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Exclusive: Google maps ethical challenges of AI agents

AI assistants could revolutionize work, education, communication, and influence personal development. [ more ]

DevOps.com

Exploring Low/No-Code Platforms, GenAI, Copilots and Code Generators - DevOps.com

Low/no-code platforms democratize software development by empowering non-technical individuals, aided by easy interfaces and Gen AI integration. [ more ]

Open Culture

Creating Your Own Custom AI Assistants Using OpenAI GPTs: A Free Course from Vanderbilt University

Users can create custom versions of ChatGPT for various tasks like generating recipes and logos, and a free course helps in developing custom AI assistants. [ more ]

ReadWrite

1 month ago

Hackers can read your encrypted AI-assistant chats

Researchers found vulnerability in cloud-based AI assistants like Chat-GPT, enabling interception of conversations by hackers.

Hackers can decrypt responses by intercepting small tokens sent by chatbots like Chat-GPT, exposing confidential information. [ more ]

Ars Technica

1 month ago

moreArtificial intelligence

Hackers can read private AI assistant chats even though they're encrypted

AI assistants have access to sensitive information like pregnancy, drug addiction, and trade secrets.

Researchers have found a way to decipher AI assistant responses with high accuracy, compromising privacy. [ more ]

ReadWrite

Data science

Elon Musk's xAI previews Grok-1.5V, its first multimodal model

Elon Musk's xAI introduces Grok-1.5V, a model with strong text capabilities, improved reasoning, and enhanced real-world understanding. [ more ]

Medium

BUD-E: An Open-Source Voice Assistant by LAION that Runs on a Laptop

BUD-E is an open-source voice assistant that prioritizes emotional intelligence and understanding in human-dialogue interactions.

The project aims to reduce latency and mechanical responses by leveraging advanced models like Phi 2 and LLama 2 30B. [ more ]

Adweek

Empowered Customers Are Driving the Era of Brand Meritocracy

AI assistants are reshaping consumer interactions with brands, focusing on objective substance over branding.

AI assistants are becoming personal shoppers, considering various factors beyond brand preference. [ more ]

TechCrunch

Darwin AI gives small LatAm companies AI-powered sales assistant | TechCrunch

Smaller companies eager to use AI for sales.

Darwin AI developing conversational AI for small businesses. [ more ]

Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

UX design

Smart display concept puts a cute face on smart home technology - Yanko Design

Smart displays offer visual feedback to voice-assistant responses.

Changing core design elements, like adding a cartoon-y face, can make tech products more personable. [ more ]

TechRepublic

Slack Rolls Out Generative AI Search and Summarization

Slack has rolled out its AI assistance, which includes generative AI features that aim to increase workers' productivity.

The AI features include thread summaries, channel recaps, and AI-powered search, all of which are designed to save time and improve information organization and retrieval.

Slack has also announced upcoming personalized channel summarization and Salesforce Einstein Copilot integration, which could further enhance productivity. [ more ]

ReadWrite

The first users of Microsoft's AI bot ask if it's worth the money

The Microsoft AI assistant is considered useful but often falls short of meeting its high price of $30 per person per month.

The integration of Copilot for Microsoft 365 with Word, Outlook, and Teams has generated significant demand and positive feedback from businesses. [ more ]

Ars Technica

The Super Bowl's best and wackiest AI commercials

Microsoft showcased its AI assistant, Copilot, in its first-ever Super Bowl commercial, highlighting its ability to generate solutions for various tasks.

Google highlighted the 'Guided Frame' feature on its Pixel 8 smartphone, which uses AI to help users take better photos. [ more ]

Theregister

Forcing AI on devs is a bad idea that's going to happen

The article discusses the negative impact of unwanted new features in software products.

The author criticizes JetBrains for introducing a non-removable AI Assistant plug-in that disrupts developers' workflow. [ more ]

Theregister

3 months ago

What Big Tech said this week about real AI adoption

Big Tech is investing billions into generative AI assistants.

The financial results of companies like Google, Microsoft, AMD, Amazon, and Qualcomm can provide insights into the real-world effects of artificial intelligence. [ more ]

Smashing Magazine

3 months ago

The AI Dilemma In Graphic Design: Steering Towards Excellence In Typography And Beyond - Smashing Magazine

AI promises a major upheaval in typography, presenting both opportunities and challenges for designers.

In the future, AI assistants like TypeMaster3000 could generate multilingual and inventive font options with consistent quality. [ more ]

Ars Technica

3 months ago

Zuckerberg's AGI remarks follow trend of downplaying AI dangers

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to build 'general intelligence' for AI assistants and open-source it responsibly.

Zuckerberg did not explicitly mention 'artificial general intelligence' (AGI), but his plans seem to align with AGI objectives. [ more ]

Engadget

4 months ago

Digital life

This ring lets you whisper to your phone, because sometimes we need to use our inside voices

VTouch has developed a ring with a proximity sensor and microphone that allows users to discreetly communicate with voice assistants.

The WHSP Ring can be used to access AI assistants, interact with smart homes, and even trigger emergency alerts. [ more ]

Futurism

5 months ago

Facebook Researchers Test AI's Intelligence and Find It Is Unfortunately Quite Stupid

The team of researchers at Meta has created a benchmark called GAIA to test the abilities of AI assistants like OpenAI's GPT-4.

Human respondents were able to answer 92% of the GAIA questions correctly, while GPT-4 scored only 15% and GPT4 Turbo scored less than 10%.

This research suggests that we are still far from achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), where AI algorithms can outperform humans. [ more ]

Harvard Business Review

5 months ago