Meta Brings Chatbots, Image Editing to Social Media Apps

Meta Brings Chatbots, Image Editing to Social Media Apps

Meta Platforms Inc. is introducing artificial intelligence features to its apps that will give the company’s 3 billion users an experience akin to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Customized sticker creation, image editing and a slew of celebrity-faced chatbot characters – all infused with generative AI – are coming to Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, the company said Wednesday … Read more

Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water

Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water

 The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowa to cool a powerful supercomputer as it helped teach its AI systems how … Read more

Woman regains ‘speech’ thanks to AI

Woman regains ‘speech’ thanks to AI

Share on PinterestA participant in Dr. Edward Chang’s study of speech neuroprostheses attempts to silently speak a sentence as the speech prosthesis system translates her brain signals into synthesized speech and facial movements of an avatar on Monday, May 22, 2023, in El Cerrito, CA. Photo by Noah Berger Locked-in syndrome is a neurological disorder … Read more

AI Could Fix Australia’s Productivity Crisis, Outgoing Head Says

AI Could Fix Australia’s Productivity Crisis, Outgoing Head Says

Australia’s outgoing productivity czar has pointed to artificial intelligence as a potentially “significant” driver of a productivity revolution, as the Western world struggles to climb out of a malaise in workplace efficiency. Productivity Commissioner Michael Brennan said AI was one of the most high-potential technologies to improve economic output in coming decades, while emphasizing that … Read more

Netflix, Amazon hiring for ChatGPT-like generative AI experts, to pay salary of up to Rs 7 crore per annum 

Netflix, Amazon hiring for ChatGPT-like generative AI experts, to pay salary of up to Rs 7 crore per annum 

New Delhi,UPDATED: Aug 15, 2023 10:54 IST Netflix and Amazon are looking to hire experts in AI technology similar to ChatGPT, and they are ready to offer substantial salaries of up to Rs 7 crore per year. While AI has led to job losses for many, those skilled in this field have a chance at … Read more

Will AI be an economic blessing or curse? History offers clues

Will AI be an economic blessing or curse? History offers clues

If medieval advances in the plough didn’t lift Europe’s peasants out of poverty, it was largely because their rulers took the wealth generated by the new gains in output and used it to build cathedrals instead. Economists say something similar could happen with artificial intelligence (AI) if it enters our lives in such a way … Read more