Android expert Mishaal Rahman writes that the change gives quicker access to OpenAI’s chatbot’s conversation and query modes. To try it out, tap and hold a blank spot on your Android phone’s home screen to bring up the widget menu.
It may be a beta feature, as the version of the app I just downloaded from the Google Play store has a lower version number.
2024 is going to be a year of reckoning for AI.
One of OpenAI’s employees showed off another of the company’s new text-to-video generator’s abilities.
This is some impressive AI creation of course, but what in blue blazes is happening in the upper right frame here?
OpenAI’s still-in-limited-testing new text-to-video generation model, Sora, is very impressive, especially compared to widely available AI video generators like Runway Gen-2 and Google’s Imagen.
As you can see in the clips, though, there are issues — basketballs go through the sides of metal hoops, dogs pass through each other while walking, and hands are.... not always hands.
AI used to be weird. Now ‘sounds like a bot’ is just shorthand for boring.
It’s not easy to calculate the watts and joules that go into a single Balenciaga pope. But we’re not completely in the dark about the true energy cost of AI.
Large language models can do a lot of things. But can they write like an 18th-century fur trader?
A source for The Information says OpenAI is working on web search (partially powered by Bing) that would more directly compete with Google. It’s unclear if it would be standalone, or a part of ChatGPT.
This comes one year after Microsoft CEO (and OpenAI backer) Satya Nadella targeted Google by adding Copilot AI tools to Bing, saying on Decoder, “I want people to know that we made them dance.”
Between Google’s Bard / Gemini, Copilot, and newcomers like Perplexity, the dance floor is filling up quickly.
