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Email has become a primary communication method for individuals and businesses, replacing everything from paper bills and phone calls to customer support channels. The number of email users worldwide has been steadily growing year by year, and it is estimated that 361.6 billion emails will be sent in 2024. Office workers send around 40 emails a day. If you want to go beyond free email offerings, obtain a professional email address, and have a high level of control over your corporate email communications, you’ll want to sign up with a reputable email hosting provider.Also: Cloud-based email services: Everything you need to knowWhat is the best email hosting service right now?Our favorite email hosting provider is Google Workspace More
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Weiquan Lin/Getty Images Can you tell a human from a bot? In one survey, AI voice services creator Podcastle found that two out of three people incorrectly guessed whether a voice was human or AI-generated. That means that AI voices are becoming harder and harder to distinguish from the voices of real people. Also: How do […] More
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John C Magee/Getty Images One complaint about Windows is near the top of everyone’s list: updates. There are too many updates. They take too long to install. They sometimes fail in ways that cause additional problems. And they always pop up at the most inopportune time. In most cases, these updates require the computer to […] More
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IntelThe AI revolution is upon us, but it remains extremely hard for business leaders to set a direction and vision and to make plans with any certainty. Still, we can offer some relatively uncontroversial observations regarding current and future capabilities — around which we can start to build a broad picture of this revolution. These include:Also: Welcome to the AI revolution: From horsepower to manpower to machine-power AI is already impressive in its generative and predictive capabilities and is only going to keep getting more so.There is a huge amount of investment and excitement in the space, which seems unlikely to abate any time soon.CEOs are always on the search to achieve more with less (growth and margin).Many jobs — or parts of jobs — are routine, procedural, or algorithmic in nature, and are therefore candidates for reallocating to AI resources. According to H. James Wilson and Paul Daugherty in Harvard Business Review (Sept-Oct 2024), most business functions and more than 40% of all US work activity can be augmented by AI.New companies very soon will be AI natives, meaning that they simply will not hire humans in the first place except when they have to. These companies will probably show the rest of us where humans are still valuable and where they’re not, and we’ll follow suit (some faster than others).On this patchy but still relatively solid ground, we were inspired by “The 6 Levels of Driving Automation” — created by the Society of Automotive Engineers — to develop a framework that reflects this evolution of AI capabilities and how they will affect companies over the next decade or so. A continuously improving set of AI resources over the next decade will have a two-fold impact on business and the human workforce. Initially, AI will have a broadly augmentative effect, taking over low-value tasks and empowering humans to focus their efforts on more strategic and creative jobs. More
