Tag: AI Platforms & Assistants
I tried Gemini Spark in Chrome and it’s the perfect AI for handling all the boring bits online
As soon as I heard that Gemini Spark was now part of the Chrome browser I had to try it for myself. Gemini Spark is an AI agent designed to take on longer-running tasks that continue in the background. It’s much smoother now thanks to an update that incorporates the…
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‘Tools don’t have independent values — their values are human values’: Quote of the day by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li on building ethical AI
With AI advancing in capability and availability, many scientists and experts have begun highlighting the risks of deploying this emerging technology. There’s an overriding desire to deploy AI ethically, or to instill models with human-based values, but it remains to be seen how to standardize such an approach or even…
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OpenAI vs Apple text messages reveal something about Apple, but probably not what you’re thinking
We have officially reached the finger-pointing phase of the blockbuster Apple vs. OpenAI lawsuit in which Apple alleges that, with the assistance of former Apple employees, OpenAI is stealing Apple trade secrets. What the suit alleges, which I outlined here, is pretty damning: A pair of former Apple employees —…
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I tried to use ChatGPT to create fake evidence — and I came away more worried than I expected
One of my favorite places online is Reddit’s r/isthisAI. Every day, people upload photos of people they’re chatting to on dating apps, holiday snaps, cute viral videos of kittens, photos of receipts, pictures of pregnancy tests, and so much more, all along with the same question: is this AI? Some…
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LinkedIn says it won’t be spending big on AI hardware this year — but it has a good reason why
LinkedIn will hold GPU investment and its compute and storage footprint flat rather than expanding its AI data centers The company says it roughly doubled the efficiency of its existing GPUs in six months through accumulated improvements to utilization, model distillation, and workload allocation, not a single breakthrough This makes…
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Quote of the day by filmmaker James Cameron on AI: ‘All of human art and human experience put into a blender’ — dismissing the rise of AI in creative industries
The rise of generative AI has undoubtedly lowered the barrier to entry for creating film, with individuals as well as massive production companies leveraging the technology in different ways. But many, including Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron, have insisted that generative AI is no substitute for human actors. “What generative…
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