The UK's competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Google to probe whether it has too much power in online search. Google accounts for 90% of UK web searches - the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is looking at whether it is using that dominant position to harm competition or choice for users. It is its first investigation after gaining new powers to investigate and enforce changes at firms it determines to have "strategic market status" in digital markets. The CMA says it wants to ensure the tech giant is "delivering good outcomes for people and businesses" and that there is a "level playing field" for rivals. In a statement Google said: "We will continue to engage constructively with the CMA to ensure that new rules benefit all types of websites, and still allow people in the UK to benefit from helpful and cutting edge services." It is the latest in a series of investigations Google faces worldwide over its immense power in search and advertising technology.

People should not assume a positive outcome from the artificial intelligence boom, the UK's competition watchdog has warned, citing risks including a proliferation of false information, fraud and fake reviews as well as high prices for using the technology. The Competition and Markets Authority said people and businesses could benefit from a new generation of AI systems but dominance by entrenched players and flouting of consumer protection law posed a number of potential threats. The CMA made the warning in an initial review of foundation models, the technology that underpins AI tools such as the ChatGPT chatbot and image generators such as Stable Diffusion. The emergence of ChatGPT in particular has triggered a debate over the impact of generative AI – a catch-all term for tools that produce convincing text, image and voice outputs from typed human prompts – on the economy by eliminating white-collar jobs in areas such as law, IT and the media, as well as the potential for mass-producing disinformation targeting voters and consumers. The CMA chief executive, Sarah Cardell, said the speed at which AI was becoming a part of everyday life for people and businesses was "dramatic", with the potential for making millions of everyday tasks easier as well as boosting productivity – a measure of economic efficiency, or the amount of output generated by a worker for each hour worked.

AI for People and Business is an AI book and AI strategy framework. Here's the official book trailer where I explain important topics that are covered in the book, as well as the beneficial aspects of reading it and the importance of developing a strong AI strategy. I hope you enjoy and learn something new! "A must read for business executives and managers interested in learning about AI and unlocking its benefits. Alex Castrounis has simplified complex topics so that anyone can begin to leverage AI within their organization." "Alex Castrounis has been at the forefront of helping organizations understand the promise of AI and leverage its benefits, while avoiding the many pitfalls that can derail success. In this essential book, he shares his expertise with the rest of us." – Dean Wampler, Ph.D., VP, Fast Data Engineering at Lightbend "With the enormous impact AI is having across many different industries, it's imperative for all organizational leaders to develop a baseline understanding… and this book provides just that."

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The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has called on the UK government to create "a new pro-competition regulatory regime" that can control Facebook, Google and other technology companies that are primarily funded by digital advertising. The non-ministerial department has completed a study announced last July and concluded that "existing laws are not suitable for effective regulation." To combat the problem, it's recommending that a new Digital Markets Unit be set up with major oversight and powers. The Unit was first proposed in a report published by the Digital Competition Expert Panel (DCEP) -- a group chaired by Professor Jason Furman, a former chief economist when Barack Obama was president -- in March 2019. The CMA believes it should have a code of conduct that ensures Facebook and Google don't veer into "exploitative or exclusionary practices," or do anything that is likely to reduce public trust and transparency.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting technological growth areas in recent years, with some investors like technologically-focused entrepreneur Tej Kohli predicting the sector will be worth $150 trillion (£125tn) by 2025, but why do we need the technology in our phones? Flagship devices today all come equipped with specialised AI processing chips, known and neural engines or neural processing units, from Apple's A12 Bionic CPU to Huawei's Kirin 980 or Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845, and more and more tasks are using their advanced processing capabilities. The most obvious artificial intelligence in our phones are the voice assistants that learn to understand our voice commands and then act appropriately from telling us the weather to playing our favourite song or adding an appointment to our calendar. Google, Apple, and Amazon have steered clear of labelling their services as AI so as not to scare away users fearful of a robot takeover, but these services rely on machine learning to function – understanding what you are telling them to do and then performing the right action. Possibly the most advanced implementation of any digital assistant is Google's Duplex service that will make calls and interact with other people and businesses on your behalf.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being talked about everywhere these days, and it impacts our lives whether we realize it or not. This will continue to increase, so now's a great time to learn more about the subject. Here are some AI-related books that I've read and recommend for you to add to your 2020 reading list! A shameless plug given that I wrote this book, although I believe it will provide significant value to a wide-ranging audience. It's becoming imperative for business leaders to understand artificial intelligence and machine learning at an appropriate level in order to build great data-centric products and solutions. I wrote AI for People and Business for executives, managers, and non-technical folks interested in leveraging AI successfully within their organization, and to help readers understand the many benefits of AI for both people and business.

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Alex is the author of AI for People and Business and the founder of InnoArchiTech. He has an M.S. in applied mathematics, awarded with distinction, and nearly 20 years of innovation experience, including as a winning IndyCar engineer and race strategist. Alex has helped companies in many industries innovate and win with data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. He's assisted companies in industries such as retail, marketing, E-commerce, advertising, consumer goods, manufacturing, human resources, legal, parking management, and professional motorsports. Alex has been engaged to speak by organizations such as O'Reilly, Apple, Expedia, E*Trade, 1871, General Assembly, Northwestern University, and DePaul University.

That degree of ubiquity -- not to mention AI's potential to upend the future of work -- means even tech agnostics would benefit from at least a working knowledge of its concepts. At the same time, AI's ever-growing complexity means practitioners need to know the wheat from the chaff when it comes to practical application how-to's. To that end, we asked three AI experts to pick some of their favorite books about artificial intelligence. Their selections range from a highly technical consideration of AI's so-called black box problem to a historical overview of machine learning; from a sober counterpoint to the field's deep-learning fixation to a thoughtful critique of algorithm bias. This book provides a wider framework than just deep learning, which is the hot thing now. Two things to bear in mind: People should know about the different tribes, as the author calls them, and they should also understand that most solutions are going to be ensemble systems, meaning it's not going to be one-tribe-takes-all.