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[The Information]
Last week, Google announced that it’s bringing Gemini to the Gmail mobile app, and now we have a glimpse at how it might work. Android Authority contributor AssembleDebug found references to the new Gemini button in the Gmail app on Android, and showed off how you can ask for help summarizing emails and writing responses.
AI art isn’t just showing up on the platform in droves, but DeviantArt is actively promoting the bots that pedal it, writes Slate.
And those bots are reportedly earning tens of thousands of dollars, “monopolizing” the site’s revenue stream using generative models perhaps trained on the very artists the bots supplant.
[Slate Magazine]
This editorial suggests one possible future for all of the AI tools we’re seeing:
...it seems just as likely to me that generative A.I. could end up like the Roomba, the mediocre vacuum robot that does a passable job when you are home alone but not if you are expecting guests.
Or when you need to know how to deal with a jammed camera.
What is the company announcing one day ahead of Google’s presumably AI-heavy I/O 2024 event tomorrow? According to Sam Altman, what OpenAI has in store is not the rumored search engine or GPT-5 updates, but we’ll find out what it really is at 1PM ET / 10AM PT.
With less than a month to go before Apple details its AI plans at WWDC 2024, the company is “finalizing terms” to let ChatGPT use iOS 18 features, according to Bloomberg.
Apple’s big focus on AI next month is not a secret. But rather than building a bot with a personality, it seems more interested in just Siri doing Siri things. Only, you know, better:
Apple has focused on making Siri better at handling tasks that it already does, including setting timers, creating calendar appointments and adding items to a grocery list. It also would be able to summarize text messages.
[The New York Times]
COO Brad Lightcap is speaking at Bloomberg’s Tech conference and was just asked when the next model is arriving. His answer hints that ChatGPT will evolve to act like an agent on your behalf or, at the very least, take on more of a persona.
“Will there be such a thing as a prompt engineer in 2026?” he says. “You don’t prompt engineer your friend.”
According to Adweek, OpenAI’s incentives for publishers include financial compensation as well as:
...priority placement and “richer brand expression” in chat conversations, and their content benefits from more prominent link treatments.
In exchange, OpenAI gets training data and a license to display info with attribution and links. OpenAI has struck deals with publishers like Axel Springer, The Financial Times, and most recently, People magazine publisher Dotdash Meredith. A comment from OpenAI said Adweek’s report “contains a number of mischaracterizations and outdated information.”
OpenAI is developing a search engine for ChatGPT, giving users the ability to crawl the web for answers to their questions, Bloomberg reports. Sources also tell The Verge that OpenAI has been aggressively trying to poach Google employees for a team that is working hard to ship the product soon.
Meta Al is generating turbans on an overwhelmingly high amount of prompts for Indian men, TechCrunch has found. It’s certainly a stereotype that’s long depicted for South Asians and even Arabs in Hollywood, which has led some folks in the western world to assume any turban wearers’ background and religion.
