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Deloitte to deploy AI for staff management

Deloitte LLP turned to artificial intelligence to assess the abilities of current employees and create...

17th December 2023

Spanish passport most powerful in December 2023 – Report

The Spanish passport has risen to the top of the list of 199 international passports....

17th December 2023

Microsoft proposes relocation of Chinese staff over US-China tensions

Microsoft terminates support for Teams

Microsoft Message Center has announced the termination of support for Microsoft Teams, a legacy messaging...

16th December 2023

Ontario cancels $100m Starlink contract in US-Canada tariff war

Zambian legislators to get starlink kits for constituencies

Every legislator in Zambia’s legislature will get a Starlink kit for their home district coming...

15th December 2023

A simple question posed on X (formerly Twitter) has sparked a curious debate about digital etiquette — and its potential cost. One user asked, “I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to their models.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman chimed in with a characteristically dry reply: “Tens of millions of dollars well spent — you never know.” While Altman’s response was clearly tongue-in-cheek, it opened up a broader conversation: does politeness to artificial intelligence come with a price tag? Technology site Futurism picked up the exchange, musing on whether pleasantries like “please” and “thank you” — often directed at ChatGPT and other AI tools — might be not only unnecessary but also wasteful in terms of time and computing power. But not everyone sees it as a pointless gesture. Kurt Beavers, a design director on the Microsoft Copilot team, suggested there’s more to digital politeness than meets the eye. According to Beavers, polite inputs from users can influence tone and outcomes. “Using polite language sets a tone for the response,” he said. “When an AI model clocks politeness, it’s more likely to be polite back.” In other words, AI might be mirroring more than just words — it could be taking cues from human manners, too. Still, while some users embrace courteous phrasing as part of interacting with AI in a more “human” way, others argue it’s just another habit formed in a world of voice assistants and automated replies — or perhaps even a subconscious hedge against a sci-fi-style future where machines remember how we treated them.

OpenAI reaffirms worldcoin’s commitment amid funding speculation

The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has reaffirmed his goals for the cryptocurrency project Worldcoin...

15th December 2023

Google to ban advertisers from tracking consumers with third-party

Alphabet’s Google announced on Thursday that it will start testing a new feature on its...

15th December 2023

Former NNPC GMD, Thomas John, passes away at 84

The former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Dr. Thomas Maurice...

14th December 2023

Jumia narrows losses, posts stronger Q2 revenue growth

Jumia Food to exit Nigeria by end of 2023

Jumia will cease operations for its food delivery service, Jumia Food, in all of its...

14th December 2023

Flutterwave hires six new execs from Cash App, Paypal, others

African payments unicorn, Flutterwave has hired six new executives from prestigious financial firms like Cash...

13th December 2023

EU regulators to fine Apple over rift with Spotify

Regulators in the European Union are set to fine Apple and restrict its App Store...

13th December 2023

China warns against geographic info data breaches

China has issued a warning to security departments to perform thorough checks in order to...

13th December 2023

Warner Bros Discovery to host Spotify podcast

Warner Bros Discovery announced on Tuesday that, as part of its monetization push, the media...

12th December 2023

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