It told Restaurant Business it was testing whether the voice ordering chatbot could speed up service and that the test left it confident “that a voice-ordering solution for drive-thru will be part of our restaurants’ future.”
Reports suggest that Siri itself will still get natural language updates and other key features before the year is out.
“The Butterflies app represents a peek into an inevitable, somewhat dystopian future where AIs start invading our social media feeds. And this future is coming sooner than expected.”
You can be sure that Apple, Microsoft, Google, and others are going to continue to pack their operating systems with new AI features that require better hardware.
Another explainer – this one from The Verge – because Google has gotten lost in the weeds of product naming.
“Aidan and I also talked a lot about what AI can and can’t do. We agreed that it’s definitely not “there” yet. It’s not ready, whatever you think the future might hold.”
All three Qualcomm rivals (Intel, AMD, Nvidia) want you to know that other existing AI features already run on their chips, and hundreds more are coming from independent software companies.
Apple is rolling out what it says is a more conversational Siri, custom, AI-generated “Genmoji,” and GPT-4o access that lets Siri turn to OpenAI’s chatbot when it can’t handle what you ask it for.
Several former OpenAI employees warned in an open letter that advanced AI companies like OpenAI stifle criticism and oversight, especially as concerns over AI safety have increased in the past few months.
The assistant can even understand what’s happening on the screen as you play, so it can tailor itself to how many skill points you have in a game and help guide you through.
In a pair of blog posts, the company shared that it’s launching a version of ChatGPT for universities, along with a program that lets nonprofits access ChatGPT at a discounted rate.
Meta AI – let loose on Facebook’s comments? From The Verge: The AI summaries have also prompted privacy concerns, as Meta is feeding user comments into its AI system to generate them. Over the past week or so, many Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union and the UK received a notification informing them […]
Jan Leike, a key OpenAI researcher who resigned earlier this month citing “safety concerns,” has joined competitor Anthropic to “work on scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automated alignment research.”
Vox Media says in a press release that it will use OpenAI’s technology to “enhance its affiliate commerce product, The Strategist Gift Scout” and expand its ad data platform, Forte.
“Some writers have declared that the debut of ChatGPT on November 30th, 2022, marked the beginning of a new chapter in history akin to the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Others have been more skeptical…”
“If there are areas where we feel like we haven’t fully gotten it right, we are careful about rolling it out.”
Google will drop €1 billion to expand its data center in Finland…It includes plans to reuse heat from the data center to warm nearby homes, schools, and public buildings.
OpenAI has signed a deal for access to real-time content from Reddit’s data API, which means it can surface discussions from the site within ChatGPT and other new products.
ChatGPT can read through Excel, Word, PowerPoint files, and their Google equivalents “more quickly.” So far, the improved data analytics features are only available through GPT-4o.
The feature supports the translation of Spanish into English as well as the translation of English to German, Hindi, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
Small models can be used to power AI features on devices like phones and laptops without the need to take up too much computer memory.
These Copilot agents will be triggered by certain events and work with a business’s own data.
The new feature can help people speed up their workflows by doing things like copying code in one language and pasting it in another.
Its NPU is capable of performing over 40 tera operations per second (TOPS) — a far cry from the 10 NPU TOPS offered with the Meteor Lake chips included in a range of AI PCs that are already available, and enough to qualify as a ‘Copilot+’ PC.
The scope of Recall, which Microsoft has internally called AI Explorer, is incredibly vast — it includes logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and more.
One of the flagship features it’ll power is “Recall,” which is supposed to use AI to create a searchable “photographic memory” of everything you’ve done and seen on your PC.
It looks like the company’s recent obsession with AI is making that much harder to achieve. Microsoft has invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI to date, and it’s “turning everyone into a prompt engineer” for generative AI with new features in Copilot for Microsoft 365.
The AI keeps screwing up because these computers are stupid. Extraordinary in their abilities and astonishing in their dimwittedness.
Gemini 1.5 Flash might be a better option for real-time responses to customers or fast image generation, while Gemini 1.5 Pro could read and summarize research papers.
This is nothing short of a full-stack AI-ification of search. Google is using its Gemini AI to figure out what you’re asking about, whether you’re typing, speaking, taking a picture, or shooting a video.
Gemini Live will enable two-way spoken conversation with the chatbot, smart assistant capabilities, and vision features — a lot like what OpenAI is working on for ChatGPT.
Google says you can make Gemini your gym buddy, sous-chef, coding partner, creative writing guide, or anything you can dream up. Gems feels similar to OpenAI’s GPT Store that lets you make customized ChatGPT chatbots.
Google users have long been trying to hack Gemini to do complicated, multi-app things: send an email based on the data they’re looking at in Sheets or add a reminder to respond to the email they were currently looking at.
OpenAI is making a number of its previously subscription-only features available to free users of ChatGPT, with the biggest being the ability to browse its GPT Store and use custom bots…
Users could open the ChatGPT desktop app in a small window, alongside another program. They asked ChatGPT questions about what’s on their screen — whether by typing or saying it. ChatGPT could then respond based on what it “sees.”
It would apparently be able to help customer service agents “better understand the intonation of callers’ voices or whether they’re being sarcastic.”
DotDask Meredith signed a deal on Tuesday with OpenAI to use AI models for its ad-targeting product, D/Cipher. In turn, Dotdash Meredith will license its content to ChatGPT.
Microsoft just agreed to support the development of 10.5 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity around the world, a massive amount of electricity to fuel its AI ambitions and climate goals.
Some users say they’ve logged 12 hours a day on Character.AI, and posts about addiction to the platform are common.
Language added Wednesday to the terms of service for Azure OpenAI Service prohibits integrations with Azure OpenAI Service from being used “by or for” police departments for facial recognition in the U.S.
“We have decided to pause the rollouts of these experiences to further refine them based on user feedback.”
An internal email, titled “Thoughts on OpenAI,” between Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, CEO Satya Nadella, and co-founder Bill Gates reveals some of the high-level discussions around an investment opportunity in the months before Microsoft revealed the partnership.
The chatbot acts as an assistant for Amazon Web Services (AWS) users, learning from a company’s data and workflows so employees can ask questions about their business. Users can also ask Q questions about coding, HR information, or logistics.
The Claude mobile app can act as a chatbot, and users can also upload photos straight to the app for “image analysis”.
The FT writes in a press release that ChatGPT users will see summaries, quotes, and links to its articles. Any prompt that returns information from the FT will be attributed to the publication.
Apple said on its Hugging Face model page that OpenELM, which stands for “Open-source Efficient Language Models,” performs very efficiently on text-related tasks like email writing. The models are open source and ready for developers to use.
The same companies telling the public that “AI is enabling new forms of connection and expression” should also be willing to offer an explanation when its systems are unable to handle queries for an entire race of people.
The model can now listen to uploaded audio files and churn out information from things like earnings calls or audio from videos without the need to refer to a written transcript.
Bloomberg notes that it risks being a concession from Apple that its own generative AI technology is lagging behind its competitors.
Microsoft is also unlocking Copilot Pro inside the Office web apps, so you don’t need a separate Microsoft 365 subscription to use the chatbot inside Word, Outlook, and other free web apps.
When testing Copilot Designer for safety issues and flaws, Jones found that the tool generated “demons and monsters alongside terminology related to abortion rights, teenagers with assault rifles, sexualized images of women in violent tableaus, and underage drinking and drug use,” CNBC reports.
Anthropic says Opus outperformed most models in several benchmarking tests. It showed better graduate-level reasoning than OpenAI’s GPT-4, getting 50.4 percent in that test over GPT-4’s 35.7 percent.
Copilot for OneDrive will take on the role of a research assistant of sorts, being able to both find, summarize, and extract information from a wide range of files. These include text documents presentations, spreadsheets, HTML pages, PDF files…
It means any productivity boom from AI “might happen in other countries more than it happens in the US.”
Adding the chatbot to your messaging app is one way to make it feel more like talking to a friend. Gemini in Messages is only available in English for now, and only in “certain markets.”
Microsoft says it’s not only rolling this out to Windows 11, but also backporting all of the Photos’ AI edit features to Windows 10, in addition to Windows 11 for Arm64 devices.
“…the text generation features aren’t really all that unique in the Office apps. I feel like you can get just as good results using the free version of Copilot or even ChatGPT, but you’ll have to do the manual copy and paste…”
“The figures were notably larger for image-generation models, which used on average 2.9 kWh per 1,000 inferences. The average smartphone uses 0.012 kWh to charge, so generating one image using AI can use almost as much energy as charging your smartphone.”
“For more obviously “creative” multimodal requests — things that involve images, for example — Gemini has a long way to go…”
Microsoft and OpenAI have detected attempts by Russian, North Korean, Iranian, and Chinese-backed groups using tools like ChatGPT for research into targets, to improve scripts, and to help build social engineering techniques.
“I think it’s more useful than the regular Assistant by a mile & there’s a lot I like about it now…when Gemini comes up with something, like a recipe or a packing list, I have somewhere to put it. Gemini can export answers to Google Docs or Gmail…”
Copilot is now being positioned as the future of Microsoft’s AI efforts, which are leaning more into productivity and creation than just search.
“It’s fundamentally a collection of links to stories from around the web about a topic, curated and summarized by a Semafor reporter. The twist is that Semafor built an AI-powered search tool…”
Users can prompt Bard to generate photos using Google’s Imagen 2 text-to-image model.
The university will begin taking project submissions from faculty and students on where to use ChatGPT beginning in February.
Google admitted when asked for comment that the video demo didn’t happen in real time with spoken prompts but instead used still image frames from raw footage and then wrote out text prompts to which Gemini to responded.
Bard is now running Gemini Pro, the middle tier of the Gemini series.
“AI so far is shaping up like self-driving cars — it got pretty good faster than anybody thought, and it’s going to be a hell of a lot of work to get good enough to be everywhere.”
Microsoft is allowing Windows 10 users to try out the Copilot feature that was previously only available in Windows 11. There’s a Release Preview version of the OS available for testers with Copilot baked in.
Microsoft has added some flexibility to the chatbot’s output, so users can tweak it with instructions to make its formatting and tone more to their personal liking. Word and PowerPoint will get the new personalization features to start.
Microsoft announced that they’re dropping the Bing Chat branding and moving to Copilot, the new name for the chat interface you might have used in Bing, Microsoft Edge, and Windows 11.
AI already accounted for 10 to 15 percent of Google’s electricity consumption in 2021. And the company’s AI ambitions have grown big time since then.
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