Tag: Software
Why the passing of James Earl Jones doesn’t mean you won’t hear Darth Vader’s voice again
James Earl Jones sadly passed away this week at 93, leaving an amazing legacy as an actor. His iconic voice lent gravitas to the CNN tag, Mufasa in The Lion King, and, most famously, Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise. But, thanks to some foresight by Jones and Star…
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This AI bot will check for you if Bigfoot is real
Urban legends and outlandish stories often send people to Snopes in search of a reality check. Now, the fact-checking site has an AI tool called FactBot to help you win a bet about Bigfoot or confirm a story about your favorite celebrity. Aimed at addressing misinformation, FactBot uses Snopes’ archive…
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ChatGPT o1-preview can solve riddles faster than me and I kind of hate it for it
When OpenAI released the much-hyped Strawberry model for ChatGPT this week, it boasted of its prowess with complex logic like software coding, gene sequencing, and quantum physics in a series of videos. I take the company at its word that the models, called o1-preview and o1-mini on ChatGPT, are capable…
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Windows 11’s latest major update isn’t even out yet for most users, but it’s already causing problems
Many of us are still waiting for the rollout of Windows 11’s annual major update, version 24H2, which is already available for new Copilot+ PC devices, and with it, Microsoft has introduced smaller “checkpoint cumulative updates” or (‘differential updates’) intended to make monthly updates smaller and faster by only downloading…
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Amazon’s AI personal shopper is sharing ads with its advice
Amazon proclaimed its shopping AI chatbot Rufus as a solution for people overwhelmed by the dizzying array of products on its website. But, since it’s Amazon, that’s now going to include some ads, as Adweek first noted. Rufus (named for a pet corgi owned by early Amazon employees) uses AI…
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OpenAI Strawberry is here – it’s called o1-preview and it might be the most human ChatGPT ever
Fast answers aren’t always the best, which might be the key takeaway from the arrival of OpenAI Strawberry – now called o1-preview – a new ChatGPT reasoning model that takes longer to give you what might be vastly better answers. OpenAI announced the preview release on Thursday in a blog…
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