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Expedia’s new ChatGPT travel planning tool is a litmus test for the future of AI and humanity

GeekWire

For many travelers, technology long ago supplanted travel agents for the basic booking of flights, hotels, and excursions. But how quickly will artificial intelligence replace humans for trusted travel advice? Expedia says it will “rapidly evolve the experience” based on how people use it.

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Zulily co-founders Darrell Cavens and Mark Vadon invest in ID verification tech startup Vouched

GeekWire

” Vouched uses artificial intelligence to help more than 150 companies across a bevy of industries verify the identity of their customers, clients and contractors. Use cases include KYC (know your customer) in banking; employment screening; gig economy hiring; contactless hotel check-in; and more.

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection.

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If it is always “Day 1” at Amazon, it is Day 10 in Government

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

I recently stayed at a Hilton Hotel which had a happy hour with free beer. Burger King intentionally created “TV commercials that cause Google’s voice-activated, artificial intelligence-driven Google Home speaker to start talking about the Whopper sandwich” ( USA Today ). I arrived 15 minutes after the end of happy hour.

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Is Elon Musk calculated or crazed? Walter Isaacson discusses his new book on the GeekWire Podcast

GeekWire

During his tenure at PayPal, Musk once challenged its then-chief technology officer, Max Levchin, to a literal arm-wrestling match in a bid to get the company’s engineers to adopt Windows NT over Unix. They’re both great topics and there are topics like artificial intelligence that are interesting now.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

Today, there are thousands of machine learning scientists and developers applying machine learning in various places, from recommendations to fraud detection, from inventory levels to book classification to abusive review detection. in ML and neural networks) and access to vast amounts of data.

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Expedia poised to take flight with generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is poised to disrupt the travel industry, and Expedia CTO Rathi Murthy, who oversees a massive online travel network with 770 million loyalty members and more than 50,000 business partners, believes her company is well positioned to capitalize. It’s not just about transforming ourselves.

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