When Sundar Pichai, Googles chief executive, introduced a generative artificial intelligence feature for the companys search engine last month, he and his colleagues demonstrated the new capability with six text-based queries that the public could try out. The questions included how do you clean a fabric sofa and what should I use to get a coffee stain out of my carpet. These were intended to highlight how Googles new feature, A.I. Continue reading →

As AI-generated images spread across entertainment, marketing, social media and other industries that shape cultural norms, The Washington Post set out to understand how this technology defines one of societys most indelible standards: female beauty. Every image in this story shows something that doesn't exist in the physical world and was generated using one of three text-to-image artificial intelligence models: DALL-E, Midjourney or Stable Diffusion Continue reading →

If 2023 was the year the world discovered generative AI (gen AI), 2024 is the year organizations truly began usingand deriving business value fromthis new technology. In the latest McKinsey Global Surveyon AI, 65 percent of respondents report that their organizations are regularly using gen AI, nearly double the percentage from our previous survey just ten months ago. Continue reading →

SAN FRANCISCO Google said it was scaling down the use of AI-generated answers in some search results, after the tech made high-profile errors including telling users to put glue on their pizza and saying Barack Obama was Muslim. Google began putting the artificial intelligence answers on top of search results for users in the United States two weeks ago, but users and search engine experts on Thursday began noticing that far fewer queries were triggering an AI answer compared with previous days. Googles head of search, Liz Reid, confirmed in a blog post Thursday afternoon that the company was scaling back some of the AI answers, which it calls AI Overviews. Continue reading →