🎓 Microsoft Launches Free AI Training With Professional Certificate

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Welcome back! It’s Thursday, July 6th, today we’re covering Microsoft that launches a free AI training with professional certificate (fancy a career in AI?), how the most prolific videogame companies use AI for new games, and a ChatGPT prompt to use the 80/20 rule to learn super fast, and much more.

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🚀 BIG TECH & STARTUPS

Microsoft Launches Free AI Training With Professional Certificate (3 min read)

Microsoft and LinkedIn are taking steps to address the growing demand for AI skills in the workforce. Available through LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft is launching the AI Skills Initiative to provide people with the knowledge and tools needed to harness AI technology. Microsoft emphasizes that while AI could improve life and work, people must learn to use AI responsibly and ethically.

Is AMD narrowing the AI gap on Nvidia? (2 min read)

AMD-built artificial intelligence chips are “almost” as fast as the industry leading devices from Nvidia. That is according to a new study by Databricks-owned AI software company MosaicML which found AMD’s technology achieved 80% of Nvidia’s performance when training large language models and performing other AI-intensive tasks. Nvidia currently dominates the market when it comes to training AI models such as those used to run ChatGPT or Midjourney. The success of these products and demand for compute power has pushed Nvidia to a $1trn valuation and sparked a shortage of GPUs.

🧑‍🚀 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

The US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a Spin (3 min read)

The US Air Force colonel has been running data-based exercises inside the US Defense Department for years. But for the first time, they tried a large-language model to perform a military task. The use of LLMs would represent a major shift for the military, where so little is digitized or connected. They have fed the models with classified operational information to inform sensitive questions. The long-term aim of such exercises is to update the US warhorse so it can use AI-enabled data in decision-making, sensors and ultimately firepower.

How Ubisoft, Roblox, and Blizzard Are Using AI to Make Next-Generation Games (4 min read)

Some of the most prolific video game studios are using generative AI* to automate the tedious elements of game design, like NPC dialogue and creating new levels of detail for in-game renderings—all in an effort to speed development and focus human talent on more important elements.

[*Generative AI is artificial intelligence that can create new content—such as text, images, or music—using prompts. It learns from a large amount of data and uses that data to generate new, complementary content ranging from simple sentences to videos and complex works of art.]

🧠 MISCELLANEOUS

South Korea wants to be a top A.I. hub (2 min read)

South Korea is aiming to become one of the world’s top three AI powerhouses by 2027, following closely behind the U.S. and China, according to the nation’s “digital strategy.” South Korea’s dominance in the memory chip market and a robust artificial intelligence ecosystem gives it an advantage in the global AI chip race, said industry observers.

Google confirms it’s training Bard on scraped web data, too (2.5 min read)

Following the update on July 1st, 2023, Google’s privacy policy now says that “Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features, and technologies that benefit our users and the public” and that the company may “use publicly available information to help train Google’s AI models and build products and features like Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities.” You can see from the policy’s revision history that the update provides some additional clarity as to the services that will be trained using the collected data.

Never underestimate a droid: robots gather at AI for Good summit in Geneva (3 min read)

Rapid advances in AI have in recent years fuelled increasing unease that the technology could become more powerful than humans, with dire consequences. But the United Nations AI for Good global summit in Geneva – with its extensive cast of robotic delegates – is focused on more favourable scenarios in which AI could be harnessed for positive causes.