chatbots

Wear This AI Friend Around Your Neck
30 Jul

Wear This AI Friend Around Your Neck

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The Friend gets around 15 hours of battery life and comes in an array of colors that look almost exactly like the color palette of the first Apple iMac computers. (Schiffmann says that wasn’t intentional.) The design comes from a partnership with Bould, the company that designed Nest thermostats. The Friend is available for preorder now from Friend.com (a domain Schiffmann says he paid $1.8 million for), and the devices are slated to start shipping in January 2025. They cost $99 apiece, and there is no paid subscription attached. (Yet, anyway.)If the notion of a wearable AI device makes you…
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Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself
29 Jul

Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself

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Over the past year, Meta has become an AI success story thanks to its decision to offer robust AI models for free. Last week, the company released a powerful version of its large language model Llama, providing developers, researchers, and startups with free access to a model comparable to the powerful paid model one behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company says its new chatbots are all based on the latest version of Llama.And yet Meta has struggled to find the right tone and niche for its own AI offerings. Last September, the company launched a range of AI chatbots loosely based…
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We Asked AI to Take Us On a Tour of Our Cities. It Was Chaos
19 Jul

We Asked AI to Take Us On a Tour of Our Cities. It Was Chaos

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With high hopes of finding some hidden gems in our home cities and $100 (£77) each burning a hole in our pockets, we—Natasha Bernal in London and Amanda Hoover in New York—asked AI to plan out the perfect day.We decided to use Littlefoot, an AI-powered local discovery chatbot that can generate experiences in 161 cities around the world. It was created by Bigfoot, a startup founded by former Airbnb executives Alex Ward, James Robinson, and Shane Lykins that purports to enmesh the minds of all the publicly available AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Anthropic, and Perplexity, in addition to…
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OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI
27 Jun

OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI

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One of the key ingredients that made ChatGPT a ripsnorting success was an army of human trainers who gave the artificial intelligence model behind the bot guidance on what constitutes good and bad outputs. OpenAI now says that adding even more AI into the mix—to help assist human trainers—could help make AI helpers smarter and more reliable.In developing ChatGPT, OpenAI pioneered the use of reinforcement learning with human feedback, or RLHF. This technique uses input from human testers to fine-tune an AI model so that its output is judged to be more coherent, less objectionable, and more accurate. The ratings…
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I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again
18 Jun

I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again

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When a flattering email arrived inviting me to participate in an AI venture called Rebind that I’d later come to think will radically transform the entire way booklovers read books, I felt pretty sure it was a scam. For one thing, the sender was Clancy Martin, a writer and philosophy professor I didn’t know personally but vaguely recalled had written about his misspent youth as a small-time jewelry-biz con artist, also being a serial liar in his love life. For another, they were offering to pay me. “Clancy up to his old ways!” I thought.My role, the email explained, would…
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Reduce AI Hallucinations With This Neat Software Trick
14 Jun

Reduce AI Hallucinations With This Neat Software Trick

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To start off, not all RAGs are of the same caliber. The accuracy of the content in the custom database is critical for solid outputs, but that isn’t the only variable. “It's not just the quality of the content itself,” says Joel Hron, a global head of AI at Thomson Reuters. “It's the quality of the search, and retrieval of the right content based on the question.” Mastering each step in the process is critical, since one misstep can throw the model completely off.“Any lawyer who's ever tried to use a natural language search within one of the research engines…
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AI Chatbots Are Running for Office Now
13 Jun

AI Chatbots Are Running for Office Now

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Victor Miller [Archival audio clip]: She's asking what policies are most important to you, VIC?VIC [Archival audio clip]: The most important policies to me focus on transparency, economic development, and innovation.Leah Feiger: That is so bizarre. I got to ask, could VIC be exposed to other sources of information other than these public records? Say, email from a conspiracy theorist who wants VIC to do something not so good with elections that would not represent its constituents.Vittoria Elliott: Great question. I asked Miller, "Hey, you've built this bot on top of ChatGPT. We know that sometimes there's problems or biases…
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AI Agents Are Coming for Mundane—but Valuable—Office Tasks
30 May

AI Agents Are Coming for Mundane—but Valuable—Office Tasks

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For all the bluster about generative artificial intelligence upending the world, the technology has yet to meaningfully transform white-collar work. Workers are dabbling with chatbots for tasks such as drafting emails, and companies are launching countless experiments, but office work hasn’t undergone a major AI reboot.Perhaps that’s only because we haven’t given chatbots like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT the right tools for the job yet; they’re generally restricted to taking in and spitting out text via a chat interface. Things might get more interesting in business settings as AI companies start deploying so-called “AI agents,” which can take action…
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