✈️ Windows gets AI smarts
Plus LinkedIn has some fresh AI tools
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**Microsoft **has started rolling out its AI-powered Copilot for enterprise Windows 11 users.
For the uninitiated, Copilot is Microsoft’s generative AI tool that pulls a lot of its smarts from **OpenAI’s **GPT models. (Microsoft is one of OpenAI’s major backers.)
With Copilot on Windows, you can do many ChatGPT-like things, including composing emails and contextualizing data. There are also AI image features inside of apps like Paint and Photos. Copilot on Windows is part of Microsoft’s broader mission to put AI everywhere including in standalone products such as Bing, Edge, and Microsoft 365.
All this AI goodness does not come cheap; Microsoft is charging enterprise customers $30 a month for Copilot features.
Microsoft-owned** LinkedIn **is adding premium AI tools aimed at professionals.
The headline AI feature is a tool to help users quickly determine whether they are a good fit for a job. As LinkedIn’s chief product officer explains it, the tool is geared toward those who might otherwise feel insecure about applying for a position.
LinkedIn has also rolled out an AI-powered summary button that breaks down long posts into bullet points. LinkedIn notes that summaries will be tailored to the user, so that a stock trader would get a different summary than a sales executive.
The new AI features are available to those on a LinkedIn Premium plan, which start at $39.99 a month.
Chipmaker **AMD **says it expects to generate more than $2 billion in GPU sales in 2024 due to the demand from AI companies.
AMD CEO Lisa Su made the prediction during the company’s fiscal 2023 third-quarter earnings call, where she noted the company is working with partners such as Microsoft on a variety of AI strategies. Su also added AMD is “focused on accelerating our leadership AI capabilities across our entire product portfolio.”
AMD is zeroing in on AI as pressure grows from competitors such as Nvidia and** Intel**, both of which are pushing to establish themselves as _the _AI chip company.
The US, UK, EU, China, and other world governments have signed an international declaration stating things could go very wrong with AI.
The so-called Bletchley declaration was published on the first day of the British AI safety summit, which is being attended by prominent figures such as Meta’s **president of global affairs Nick Clegg **and Elon Musk. The statement speaks of the “potential for serious, even catastrophic, harm…stemming from the most significant capabilities of these AI models.”
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has called the declaration a “landmark achievement” because so many major players recognize the “risks of AI.”
While the communique has the sign-off of 28 countries, it doesn’t outline a global approach to regulating AI, which - judging from our own polling - looks like it could be much more difficult to agree on.
