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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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Thinking Different About Apple AI
13 Jun

Thinking Different About Apple AI

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Apple executives used the keynote address of this week's annual WWDC developers conference to debut all of the artificial intelligence capabilities that are coming to iPhones, iPads, and Macs. The team showed off how generative tools will help users write emails, clean up iPhone photos, illustrate presentations, and make custom emoji characters.Adding AI to everything is par for the course in 2024, as all of the big tech companies have been loading up their software with similar generative features. But Apple is late to this particular party. The company has been perceived as being “behind” in generative AI, since OpenAI,…
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Learning to Live With Google’s AI Overviews
06 Jun

Learning to Live With Google’s AI Overviews

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Google has spent the past year lustily rolling out AI features across its platforms. But with each launch, it is becoming more clear that some of these so-called enhancements should have simmered a little longer. The latest update to stoke equal parts excitement and ridicule is AI Overviews, the new auto-generated summary boxes that appear at the top of some Google search results.In theory, AI Overviews are meant to answer questions and neatly summarize key information about people's search queries, offering links to the sources the summaries were pulled from and making search more immediately useful. In reality, these AI…
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It’s the AI Election Year
31 May

It’s the AI Election Year

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Leah Feiger: Sometimes you are able to link it back to specific companies-Vittoria Elliott: Yes.Leah Feiger: That are doing the generative AI itself.Vittoria Elliott: Yeah, totally. For instance, there was a deep fake made of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, whose been in jail under corruption charges. His party was disqualified for running in the general election earlier this year. He was able to make campaign speeches using generative AI.Leah Feiger: Wild.Vittoria Elliott: To do that, they used ElevenLabs, which is the same company that was used for the fake Joe Biden robocall earlier this year. Sometimes…
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