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Hans India
3 hours ago
- Business
- Hans India
AI key to business growth in changing times
Rajamahendravaram: Prominent corporate trainer P Srinivas stressed the importance of staying updated with changing technologies to ensure sustainable growth. He was speaking at an awareness session on Artificial Intelligence (AI) organised for members of the JCI Chamber of Commerce here on Thursday. Srinivas explained how the adoption of modern technologies and innovative approaches can significantly enhance business operations. He urged entrepreneurs to embrace AI tools, which can simplify and streamline business processes while improving efficiency and decision-making. During the session, he presented a PowerPoint demonstration on key strategies that make businesses stand out in a competitive market. He also highlighted real-time examples of how AI can be used to optimise operations and boost customer engagement. JCI Chamber of Commerce Chairman Maturi Siddhartha presided over the event, which witnessed the participation of around 60 JCI representatives. Coach Dr Muralimohan, team leader Karri Rajesh, and directors Machina Gangadhar and John were also present.
The Star
4 hours ago
- Business
- The Star
ChatGPT will soon shop online, make PowerPoints on your behalf
FILE - The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT, March 21, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) OpenAI is rolling out new options for chatbot ChatGPT to carry out a variety of increasingly complicated tasks on a user's behalf, part of its push to bring so-called AI agents to the mainstream. ChatGPT agent, set to be unveiled during a livestreamed event on Thursday, is designed to streamline personal and professional projects, such as planning a meal and ordering ingredients for it online, or creating a slideshow for a business meeting. The tool works through OpenAI's flagship chatbot and combines the capabilities of two AI services it rolled out earlier this year: Operator, which can browse, type and click on the internet much in the way a human would; and Deep Research, which is meant to handle time-consuming online research. The San Francisco-based company said the agent features will be available immediately to its paid Pro, Plus and Team subscribers, with plans to release it later this summer to other enterprise and education customers. Some of the details of the software were previously reported by the Information. A growing number of tech companies, including OpenAI backer Microsoft Corp and rival Anthropic, are focusing on agents, or AI software that can complete multistep tasks for users with minimal supervision. OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman previously said agents will be "the next giant breakthrough' for AI. The hope is that such tools can save users time and thereby live up to the long-held promise that AI will make people more productive. For now, however, the software can still be frustrating and slow. In a demonstration of the ChatGPT agent this week, Neel Ajjarapu, OpenAI's product manager for the software, gave the chatbot a detailed prompt: Browse Etsy for vintage-style lamps that are under a couple hundred dollars and available with free shipping, then put the best-looking items in his online shopping cart and provide a URL for each one. OpenAI has also experimented with using the tool to make presentations and PowerPoints, Ajjarapu said, though he cautioned it's more for making "very early rough drafts' of presentations people can then refine. Microsoft, the company that makes PowerPoint, also offers AI tools to help professionals draft presentations. Ajjarapu said the AI model that powers the tool uses a computer and web browser to complete assignments. It can also take in feedback from the user while a task is underway and alter its approach, he said. While users are accustomed to chatting in nearly real time with ChatGPT, it can take much longer – several minutes at least – for the chatbot to complete agent-like tasks. AI agents present new safety and security risks, given the potential for AI to make mistakes or be misused by bad actors. The company said ChatGPT agent is meant to turn down some tasks, including those related to finances or legal advice. There are also a number of actions the tool will seek permission for before carrying out, including making purchases, the company said. For some tasks, such as writing emails, the service will require a user to supervise it. As with the launches of Operator and Deep Research, the company acknowledged its latest agent effort still needs work. "It is far from perfect,' said OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil during the demonstration. "But I think if we had gone back six months ago or 12 months ago and said this was going to be possible today, we would have been pretty excited about it.' – Bloomberg
Gizmodo
11 hours ago
- Business
- Gizmodo
Lifetime Access to the Full Microsoft Office Suite Is 81% Off, Practically Free Now Ahead of the New Semester
A lot of things which used to be one-time purchases want to try and convince you to subscribe instead. It can have some benefits to subscribe, but sometimes you just want to pay once and be done with it. If you're feeling like this when it comes to Microsoft Office programs, then you're in luck. StackSocial has an amazing deal that brings the price of a Microsoft Office Professional 2021 Lifetime License down from $220 to just $40. That's a huge 81% discount, but this deal won't last forever. So, if you want to get your hands on it, you'd better be quick. See at StackSocial Microsoft Office Professional 2021 comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, Access, and the free version of Teams. These are pretty much all of the software options you need to work or study on whatever device you're using. Word is an excellent tool for anyone who likes writing, no matter how professional or unprofessional. Excel is essential for not just accounting, but also budgets, and somehow, game design. PowerPoint is an excellent choice for presentations, even though most of us have some mild degree of bar chart flashbacks when using it. Outlook is great for emails, and allows for all sorts of useful functions if you're sending a lot of them. OneNote is an amazing way to take notes and share ideas with people in an easy-to-understand way. Publisher is a great piece of software for those looking to design newsletters and brochures. Access is a great databasing software, and Teams is better than Skype, and also still works. Buying this will grant access to all of these for whatever device you activate the code on. You'll then be able to use them all from then on for the rest of time. Well, you'll be able to use them until your laptop or PC gives up on things. That's because this isn't tied to your account, but the device you activate it on. Make sure you keep that in mind before activating it on your phone or something by accident. While you could sign up for Microsoft 365 and pay for access to all of these programs monthly, it's better for a lot of us to save a huge chunk of change and pick them all up while it's just $40. Just keep in mind the deal will end soon, so if you do want this, you should buy it quickly. See at StackSocial
Entrepreneur
11 hours ago
- Business
- Entrepreneur
ChatGPT Agent Creates Slide Decks, Spreadsheets From Prompts
The new AI agent can generate Google Sheets and slide decks, making it a powerful new office tool. ChatGPT can now create a PowerPoint presentation or make purchases online for you — with just a prompt. OpenAI released the new ChatGPT agent on Thursday, a general-purpose AI tool that can complete complex tasks on a user's behalf, like searching the web, running code, and creating slideshows and spreadsheets. The AI agent can click, type, and submit forms on its own based on a natural language prompt, and users can interrupt it at any time. It's part of OpenAI's effort to make ChatGPT more of a tool capable of handling autonomous tasks instead of just a chatbot that answers questions. As of March, ChatGPT had over 500 million global weekly users. Related: AI Could Replace 200,000 Jobs on Wall Street, According to a New Report. These Are the Jobs Most at Risk. ChatGPT agent can also act as a virtual assistant, connecting to apps like Gmail and Google Calendar to carry out tasks like drafting emails and making appointments. It completes tasks using its own virtual computer and shifts on its own between reasoning and action to carry out instructions. OpenAI says the new tool can "analyze three competitors and make a slide deck" — the agent will chart out a course of action, go through websites, and create an editable slideshow. It can also create editable Excel spreadsheets by taking in a prompt like "make a spreadsheet based on the San Francisco annual comprehensive financial reports (ACFR)." The agent can also shop online for users, though it will always ask for approval before carrying out a sensitive action, like entering personal information or making a purchase. OpenAI is embedding the agent within ChatGPT and allowing paying users to access it immediately by selecting "agent mode" in ChatGPT's dropdown tool menu. The agent starts rolling out today for Pro, Plus, and Team users, with plans to become available to Enterprise and Education customers over the summer. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI says the agent could help workers, like financial analysts, complete tasks more quickly. "We think that this model is actually going to be quite good at low-level, first-, second-year, financial analysis type work that might have taken someone a night to do if they're getting pinged by their boss late at night," ChatGPT agent product manager Neel Ajjarapu told The Wall Street Journal. Related: ChatGPT Can Now Complete a Major Task That Would Take a Human Up to 30 Days. Here's How it Works. ChatGPT isn't the first AI tool to be able to make PowerPoint presentations, but it is the most mainstream AI product to offer the agentic capability. Other AI presentation tools include Microsoft Copilot, which is integrated into PowerPoint and can generate presentations from prompts, and Google Workspace add-on which converts any text into a Google Slides presentation. Meanwhile, other companies are leveraging internal AI tools to create slide decks. For example, McKinsey consultants are using an internal AI tool to create PowerPoint presentations, taking over junior employee tasks. OpenAI was valued at $300 billion in March following a $40 billion funding round. ChatGPT agent is a combination of two other agents OpenAI released earlier this year: Operator, which can browse the web to fill out forms and take action like a virtual assistant, and Deep Research, which searches the web for answers to research questions and presents the findings in a paper with citations — though it far exceeds the capabilities of both. Related: The CEO of $61 Billion Anthropic Says AI Will Take Over a Crucial Part of Software Engineers' Jobs Within a Year Join top CEOs, founders and operators at the Level Up conference to unlock strategies for scaling your business, boosting revenue and building sustainable success.
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Business Standard
14 hours ago
- Business
- Business Standard
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT agent to shop online, create slides for users
OpenAI is rolling out new options for chatbot ChatGPT to carry out a variety of increasingly complicated tasks on a user's behalf, part of its push to bring so-called AI agents to the mainstream. ChatGPT agent, set to be unveiled during a livestreamed event on Thursday, is designed to streamline personal and professional projects, such as planning a meal and ordering ingredients for it online, or creating a slideshow for a business meeting. The tool works through OpenAI's flagship chatbot and combines the capabilities of two AI services it rolled out earlier this year: Operator, which can browse, type and click on the internet much in the way a human would; and Deep Research, which is meant to handle time-consuming online research. The San Francisco-based company said the agent features will be available immediately to its paid Pro, Plus and Team subscribers, with plans to release it later this summer to other enterprise and education customers. Some of the details of the software were previously reported by the Information. A growing number of tech companies, including OpenAI backer Microsoft Corp. and rival Anthropic, are focusing on agents, or AI software that can complete multistep tasks for users with minimal supervision. OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman previously said agents will be 'the next giant breakthrough' for AI. The hope is that such tools can save users time and thereby live up to the long-held promise that AI will make people more productive. For now, however, the software can still be frustrating and slow. In a demonstration of the ChatGPT agent this week, Neel Ajjarapu, OpenAI's product manager for the software, gave the chatbot a detailed prompt: Browse Etsy for vintage-style lamps that are under a couple hundred dollars and available with free shipping, then put the best-looking items in his online shopping cart and provide a URL for each one. OpenAI has also experimented with using the tool to make presentations and PowerPoints, Ajjarapu said, though he cautioned it's more for making 'very early rough drafts' of presentations people can then refine. Microsoft, the company that makes PowerPoint, also offers AI tools to help professionals draft presentations. Ajjarapu said the AI model that powers the tool uses a computer and web browser to complete assignments. It can also take in feedback from the user while a task is underway and alter its approach, he said. While users are accustomed to chatting in nearly real time with ChatGPT, it can take much longer — several minutes at least — for the chatbot to complete agent-like tasks. AI agents present new safety and security risks, given the potential for AI to make mistakes or be misused by bad actors. The company said ChatGPT agent is meant to turn down some tasks, including those related to finances or legal advice. There are also a number of actions the tool will seek permission for before carrying out, including making purchases, the company said. For some tasks, such as writing emails, the service will require a user to supervise it. As with the launches of Operator and Deep Research, the company acknowledged its latest agent effort still needs work. 'It is far from perfect,' said OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil during the demonstration. 'But I think if we had gone back six months ago or 12 months ago and said this was going to be possible today, we would have been pretty excited about it.'
