💬 Quoted: “I don't like anthropomorphizing AI. I sort of believe it's a tool.”

• In a new Bloomberg interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella noted that he isn’t a big fan of AI products built to show emotions or express feelings of their own, saying users should be mindful that AI’s abilities aren’t similar to human intelligence. Apart from showing off his vocabulary, Nadella’s comments point to an ongoing debate within the industry over how much AI services should be humanized. While Google has expressed a similar view to Nadella, OpenAI is taking a different approach – the Microsoft-backed company recently unveiled its GPT-4o voice assistant, which features human-like voices that use emotional intonation to express feelings like excitement or laughter.

🤖🗣️ Stat of the Day: If you suddenly received an email from your boss asking to wire them millions of dollars, it’d probably raise more red flags than The Ohio State marching band. But what if your boss showed up on a video call with the same request? In the case of Arup, a prominent UK engineering firm, that exact scenario resulted in the company being scammed out of ~$25.6 million, after a finance worker acted on orders from a deepfake of Arup’s CFO.

🤔 Did You Know? Scientists have been trying to communicate with apes via sign language since the 1960s – and in all that time, apes have never asked a single question, according to published research literature. Some experts theorize this is a sign the animals might not be capable of actually understanding human language.

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