramatically.

The week before heading off to college, Harry Emerson was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Without the ability to produce insulin, the hormone that transports blood sugar to fuel other cells, he'd need help from medical devices to survive, his doctors told him. Eager to get on with school, Emerson rushed through the process of familiarizing himself with the technology, then went off to university. Because people with type 1 diabetes make very little or no insulin on their own, they need to keep careful track of their blood sugar as it changes throughout the day. They inject insulin when their blood sugar is too high or when it's about to spike after a meal and keep fast-acting carbs ready to eat when it dips too low.

Artificial intelligence-powered writing assistants that autocomplete sentences or offer "smart replies" not only put words into people's mouths, they also put ideas into their heads, according to new research. Maurice Jakesch, a doctoral student in the field of information science asked more than 1,500 participants to write a paragraph answering the question, "Is social media good for society?" People who used an AI writing assistant that was biased for or against social media were twice as likely to write a paragraph agreeing with the assistant, and significantly more likely to say they held the same opinion, compared with people who wrote without AI's help. The study suggests that the biases baked into AI writing tools – whether intentional or unintentional – could have concerning repercussions for culture and politics, researchers said. "We're rushing to implement these AI models in all walks of life, but we need to better understand the implications," said co-author Mor Naaman, professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.

The discussion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become so prevalent that every sector is now informed of its existence. Over the years, technology has been a major driving force in growing and developing human work states and engagements. With various examples of newly developed AI, the adoption of this digital revolution has become so paramount to everyone. However, an important question I have amid all these is, "how will AI help developing Third World countries?" It is important to first examine what third-world countries are before delving into the ways in which AI can help them better.

Too Long; Didn't Read The term third-world countries can be traced to the era of the Cold War between the East and West Bloc between 1947 and 1991. According to Amartya Sen, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, "The Third World refers to countries that have relatively low levels of living standards, which makes them poor and backward" The impact of Artificial Intelligence can be felt in various sectors in Third World countries.

Artificial intelligence has recently made considerable strides and is currently applied in various fields, including sports. The sports sector is changing in numerous ways because to AI. The training process is becoming more effective and competitive as a result. Additionally, it aids in performance analysis and forecasting for athletes. The future of sports is changing and incorporating digital advancements in everything from performance analysis to scouting and recruitment. Artificial intelligence may boost performance as a player, whether a professional or an amateur, and the team's ability to win games.

Erica, which was launched in 2018, garnered 1 billion client interactions and has helped 32 million users. Bank of America expects Erica, early next year, to connect clients to banking agents regarding new products and services, such as mortgages, credit cards and deposit accounts. The pandemic saw a growing number of older customers use digital banking tools, including Erica, Gopalkrishnan said. The bank now wants to build on enhanced adoption by improving the flow of transactions, including the seamless handoff from Erica to human agents and vice versa. "We realized, at some point, people go, 'I'm done with that chat, I need to talk to a human,'" Gopalkrishnan said.