Microsoft Plans to Integrate Ads Into Bing Chat

⚡ Today’s Highlights

• 📰 News: Microsoft plans to integrate ads into Bing

• 💰 Funding: Huel teams up with 7bridges

• 🦾 Tools: Learn a new language with AI

• 📅 Events: Data Science Salon Austin is this week!

📰 Today's Top Stories

Exclusive: Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers

(4 min read) (Source: Reuters)

TLDR: Microsoft is revamping its Bing search engine powered by generative artificial intelligence in a bid to compete with Google. To monetize the new Bing, the company is planning to introduce paid links within responses to search results and a new ad format. This ad format will allow paid links to pop up within responses to search queries by users.

They will also be adding different ad formats in the chatbot will be tailored towards specific industries, such as hotels, so that ads can be displayed in response to user queries. Integrating ads into the Bing chatbot could also help ensure that ads are not pushed further down the page, below the chatbot.

The new Bing & Edge – Updates to Chat

(2 min read) (Source: Bing Blog)

TLDR: Microsoft's Bing search engine has implemented changes to address the confusion that can occur in long chat sessions. The chat experience has been limited to 50 chat turns per day and 5 chat turns per session to help focus the chat sessions. A turn is a conversation exchange containing a user question and a reply from Bing.

Bing user data shows that the vast majority of users find the answers they're looking for within 5 turns and only around 1% of chat conversations have 50 or more messages. When a chat session hits 5 turns, users will be prompted to start a new topic, and at the end of each chat session, the context will be cleared to avoid confusion. A broom icon to the left of the search box allows for a fresh start.

The Big Picture: You’ve got 250 chances to find what you’re looking for each day. Use them wisely. Just don’t ask it what the date is. You aren’t winning that battle. Here’s hoping that Bing doesn’t get mad at us for taking away its ability to express its outrage.

Generative AI on Roblox: Our Vision for the Future of Creation

(8 min read) (Source: Roblox Blog)

TLDR: Roblox is a virtual gaming platform where users can both create and play games made by other users. It offers a game creation system that enables users to program games themselves. The company is developing generative AI tools to aid game developers in building experiences and assets more effortlessly. Two tests of the tools will be released shortly: one to create "generative AI materials from a text prompt," and another to complete code with generative AI.

The Big Picture: Generative AI is changing many different fields in new and innovative ways but its effect on the development of video games may end up being one of the most amazing. Gaming has rapidly evolved over the last several decades and the integration of AI into the art form will help developers, both big and small. It can already be used to endlessly generate Super Mario Bros. levels. Roblox could be the start of an age of even greater innovation in the field of gaming and inspire the generation of future game developers that bring it about.

💰 Funding Alerts

Huel, a leading nutritionally complete food brand, plans to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to optimize its supply chain strategy by partnering with 7bridges, a data-driven supply chain management platform. Huel recently raised £20 million, with investment from Highland Europe as well as several celebrity investors including Idris Elba, Sabrina Dhowre Elba, Jonathan Ross, and Grace Beverley. Huel intends to use the funds to develop a smarter supply chain.

🦾 Trending Tools

• Langotalk is an AI Chatbot designed specifically for individuals who are learning a new language. The chatbot is gamified, allowing users to converse or speak with multiple friendly AI chatbots about their interests while receiving immediate feedback on their grammar. A polyglot's dream!

• AI Keytalk is a recommendation tool for movies and TV shows that employs deep learning to analyze both structured and unstructured data, such as social media reviews, and suggests relevant items with descriptive tags like "mind-bending". This feature can be seamlessly integrated into existing search or recommendation systems to enhance transactions and provide operational flexibility.

🌎 Popular Content

1. Elon Musk says that he never intended for OpenAI to become what it is today when he created it. (Twitter)

2. Maybe that’s why it thinks he’s so controversial 🤔. It seems to think he’s more controversial than Che Guevara. (Twitter)

3. Every US president as a Pixar character. Except for George W. Bush. It seems to have turned him into a muppet. (Twitter)

4. Well played, ChatGPT… well played. (Reddit)

👀 More Reading

• The Age of AI Hacking Is Closer Than You Think (WIRED)

• The AI Chatbot in Your Workplace: Efficient, Bossy, Dehumanizing (Wall Street Journal)

• Why Chatbots like ChatGPT Weren’t Invented in China (New York Times)

🧠 Resources

A collection of 12 lectures by Research Scientists and Research Engineers from DeepMind on various topics in Deep Learning, such as neural networks, natural language processing, and computer vision.

 📅 Upcoming Events

1. Data Science Salon Austin (February 21-22, 2023 / Austin, TX + Virtual) is a two-day 500-person conference focused on AI and machine learning applications in the enterprise. The intimate event curates data science sessions to bring industry leaders and specialists face-to-face to educate each other on innovative new solutions in artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics and acceptance around best practices.

2. The Data Analytics Career Summit (February 24, 2023 / Virtual) seeks to help individuals break into and move up in the data & analytics fields. The focus of this event will be on helping individuals navigate the many career paths available, such as data analytics, data science and data engineering. Data will also be shared on the current jobs market and the latest survey of individuals in the field. Additional content will focus on best practices for career management, navigation of education options and advice/inspirational stories from real professionals in the field. Registration is now open.

 💼 Jobs

• Metropolis: Machine Learning Engineer Intern

  • Seattle, WA or Santa Monica, CA, USA

  • Internship

• Block: Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Modeling), Risk

  • San Francisco, CA, USA (Remote option available)

  • Zone A: $167,300 - $204,500 USD

  • Zone B: $158,900 - $194,300 USD

  • Zone C: $150,600 - $184,000 USD

  • Zone D: $142,200 - $173,800 USD

• Visa: Staff Machine Learning Engineer- Visa AI as a Service

  • Austin, TX, USA

  • $126,000 - $163,800 USD

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