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Chinese company offers to create AI avatars of deceased loved ones
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Chinese company offers to create AI avatars of deceased loved ones

A Nanjing-based company named Silicon Intelligence is using Artificial Intelligence to create virtual chatbots of people’s deceased friends and family. Every day, we get one step closer to living inside an episode of Black Mirror. Heck, a quick look around may suggest we’re already there. The plot just thickens by the hour. The second season of Netflix's wildly popular dystopian series kicks off with the story of woman continuing her relationship...

By London, UK
Google’s ‘AMIE’ paves the way for AI-driven medicine
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Google’s ‘AMIE’ paves the way for AI-driven medicine

While AMIE has demonstrated superior diagnostic capabilities compared to human doctors, questions remain about the ethics of its implementation. In the realm of medical innovation, Google has recently unveiled a groundbreaking advancement with its AI system, the Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE), marking a significant stride in the integration of artificial intelligence into healthcare. This ambitious endeavor seeks to streamline healthcare processes, offering medical professionals more time for complex cases...

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X launches new AI tool called ‘Grok’ for US-based users
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X launches new AI tool called ‘Grok’ for US-based users

Allegedly modelled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, it is designed to answer questions and help content creators generate creative and engaging tweets. With the turn of the new year, Elon Musk has introduced a new feature to the platform he acquired a little over a year ago. You know, the one formerly known (and still often referred to) as Twitter, but is officially known as X. GrokBot, or Grok...

By London, UK
How is Facebook hoping to bring back alienated Gen Zers?
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How is Facebook hoping to bring back alienated Gen Zers?

Facebook has fallen out of favour with young consumers. Once seen as the defining social media platform, it is now associated with misinformation, privacy breaches, and older people. Is there any way back? If you’re an older Gen Zers or younger Millennial, you may remember a time when Facebook was the place to be. In the late noughties and early tens, Zuckerberg’s social media unicorn was the spearhead for a cultural...

By London, UK
Google launches new AI tool PaLM 2
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Google launches new AI tool PaLM 2

In an attempt to keep up with the competition, Google has announced PaLM 2, a ‘next-generation language model’ that will be available for many of its upcoming products. It will be in direct competition with services like Midjourney and DALL-E. Google is attempting to throw itself back to the forefront of AI tools and services. Despite years of AI research and in-house work, the company has been unable to create popular...

By London, UK
AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton warns of its risks and quits Google
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AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton warns of its risks and quits Google

For half a century, AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now, having left Google, he warns it could cause serious harm in the future.  Regarded by many as a ‘godfather’ of AI technology, Geoffrey Hinton’s pioneering research paved the way for sophisticated generative systems like ChatGPT.  The British-Canadian earned his chops over half a century in computer science and cognitive phycology. Now, at...

By London, UK
Google employees reportedly call Bard ‘worse than useless’
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Google employees reportedly call Bard ‘worse than useless’

In its efforts to prevent Microsoft and Open AI running away in the commercial AI chatbot race, Google rolled out Bard way ahead of schedule. A new report claims company employees begged executives not to launch it at the time.  Chiefs at Microsoft probably can’t believe their luck. AI has long been tipped as the next massively lucrative venture within tech, and ChatGPT remains largely unchallenged as the benchmark product.  In...

By London, UK
OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 is helping the visually impaired
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 is helping the visually impaired

The ubiquitous generative AI chatbot is already answering daily queries for visually impaired people with more detail and efficiency than human volunteers. While the recreational uses of AI continue to make headlines every week, the technology’s ability to make day-to-day living more accessible is going under the radar. Largely regarded as the benchmark for quality within tech’s latest race, OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 is now able to accurately break down visual prompts...

By London, UK
Is Zuckerberg ditching his Metaverse utopia?
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Is Zuckerberg ditching his Metaverse utopia?

A new Meta blog post has outlined how Zuckerberg intends to deliver on his ‘year of efficiency’. 10’000 jobs are to be cut and a further 5’000 open roles are closing. ‘Lower priority projects’ will also be shut down. Is Zuckerberg giving up on the Metaverse? Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced 10’000 layoffs and a freezing of 5’000 open roles in the company’s ‘year of efficiency’. It follows a...

By London, UK
The ChatGPT black market is thriving in China
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The ChatGPT black market is thriving in China

China clamped down on access to ChatGPT last month, announcing its own generative AI chatbot ‘ERNIE Bot,’ arriving in March. This has since ignited an illicit marketplace for OpenAI’s hot property software within China. The commercial road-map for novel chatbots has been established: complete integration into their parent company’s internet search engines. Microsoft-owned OpenAI has already combined ChatGPT with Bing, setting an early benchmark for quality within generative text AI....

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