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When I saw this headline, I figured it was some offhand remark — but no, this entire remarkable essay explores chatbots through the lens of lossy image compression algorithms, and it makes an awful lot of sense. (I’m worrying about bitrot already.)
Oh, and this author also penned the short story that became the award-winning movie Arrival.
[The New Yorker]
Nilay has access to Bing’s new AI powered search, so we took some of your prompts from Twitter on today’s show. The crew discuss whether this version of search will reshape the way we use the web, and whether or not this can beat Google.
Also on this episode: Disney layoffs, OnePlus announcements, and Elon’s Twitter reach is dropping.
The studio won a $100 gift voucher given to first-place entries of Australian retailer DigiDirect’s weekly photo contest (seen via PetaPixel), and admitted the image was Ai-generated after the fact. No word on what it’ll spend the voucher on. Perhaps a camera?
More than 1 million people have signed up for the waitlist in 48 hours, according to Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi. It’s currently the #3 app in the App Store in the US, which makes sense; Microsoft says installing the Bing mobile app will move you up the waitlist.
I just got access to the new Bing and have been messing around with it. It told me a joke about pans that I still don’t get. You can read (and watch!) my colleague Tom Warren’s hands-on here.
From bullshit generation to culture wars and the end of ad revenue.
A story about low testosterone generated using an AI tool and published by Men’s Journal contained several factual errors, Futurism reports.
Men’s Journal is the latest to publish — and then correct — stories that used AI systems following the CNET AI saga. CNET eventually added corrections to more than half of its AI-generated articles.
Is it coincidence that the biggest champions of mobile VR both formed AI startups after their projects got squashed? Probably! But I’m connecting dots anyhow for fun.
John Carmack (Gear VR, Oculus Go) = Keen Technologies
Clay Bavor (Google Daydream) = Company name TBD
Max Cohen, former Facebook VP of Mobile VR, got while the getting was good: he runs a healthcare startup now.
Google held an AI event this morning, but investors apparently aren’t impressed (just check out this stock graph). It probably hasn’t helped that Bard, its chatbot search tool, made a pretty embarrassing error in a demo. Microsoft’s stock is doing well since it announced a ChatGPT-powered version of Bing yesterday, by the way.
You’ve seen the presentations, so you know what Microsoft and Google have shown when it comes to AI chatbot search.
Now take 20 minutes and see what Satya Nadella said on Decoder about Microsoft’s big plans for OpenAI and ChatGPT.
Microsoft and Google just announced AI-powered search tools, and Chinese companies are already catching on.
While ecommerce giant Alibaba tells CNBC that it’s working on a ChatGPT rival, gaming company NetEase similarly says it has goals to develop a generative AI product. It’s going to be a long year.
If you’re curious about what Microsoft is building with OpenAI and ChatGPT, its CEO is the person to tell you about the new features in Bing and Edge.
And, like Google’s plans to offer businesses an API connection to the LaMDA tech powering its AI, CNBC reports Microsoft is working on ways for companies to build their own custom versions.
We’ll find out what Google has to say about it tomorrow.
Bing will sometimes misrepresent the information it finds, and you may see responses that sound convincing but are incomplete, inaccurate, or inappropriate.
Gentle reminder that AI doesn’t know anything at all; it’s just mashing words together in ways that look like things it’s seen on the internet. But I guess we’re all just plowing ahead regardless! Cool.
Microsoft didn’t livestream its surprise AI event, so you might not have seen: the new Bing chatbot can look a lot like ChatGPT.
Here’s what the welcome page says, as captured at Microsoft’s live ChatGPT + Bing + Edge event:
Let’s learn together. Bing is powered by AI, so surprises and mistakes are possible. Make sure to check the facts, and share feedback so we can learn and improve!
You can easily cross-reference, though: Bing is putting chat and search side by side.
