Google’s Sundar Pichai said its new chatbot will soon be released to a group of trusted testers outside the company, reports
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Right out of the gate on Thursday's analyst call lays out Alphabet's AI plans for '23. Coming soon:
*Large Language Models – Lambda, PaLM, DeepMind Sparrow
*Search – chatbots for some types of search, multimodal search, improved rankings (cont'd)
#GenerativeAI
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On this platform (and others) people who followed me can't see what I post unless I pay. #enshittification
Big Tech layoffs: “I feel bad for the poor HR folks-they had to go from ‘diversity and inclusion’ to ‘adversity and expulsion’.” #TikTok
My colleague on #ChatGPT's tenuous grip on the truth.
Gen AI projects face a big challenge to filter out mis/disinformation, just like social networks do. >>
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Learned so much speaking to AI pioneers (Stanford HAI) and (Landing AI) for this story, as well as to our friend Mike Volpi >>
fastcompany.com/90839649/googl #AI #GenerativeAI #chatGPT
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2.4 million square feet of SF office space that tech companies vacated sfstandard.com/business/tech-
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Barr promised the Durham investigation wouldn't be a partisan 'tit-for-tat' for Mueller, but that's *exactly* what it was, and that's all it was, as Durham's final report will show. When TF will we learn?
#swampthings #Trump
#Zuckerberg still doesn't get how authoritarian rhetoric works. free speech is used to stifle free speech, as nobel prize winner explains...
tiktok.com/@colbertlatesh #Facebook #DonaldTrump
By releasing public demos that, as impressive & useful as they may be, have major flaws, established companies have less to gain & more to lose than cash-hungry startups.
If Google & Meta haven't released chatGPT-like things, it's not because they can't. It's because they won't.
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Why Apple should have retired its (perfectly good) HomePod design
The U.S. airline system runs on COBOL, which is 64 years old, but cool let’s talk about getting rid of the whole tax system.
Who needs infrastructure.
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The Microsoft <> OpenAI news is much bigger than we first thought:
- $10 billion investment in the works, with Microsoft getting 75% of revenue until it recoups all $10b
- GPT in Office, not just Bing
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big energy shift on the R side
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Musk chose today, the second anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, to restore Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and conspiracist David Icke to Twitter, after a 2 year absence, marking a major escalation in information warfare, which historically tends to precede kinetic conflict.
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Sad to report that a promising #AR contact lens company I wrote about has cut 75% of staff and put Lens R&D "on hold."
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Marge: Those are the lasers
Santos: I invented them
Jordan: I didn’t see anything
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ICYMI: 2022: the year we sobered up about the metaverse
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12 noon sharp and Republicans just had the metal detectors removed from the House floor #118thCongress
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Few people are doing better work separating fact from fiction in the Twitter Files stories than . First, read this about FBI interactions with Twitter:
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