Artificial intelligence is more a part of our lives than ever before. While some might call it hype and compare it to NFTs or 3D TVs, AI is causing a sea change in nearly every facet of life that technology touches. Bing wants to know you intimately, Bard wants to reduce websites to easy-to-read cards, and ChatGPT has infiltrated nearly every part of our lives. At The Verge, we’re exploring all the good AI is enabling and all the bad it’s bringing along.
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This HR company tried to treat AI bots like people — it didn’t go over well
After backlash, Lattice canceled a feature that would let organizations make employee records for AI workers.
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down
From ‘AI Overviews’ to automatic categorization, Google is bringing AI to practically every part of the search process.
Biden’s top tech adviser says AI is a ‘today problem’
Arati Prabhakar, a former DARPA chief and now director of the White House’s OSTP, says the time to regulate AI is now.
From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet
How we use the internet is changing fast thanks to the advancement of AI-powered chatbots that can find information and redeliver it as a simple conversation.
The platform unverified profiles for two seemingly-fake iLounge writers that appear to be publishing AI-written content after we reached out for comment.
Muck Rack is also “developing a model that will identify and detect signs that are commonly found in fake authorship so we can flag potential AI writers to users,” spokesperson Linda Zebian tells The Verge.
Autonomous Cars
Tesla reportedly delaying its robotaxi reveal until October
Tesla’s not alone in betting on vision-only advanced driver assistance technology.
No, Tesla has not conducted ‘massive trials’ of driverless cars in the US.
Police pulled over a Waymo car for driving in the oncoming lane
How one small company’s SEO garbage made it to Sports Illustrated and USA Today
The man behind the AI gaffes has a yearslong history of filling the internet with garbage.
Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified
The new TUAW is ripping off its former writers.
Last spring, Business Insider noted that Intuit was unusual among its peers because it hadn’t done mass layoffs.
Following shutdowns of the Mint app and MailChimp-owned TinyLetter, CEO Sasan Goodarzi today announced layoffs, saying they include “approximately 1,050 employees leaving the company who are not meeting expectations.” as it accelerates investing in data and AI like its Assist bot.
[Intuit Blog]
OpenAI announced that it is teaming up with Los Alamos National Laboratory to explore how advanced AI models, such as GPT-4o, can safely aid in bioscientific research. I’m a bit disappointed because this was the plot of the science fiction horror book I always wanted to write.
The goal is to test how GPT-4o can help scientists perform tasks in a lab using vision and voice modalities.
Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis
Google invented a lot of core AI technology, and now the company’s turning to Demis to get back in front of the AI race for AI breakthroughs.
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: everything announced at the July 2024 event
Samsung launched the Galaxy Ring, a Galaxy Watch Ultra, new Z Fold and Z Flip phones, and more.
Fair warning: this MIT Tech Review history / explainer on all things AI is humungous and complicated. But in the vein of Bloomberg’s great “What Is Code?” and “The Crypto Story,” this is as good an all-things-AI opus as I’ve seen yet. Bookmark it, read it, take notes.
[MIT Technology Review]
The Finland-based Silo AI is described as the “largest private AI lab in Europe” and has provided AI solutions for companies like Phillps, Rolls-Royce, and Unilever. In addition to Silo AI, AMD also acquired the AI startup Nod.ai last year as it aims to keep up with the likes of Nvidia.
Samsung is expanding its feature that translates phone calls in real time to cover 16 languages in July and 20 languages by the end of the year.
Google and Samsung confirmed that their deal for Gemini AI features on Galaxy devices will bring updates (announced at I/O earlier this year) that let it read and respond to what’s on your phone screen or in a video you’re watching, as well as new Circle to Search features.
Watching the intro to today’s Galaxy Unpacked event, I’m reminded of this great David Imel video answering the most important question of our time: why did everyone decide that the official logo of AI is ***sparkles***?
According to The Information, VC firm Andreessen Horowitz has secured thousands of AI chips, including Nvidia H100 GPUs, to dole out to its AI portfolio companies in exchange for equity. The initiative is aptly named Oxygen, because these chips are that integral to AI companies. The chips are almost impossible to secure for small startups too, because Big Tech companies hoover up all the supply.
In his latest book, Microsoft software developer turned literature professor Dennis Yi Tenen takes us all the way back to 17th-century apps for a deep dive into computer science and literature’s intertwined history — and, as Tenen says, why it’s important our understanding of AI “become more grounded in the history of the humanities.”
Canva CEO Melanie Perkins thinks the design world needs more alternatives to Adobe
To her, AI is just an extension of what Canva has always done: make accessible design tools that cost less than Adobe’s.
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