Category: Shorts

The disappearance of Google Assistant But hardly a word was said about Google Assistant, the company’s previous AI champion. Maybe they’ve gotten caught flat-footed by ChatGPT, and just hasn’t had time to properly integrate Bard-style fluency into the older Google Assistant. Google Assistant has 700 million monthly users today, Hutchison says, while Bard is an…

Penguins Outnumber Europeans in Ability to Use Google Bard Although Google already offers chatbots in more countries than the U.S., many Europeans still don’t have access to them. For example, none of them can get access to its chatbot, Bard, which is available in Finland, the Åland Islands, an autonomous region of Finland, as well…

A Plundering AI Caught Red-Handed in a Sex Trope ChatGPT is an example of a generative AI that can make art, write books, and compose poetry . But what if there were a sex trope in fanfiction? That would be one way to tell whether ChatGPT was trained on fanfiction. The trope in question is…

Google’s AI tools embrace the dream of the helpful paper clip Google showed off some of its new artificial intelligence tools at its developer conference. One of them was Duet, which it calls “Duet AI for Google Workspace.” It includes a collection of AI-infused tools such as Gmail, Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc. The company claims…

Google’s new Magic Editor allows us to create AI-perfected fakery The Magic Editor transforms a photo in seconds. Google shows off its new editing tools in a demo. The AI-powered tool, dubbed the Magic Editor, certainly lived up to its name during the demo. But Google’s Magic Editor could make a more substantial form of…

How to ask Google’s AI the right questions I felt a shiver run down my spine when Google openly acknowledged that it’s hard to ask AI the right questions. That showed up again later in the keynote when Google demoed its new AI search results, called Search Generative Experience (SGE).For this more intuitive AI to…

Google AI pitch email hell I/O, this year, was focused on artificial intelligence, and one of its centerpieces was prompt-based text generation. But Google’s onstage ideas were almost impressive in their ability to serve precisely none of writing’s core purposes. As a writer, I don’t begrudge anyone who uses AI writing to meet largely arbitrary…

Discounted AirTags are available from Apple Memorial Day is just around the corner, and if you have plans to travel, today’s deal on Apple’s AirTags has landed at the perfect time. Apple’s air tags can help you find your lost items with its UWB technology. If you’d like to buy a set for the whole…

Android 14 played a surprisingly minor role in Google’s IO keynote During the keynote, Android 14 gets almost no airtime. That’s because it’s a minor update to the platform, and not because anyone cares that much about it. I asked Sameer Samat, vice president of the Android ecosystem, why Android 14 doesn’t get much airtime…

Android 14 barely made an appearance in Google’s IO keynote During the keynote, Android 14 gets almost no airtime. That’s because it’s a minor update to the platform, and not because anyone cares that much about it. I asked Sameer Samat, vice president of the Android ecosystem, why Android 14 got so little airtime in…