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Reproduction in nautical magazines, nautical guides or nautical websites is prohibited. 'TOTALLY INCIDENTAL': A small Caribbean nation is capitalizing on the artificial intelligence boom thanks in part to a coincidence that came about when internet domain codes for countries were awarded decades ago. AI OBSTACLES: Small businesses in the U.S. are making progress in catching up with implementing artificial intelligence to help their operations, even though nearly half are unsure of how to get started, according to new research. PROTECT YOUR DATA: Meta may have paused its plans to train artificial intelligence models for the lucky ones living in Europe, where laws protect people using Facebook and Instagram better than Americans. Here in the good ole USA, both Facebook and Instagram have already been combing through public posts from U.S. accounts to train and improve its AI capabilities, including its chatbot, since last year.

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According to the US Chamber of Commerce, small business drives the US economy. Small businesses employ nearly half of the entire American workforce and represent 43.5% of America's GDP. They are a critical part of our economic ecosystem, where big businesses and small businesses are vendors, employees, partners, and customers to each other. To better understand the small business outlook for 2024, Slack surveyed 2,000 small business owners -- half composed of businesses in tech or retail -- and found that 40% believe 2024 is a "make or break" year for their business. As I've written previously, the dust will not settle anytime soon; therefore, business leaders must develop their investment thesis, focusing on improving the customer experience, delivering unique value differentiation, and leaning into technology so that they can deliver value at the speed of need.

Scammers are capitalizing on the rush of consumer interest in artificial-intelligence tools to steal U.S. small businesses' social-media-account passwords, Google alleges in a new lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed Monday, targets unnamed individuals in India and Vietnam. Google said the hackers have been tricking small-business owners into clicking on Facebook ads that offer to download Google's Bard artificial-intelligence chatbot. When they do, the ads hit them with malware that steals their social-media credentials.

Many people are turning to chatbots as search engines. Kurt "The CyberGuy" Knutsson explains how to use them. People love using AI chatbots to assist them with tasks or to simply answer a question that they don't know the answer to. However, a chatbot can only answer to the best of its ability, and we have to also do our part to help it answer our questions as accurately as possible. CLICK TO GET KURT'S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER If you don't get specific enough with how you present your prompts, a chatbot could give you a generic or even incorrect answer.

Generative AI can transform how different industries operate, including commerce. As a result, Mastercard released a Signals report on what commerce looks like in the age of generative AI, and here are some of the key insights. Technology like ChatGPT can transform commerce in different areas, including knowledge distribution, HR and training, code writing, legal, cybersecurity, treasury, marketing, customer interfaces, and service delivery, according to Mastercard. For that reason, companies are adopting AI at higher rates than they had in the past, with 50% of companies reporting using AI for at least one application in 2022 compared to just 20% in 2017, according to the report. "Over the next two to three years, generative AI will power hundreds of capabilities across business and consumer applications," said Mastercard.

With pandemic state of emergency over, the government programs tied to COVID-19 have either ended or are winding down. But if you have a small business in Los Angeles that was affected by the pandemic -- and which ones weren't? The city of Los Angeles is offering up to $15,000 to qualified small businesses in the city that missed rent payments during the pandemic. Applications for those funds are due by the end of the day Wednesday. The county Department of Economic Opportunity, meanwhile, is offering Economic Opportunity Grants that small businesses and nonprofits affected by the pandemic can use for such things as operational expenses and pandemic-related costs.

What you would do next if you were planning to get AI to create that book entirely is to do more detailed outlines for each chapter and work through those to build the content. The thing about ChatGPT is that it's a conversation rather than individual tasks knotted together. The software should remember what you're working on and factor that in, though, as we shall see in a bit, it does sometimes go off the tracks which can be frustrating. Now that the genie is well and truly out of the bottle, everyone is into this in the tech world. Microsoft has put some 10 billion into resourcing ChatGPT and there's a pretty feral gold rush-style race going on for dominance. It's not going to stop here and this is only the beginning. Google initially said that they would penalise AI-generated content on their search engine but did practically a total about-face at the beginning of this year when they realised what was happening.