Tag: information technology
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Government Initiative for Freelancers: New Platform 'Freelancer.gov.bd' Launched by ICT Division
The BFDS is aware that the names of the two sites are almost similar. It said the site under the jurisdiction of Bangladesh Computer Council provides registration as well as advisory support to already established freelancers. On the other hand, the site the department is developing is for a database of anyone trained in any…
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Government project to train 28,800 youth in freelancing in 3 years
According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) report on Sample Vital Registration System (SVRS) 2022, 40.67 percent or 12.9 million youth aged 15 to 24 in Bangladesh are inactive. Of them, 18.59 percent are men and 61.71 percent are women, and they are not engaged in studies or jobs or have not received any…
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AI reads ancient scrolls buried by Vesuvius eruption
As an alternative, the Vesuvius Challenge took high-resolution CT scans of four scrolls and offered one million dollars, among several prizes to encourage research on them. The prize-winning trio included Joseph Nader, a PhD student in Berlin, Luke Ferriter, a student and SpaceX trainee from Nebraska, and Swiss robotics student Julian Schilliger. The group used…
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Government pressure on mobile operators for private firm database raises concerns
As per the decision taken during the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Public Procurement in September 2022, Digicon will receive 80 per cent revenue from the service of automatically filling forms, 86 per cent from verifying photos and 90 per cent through the Parichay app. . Percentage of revenue for biometrics verification. Morally, BTRC…
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AI and Freelancers: Substitution or Collaboration?
AI and Freelancers: Substitution or Collaboration?
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New Features for ChatGPT: Sound and Image Capabilities
“Talk with it on the go, request a bedtime story for your family, or settle an argument at the dinner table.” According to the startup, OpenAI collaborated with voice actors to make spoken conversations more realistic. Generative AI programs came into the spotlight late last year, with ChatGPT demonstrating the ability to generate essays, poems,…
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Online search to make up for lost time with AI
Author and media entrepreneur John Battle said, “I think search is going to be fragmented into a million pieces, and integrated into all kinds of interfaces, not just one monolithic centralized place, which Google has become.” But if every website acted like a faithful friend, it would become even more difficult to distinguish between good…
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Audio book narrators say AI is already taking over business
Earlier this year, Apple announced it was moving to AI-narrated audio books, saying it would “make the creation of audio books more accessible to everyone,” especially independent authors and small publishers. Google is offering a similar service, which it describes as “auto-narration”. “We have to democratize the publishing industry, because only the most famous and…
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AI could replace 80% of jobs in ‘next few years’: experts
Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years – but that’s a good thing, says US-Brazil researcher Ben Goertzel, a leading AI guru. Mathematician, cognitive scientist and renowned robot-maker Goertzel, 56, is the founder and chief executive of SingularityNet, a research group he launched to create “Artificial General Intelligence” or…
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Musk and experts call for a halt to ‘giant AI experiments’
“Powerful AI systems should only be developed once we are confident that their impact will be positive and their risks manageable,” it said. Musk was an early investor in OpenAI, spending years on its board, and his car firm Tesla develops AI systems to help power its self-driving technology, among other applications. The letter, hosted…
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Bangladeshi entrepreneur Mohammad Moin’s startup has been successful in Canada
At that time Mohammed Moin’s father Shamsul Islam was known as ‘Somru Master’ in Sylhet. So, Mohd Moeen registered his company as Somru Bioscience Inc in 2012 and started his startup journey with only 100,000 UDS. In that beginning, the company operated from a location at the Incubation Center of the Provisional National Research Council…
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US, China under the waves – wage war over internet cables
Large cables under the sea cost several million dollars. They are usually paid for by a consortium of technology or telecommunications companies who can spread the costs and risks, as well as take responsibility for any cable landings that end up in their countries. In the case of SeaMeWe-6, more than a dozen companies were…
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Women should be given priority in technical education
Addressing the event, Charles Whiteley, Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Bangladesh, said that women are still far behind in obtaining bachelor’s degrees in technology and engineering across the world and women’s participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering) are behind. and Mathematics) education is only 8 percent. Since Bangladesh prioritizes…
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Amazon plans to cut 9,000 more jobs: CEO
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Monday that he is cutting 9,000 more jobs from the online retail giant’s workforce after 18,000 in January. “Given the uncertain economy … and the uncertainty that exists in the near future, we have chosen to further streamline our costs and workforce,” Jacy said in a memo to employees. The…
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How AI could impact the world more than electricity or the Internet
The success of Microsoft-backed OpenAI has ignited an arms race of sorts in Silicon Valley as the tech giants seek to push their generative AI tools to the next level – though they are wary of drifting away from chatbots. Already, AI-infused digital assistants from Microsoft and Google can summarize meetings, draft emails, build websites,…