It has just been a day before the ChatGPT is down again. The AI-powered chat tool was down again for a couple of hours today. The outage was reported by several users across the globe and OpenAI’s Status page also marked ChatGPT as down. OpenAI mentioned the outage as “major” on the website. It’s back online nowThe outage reported by OpenAI lasted for almost 2 hours 37 minutes. The same was also reported by Downdetector, the outage tracking website. According to Downdetector, the outage started around 6:19pm and around 92% of people reported being unable to access ChatGPT service. However, both now show that the ChatGPT is back online and is operational.TOI-GadgetsNow also checked the same and it seems to be working fine now. Reason behind the outage Well, OpenAI hasn’t officially revealed the exact reason behind ChatGPT’s outage. However, the Status website clearly mentions the timeline of the outage along with the issues faced by users and all the way to the resolution. Resolved Status Description Posted Time Resolved The ChatGPT is stable for all users, and the issue has been resolved. 12 minutes ago (Aug 31, 2023 – 11:03 PDT) Monitoring A fix has been implemented, and normal usage of ChatGPT has resumed. Monitoring is ongoing. 2 hours ago (Aug 31, 2023 – 09:29 PDT) Update User logins are limited to address the ongoing issue. Remediation is ongoing. 3 hours ago (Aug 31, 2023 – 08:28 PDT) Update Efforts are underway to remediate and recover service. 3 hours ago (Aug 31, 2023 – 07:58 PDT) Identified Some users face issues with conversation history and new conversations. The issue has been identified, and remediation is in progress. 4 hours ago (Aug 31, 2023 – 06:52 PDT)
UPI Sets New Record With 1,000 Cr Monthly Transactions In August 2023
UPI logged 1,024.1 Cr transactions till August 30, up 2.8% MoM from 996 Cr in July 2023 The payments systems recorded transactions worth INR 15.18 Lakh Cr in the month, declining around 1% from INR 15.34 Lakh Cr in July 2023 UPI achieved the milestone in a span of seven years since its inception in 2016 with NPCI setting a target of 100 Cr daily transactions in near future The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) processed more than 1,000 Cr monthly transactions in August 2023 for the first time in its seven-year history. “Drumroll please! UPI has just shattered records with an astonishing 10 Bn plus transactions. Join us in celebrating this incredible milestone and the power of digital payments. Let’s keep the momentum going and continue to revolutionize the way we make transactions with UPI!,” the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) said in a tweet. UPI logged 1,024.1 Cr transactions worth INR 15.18 Lakh Cr till August 30 banking on the second consecutive month of growth in numbers. Month-on-Month (MoM), transaction count rose 2.8% from 996 Cr while transaction value declined around 1% from INR 15.34 Lakh Cr in July 2023. However, the number of transactions and value is expected to go further up with one day remaining for the current month. UPI also logged a 55% year-on-year (YoY) growth rate in terms of transaction count, jumping from 658 Cr in August 2022. On the other hand, transaction value soared more than 41% in August 2023 from INR 10.73 Lakh Cr in the year-ago period. The numbers are testament to the growing popularity of UPI as a digital payments tool. From crossing the 100 Cr monthly transaction mark in October 2019, the platform has scaled 10X in a span of just four years. Meanwhile, NPCI has set its eyes on growing the platform to accommodate 100 Cr transactions on a daily basis. The payments corporation is yet to disclose the app-wise data of the UPI transactions for the month of August 2023. PhonePe, Google Pay and Paytm are likely expected to continue their dominance over the digital payments system. In July, the three players together accounted for 95% of the total transaction count on the UPI network. Curiously, UPI also somewhat bucked the general trend of slowing MoM growth every alternate month. Building on the positive growth in July, the platform yet again clocked hefty growth in terms of count but recorded negative MoM growth in value. Despite this, UPI continues to see widespread adoption amid a major push from the government. Just days ago, it was reported that India was in talks with New Zealand to introduce the payments system in the Pacific country to improve trade, tourism and the ease of business between two nations. In August, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) also proposed two new technology additions for the UPI which would enable users to make payments via mere conversation and through Near Field Communication (NFC). RIght afterwards, the central bank also increased the per transaction limit for UPI Lite to INR 500 from INR 200.
People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse
Over the past year or so, you’ve probably had conversations with friends, family, and coworkers about the rise of generative AI capable of making convincing text and imagery—but perhaps also about the hype and fear swirling around the technology. A poll out this week finds that worry over harmful effects of AI is outpacing the wow of helpful AI. A majority of Americans say their concern about artificial intelligence in daily life outweighs their excitement about it, according to a Pew Research Center survey of more than 11,000 US adults. The results come at a time when a growing number of people are paying attention to news about AI in their daily lives. Pew has run this survey twice before and reports that the number of people more concerned than excited about AI jumped from 37 percent in 2021 to 52 percent this month. The balance of concern and excitement people reported varied between different use cases for AI. When asked how they felt about the police using AI for public safety, roughly half of respondents said they weren’t sure, with the rest evenly split between saying the technology would help or hurt. Many more people believed that AI would help doctors to provide quality care to patients, but it’s likely people would have different feelings about some specific applications of medical AI. Many would probably feel uncomfortable with a triaging algorithm making life-or-death decisions about who receives what treatment. Pew found the largest swing towards concern about hurtful AI when asking what impact the technology would have on the ability to keep their information private. That fits with how US activists, policy experts, and researchers who want to protect civil rights and hold businesses and governments using AI accountable often call for comprehensive data privacy protections. So far, Congress is yet to pass a privacy and data protection law. One impact of AI on daily life the survey didn’t ask about is the technology’s potential to help or hurt discrimination. Years of evidence show that AI systems can reinforce or amplify racism, sexism, or discrimination against the poor and people who identify as queer. But AI can also detect bias and prevent discrimination. Sennay Ghebreab, director of an AI lab at the University of Amsterdam, told me last year, “I’ve been working on this topic for a decade, and although it can be harmful to people, AI presents an opportunity to uncover hidden biases in society.” Pew’s findings raise the question of how people not working on AI themselves can retain any feeling of autonomy as the technology becomes more visible and powerful. I was struck by remarks earlier this month by former US secretary of state Condoleeza Rice, who at a recent Stanford event on AI described meeting a group of students visiting from Latin America who told her that AI feels like something that’s happening to them rather than technology they’re playing a role in shaping. That feeling, Rice said, may be more pronounced for people outside China, Europe, and the US. But plenty of people in those countries feel they don’t have enough agency in their own lives. And even people active in the fight against AI that enables human rights abuses can feel helpless or lose hope.
Teams: Microsoft Office users in Europe will not get Teams app bundled, here’s why
Microsoft has announced its decision to not offer its video-conferencing platform Teams with its productivity suite Officein the countries that are part of the Europe Union. The move is reportedly aimed to avoid a possible EU antitrust fine. In 2020, Salesforce-owned competing workspace messaging app Slack filed a complaint against Microsoft for bundling its products.After this complaint, theEuropean Commission started investigating the tech giant’s method of offering Office and Teams together. According to a report by Reuters, the proposed changes came a month after the investigation started. The company has decided not to offer Teams with its Office product to make it easier for competing products to work with its software. Microsoft’s latest move is similar to preliminary concessions that the company had offered last month when the EC investigation started. The report notes that these concessions failed to address regulatory concerns. The EU competition watchdog also said it took note of the company’s announcement.Last month, sources claimed that the European Commission could impose formal charges against Microsoft in the autumn unless the company improves its offer. Microsoft added Teams to Office 365 in 2017 for free. The video conferencing service replaced Skype for Business and gained in popularity during the pandemic.How this change will affect usersThese new changes will be effective October 1 and will apply in the European Union (EU) and Switzerland. Microsoft’s core enterprise customers include most of the company’s commercial businesses in Europe. The company will allow customers to switch to the version of Office that excludes Teams. However, the monthly subscription of this version will be 2 euros cheaper than the one that comes with Teams. New enterprise customers will also be able to buy Teams standalone and separately for 5 euros per month.To assist customers and independent software vendors in removing data from Teams and using it in another product, the company will introduce new support resources. Microsoft will also develop a new method for hosting the Office web apps. Just like Teams, these apps will be hosted within competing apps and services.What Microsoft said about the situationIn a blog post, Microsoft’s VP for European government affairs, Nanna-Louise Linde stated: “Today we are announcing proactive changes that we hope will start to address these concerns in a meaningful way, even while the European Commission’s investigation continues and we cooperate with it.”Linde added that the changes seek to address two EU concerns, “that customers should be able to choose a business suite without Teams at a price less than those with Teams included and that we should do more to make interoperability easier between rival communication and collaboration solutions and Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites”.
Top 15 Ways Small Business Owners Can Foster a Culture of Innovation
Innovation serves as a cornerstone of growth and competitiveness for businesses of all sizes. Small business owners play a pivotal role in nurturing a culture of innovation within their organizations. Continue reading for ways small business owners can lead the charge in creating an environment that encourages imaginative thinking, experimentation, and the pursuit of novel ideas. photo credit: Rawpixel 1. Embrace a Growth Mindset At the heart of cultivating innovation is a growth mindset that small business owners should wholeheartedly adopt. This mindset sets the stage for employees to welcome challenges and see setbacks as avenues for growth and discovery. 2. Champion Creative Thinking Small business owners are the champions of creative thinking and idea generation. By actively endorsing brainstorming sessions, encouraging the sharing of unconventional ideas, and questioning established norms, they create an atmosphere primed for innovation. 3. Allocate Resources for Innovation Recognizing the significance of innovation, small business owners should allocate both financial and human resources to fuel innovative initiatives. Providing teams with the tools, time, and autonomy necessary to innovate conveys the company’s unwavering commitment to fostering ingenuity. 4. Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration Small business owners, through their leadership, can facilitate collaboration that transcends departments and teams. By nurturing cross-functional exchanges, they bring together diverse viewpoints, culminating in ingenious solutions and fresh perspectives. 5. Embrace and Learn from Setbacks A forward-thinking small business owner cultivates an environment where setbacks are viewed as stepping stones to triumph. Celebrating these setbacks as opportunities for learning emboldens employees to take calculated risks and explore uncharted territories. 6. Recognize and Reward Innovative Efforts Small business owners are well-placed to acknowledge and reward employees who contribute to innovation. By offering incentives, promotions, or public recognition, they underscore the importance of innovative thinking and fuel its continued momentum. 7. Lead through Exemplary Innovation Leading by example, a small business owner models innovative behavior in their leadership approach. Demonstrating a willingness to experiment with novel strategies and an openness to change establishes a powerful precedent for the entire organization. 8. Infuse Innovation into Goals For small business owners, weaving innovation into the fabric of the company’s strategic goals is paramount. Setting clear targets for innovation spurs a proactive mindset towards identifying and pursuing new prospects. 9. Nurture a Safe Space for Experimentation A progressive small business owner fosters an environment where experimentation is not only encouraged but also protected from any repercussions. Nurturing a culture where employees can explore untested ideas without fear of failure sparks genuine innovation. 10. Cultivate a Culture of Continuous Learning Small business owners should serve as advocates for continuous learning and development. By motivating employees to acquire new skills and remain informed about industry trends, they cultivate a culture that thrives on perpetual innovation. Photo credit: Unsplash 11. Encourage External Partnerships Collaborating with external partners such as startups, industry experts, and research institutions opens new avenues for innovation. Small business owners should actively seek partnerships that bring fresh perspectives and resources to the table. 12. Implement Agile Processes Introducing agile methodologies allows small business owners to respond swiftly to changing market dynamics. Agile processes promote iterative development, enabling businesses to adapt and innovate in real-time. 13. Foster Employee Ownership Small business owners can empower employees by giving them ownership over their projects and encouraging them to take initiative. When employees feel a sense of ownership, they are more likely to innovate and drive meaningful change. 14. Create Platforms for Idea Sharing Establishing platforms such as suggestion boxes, online forums, or regular brainstorming sessions encourages employees to share their innovative ideas. Small business owners can tap into the collective creativity of their workforce. 15. Monitor Industry Trends Staying attuned to industry trends and emerging technologies positions small business owners as informed leaders. Proactively integrating relevant trends into the company’s strategy can lead to innovative breakthroughs. photo credit: Rawpixel Conclusion The mantle of fostering a culture of innovation lies firmly in the hands of small business owners. Embracing a growth mindset, championing creative thinking, allocating resources for innovation, and implementing these additional strategies set the stage for novel ideas to flourish. Encouraging cross-functional collaboration, learning from setbacks, recognizing innovation, and fostering employee ownership serve to amplify this culture. Leading by example, setting innovation-focused goals, nurturing a secure space for experimentation, encouraging external partnerships, implementing agile processes, creating platforms for idea sharing, and staying abreast of industry trends propel an enduring culture of learning and innovation. This approach ensures the enduring growth and triumph of the organization.
Honda Connect: Honda Cars India joins hands with HPCL
Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL) has partnered with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) to introduce fuel reward loyalty program exclusively for Honda Connect application users.Honda Connect is ‘connected car technology platform’ provided by HCIL to its customers, which provides various features like car location, car health status, trip details, book services, mileage information, important alerts etc. Under this partnership, Honda’s customers can seamlessly enrol for “HP Pay” application through “Fuel Pay” option in Honda Connect app and avail benefits, conveniences and enjoy additional 25% fuel reward points on their motor fuel purchase at HPCL fuel stations over and above the HP Pay reward points. Customers are only required to provide their registered mobile number at the fuel station during refuelling for earning the loyalty points. The accumulated loyalty points can then be redeemed into Wallet Balance or converted to Paycode i.e., a unique number which can be shared at HPCL fuel stations for fuel purchase. This new feature will be available on Honda Connect application from 4th September 2023.Yuichi Murata, Director, Marketing & Sales at Honda Cars India, said “Our focus at Honda Cars India is to not only provide our customers with top-quality products but also offer a range of value-added services and ownership experiences. This partnership with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. is a significant step toward enhancing the value we provide to our customers through Honda Connect. This collaboration not only ensures a rewarding refuelling experience but also aligns with our focus on delivering convenience and benefits to every Honda car owner.”Amit Garg, Director-Marketing, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd, conveyed, “At Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, we are committed to consistently provide customer-centric, engaging, and innovative propositions that cater to the evolving needs of our customers. Through this partnership, our objective is to offer a seamless solution to customers, enabling them to locate HPCL retail outlets, enhance their fuelling experience with efficiency, provide secure digital payment and avail host of rewards and benefits. We are excited to collaborate with Honda Cars India to provide enhanced offerings to Honda customers in line with our motto of “Delivering Happiness.”
The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient
What applies to patents should also apply to copyright, he says. If, for example, an AI is asked to write “the best pop song in history,” and does so, it would have created an extremely valuable piece of intellectual property. “Is that an activity that we ought to incentivize through the copyright system?” Abbott says. “If the view is that the system exists so that the public gets more works, then the answer is clearly yes.” In short, Abbott says, copyright and patent regimes should exist to encourage creation, not limit it. Rather than searching for a vague legal line in the sand where an AI-human collaboration becomes protectable, we should sweep away the line entirely. Intellectual property rights should be granted regardless of how a thing was made, including in the absence of a human inventor or author. Through the Artificial Inventor Project, Abbott represents Thaler directly in some jurisdictions and manages litigation in others, all pro bono. However, the two men diverge on the true importance of their work. Abbott says the coverage of the cases—influenced by the district court’s vagueness—has been quite confused, with a misguided focus on DABUS’s autonomy. He emphasizes that he is not arguing that an AI should own a copyright, 3D printers—or scientists employed by a multinational, for that matter—create things, but don’t own them. He sees no legal difference between Thaler’s machine and someone asking Midjourney to “make me a picture of a squirrel on a bicycle.” “The autonomous statement was that the machine was executing the traditional elements of authorship, not that it crawled out of a primordial ooze, plugged itself in, paid a ton of utility bills and dropped out of college to do art,” he says. “And that is the case with any number of commonly used generative AI systems now: The machine is autonomously automating the traditional elements of authorship.” Thaler directly contradicts Abbott here. He says that DABUS is not taking any human input; it’s totally autonomous. “So I probably disagree with Abbott a little bit about bringing in all these AI tools, you know, text to image and so forth, where you’ve got a human being that is dictating and is hands on with the tool,” he says. “My stuff just sits and contemplates and contemplates and comes up with new revelations that can be, you know, along any sensory channel.” DABUS has been around a lot longer than the lawsuits. Thaler describes it as an evolving system “at least 30 years in the making.” He has, he says over email, “created the most capable AI paradigm in the world, and through its sentience it is driven to invent and create.” Throughout our conversation, he seems exasperated that journalists have tended to focus on the legal aspects of his cases. Organizations with “deep pockets” with a goal of “world conquest,” like Google, have kept debates focused on their machines, he says. The copyright and patent suits are one avenue to publicize DABUS’s sentience, as well as to provoke the public into thinking about the rights of this new species. “It’s basically Perry Mason versus Albert Einstein. Which do you want to read about?” Thaler says, arguing that people might be captivated by the courtroom dramas of a fictional lawyer, but they should care about the science.
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Garena Free Fire Set To Return In India Following BGMI Relaunch
Singapore-based Garena is launching an exclusive Indian version of the game Free Fire India will be available for download in the country from September 5 While the game was earlier banned due to security concerns, Garena has collaborated with Yotta, a Hiranandani Group company, for local cloud hosting and storage infrastructure A year and a half after the popular battle royale game Free Fire was banned in India, Singapore-based game developer Garena is launching an exclusive Indian version of the game. Free Fire India will be available for download in the country from September 5. “Free Fire India incorporates unique content and features to encourage a safe, healthy and fun gameplay experience,” Garena said in a statement. While the game was earlier banned due to security concerns, Garena has collaborated with Yotta, a Hiranandani Group company, which will provide the local cloud hosting and storage infrastructure to Free Fire India. “As a MeitY-empanelled service provider, Yotta will ensure best-in-class management of personal data of Indian users on local servers and network connectivity services to support Garena’s product offerings in India, including in esports,” Garena said. Garena Free Fire was banned in India in February 2022, along with 53 other apps, by the Ministry of Home Affairs. In terms of other localisation features, Free Fire India will have a verification system to enable parental supervision, gameplay limitations and ‘take a break’ reminders. “India is home to very passionate communities of esports enthusiasts and we are excited to be able to support our fans from Bharat with the launch of Free Fire India. We look forward to providing an engaging and highly localised experience for Indian users. We believe our partnership with Yotta will ensure that our users can enjoy the highest quality gameplay experience and benefit from Yotta’s expertise in protecting and securing Indian user data,” Gang Ye, the cofounder of Garena, said. The company is also launching a Free Fire India Esports Championships, he added. Free Fire’s return to India comes on the heels of Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) making a comeback in the country. India’s gaming is expected to grow to $8.6 Bn by FY27, growing at a CAGR of 27%, as per a Lumikai report released last year. Indians spent an average of 8.5 hours per week on mobile games in FY22. The time spent on top mid-core games such as BGMI was twice compared to the time spent on other top casual games. Besides BGMI, Free Fire India will compete against made-in-India battle royale title Indus, being developed by Pune-based SuperGaming. Indus is said to have crossed 5 Mn pre-registrations on Google Play is slated for a closed beta release during the upcoming festive season.
iQoo Z7 Pro with 64MP camera, 66W fast charging support launched in India: Price, specs and more
iQoo Z7 Pro is here. iQoo has expanded its Z-series of smartphones with the launch of iQoo Z7 Pro in India. The smartphone sports an FHD+ display and is powered by a MediaTek chipset. The smartphone is backed by a 4600 mAh battery and comes with 3000mm² vapour chamber cooling.Price and availabilityiQoo has launched two variants of the iQoo Z7 Pro. The smartphone comes in 8GB+128GB and 8GB+256GB variants priced at Rs 23,999 and Rs 24,999 respectively. The smartphone can be purchased in Blue Lagoon and Graphite Matte colour options. The smartphone will be available online on Amazon.in and iQoo.com starting September 5.Launch offers -Rs 2000 instant discount with SBI or HDFC cards or additional Rs 2000 off on exchange-Up to 6 months no-cost EMIiQoo Z7 Pro specificationsiQoo Z7 Pro comes with a 6.78-inch full HD+ display with 1080×2400 pixel resolution. The display offers 120Hz refresh rate and up to 1300 nits of peak brightness. The smartphone is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 7200 chipset paired with 8GB of RAM.The 5G smartphone comes in two storage variants — 128GB and 256GB. iQoo Z7 Pro runs Android 13 operating system topped with the company’s own layer of FunTouch OS 13.The dual SIM smartphone sports a dual rear camera. The rear camera comprises 64MP main sensor with /1.79 aperture, 2MP depth sensor with f/2.4 aperture accompanied with Aura Light flash. Front is home to a 16MP selfie camera with f/2.45 aperture.iQoo Z7 Pro comes equipped with an in-display fingerprint sensor and is backed by a 4600 mAh battery with 66W fast charging support. The company claims that the smartphone can charge up to 50% in 22 minutes. The smartphone comes with IP52 rating which makes it dust and splash-resistant.