• Amazon sales soar with boost from artificial intelligence

    Amazon sales soar with boost from artificial intelligence
    Revenue at Amazon Web Services increases to $25bn as retail giant releases earnings report surpassing Wall Street expectationsAmazon sales surged once again in the first quarter of 2024, the company announced on Tuesday – the latest in a series of robust earnings reports for the retail giant. The company attributed the boost to artificial intelligence.In a statement accompanying the report, the chief executive, Andy Jassy, said Amazon’s continuing focus on AI has “reaccelerat[e
  • Powerful New Chatbot Disappears as Mysteriously as It Arrived

    Powerful New Chatbot Disappears as Mysteriously as It Arrived
    A mysterious new AI chatbot called “gpt2-chatbot” turned heads this week after it became available on a major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org. No one knows where it came from, but many consider it to have roughly the same capabilities as OpenAI’s GPT-4. This put gpt2-chatbot in a rare class of AI…Read more...
  • Eight US newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

    Eight US newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
    The Chicago Tribune, Denver Post and others file suit saying the tech companies ‘purloin millions’ of articles without permissionA group of eight US newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbots.The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post and other papers filed the lawsuit on T
  • Everything We Know About the Mysterious New 'Gpt2-chatbot'

    Everything We Know About the Mysterious New 'Gpt2-chatbot'
    A mysterious new AI chatbot called “gpt2-chatbot” is turning heads this week after it became available on a major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org. No one knows where it came from, but many consider it to have roughly the same capabilities as OpenAI’s GPT-4. This puts gpt2-chatbot in a rare class of…Read more...
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  • How Field AI is Conquering Unstructured Autonomy

    How Field AI is Conquering Unstructured Autonomy
    One of the biggest challenges for robotics right now is practical autonomous operation in unstructured environments. That is, doing useful stuff in places your robot hasn’t been before and where things may not be as familiar as your robot might like. Robots thrive on predictability, which has put some irksome restrictions on where and how they can be successfully deployed.But over the last few years, this has started to change, thanks in large part to a couple of pivotal robotics challenge
  • TechScape: On the internet, where does the line between person end and bot begin?

    TechScape: On the internet, where does the line between person end and bot begin?
    In 2021, the web felt dead because algorithms were driving people to act like robots. Now, the robots are posting like people• Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereI know I’m real. And you, dear reader, know you’re real. But do you ever suspect that everyone else on the internet is acting strange? That the spaces you used to frequent feel a bit … dead? You aren’t alone. “Dead internet theory” first hit the w
  • On the internet, where does the line between person end and bot begin?

    On the internet, where does the line between person end and bot begin?
    In 2021, the web felt dead because algorithms were driving people to act like robots. Now, the robots are posting like people• Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereI know I’m real. And you, dear reader, know you’re real. But do you ever suspect that everyone else on the internet is acting strange? That the spaces you used to frequent feel a bit … dead? You aren’t alone. “Dead internet theory” first hit the w