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The Future. While photo-editing tools have been around for years, touch-up tools on Google’s new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro phones make Instagram filters look antiquated, giving users unprecedented accessibility and ease in “capturing” the perfect shot. Soon, Instagram may be littered with not just touched-up pics but also photos of entirely fictionalized moments. […]
The Future. Leveraging ChatGPT’s ability to talk with the API of a website, app, or software, researchers at Nvidia taught ChatGPT to play the game Minecraft without human intervention… paving the way for the chatbot to become a full-fledged “AI agent” and handle any number of online tasks. While there’s still a lot of development […]
The Future. Facial recognition technology is starting to be used by hospitality companies and travel authorities to make every aspect of the business more convenient for customers. But with the potential for that data to be sold to government agencies, be used in identity theft, and maybe even lead some people to be barred from […]
The Future. A bipartisan team in the Senate has introduced a bill to protect individuals from unauthorized digital replicas, building on current name, image, and likeness laws. The bill is still a discussion draft, so plenty of work will be done on it before it ever comes up for a vote. But with Senator Chris […]
The Future. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has landed back on Earth filled with asteroid samples that contain the two most important elements for planet and life formation — carbon and water. It’s not alien life, but it’s a massive discovery that could set off a new wave of research and exploration among the stars. And thanks […]
The Future. Hundreds of actors have found their voices have been copied and used without consent — sometimes even spewing racist or violent things. With AI tools requiring only 30 seconds of someone’s voice to make clones, it’s easy to see how this problem can spread. While some firms, like Speechify and Resemble AI, are […]
The Future. An upcoming wearable AI device wants to give people the power to record their every interaction and store it in their phones — giving them an external hard drive for their memories. The device joins a growing slate of announced AI wearables (a portable projection device from Humane, a ChatGPT device designed by […]
The Future. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is plotting an AI hardware device that would be designed by Jony Ive — the designer of the iPhone. The project is still in early stages, and an ultimate design of the mysterious device still hasn’t been decided, but whatever it ends up being could one day join our […]
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The Future. OpenAI is bringing voice assistant capabilities to ChatGPT, giving the generative AI something of a technological personality in the way we anthropomorphize Siri or Alexa. With Apple and Amazon also working on generative AI tools, expect those voice assistants to get an LLM update… potentially making the use of AI a new normal. […]