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The chat app will be powered by the artificial intelligence software of ChatGPP
Google-owned AI startup OpenAI has released a new version of its AI program ‘ChatGPT’ which generates text based on patterns it digested from the web. It is a version of an AI model called ‘GPT-3’ that generates text based on patterns it digested from the web. A professor at the MIT who works on AI…
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The summer is here and it is called the wet hot artificial intelligence
Google’s ‘DALL-E’ chatbot has been used by a user to create a two-dimensional image of herself. “I decided to use it to show how different the two of us are,” the user said. She added, “DALL-E gave me repurposed versions of the information that I supplied.” The user also said that she was surprised when…
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The company wouldn’t launch a rival because of the risk
Google AI VP Zoubin Ghahramani in a recent interview said, “Building 1,000 different models isn’t the way to get to 1,000 languages.” “We can find some pretty spectacular advances…when we incorporate data from a new language into our 1,000 language model and get the ability to translate…what it’s learned from a high-resource language to a…
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There is a case for software criticism
‘Is Google making us Stupid?’, a book by Nicholas Carr, has been criticised as a work of software criticism by a New York Times reviewer. The reviewer called Carr’s book “an attempt to explain why one can’t live with the idea that technology will always be something else”. Carr wrote the book after he was…
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The Supreme Court cases this week could destroy the internet
The US Supreme Court will decide whether Google and YouTube are liable for the way it organises content from Islamic State (ISIS). Social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have been sued for helping ISIS by hosting user content expressing support for the group. The court will also determine whether firms can be sued for…
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What researchers think about Musk’s takeover
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Google doesn’t owe immunity from lawsuits under a federal law that protects tech platforms from being sued for failing to remove “third-party content” such as videos by the Islamic State (ISIS). The Gonzalez family had filed a lawsuit against Google in 2015 alleging that its algorithms were responsible…
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The risk of large language models
ChatGPT, the chatbot built by Google, was found to be unable to recognise a person’s face, according to a study by Google and Anthropic. The research showed that ChatGPT was able to recognise the face of a person through a “trick mirror”, allowing it to learn their English language. However, it couldn’t correctly recognise a…
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They got bigger with their ethical red flags
Google’s chatbots could undermine users’ perception of its search engine as neutral arbiters of truth, according to a survey conducted by Stanford University. “It’s completely untransparent how [ AI-powered search] is going to work, which might have major implications if the language model misfires, hallucinates or spreads misinformation,” said a researcher. The survey surveyed over…
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The Age of Digital is here
Google CEO Sundar Pichai in an interview with Wired said, “Everything I just said is illegal.” He added, “Everything I just said is illegal because of procurement rules that forbid the Pentagon from handing out money without going throughCareful but overly lengthy review processes.” “We’re going to build a better war-fighting system,” he further said.
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Wet Hot Artificial Intelligence is here this summer
Google has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) search engine’Bard’ that will automatically generate answers for searches such as, “What’s in the news this week?” Google unveiled Bard as part of its attempt to differentiate itself from search engines like Google and Bing. The tool is reportedly powered by a generative AI system, which generates results…
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I’m going to miss Stadia
Google’s VP of Games Rebecca Heineman said at the Google For Games Developer Summit that Google’s decision to shut down Stadia was based on “a failure with gaming content”. She further said, “Particularly considering Google’s failure with Stadia, which our evidence suggests was caused at least in part by a lack of gaming content, which…
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Meet Bard, the answer to the question
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said Google has a “a lot” of planned AI language features in 2023, and that it needs to be “bold” and “responsible”. He added, “This is an area where we need to be bold and responsible so we have to balance that.” He said Google plans to make the underlying…
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The most charming trick is also its biggest flaw
Google Co-Founder Sundar Pichai has announced that Google AI subsidiary OpenAI has developed a version of its text generation model for web-based conversations, ChatGPT. The model is based on the AI model called GPT-3 that generates text based on patterns it digested from huge quantities of text gathered from the web. ChatGPT will be available…
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We saw smart homes and health tech at the Consumer Electronics Show.
The CES 2020 will be the world’s largest consumer electronics show with over 7,000 exhibitors including LG, Samsung, Google, Amazon and Apple. The event will take place from January 7 to 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year, the show will feature a lot of new product announcements including a wireless TV which will stick…
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The progress trap was also referred to as the ChatGPT.
Google’s Wysa language model has been used in a case study to improve its search engine results. “We’re looking to get these things out into real products and into things that are more prominently featuring the language model rather than under the covers,” Google said. Wysa was first developed by Google in 2016 to improve…
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Artificial Intelligence created the classic WIRED Covers.
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin said generative artificial intelligence (AI) is “aleap in the potential of AI technology similar to one beginning in 2012 that reshaped the whole tech industry”. Brin further said, “It gave us the ability to do new things, with the same level of computational power…which was impossible before.” Meanwhile, photographer Dan Winters…
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‘Sunday Ticket’ will be on the internet beginning next season.
Google-owned YouTube is paying $2 billion per season for the residential streaming rights to NFL Sunday Ticket in a seven-year deal, The Wall Street Journal reported. It will be available either as an add-on for YouTube TV subscribers or as a la carte option on YouTube Primetime Channels, which launched last month. The NFL was…
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In the Fossil Gen 6 wellness edition review, history repeats itself.
Google’s Wear OS 3, which was first announced in 2019, is “on track to be available by the second half of 2021,” the company said. “If you look at the number of apps refreshed in the last year…and a half, then the Pixel team building the first-party watch, and our collaboration with Samsung, which is…
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Technology products and gadgets of the year.
Amazon is offering discounts on select items, including laptops, TV sets and headphones, as part of its Prime Day sale. Amazon announced that it’s offering up to 20% off select items, including an Intel Core i5 MacBook with 16 GB RAM for $1,199 (around 11,000). Other deals include Google’s Pixel 6A, Bose’s Buds Pro, Apple’s…
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The internet giant will not launch a rival because of the risk.
Google has announced it’s building a 1,000-language language model as part of its AI research to help bring various AI functionalities to languages that are poorly represented by online spaces and AI training datasets. “We get much better performance on our low resource languages,” Google AI Vice President Zoubin Ghahramani said. The 1,000-language model will…
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The world’s 1,000 most spoken languages will be supported by a giant Artificial Intelligence language model.
Google has said it’ll be funding the collection of data for low-resource languages, including audio recordings and written texts. “By having a single model exposed to and trained on many different languages, we get much better performance on our low resource languages,” Zoubin Ghahramani, VP of Research at Google AI, said. “One of the…interesting things…
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What does this mean for Wear OS?
Google’s Director of Software Engineering for Wear OS, Pete Kilburn, said the company hopes to have a new version of Wear OS every year. “If new functionalities added in Android are critical for watches and hearable, then we’ve got to find a way to get it into the watch,” he added. “There will still be…
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The US Supreme court has no right to the fate of Section 230.
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Google’s appeal against a Texas court’s ruling that it’s immune from terrorist liability under Section 230 of the US Constitution. The ruling was issued by a lower court in a case involving the death of an American college student named Omar Gonzalez. Both chambers of the US…
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Their homes were destroyed by Hurricane Ian.
Google has launched a flood and fire detection tool in the US’ Florida which will be powered by a mapping tool developed by four machine learning experts who worked with GiveDirectly for over six months. The tool uses satellite imagery and other data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to show the need for…