• Samsung’s Bixby Will Clone Your Voice to Answer Calls for You

    Samsung’s Bixby Will Clone Your Voice to Answer Calls for You
    Bixby Text Call is one of the more exciting parts of the Galaxy S23 series, allowing users to type messages that are converted to speech for phone calls. Unfortunately, it wasn’t live when I reviewed the Galaxy S23 Ultra. But Samsung now says a Bixby update will be available for Samsung Galaxy users this month, and …Read more...
  • Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots Next

    Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots Next
    On October 26, 1984, Orion Pictures released The Terminator, a movie about genocidal AI-powered robots unleashed by a tech company. Unfortunately, the executives at Microsoft must have been doing something else that day. As part of an ongoing partnership with OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, Microsoft’s next plan is…Read more...
  • Samsung debuts a Bixby feature that creates an AI-generated copy of a user’s voice to answer calls

    Samsung debuts a Bixby feature that creates an AI-generated copy of a user’s voice to answer calls
    Samsung has announced a new feature for its Bixby mobile assistant that creates an AI-generated copy of a user’s voice to answer calls. The new “Custom Voice Creator” lets users record different sentences for Bixby to analyze and create an AI-generated copy of their tone and voice. Unfortunately, the feature is currently only available in Korean on Galaxy S23 series devices.
    The feature is designed to let you use your AI-generated voice to answer phone calls for you when you&rs
  • UK needs its own ‘BritGPT’ or will face an uncertain future, MPs hear

    UK needs its own ‘BritGPT’ or will face an uncertain future, MPs hear
    AI experts say state needs to help create British version or risk national security and declining competitivenessThe UK needs to support the creation of a British version of ChatGPT, MPs were told on Wednesday, or the country would further lose the ability to determine its own fate.Speaking to the Commons science and technology committee, Adrian Joseph, BT’s chief data and artificial intelligence officer, said the government needed to have a national investment in “large language mod
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  • Microsoft Meshes AI Into Bing Mobile and Skype, Even as It Rolls Back Capabilities

    Microsoft Meshes AI Into Bing Mobile and Skype, Even as It Rolls Back Capabilities
    The very artificial yet not so intelligent Bing AI is getting even more integrations into Microsoft products. All the while, the tech giant is busy playing hot potato with how much power it’s willing to give its sophisticated chatbot, a problem the company has been evidently dealing with more more than a year. Read more...
  • Spotify launches ‘DJ,’ a new feature offering personalized music with AI-powered commentary

    Spotify launches ‘DJ,’ a new feature offering personalized music with AI-powered commentary
    Ahead of Spotify’s upcoming Stream On event, where the company is expected to announce a redesigned home feed and other updates, the company today launched a new AI feature called “DJ” to better personalize the music listening experience for its users. Similar to a radio DJ, Spotify’s DJ feature will deliver a curated selection of music alongside AI-powered spoken commentary about the tracks and artists you like, using what Spotify says is a “stunningly realistic vo
  • Microsoft brings the new AI-powered Bing to mobile and Skype, gives it a voice

    Microsoft brings the new AI-powered Bing to mobile and Skype, gives it a voice
    Barely two weeks after launching the new AI-enabled Bing on desktop (and a few ups and downs during that time), Microsoft today announced that the new Bing is now also available in the Bing mobile app and through Microsoft’s Edge browser for Android and iOS. With that, you can now also use voice input to interact with Bing’s chat mode. Also new is an integration with Skype, Microsoft’s messaging app, which will now allow you to bring Bing into a text conversation to add additio
  • Baidu to deploy conversational AI across search, in-car entertainment and more

    Baidu to deploy conversational AI across search, in-car entertainment and more
    Baidu today revealed more details about its much-anticipated intelligent Ernie Bot, widely seen as the search giant’s counterpart to ChatGPT. Ernie Bot is built atop Baidu’s large language model Erniethat released in 2019. In May last year, the third generation of Ernie launched.
    Here’s how Baidu plans to integrate Ernie Bot into its ecosystem of services, said the firm’s founder and CEO Robin Li in a letter to staff today.
    “The integration of ERNIE Bot with Ba
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  • OpenAI’s Foundry will let customers buy dedicated compute to run its AI models

    OpenAI’s Foundry will let customers buy dedicated compute to run its AI models
    OpenAI is quietly launching a new developer platform that lets customers run the company’s newer machine learning models, like GPT-3.5, on dedicated capacity. In screenshots of documentation published to Twitter by users with early access, OpenAI describes the forthcoming offering, called Foundry, as “designed for cutting-edge customers running larger workloads.”
    “[Foundry allows] inference at scale with full control over the model configuration and performance profile,&r