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Thanks to the help of Gemini, the Bard chatbot is getting better
Commenting on the launch of Google’s AI platform Gemini, OpenAI’s Founder and CEO David Hassabis said, “When AI meets Google, it’s a step change.” Hassabis added, “It’s an opportunity to learn from it and see how we can build even better AI, which is what we’ve been working on.” He further said that Gemini’s release…
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The upcoming phones are thePixel 8 pro and theAndroid phone
Google has said that it is “considerably ahead on 30 benchmarks” for its AI-based search engine, Gemini. “There’s still things like action, touch, more like robotics-type things,” Google’s Director of AI and Deep Learning Yusuf Hassabis said. “Over time, it’ll get more senses, become more aware, and become more grounded in the process,” Hassabis added.
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The Next Challenge Is Making Them
Google’s AI-based A-Lab at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL) has created 41 new inorganic materials, 9 of which were made only after active learning improved synthesis. It took 17 days to produce 41 new inorganic materials, while 17 of them didn’t make it. Only a few of the 17 materials didn’t make resulted in synthesis…
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The new music tool creates tracks using famous singers’ voice clones
Google’s AI-powered music generation tool Lyria has been rolled out on YouTube, allowing artists to create music using artificial intelligence. The creators of music-generating systems that were used to training them will receive a cut of future ad revenue generated by videos featuring artificial intelligence. Earlier, the platform had announced new content guidelines for AI-generated…
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You can watch a tease of an Artificial Intelligence tool that clone famous singers
Google has launched an AI feature called ‘Dream Track’ to generate songs, including lyrics, melody, and accompaniment, in the styles of seven different artists, including Charlie Puth, Demi Lovato, Sia and T-Pain. The tool is powered by DeepMind’s music generation model. The tracks can be modified and have a SynthID watermark which can be inaudible…
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In a court case, the CEO argued that the internet company was just a business
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told a US court on Wednesday that Google made some of its revenue based on users doing more Google searches. Pichai said Google made some of its revenue dependent on devices getting security updates, adding, “everybody involved in the deal gets paid.” Google was sued in 2018 for allegedly abusing its…
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The company’s CEO is going to testify in the trial
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified against the US government’s antitrust case against Google, saying, “I don’t think we’ve ever done anything wrong.” He added, “It’s our job to make sure that users have a place to go to on the internet.” Sundar Pichai further said, “The search engines that Microsoft and I have competed against…
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The UK’s artificial intelligence champion, Graphcore, is scrambling to stay afloat
Google CEO Tim Cook has said that people don’t necessarily think about artificial intelligence (AI) in their lives. “We do integrate it into our products…but people don’t necessarily think about it as AI,” Cook said in an interview with Good Morning America. However, he added, “We do integrate it into our products but people don’t…
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The comparison of the newPixel 8 phones to their competitors is shown here
Google on Tuesday launched its Pixel 8 and 8 Pro phones, which have been upgraded to the ‘T Tensor G3’ chip. The Pixel 8 features a 10.5-megapixel front-facing camera, while the Pixel 8 Pro has a 11.2-megapixel primary camera. Both the phones will be available for pre-order from November 10 in the US and from…
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The new Pixel 8 is not as big as the previous one but it is smarter
Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro will offer seven years of software support, which is longer than Apple’s record of five years of software support, Google said. The Pixel 8 Pro will be able to shoot up to 50 photos per second, while Pixel 8 will offer 24 hours of battery life. Pixel 8…
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Google will provide support for the Pixel 8 series with seven years of updates
Google has announced its Pixel 8 and 8 Pro smartphones, which will offer seven-year support for all Android operating system updates. The Pixel 8 will come with an AMOLED display with a 3,750 mAh battery while Pixel 8 Pro will come with an AMOLED display with a 3,700 mAh battery. The Pixel 8 has a…
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The Apple executive is going to testify in the antitrust case
Apple has argued in court that Google Search deal is about more than economics and Apple never seriously considered switching to another provider. It added the deal was about “our best interest” and that it never considered switching to another provider or building its own search product. Apple had signed the deal with Google in…
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When hackers try to break an automated system
Hundreds of people, including white house students, participated in a ‘Generative Red Team Challenge’ to investigate harms, flaws and biases within chatbots and Text Generation Models (TGMs) from Google, Meta, OpenAI, and startups including Cohere. Participants spent 50 minutes trying to expose harms, flaws and biases embedded within chatbots andTGMs from Google, Meta and startups…
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The Pixel 7 phones are just a few gadgets that can be purchased for less
Google’s 6.1-inch Pixel 7A has dropped in price to a new all-time low of $444 at Amazon, Best Buy and the rest of the internet. Alternatively, you can buy the 6.7-inch Pixel 7 Pro on sale for $699 ($200 off) at Amazon, Best Buy and Google. Like the Pixel 7, the Pixel 7A offers a…
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There is a new smart home automation script editor
Google has rolled out a new feature in its Home app that would let users create automations and perform tasks using voice commands. The feature is currently only available for Android users, but it will be released for iOS users in the coming weeks. Users can use the new feature to create automations or to…
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Passkeys can now be used for password-free sign-in
Google has rolled out support for PassKey authentication on its web browser, adding that users can use a passkey before opening the browser. It will work with all apps running on Google’s browsers, including Chrome and Gmail. Users will need to choose a passkey from a shared device option. Selecting the passkey from another device…
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Is Web 2.0 the end of news sites?
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti said in a memo that social media platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, were “bad partners”. “The most stupid thing your enemy has ever thought is that the web, Facebook, Twitter and Google 2.0 media news is mediated through large platforms like Google, Facebook and Twitter that are awash with user-generated content,”…
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The website The Verge
Google is reportedly planning to give its artificial intelligence-based text generators an updated set of safety guardrails. It’s reportedly worried that factual errors could be introduced into ad campaigns. The tool will be included in the performance Max program which provides an overview of customers’ campaigns. The tool will likely be integrated into the performance…
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Large Language Models have a dark risk
A Google DeepMind employee has accused the company of having a “large language model that was sentient”, which is not an imitation of a larger database of human interaction, Wired reported. The employee had accused Google of having a ‘huge database of human interactions’ and said it can fool the uninitiated. However, DeepMind denied the…
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Some photo-croping apps are showing you your secrets
Google has patched a flaw in Markup screenshot editing utility that can allow images to be partially unedited. The flaw was discovered by reverse engineers Simon Aaarons and David Buchanan. The flaw can affect images shared on platforms before the exploit was patched, but some such as Twitter, re- process the images posted on the…
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The prices for the phone were hit an all-time low
Google’s Pixel 7 Pro has been named the top upgrade pick in the Best Google Pixel Phones guide by WIRED. It was followed by the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro. The Pixel 7 Pro comes with a 5,000mAh battery and the Pixel 7 Pro comes with a 6,000mAh battery. The 7 Pro has a 6.1-inch…
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The second review of Nothing Ear is titled “vibrant sound, control issues.”
Amazon has reduced the price of two of its devices, the second-gen Echo buds and the Google home speaker, by 70%. The buds are priced at $120 (around 1,000), while the speaker is priced at $30 (around 3,000). Amazon is also offering a 30% discount on the Samsung Galaxy Watch5 Smartwatch for $699 (around 52,000).
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The former hype woman has regrets
Google’s culture has become “grim” and there’s a gap between its ideals of idealism and what people’s actual experience was, an ex-employee said. “It might’ve gone astray or gone off-course. Yeah, I think…culture is quite grim,” he added. He further said that Google’s culture is “probably no longer immune” from the financial crisis and other…
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Bard, a public demo of GOOGLE’S artificial intelligence chatbot, had an incorrect response
Google’s generative AI company OpenAI has unveiled a new interface that allows users to test the company’s text-generating software for themselves. It said the new interface will let users use the software to make images, text or code. The company added that it would no longer use developers’ data to improve its models without their…
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Meet Bard, the Answer to the question of ChatGPT
The Bard AI chatbot launched by Google and Microsoft has been tested with over 50 million people. The chatbot was developed by Google’s Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, who were fired by the company in 2019 after they issued a draft research paper arguing for caution with Text Generation technology. Google said it’ll continue to…