Today’s Story

• McKinsey and Microsoft have joined forces to leverage generative AI in enterprise and shared services operations, enhancing their long-standing alliance.

• McKinsey Estimates: Gen AI could broadly contribute between $2.6 to $4.4 trillion in annual economic gains by potentially automating up to 70% of global working hours.

• Strategic Integration: Their partnership combines Microsoft's Copilot Studio with McKinsey's strategy, organizational change, and digital transformation practices.

• QuantumBlack Leadership: QuantumBlack, McKinsey’s designated AI consulting arm, will lead the initiative within McKinsey’s ecosystem.

• Client Impact and Efficiency: McKinsey and Microsoft’s efforts aim to improve efficiency and effectiveness in serving end customers, citing examples of productivity gains from AI enabled customer service to marketing via gen AI agents.

• This partnership comes in the wake of OpenAI and PwC inking a deal for the firm to resell ChatGPT enterprises to its clients.

• Consulting firms may become the consultative sales force these new technologies need to integrate into large enterprises.

Research

AI-Powered Headphones?

• Driving The News: University of Washington researchers have developed an AI system called “Target Speech Hearing” (TSH) that allows headphone users to selectively listen to a specific person in a noisy environment.

  • By looking at the desired speaker for 3-5 seconds, the system learns their vocal patterns and cancels out all other sounds.

• AI Learns to Cancel Out Background Noise, allowing users to selectively listen to a single speaker once identified.

• The most intriguing aspect of this research is the potential to change how we perceive and interact with our auditory environment.

Tool Spotlight

AI Creations

Each Day we Highlight Cool Gen AI Art and Projects!

• Art and A.I. Collaboration: Artists Pierre Huyghe and Refik Anadol are integrating AI into their work, exploring themes where nature and artificiality merge.

• Exhibition: Anadol's "Echoes of the Earth" showcases A.I.-generated underwater landscapes at the Serpentine Galleries

  • “Generated by an A.I. model based on some 135 million coral images”-NYT

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