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Salesforce launches AI platform for automated task management

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Salesforce is now stepping up its AI game with Agentforce, a platform that lets businesses to build and deploy digital agents to automate tasks such as creating sales reports and summarising Slack conversations. In 2016, it launched Einstein, an AI feature baked into its CRM platform. What problem is it solving?

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Survey of 2,778 AI authors: six parts in pictures

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As always, our questions about ‘high level machine intelligence’ (HLMI) and ‘full automation of labor’ (FAOL) got very different answers, and individuals disagreed a lot (shown as thin lines below), but the aggregate forecasts for both sets of questions dropped sharply. What makes AI progress go? Has it sped up?

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SoftBank acquires British AI chipmaker Graphcore

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In 2016, SoftBank controversially acquired British chip designer Arm in a much larger deal. The comprehensive event is co-located with other leading events including Intelligent Automation Conference , BlockX , Digital Transformation Week , and Cyber Security & Cloud Expo.

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AI sector study: Record growth masks serious challenges

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billion was secured in private investment since 2016, with investments made in 52 unique industry sectors compared to 35 sectors in 2016. The comprehensive event is co-located with other leading events including Intelligent Automation Conference , BlockX , Digital Transformation Week , and Cyber Security & Cloud Expo.

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Gil Pekelman, Atera: How businesses can harness the power of AI

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We launched the Atera all-in-one platform for IT management in 2016, so quite a few years ago. It’s everything from technical things like patching and security to ongoing support, alerts, automations, ticket management, reports, and analytics, etc. Can you tell us a little bit about Atera and what it does?

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The Dangers of AI Chatbots – And How to Counter Them

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Once thought of as just automated talking programs, AI chatbots can now learn and hold conversations that are almost indistinguishable from humans. In 2016, Microsoft debuted a chatbot named Tay that learned to mimic social media posts. Chatbots phishers can mimic the same automated prompts banks use to trick victims.

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How to Boost Productivity With the Help of AI

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Between 2020 and 2016 alone, we saw the same amount of progress that occurred between 1900 and 2000 — a whole century's worth of advancement in just 16 years. AI can also help structure and automate information within your company so that it is instantly accessible. This creates an “AI brain” to automate operations.