An AI company may have gone too far this time. Silicon Intelligence has now created an AI capable of “resurrecting” your dead loved ones. At least, that’s what the company claims. The truth is that the company can create an AI-powered avatar of your loved one, allowing you to chat with them like you would…
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President Biden is still running for re-election, President Trump hasn’t been shot, and Kamala Harris is not a contender for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.Those are some of the wacky misstatements that ChatGPT shared with me yesterday and today, prompted by my questions to it about the dizzying array of major news developments we’ve been…
If you’ve somehow avoided using ChatGPT until now, there’s a new reason to try it out. OpenAI launched a new lightweight AI model primarily targeting developers looking to deploy AI features in their apps without breaking the bank. GPT-4o mini is cheaper than any other ChatGPT model so far, and it’s supposed to be faster…
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Derby City Council aims to save almost £12.5m a year in costs by rolling out artificial intelligence (AI) tools to its staff. The council, which covers the East Midlands city of some 264,000 people, has identified 261 tasks where officials believe AI can make improvements. Within that, the council is focusing on 54 areas where…
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ChatGPT is the generative AI chatbot I use the most, and I also happen to pay for the Plus subscription, even though the free tier would give me access to most of the chatbot’s features. I also happen to use GPT-4o, OpenAI’s latest and best ChatGPT model. But I can’t say I’m fully satisfied with…
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At long last, Apple has finally decided to launch a Calculator app for iPad in iPadOS 18. Previously, the company told iPad owners that third-party options were good enough and that it would only release a calculator if it could stand out from the competition.Fourteen years later, Apple discovered what could make its Calculator app…
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If you’re a Google Gemini user, it’s time to review the privacy settings for Google’s AI chatbot. It looks like Gemini might have access to documents in Google Drive that it shouldn’t be able to read. That’s what happened with one Gemini user who was stunned to discover that Gemini could summarize tax returns in…
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June 7, 2024 was the 70th anniversary of the death of Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, whose wisdom still resonates in fields ranging from mathematics to biology. But I want to argue that in the age of ChatGPT, one aspect of his legacy—the famous Turing Test, also known as the ‘imitation game’,…
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After introducing its AI shopping assistant Rufus in the Amazon Shopping app earlier this year, Amazon is now rolling the feature out to all customers in the US. As the company explained in February, Rufus has been trained on Amazon’s product catalog, customer reviews, community Q&As, and information from across the web. It uses all…
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Over the past few years, you might have noticed that an increasingly worrying number of social media users are actually bots imitating humans. They’re usually fairly easy to spot, but avoiding them altogether is virtually impossible. Well, a new social media app called Aspect takes all the guesswork out of the equation with a platform…
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