AI is the buzzword of the moment, and nowhere seems to be safe even film festivals. This years edition of Sundance was a prime example Continue reading →

The most famous virtual valets around todaySiri, Alexa, and Google Assistantare a lot less impressive than the latest AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT or Google Bard. Continue reading →

Amazon entered the consumer chatbot fray on Thursday, announcing a new artificial intelligence personal shopping assistant as the company races to catch up with other tech giants. Customers can ask the tool, Rufus, product questions directly in the search bar of the companys mobile app, Amazon said in a blog post. Continue reading →

AI systems, such as GPT-4, can now learn and use human language, but they learn from astronomical amounts of language inputmuch more than children receive when learning how to understand and speak a language. The best AI systems train on text with a word count in the trillions, whereas children receive just millions per year Continue reading →

AUSTIN, Texas In stride with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence systems and The University of Texas at Austins recently announced Year of AI initiative, the University is launching a bold new faculty recruitment program to help bring more of the worlds best and brightest AI professors to the Forty Acres. Aimed specifically at strengthening research capabilities, expertise and academic programs in AI and data analytics, the program will provide financial support from the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost for the addition of new tenured and tenure-track and professional-track faculty positions Continue reading →

With its first birthday right around the corner, Google's conversational AI tool Bard is getting another upgrade. Early reviews found Bard lagged behind competing chatbots in part because its responses were less human-like. Continue reading →

During Apples quarterly earnings call on Thursday afternoon, CEO Tim Cook mentioned that the company is working on generative AI software features that will make their way to customers later this year. That aligns with reporting from Bloombergs Mark Gurman, who said recently that iOS 18 could be the biggest update in the operating systems history Continue reading →

Hunter Moseley says that good reproducibility practices are essential to fully harness the potential of big data.Credit: Hunter N.B. Moseley We are in the middle of a data-driven science boom. Continue reading →

Stay tuned: 2024 will be the year Apple finally reveals what it has up its sleeve regarding generative AI. On the company's quarterly earnings call Thursday afternoon, CEO Tim Cook cited "a huge opportunity for Apple with gen AI and AI." In the call, Cook said Apple "has some things that we're incredibly excited about that we'll be talking about later this year." He was otherwise tight-lipped, beyond citing how AI powers the Apple Vision Pro headset, which went on sale Friday and which CNET reviewer Scott Stein calls "Apple's wildest and strangest device." Cook argued that Apple can justify the Vision Pro's $3,499 price point due to the 5,000 patents it holds, alongside "many innovations that Apple has spent multiple years on, from silicon to displays, and in significant AI and machine learningall of the hand tracking, the room mappingall of this stuff is driven by AI." We should point out that AI is a broad field of technology, with applications in everything from sorting through photos for familiar faces to assisting you as you type out texts. Continue reading →

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