Items tagged with AI
When people talk about the AI race, most folks' thoughts immediately go toward large language models powering functions like ChatGPT or Google Assistant. There's a lot more going on in the AI space than just language models, though. Before convincingly-human language models became commonplace, everyone was obsessed...
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The Geekbench suite of system benchmarks have their limitations, but they present a reasonable impression of overall performance for a wide variety of productivity, content creation, and high-performance computing tasks, and they're also cross-platform. These qualities, along with the low, low price of zero dollars...
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In the emerging era of artificial intelligence (AI), it's getting increasingly difficult to tell the difference between human-generated and AI-generated content. Scammers are using this to their advantage by posting fake reviews of products, and it has caught the attention of the Federal Trade Commission, which has...
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As AI continues to rule the roost in the tech world, Google is reimagining its digital assistant with Gemini Live, a mobile conversational experience that allows users to have “free-flowing conversations” with Gemini. Gemini Live is expected to rival OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode on ChatGPT, which recently rolled out...
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There have been various movies and TV shows highlighting emotional bonds with artificial intelligence (AI), such as the movie Her and, if going back much further into the archives, the sitcom Small Wonder from the 1980s (yes, this author has some gray hair). While perhaps these and others like them are far fetched...
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Intel is revving up its GPU engines with its first-ever discrete graphics processing unit (dGPU) for automotive applications, the Intel Arc Graphics for Automotive with Arc A760A. The product, announced at the company’s AI Cockpit Innovation Experience event, will be commercially deployed in vehicles as soon as...
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Reddit bills itself as "The Frontpage of the Internet," and it leveraged that reputation earlier this year when it went public. The company has just issued its second earnings report, and CEO Steve Huffman gave some hints about where the social news aggregator will go next, but you might not love it. Reddit users can...
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Figure has announced a second iteration of its humanoid AI robot, called the Figure 02. The company touts itself as the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company, bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
From scientists creating a smiling robot face from living skin cells, to OpenAI’s groundbreaking GPT-4o being...
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As time goes on, running artificial intelligence (AI) workloads directly on devices (as opposed to offloading to the cloud) will become more commonplace. To help push the industry towards that goal. Samsung announced it has begun mass producing what it claims is the industry's thinnest 12-nanometer class 12 gigabyte...
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The 2024 Paris Olympics Games are underway, and so is Google's Gemini advertising blitz. You can hardly tune in without seeing a commercial for Google's generative AI tools, but you won't be seeing one of the ads anymore. Google has decided to pull one of its spots following a bit of a scolding from the internet at...
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Advanced Voice Mode on Open AI’s ChatGPT service is now available to a select group of users that have been invited to participate in its limited alpha period. The company’s official X account posted that “Advanced Voice Mode offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and...
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A new AI-infused device wants to hang around and take away the feeling of being lonely. And while the lonely can preorder a new Friend, the device is currently only friendly with those with an iPhone.
Most everyone has experienced the feeling of being lonely at some point in their life. Not having anyone to listen...
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When Apple announced iOS 18 at its WWDC 2024 Developer Conference earlier this year, AI was on the menu as an appetizing item. Fast forward to today, and Apple has finally made the first preview version of its Apple Intelligence available as the iOS 18.1 beta developer update.
This was a surprise to some, as it...
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Social media platform X is now beginning to use data generated by its users to train Grok, the company’s AI search assistant. This update to its policy, which isn't the first policy change this year, was shared on the official X Safety account, where it says “all X users have the ability to control whether their...
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OpenAI has unveiled a new way to search with its AI search engine, SearchGPT. Currently, the new AI search engine is only a prototype, and hopeful users will need to join a waitlist to gain access.
Google Search has been the go to choice for finding things on the internet for many for some time now. Part of the...
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There are a multitide of companies who have expended significant funds in an effort to get PC users excited about AI, but many people still think of AI products as something that is run exclusively in the cloud. Of course, that's completely incorrect; anyone with a reasonably recent discrete GPU can run many AI...
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Adobe has unleashed powerful new innovations in its Illustrator and Photoshop programs to help creatives unlock new design possibilities. The company touts the new innovations as being able to accelerate creative workflows, save time, and empower designers to realize their visions faster.
The last couple of months...
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All of the major chip makers are hitching their silicon wagons to the AI craze that's sweeping the industry, and to that end, AMD has introduced a new flagship entry as part of its Ryzen AI 300 series lineup (otherwise known as Strix Point). It's the Ryzen 9 HX 375 and it sits atop a short but growing stack of mobile...
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AMD is losing an industry veteran from its talented executive team next month. Effective August 30, 2024, AMD President Victor Peng is going into retirement, putting an end to an impressive career that spanned 40 years and included multiple stints at AMD, as well as ATI, the famed graphics company AMD acquired for...
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NVIDIA is currently working on a version of its most powerful Blackwell-based AI chip that will meet the export control requirements set by the US government, according to a report in Reuters. The company will be working with one of its Chinese partners to make this happen, and is currently referring to this potential...
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NVIDIA has ridden the current boom in AI to become one of the most valuable companies on planet Earth, as its AI specific hardware continues to sell like hot cakes. This is because companies in just about every sector are looking to leverage AI in some way. However, SK hynix CEO Chey Tae-Won offered some interesting...
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Google has teased its upcoming Pixel 9 Pro and also officially confirmed a new foldable Pixel is on the way. In true AI fashion, both the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro Fold are being billed as phones “built for the Gemini era," with Gemini being the name of Google's family of mulimodal large language models...
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