AI

As you probably know, Google has started rolling out AI summaries called "AI Overviews" in search results. Now, they are about to start testing search and shopping ads within AI Overviews in the U.S. The ads will be displayed in a "sponsored" section and will be relevant to both the query and the information in the AI Overview. Continue Reading →

Scarlett Johansson has accused OpenAI of stealing her voice for GPT-4o. Johansson claims that OpenAI's "Sky" voice is "eerily similar" to her own and that she was approached by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to voice the system, but declined. Continue Reading →

Evidently, Slack (my favorite corporate comms app) has been scanning user messages to train its AI models. The issue was highlighted in a recent tweet from Corey Quinn. Slack's strangely worded AI policy basically says that all Slack users are automatically opted in to its AI training unless the corporate system administrator opts out for your whole company. In other words: individual users cannot opt out by themselves. Continue Reading →

Sony Music Group sent letters to more than 700 companies warning them not to use its music to train AI without explicit permission. Continue Reading →

A Senate working group has proposed $32 billion in annual funding for AI programs, covering a wide range of areas from infrastructure to national security risk assessments. In theory, this "roadmap" sets the stage for future legislation, identifying key investment areas to keep the US competitive in the global AI landscape. Continue Reading →

Google played catch-up yesterday as it opened I/O with a two-hour keynote you should watch at double-speed – at least until you get to a new search feature called "AI Overviews." Stop there. Rewind and watch it carefully. Continue Reading →

ChatGPT using GPT-4o is free for everyone. What will you do with your subscriptions to ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT for Teams? You'll keep them and keep paying for them; the "free for everyone" version is not as capable as the paid versions. Continue Reading →

One of the best ways to create competitive advantage with generative AI platforms is to enable the AI to dynamically incorporate relevant external information (aka your data) into its response process. Continue Reading →

OpenAI has unveiled the Model Spec, an evolving document aimed at shaping the behavior of models like ChatGPT and other offerings within the OpenAI API. Continue Reading →

Apple was so excited to release its M4 chip that they put it in the iPad first. According to Apple, "the M4 has a blazing-fast Neural Engine — an IP block in the chip dedicated to the acceleration of AI workloads. It's Apple's most powerful Neural Engine ever, capable of an astounding 38 trillion operations per second — a breathtaking 60x faster than the first Neural Engine in A11 Bionic." Continue Reading →