Amazon Upgrades Alexa for the ChatGPT Era
When Amazon launched the Alexa virtual assistant nine years ago, its ability to decode voice commands to set a timer or play a song seemed almost magical. Today, the bar...
DeepMind’s New AI Can Predict Genetic Diseases
About 10 years ago, Žiga Avsec was a PhD physics student who found himself taking a crash course in genomics via a university module on machine learning. He was soon...
The Fall of Babylon Is a Warning for AI Unicorns
But the US venture was also ultimately doomed. It was entering a very crowded market, and wasn’t ready to compete. “There are a lot of scaled telemedicine companies here that...
Get Ready for ChatGPT-Style AI Chatbots That Do Your Boring Chores
A couple of weeks ago, startup CEO Flo Crivello typed a message asking his personal assistant Lindy to change the length of an upcoming meeting from 30 to 45 minutes....
Universal Music Declares War on Streaming Noise
Under the new model, Deezer promises to separate professional artists from the musical clutter of hobbyists, functional music, and system-gaming bots, and to future-proof its platform. “The new model is...
ChatGPT Isn’t Coming for Your Coding Job
Software engineers have joined the ranks of copy editors, translators, and others who fear that they’re about to be replaced by generative AI. But it might be surprising to learn...
Teachers Are Going All In on Generative AI
Past research shows that large language models are capable of generating text harmful to some groups of people, including those who identify as Black, women, people with disabilities, and Muslims....
Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites
While all the CEOs, union bosses, and civil rights advocates were asked to raise their hands, one flaw with muzzling senators, according to critics on both sides of the proverbial...
Don’t Count on Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer to Jump-Start an AI Revolution
You’d have to be pretty brave to bet against the idea that applying more computing power and data to machine learning—a recipe that birthed ChatGPT—won’t lead to further advances of...
