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title: "AI round-up: week of August 28th"
description: See what’s what around the world of AI from the week of August 28th.
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# [AI round-up: week of August 28th](https://www.akhia.com/insights/benthinking/ai-round-up-week-of-august-28th)

 Written by [Ben Brugler](https://www.akhia.com/insights/benthinking/author/ben-brugler) | Aug 30, 2023 3:45:23 PM

Creativity can’t happen without sentience, and there are now arguments that some AIs are indeed sentient. If that is true now or in the future, then creativity might be possible. I view this possibility with a certain dreadful fascination. Would I forbid the teaching (if that is the word) of my stories to computers? Not even if I could.

-*Stephen King*

You’ve heard that Stephen King’s books were used to train AI. Now hear from King himself on that subject. (subscription required.)

**August 23 from *The Atlantic***: [My books were used to train AI.](https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/08/stephen-king-books-ai-writing/675088/)

## News:

**August 30 from *Fox News***: [The SEC has started regulating the first ever non-human financial advisor.](https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/ai-powered-investment-platform-first-non-human-financial-advisor-regulated-sec)

**August 30 from *CNN***: [Rising labor costs (and potential massive job loss) are making AI stocks more attractive](https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html)

**August 30 from *Axios***: [Walmart is giving its 50,000 non-store employees access](https://www.axios.com/2023/08/30/walmart-generative-ai-app)

**August 30 from *TechCrunch***: [Google Duet can now write your emails](https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/30/googles-duet-ai-can-now-write-your-emails-for-you/)

→This can’t be free, right?

**August 29 from *CNBC***: [Google is going to charge $30 a month for enterprise use of its AI tool in Gmail and other office apps](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/29/google-will-charge-enterprises-30-a-month-for-duet-ai-in-workspace.html)

→Right.

**August 28 from *Tech Crunch***: [DoorDash launches AI-powered voice ordering technology for restaurants](https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/28/doordash-launches-ai-powered-voice-ordering-technology-for-restaurants/)

**August 28 from *The New York Times***: [The U.S. Air Force has launched an experimental aircraft, piloted by AI (subscription required)](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/us/politics/ai-air-force.html)

The ‘say what, now?’ story of the week:

**August 30 from *NPR***: [U.S. Employers are using AI to essentially reduce workers to numbers in the workplace.](https://www.npr.org/2023/08/30/1196712532/u-s-employers-are-using-ai-to-essentially-reduce-workers-to-numbers-in-the-workp)

A 6-minute must listen with Ifeoma Ajunwa, author of The Quantified Worker. She explains her term ‘Mechanical Manager’- we may need to understand what we will all become.

## Perspectives:

**August 30 from The Motely Fool**: [Two AI companies to invest in right now.](https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/08/30/artificial-intelligence-top-ai-stocks-to-buy-now/)

**August 29 from *Forbes***: [How we can protect against deceptive AI political ads](https://www.forbes.com/sites/subramaniamvincent/2023/08/29/why-generative-ai-political-ads-are-an-opportunity-to-bring-ai-literacy-to-everyone/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter&sh=73fac3724536)

→As they say, I’m just going to set this here…

**August 28 from Shelly Palmer**: [Talking to data—the real power of generative AI](https://shellypalmer.com/2023/08/talking-to-data-the-real-power-of-generative-ai/?mc_cid=9783080213&mc_eid=3842841185)

**August 28 from *PEW Research***: [Most Americans haven’t used ChatGPT. Few think it will impact them.](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/28/most-americans-havent-used-chatgpt-few-think-it-will-have-a-major-impact-on-their-job/?mc_cid=722f0e0f99&mc_eid=3842841185)

→Congrats. By simply reading this blog, you’re ahead.

## Resources:

**August 25 from *HBR***: [How to reskill your workforce in the age of AI](https://hbr.org/2023/08/how-to-reskill-your-workforce-in-the-age-of-ai)

**August 28 from *CNET***: [AI glossary – basic terms you should know](https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/ai-glossary-basic-terms-all-chatgpt-users-should-know/)

*You will want to bookmark these:*

**From the U.S. Copyright Office**: [Copyright and AI resource center.](https://copyright.gov/ai/)

**From Nieman Lab**: [AP and AI. Positioning and AP Stylebook updates.](https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/08/not-a-replacement-of-journalists-in-any-way-ap-clarifies-standards-around-generative-ai/)

 

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