Hollywood writers strike ends after agreement on AI and other issues
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has called off its strike after five months during which a slew of popular shows were taken off air. The WGA said it had…
Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI
Last week, at Amazon’s annual Fall hardware event, executive David Limp revealed the company would soon be upgrading the capabilities of its well-known voice assistant, Alexa, using the supposedly magical…
Some users will find Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot is suddenly a lot more helpful
Microsoft has made a big change to its Bing AI for one of the modes of the chatbot’s operation, namely the ‘Precise’ mode. As users of the AI will be…
Spotify using AI to clone and translate podcaster’s voice
Spotify has unveiled a remarkable new feature powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that translates a podcast into multiple languages using the same voices of those in the show. It’s powered…
ChatGPT can now look at pictures and tell you a bedtime story in five different voices
ChatGPT can now hear, see and speak, opening up a whole new world of possibilities for how we interact with AI chatbots. The new capabilities unlock the ability to have…
A Bender-Style Sassy Chatbot and Other Goofy AI Personas May Come to Facebook and Instagram
Meta is preparing to unleash a small army of talkative AI chatbots onto Facebook and Instagram in a bid to attract younger users, according to a new report in the…
Amazon Invests Up to $4 Billion in OpenAI Competitor Anthropic
In its latest bid to adopt artificial intelligence technology, Amazon announced on Monday that it is investing a bundle in OpenAI competitor Anthropic. The investment will reach up to $4…
Getty Changes Tune on AI, Reveals Art Generator Trained on Its Own Images
After grinding its teeth about AI for over a year, one of the biggest stock image sites around, Getty Images, will let subscribers start creating their own AI images through…
ChatGPT Is Growing Eyes and Ears to Better Respond to Your Human Whims
On Monday, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced it was starting to roll out voice and image recognition in ChatGPT. Essentially, the AI can recognize a picture for what it is, and communicate…
Meta is planning on introducing dozens of chatbot personas – including a Futurama favourite
Meta is gearing up to announce a generative artificial intelligence chatbot (internally dubbed as ‘Gen AI Personas’) that is aimed at enticing younger users to the world of AI chatbots.…