Jay Peters
Joanna Stern made an AI clone of herself.
She used it to prank Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, make a TikTok, and even spoof Chase’s voice biometrics. You really should watch her whole video about it. (She wrote about it, too.)
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Nilay Patel
Here I am on Today, Explained, talking about Fake Drake.
Sadly, I was not able to work Laser Bong into this episode, but I’ll keep working at it.
Adi Robertson
Mia Sato
A human wrote this whole post.
Add VentureBeat to the growing list of publishers who are using AI tools to produce content. Until now, most outlets have included at least some disclosure when AI is involved. But VentureBeat’s editorial director thinks it’s not necessary:
Nuñez said VentureBeat ... doesn’t attribute an article with “sentences and fragments” from a chatbot “as long as it’s truthful” and independently verified.
“I don’t think our readers care, to be totally honest,” he said. “Tweet that out, if you want.”
Well, VentureBeat readers?
AI in News Reporting: A Test Is Coming for Journalism Ethics
[Bloomberg.com]
Alex Heath
Meta is talking to Microsoft and OpenAI about making an AI coding assistant for its engineers.
But the cost is “crazy” at about seven cents per query, CTO Andrew Bosworth recently told employees. From last night’s edition of my Command Line newsletter:
“That’s the only place in the company we’re really considering working with Microsoft and OpenAI, just because there’s a natural business integration there,” he explained. “Otherwise, we’re working on a companion that is more about all of our code and our internal documentation, built on our own infrastructure. We are moving very fast. I think we’ll have something to play with internally, I’m hoping in mid-June, maybe late June.”
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Jay Peters
The new Google DeepMind.
The Financial Times reported on some of the ways the previously-independent DeepMind will have to change now that Google has created the new Google DeepMind organization.
But it was not yet clear how the reorganisation would result in more ambitious commercial products, the people said. After all, DeepMind had never actively advocated the need to make money from its work. Those close to [Google DeepMind leader Demis] Hassabis argue that he understands now is the moment for change.
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Emma Roth
MSCHF’s dating website is a glimpse at beauty standards through the eyes of AI.
The site, called Hot Chat 3000, is a one-to-one online chat website where who you talk to depends on a one to 10 scale of how attractive you are, a ranking determined by AI.
This is, obviously, a terrible idea for a dating app, and that’s kind of the point. MSCHF’s project is supposed to explore the inherent biases of AI — and how we can manipulate them:
HC3K is a highly imperfect, transparently AI-governed platform. Treat it like a sandbox; figure out how to get 10s back from the machine; learn how to manipulate it.
Image: MSCHF
Jay Peters
Siri struggles.
The Information has a long article about Apple’s recent internal issues with Siri. With the tech industry’s new obsession with AI chatbots, the challenges facing Apple’s voice assistant aren’t going to get any easier, but the report does say that the company is internally proposing LLM-based improvements to Siri.
Apple’s Siri Chief Struggles With Turf Wars as New AI Era Begins
[The Information]
James Vincent
This AI-generated pizza ad is both better and worse than you’re expecting.
As per a comment from OP, the video uses a combination of AI tools (script by GPT-4, images by Midjourney, video by Runway’s Gen-2, voiceover by ElevenLabs) and the end result is... interesting. I mean, obviously not a good advert, but for 3 hours’ worth of work it’s also strangely compelling. Huh.
