Inside Google’s Beam Lab, an AI face appears
…Why does Sophie’s accent keep weirdly changing, sometimes developing a southern twang that goes away just as quickly? It’s meant to have a neutral American accent when speaking in American…
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Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster
…The explanation? That Altman was “not consistently candid in his communications with the board.” Now, via witness testimony and trial exhibits in Musk v. Altman, the public is getting a concrete look…
The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes
…aren’t entirely AI-generated video personas; they’re people using deepfake technology to change their own features, almost like a digital mask. There used to be a trick for detecting this…
All these smart glasses and nothing to do
…Even Realities recently built in a Conversate feature, which uses AI to define phrases or present useful factoids related to your conversation. I tried using it in a product briefing. The feature…
Welcome to the personal software revolution
…already changed mine. AI lets us make apps the way we used to make lists and spreadsheets. Managing the family budget? Do it in a hand-built app with every feature you…
Mass Transit
…Phil Murphy look even more stupid in his failed attempt to block the climate change-fighting policy from going through. Congestion Pricing’s Unexpected Winners: Suburban Drivers [ Bloomberg ] Waymo’s school bus…
Artificial Intelligence
…While some might call it hype and compare it to NFTs or 3D TVs, generative AI is causing a sea change in nearly every part of the technology industry. OpenAI’s ChatGPT…
A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower
…You should think of bad security like missing safety features on a power tool, he suggests: “This is a lot more like a chainsaw without a handguard, without a brake, with a…
Smart Home
…In the kitchen, they can read out recipes, or if you’re cleaning, you can call out to them to change the song on the fly. If you buy smart light bulbs…
Ride-sharing
…Around a dozen people were involved, though it’s not clear how many were cut. “The client has recently communicated a change in their internal priorities, which directly affects ongoing work on…