Key AI developments you might have overlooked today: LG’s AI agent, IBM’s AI executive on employment, and more
As the year comes to a close, many people are enjoying their vacations. However, it is important to stay informed about the exciting advancements happening in the field of artificial intelligence. LG has announced that it will be showcasing its AI agent, which includes a smart home hub, a robot, and a monitoring system for houses and pets, at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024). Additionally, IBM’s global managing partner in generative AI, Matt Candy, has advised professionals that those who possess skills in working with AI through language and creative thinking will have secure job prospects in this industry. Stay tuned for more updates in today’s AI roundup.
LG will announce an artificial intelligence agent at CES 2024
In a press release, LG revealed that it will unveil its smart home AI agent at CES 2024. G’s smart home AI agent offers robotic, artificial intelligence, and multimodal technologies that enable it to move, learn, understand, and engage in complex conversations. . LG’s smart home AI agent can navigate the home autonomously thanks to its “bipedal” wheel design. The smart device can verbally interact with users and express emotions through movements enabled by its articulated leg joints. In addition, the use of multimodal AI technology, combining voice and image recognition and natural language processing, enables the smart home AI agent to understand context and intent and actively communicate with users, the company claimed.
IBM’s AI leader has advice for professionals
According to Matt Candy, IBM’s global head of creative AI, the jobs of the future will require individuals with the skills to work with AI, emphasizing the language and creative thinking cultivated through liberal arts degrees. He believes that as companies worldwide tighten their focus on artificial intelligence in response to automation trends, the desired skills for these roles may not revolve around coding or technical hardware knowledge. Instead, the ability to understand and apply language can become a decisive factor in well-paid jobs related to artificial intelligence.
“Instead of us having to learn to speak the language of technology and programming computers, they learn to speak our language,” Candy told Fortune.
Michael Cohen admits to sending fake AI references to his lawyers
Former US President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, admitted that he accidentally sent references created by artificial intelligence to the court, reported NBC News. He mistakenly believed that the AI bot Google Bard was an advanced search engine that he used to investigate legal cases to stop his controlled publication. There were no AI-generated cases, revealing Cohen’s error. Cohen, who has previously been convicted of several crimes including making secret payments and lying to Congress, now admits to unwittingly using fictitious information in his legal filings.
In the lawsuit, Cohen said he had not “followed new trends (and associated risks) in legal technology and did not realize that Google Bard was a generative text service that, like Chat-GPT, could display quotes and descriptions that appear real but actually were not .”
Artificial intelligence makes a big reveal about Raphael’s masterpiece, the Madonna della Rosa
Researchers from the UK and the US have discovered that not all of Raphael’s masterpiece Madonna della Rosa was painted by him and artificial intelligence has played a huge role in unraveling this mystery, according to a Science Alert report.
“Through deep feature analysis, we used images of authenticated Raphael paintings to teach the computer to recognize his style in great detail, from brush strokes, color palette, shading and all aspects of the work,” said mathematician Hassan Ugail. and computer scientist at the University of Bradford.
Artificial intelligence revealed that the face of St. Joseph in the famous painting was not the work of Raphael, but Giulio Romano, one of his students.
With the help of artificial intelligence, Nvidia and AMD witness the best year since 2009
Semiconductor stocks had their best year in more than a decade, marked by a 65 percent gain in the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index, and 2023 was its best year since 2009, Bloomberg reported. The rise was due to chipmakers at the forefront of AI applications. In particular, Nvidia’s sales exploded, and its stock more than tripled, becoming the first chipmaker to surpass $1 trillion in market capitalization. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), another key player in artificial intelligence, ranked second in the index with a nearly 130 percent increase in its share value over the year. The strong performance reflects the growing importance of semiconductor companies in the artificial intelligence-based technology environment.
