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01 Nov

Amazon reportedly bumped back its AI-powered Alexa to next year

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If you’re wondering what happened to Amazon’s new and improved version of its Alexa voice assistant, you’re not alone. reports that the new Alexa is still stuck in its developmental phase and Amazon has cut off access to its beta phase including its new “Let’s Chat” phase. As a result, a planned late 2024 launch has been pushed back to next year.The problem seems to be with its large language models (LLMs). The new Alexa is designed to from users but it’s also more likely to fail doing some of the most basic things the old version could do quite…

01 Nov

The Guy Behind the Fake AI Halloween Parade Listing Says You’ve Got It All Wrong

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I appreciate that.We own this mistake.So your name is Nazir Ali, but when you say “we”—We are not going to give you any personal information that might be harmful for us. Everyone is writing about us, and they are telling us that we are scammers.Would you be comfortable telling me about the reports that you’re based in Pakistan? Is that true?We hire some of the content creators, and one is from Pakistan, and others are from some other countries. But I don't want to actually reveal their nationalities. People will blame the country if I say I'm from Dubai, then…

01 Nov

AI Will Understand Humans Better Than Humans Do

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Michal Kosinski is a Stanford research psychologist with a nose for timely subjects. He sees his work as not only advancing knowledge, but alerting the world to potential dangers ignited by the consequences of computer systems. His best-known projects involved analyzing the ways in which Facebook (now Meta) gained a shockingly deep understanding of its users from all the times they clicked “like” on the platform. Now he’s shifted to the study of surprising things that AI can do. He’s conducted experiments, for example, that indicate that computers could predict a person’s sexuality by analyzing a digital photo of their…

31 Oct

ChatGPT’s AI Search Tool Is Now Available

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OpenAI just launched its AI search update for ChatGPT. Three months after the company’s initial announcement of a SearchGPT prototype, OpenAI’s vision for the future of AI search is now available to the public.“We're focused on making ChatGPT the best place to answer any question, including live information from the web,” says Adam Fry, the product lead for search on ChatGPT. Referred to by Fry as “ChatGPT search” rather than “SearchGPT,” the feature enters an increasingly crowded and contentious field of AI search options for users—with competition from smaller startups, like Perplexity, as well as tech giants, like Google with…

31 Oct

This Is a Glimpse of the Future of AI Robot

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Despite stunning AI progress in recent years, robots remain stubbornly dumb and limited. The ones found in factories and warehouses typically go through precisely choreographed routines without much ability to perceive their surroundings or adapt on the fly. The few industrial robots that can see and grasp objects can only do a limited number of things with minimal dexterity due to a lack of general physical intelligence.More generally capable robots could take on a far wider range of industrial tasks, perhaps after minimal demonstrations. Robots will also need more general abilities in order to cope with the enormous variability and…

31 Oct

Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else

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Managing such a gargantuan array of chips to develop Llama 4 is likely to present unique engineering challenges and require vast amounts of energy. Meta executives on Wednesday sidestepped an analyst question about energy access constraints in parts of the US that have hampered companies’ efforts to develop more powerful AI.According to one estimate, a cluster of 100,000 H100 chips would require 150 megawatts of power. The largest national lab supercomputer in the United States, El Capitan, by contrast requires 30 megawatts of power. Meta expects to spend as much as $40 billion in capital this year to furnish data…

30 Oct

Elon Musk’s Criticism of ‘Woke AI’ Suggests ChatGPT Could Be a Trump Administration Target

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Mittelsteadt adds that Trump could punish companies in a variety of ways. He cites, for example, the way the Trump government canceled a major federal contract with Amazon Web Services, a decision likely influenced by the former president’s view of the Washington Post and its owner, Jeff Bezos.It would not be hard for policymakers to point to evidence of political bias in AI models, even if it cuts both ways.A 2023 study by researchers at the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, and Xi’an Jiaotong University found a range of political leanings in different large language models. It also showed…

30 Oct

OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway

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On Saturday, an Associated Press investigation revealed that OpenAI's Whisper transcription tool creates fabricated text in medical and business settings despite warnings against such use. The AP interviewed more than 12 software engineers, developers, and researchers who found the model regularly invents text that speakers never said, a phenomenon often called a “confabulation” or “hallucination” in the AI field.Upon its release in 2022, OpenAI claimed that Whisper approached “human level robustness” in audio transcription accuracy. However, a University of Michigan researcher told the AP that Whisper created false text in 80 percent of public meeting transcripts examined. Another developer, unnamed…

28 Oct

‘BBL Drizzy’ Was the Beginning of the Future of AI Music

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Not all AI tools are the generate-from-scratch types like Google’s MusicFX, Suno, and Udio that independent creators like Hatcher use—there are also ones for extracting stems, for mixing and mastering, and for brainstorming lyrics, all of which are finding user bases amongst hobbyists as well as professional producers. Sam Hollander, a pop hitmaker who has worked with Panic! at the Disco and Flava Flav, compares AI to the explosion of drum machines in the ’80s, and how session drummers had to adapt and learn programming if they wanted to continue to work.Giving a typical example of where AI fits into…

28 Oct

Apple Intelligence Isn’t Ready to Wow You—Yet

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So what can you do right now? Let's start with Writing Tools, which helps to you Rewrite, Proofread, or Summarize text wherever you are in the operating system. Rewrite changes the sentence's tone from casual to professional, for example, while Proofread fixes typos and improves grammar. Too bad it's nearly impossible to remember this feature exists because it only shows up when you highlight words. Perhaps Writing Tools would be better as a little button built into the virtual keyboard.You can type to Siri now, though this is technically not new. Previously this was an accessibility setting, which Apple has…