Apple’s ubiquitous iPhone is about to break new ground with a shift into artificial intelligence that will do everything from smartening up Siri to creating customized emojis on the fly. “The next generation of iPhone has been designed for Apple Intelligence from the ground up. It marks the beginning of an exciting new era,” CEO…
An Ontario Conservative MP’s use of ChatGPT to share incorrect information online about Canada’s capital gains tax rate offers a cautionary tale to politicians looking to use AI to generate messages, one expert says. MP Ryan Williams posted last week on X (formerly known as Twitter) an AI-generated ranking of G7 countries and their capital gains tax rates. The…
On Monday, Apple revealed a suite of highly anticipated AI features — including ChatGPT — that it will soon integrate into its devices. But not everyone was thrilled at the news. While some observers were excited at the prospect of, for example, drawing math equations on an iPad that could then be solved by AI, billionaire tech mogul Elon…
Apple unveiled a long-awaited AI strategy on Monday, integrating “Apple Intelligence” across its suite of apps, including Siri, and announced a partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its devices. With these moves, the iPhone maker is seeking to reassure investors that it has not lost the artificial intelligence battle to Microsoft, even though it may…
OpenAI says it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices after some users said it sounded like Scarlett Johansson, who famously voiced a fictional, and at the time futuristic, AI assistant in the 2013 film Her. In a post on the social media platform X Monday, OpenAI said it is “working…
Tech giant Google has announced upgrades to its artificial intelligence technologies, just a day after rival OpenAI announced similar changes to its offerings, with both companies trying to dominate the quickly emerging market where human beings can ask questions of computer systems — and get answers in the style of a human response. It’s part of…
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Monday it would release a new AI model called GPT-4o, capable of realistic voice conversation and able to interact across text and image, its latest move to stay ahead in a race to dominate the emerging technology. New audio capabilities enable users to speak to ChatGPT and obtain real-time responses…
Using a recently failed New York City (NYC) chatbot pilot as inspiration a data journalism professor created his own version in minutes which worked, The Markup reported. The chatbot pilot was supposed to be a useful tool for entrepreneurs instead, it turned into a cautionary tale about the importance of oversight and responsible use of…
HONG KONG: China’s Baidu (9888.HK) said on Tuesday its artificial intelligence chatbot “Ernie Bot” has garnered more than 200 million users as it seeks to remain China’s most popular ChatGPT-like chatbot amid increasingly fierce competition. The number of users has roughly doubled since the company’s last update in December. The chatbot was released to the…
Google is pausing an AI tool that creates images of people following inaccuracies in some historical depictions the model generated, the latest hiccup in the Alphabet-owned company’s efforts to catch up with rivals OpenAI and Microsoft. Google started offering image generation through its Gemini AI models earlier this month, but over the past few days, some…
