When Amazon launched the Alexa virtual assistant nine years ago, its ability to decode voice commands to set a timer or play a song seemed almost magical. Today, the bar for impressive language skills is much higher, thanks to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Amazon is giving its voice assistant a reboot that …
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OpenAI has announced Dall-E 3, its latest AI art tool. It uses OpenAI’s smash-hit chatbot, ChatGPT, to help create more complex and carefully composed works of art by automatically expanding on a prompt in a way that gives the generator more detailed and coherent instruction. What’s new with Dall-E 3 …
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A couple of weeks ago, startup CEO Flo Crivello typed a message asking his personal assistant Lindy to change the length of an upcoming meeting from 30 to 45 minutes. Lindy, a software agent that happens to be powered by artificial intelligence, found a dozen or so 30-minute meetings on …
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In late 2016, Hugh Harvey was working as a consultant doctor in the UK’s National Health Service. Harvey had dabbled in machine learning while doing a research degree, and had seen the potential for artificial intelligence to revolutionize health care. But he felt strongly that the introduction of AI into …
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About 10 years ago, Žiga Avsec was a PhD physics student who found himself taking a crash course in genomics via a university module on machine learning. He was soon working in a lab that studied rare diseases, on a project aiming to pin down the exact genetic mutation that …
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Every night, I bury my tinnitus under brown noise, cats’ purrs, and the tap of rain on leaves. This “functional music,” as it is known, certainly serves its function—lulling me to sleep. It also accounts for a vast portion of the streaming world: Spotify recently revealed that white noise and …
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Software engineers have joined the ranks of copy editors, translators, and others who fear that they’re about to be replaced by generative AI. But it might be surprising to learn that coders have been under threat before. New technologies have long promised to “disrupt” engineering, and these innovations have always …
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Hi again! It’s me, Reece. Back for another day of chatbot exploration. We’re at the halfway point of the newsletter, and I thought it’d be a good idea to take a step back for a moment. 📧 Keep up with the latest—sign up now to get an all-new season of …
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Hello, hello! Welcome to the first edition of AI Unlocked. I’m so excited to share some tips and tricks I’ve learned as a reporter covering chatbots, like ChatGPT and Gemini, at WIRED. 📧 Keep up with the latest—sign up now to get an all-new season of AI Unlocked delivered right …
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Well, howdy there! Welcome to another edition of AI Unlocked. Hope you’re having fun learning about different ways to use AI. (Have any chatbot-related questions? Reach out!) So far, we’ve used chatbots for brainstorming sessions and email writing, so the focus was primarily on the content it can make. But …
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