If you want to coast through meetings, keep track of everyone you meet, or just remember the name of that obscure dog food your veterinarian told you to feed your pooch, there’s a necklace for that. Or a wristband. Or a pin. Plaud is an AI company that makes the …
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TL;DR: A wide range of AI and ChatGPT courses are available to take for free on Udemy. We know you’re probably sick of hearing about AI at this point, but do you actually know how to harness the power of this technology? Don’t fret if you’re currently clueless, because a …
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I leave ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode on while writing this article as an ambient AI companion. Occasionally, I’ll ask it to provide a synonym for an overused word, or some encouragement. Around half an hour in, the chatbot interrupts our silence and starts speaking to me in Spanish, unprompted. I …
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On May 13, OpenAI unveiled a new GPT-4o AI model to power its ChatGPT chatbot. The newest version is wildly capable and much more humanlike, with the ability to solve equations, tell bedtime stories, and claims to identify emotions from facial expressions. OpenAI has made a big deal about wanting …
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One of the key ingredients that made ChatGPT a ripsnorting success was an army of human trainers who gave the artificial intelligence model behind the bot guidance on what constitutes good and bad outputs. OpenAI now says that adding even more AI into the mix—to help assist human trainers—could help …
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No surprise here: ChatGPT is still not a reliable replacement for human hiring officers and recruiters. In a newly published study from the University of Washington, the intelligent AI chatbot repeatedly ranked applications that included disability-related honors and credentials lower than those with similar merits but did not mention disabilities. …
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It seems evident to me that almost 70 years after the first conference on artificial intelligence—where the nascent field’s leaders suggested the task would be completed within a decade—the field is now poised to make a transformational impact on our lives. We don’t need to reach artificial general intelligence, or …
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ChatGPT developer OpenAI’s approach to building artificial intelligence came under fire this week from former employees who accuse the company of taking unnecessary risks with technology that could become harmful. Today, OpenAI released a new research paper apparently aimed at showing it is serious about tackling AI risk by making …
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Last year, the White House struck a landmark safety deal with AI developers that saw companies including Google and OpenAI promise to consider what could go wrong when they create software like that behind ChatGPT. Now a former domestic policy adviser to President Biden who helped forge that deal says …
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Turning to a friend or coworker can make tricky problems easier to tackle. Now it looks like having AI chatbots team up with each other can make them more effective. I’ve been playing this week with AutoGen, an open source software framework for AI agent collaboration developed by researchers at …
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