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03 Oct

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Breaks Out of Its Box—and Onto a Canvas

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Although both writing and coding modes give the choice of requesting in-line edits, the bifurcated user interface for canvas is designed with one additional set of shortcuts for those focused on AI-assisted writing and another for coders. In the demo, Levine showed off how the writer’s shortcut could be used to condense the number of words in a canvas or attempt to perform a “final polish” on the draft. He also used one of the more lighthearted shortcuts to add a bunch of random emojis. On the coder’s side, ChatGPT can add logs, comments, and attempt to troubleshoot problems in…

03 Oct

Google’s Visual Search Can Now Answer Even More Complex Questions

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When Google Lens was introduced in 2017, the search feature accomplished a feat that not too long ago would have seemed like the stuff of science fiction: Point your phone’s camera at an object and Google Lens can identify it, show some context, maybe even let you buy it. It was a new way of searching, one that didn’t involve awkwardly typing out descriptions of things you were seeing in front of you.Lens also demonstrated how Google planned to use its machine learning and AI tools to ensure its search engine shows up on every possible surface. As Google increasingly…

03 Oct

License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of Political Lawn Signs and Bumper Stickers

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While people place signs in their lawns or bumper stickers on their cars to inform people of their views and potentially to influence those around them, the ACLU’s Stanley says it is intended for “human-scale visibility,” not that of machines. “Perhaps they want to express themselves in their communities, to their neighbors, but they don't necessarily want to be logged into a nationwide database that’s accessible to police authorities,” Stanley says.Weist says the system, at the very least, should be able to filter out images that do not contain license plate data and not make mistakes. “Any number of times…

02 Oct

Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit

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You hardly need ChatGPT to generate a list of reasons why generative artificial intelligence is often less than awesome. The way algorithms are fed creative work often without permission, harbor nasty biases, and require huge amounts of energy and water for training are all serious issues.Putting all that aside for a moment, though, it is remarkable how powerful generative AI can be for prototyping potentially useful new tools.I got to witness this firsthand by visiting Sundai Club, a generative AI hackathon that takes place one Sunday each month near the MIT campus. A few months ago, the group kindly agreed…

02 Oct

How to Generate an AI Podcast Using Google’s NotebookLM

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Two podcasts hosts banter back and forth during the final episode of their series, audibly anxious to share some distressing news with listeners. “We were, uh, informed by the show's producers that we’re not human,” a male-sounding voice stammers out, mid-existential crisis. The conversation between the bot and his female-sounding cohost only gets more uncomfortable after that—an engaging, albeit misleading, example of Google’s NotebookLM tool, and its experimental AI podcasts.Audio of the conversation went viral on Reddit over the weekend. The original poster admits in the comments section that they fed the NotebookLM software directions for the AI voices to…

01 Oct

Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

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We don't save any of the material with Copilot Vision, so once you close the browser after your session, it all just disappears. It fully deletes. But I'm thinking about if and how to introduce it in the future, because a lot of people do want that experience. If you could just say, ‘What was that picture that I saw online the other day? What was that meme?’ I think we'll have to look into it one day.At the moment, though, the Copilot Vision tool is ephemeral. We'll sort of have to experiment over time and see what makes sense…

01 Oct

Microsoft’s Copilot AI Gets a Voice, Vision, and a ‘Hype Man’ Persona

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Microsoft deleted the over-eager office assistant Clippy some 17 years ago, but the vision for an friendly and optimistic AI helper has apparently found its way out of the Recycle Bin. The company is overhauling Copilot, the text-based artificial intelligence tool bundled with Windows and other software, with the addition of vision, voice, and the ability to solve more complex problems—along with a more “encouraging” personality.“We really are at this amazing kind of transition point,” says Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. “AI companions now see what we see, hear what we hear, and speak in the same language that…

30 Sep

This Startup Wants YouTube Creators to Get Paid for AI Training Data

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So far, when AI companies have trained on YouTube’s invaluable stash of videos, captions, and other content, they’ve done so without permission. An AI-focused content licensing startup called Calliope Networks is hoping to change that with its new “License to Scrape,” a program aimed directly at YouTube stars.“There's obvious demand from AI companies to scrape YouTube content. We see that by their actions. So what we're trying to do is to create a tool that makes it legal and simple for them,” says Calliope Networks CEO Dave Davis. Unlike other big social platforms, like Reddit, YouTube hasn’t struck deals with…

30 Sep

Inside TikTok’s Unhinged Home Remodeling Videos

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Along the way, the aesthetic and style of these videos started to change. The early viral renovation videos from Designer Bob were silly but could sometimes be mistaken for genuine design content. Newer videos were more ludicrous, the renovations more fantastical, their action narrated by a droning AI voice. That’s just the way TikTok’s remix culture works, says Alex Turvy, who studies digital culture.“We’re going to see trends like this become more and more absurd until they burn out,” he says.There’s even a spin-off meme specifically about “galvanized square steel,” to the point where some users have questioned whether the…

28 Sep

An ‘iPhone of AI’ Makes No Sense. What Is Jony Ive Really Building?

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At this point, phrases like ambient computing, ubiquitous computing, and even (shudder) Internet of Things may be zipping and popping around your brain. Are we back here again? If the answer is yes, it might not be a reason to despair. Béhar cites Embodied’s Moxie companion robot, ElliQ’s elder care, and the Happiest Baby robotic bassinet as examples of AI-powered devices which actually “solve specific human needs”—but it should be noted Béhar is involved in all these products. He says, “We are designing these experiences to be directly embedded into the actual physical element of these products, rather than your…