Ai Artificial Intelligence Archive

Microsoft’s Copilot and Bing AI plug-ins will be interoperable with ChatGPT

Tom WarrenMay 23, 2023

James VincentMay 23, 2023

“For a laid-off digital media worker, I suggest trying the one-pan chicken.”

BuzzFeed’s AI experiments continue. The company has shuttered its newsroom, but launched a new ChatGPT-powered bot in its Tasty app that gives meal recommendations. It’s called... Botatouille. NYT has the story, along with some interesting snippets from CEO Jonah Peretti:

“Even if you were, like, an evil CEO trying to replace all journalists with AI, you would be very unsuccessful.”

BuzzFeed Tries to Ride the A.I. Wave. Who’s Hungry?

[The New York Times]

David PierceMay 23, 2023

Spark is getting on the AI email bandwagon.

Using AI to write emails for you. Dystopian? Useful? Who knows! Gmail and Outlook are both all-in, though. So is Spark: it just released +AI, an in-app assistant that can generate or edit emails for you.

Here’s my question: if I pick “Friendly tone,” does it just add an exclamation point to the end of all my sentences? Because I already do that too much!

Spark +AI – your personal email assistant

[Spark]

Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop

Jess WeatherbedMay 23, 2023

Richard LawlerMay 22, 2023

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lays out his company’s view of AI regulation.

As James Vincent wrote about the Senate hearing last week regarding artificial intelligence, “Industry reps — primarily OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — merrily agreed on the need to regulate new AI technologies, while politicians seemed happy to hand over responsibility for drafting rules to the companies themselves.”

Altman and others from OpenAI provided more information on the kind of regulation they consider worth pursuing in this blog post, so you can read it and see if it makes any sense.

Sean HollisterMay 22, 2023

Tell your grandma, tell your employees: AI means they can’t trust their ears anymore.

That’s the takeaway from this 60 Minutes report. And if your son/daughter/favorite nephew calls asking for emergency cash, definitely ask them a question that only they can answer.

Richard LawlerMay 22, 2023

Google’s Flood Hub’s machine learning-powered warnings are now available in 80 countries.

The project started with the Patna region of India in 2018 before expanding to Bangladesh in 2020, and last fall, Google launched the Flood Hub with forecasts available up to a week in advance. Today Google said it’s adding 60 new countries to the list.

With the addition of 60 new countries across Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and South and Central America, our platform Flood Hub now includes some of the territories with the highest percentages of population exposed to flood risk and experiencing more extreme weather, covering 460 million people globally.
Flood Hub’s AI uses diverse, publicly-available data sources, such as weather forecasts and satellite imagery. The technology then combines two models: the Hydrologic Model, which forecasts the amount of water flowing in a river, and the Inundation Model, which predicts what areas are going to be affected and how deep the water will be.

Helping more people stay safe with flood forecasting

[Google]

Richard LawlerMay 22, 2023

The stock market briefly dipped after this seemingly AI-generated image fueled a hoax.

Twitter accounts followed by day traders and crypto fans passed around an image claiming there was an “explosion near the Pentagon” Monday morning, and as Insider notes, during the confusion, the markets briefly dipped.

However, the Arlington Fire Department and the Pentagon confirmed no such incident occurred. Just like the “Balenciaga Pope” pictures, the image shows several signs it was generated using AI.