Amazon.com says it is investing an additional US$2.75 billion in Anthropic, completing a deal it made last year to back the artificial intelligence (AI) start-up and expand a partnership between the companies. The infusion brings Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic, a well-regarded builder of AI tools able to generate text and analysis, to US$4 billion, … Read more
Seeing ChatGPT respond to some of the most otherworldly prompts is one of the most unique and entertaining experiences. In fact, it’s almost scary how good this OpenAI-founded chatbot can be at times. Launched in 2022, you can access free and paid versions of ChatGPT from a web browser, but the company also has an … Read more
The generative AI tools provided by Huiwa, operated by Alibaba subsidiary Hangzhou Lianfan Information Technology, enable merchants to create both text and graphics content. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. A merchant, for example, can input a brief description of a product, which prompts the tool to create customised content for marketing and promotion. … Read more
The speedy upward trajectory of Artificial Intelligence has brought about a fascinating trend among Chinese women – a growing preference for virtual companionship over traditional relationships. One of these women is Tufei, a 25-year-old Chinese office worker hailing from Xi’an. She has discovered solace and companionship in a chatbot on the “Glow” app, created by … Read more
Google is pausing an AI tool that creates images of people following inaccuracies in some historical depictions the model generated, the latest hiccup in the Alphabet-owned company’s efforts to catch up with rivals OpenAI and Microsoft. Google started offering image generation through its Gemini AI models earlier this month, but over the past few days, some … Read more
Amazon Last year, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that every business division at the company was experimenting with AI. Today, Amazon has announced its most ambitious AI product yet: a chatbot named Rufus to assist with your online shopping. Imagine ChatGPT, but one that knows every detail about all the products in Amazon’s vast catalog. … Read more
International delivery firm DPD is updating its AI-powered chatbot after it gave some unexpected responses during an exchange with a disgruntled customer. Musician Ashley Beauchamp recently turned to DPD’s customer-service chatbot in a bid to track down a missing package. After making little progress with the chatbot, he decided to have some fun by asking … Read more
Delivery company DPD has been forced to disable its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot after it began swearing at a customer and called the company the “worst delivery firm”. Ashley Beauchamp, the customer, contacted DPD to track down a missing parcel and found himself locked in conversation with the company’s online chatbot, at which point he … Read more
Custom GPTs are one of the most exciting features OpenAI has introduced to ChatGPT in quite some time. They let you fully customize your own natural language AI chatbots with personalized information on conversational style, any foundational documents or data they need to know to help you, and their general reason for being. I’ve been … Read more
Computer keyboards are making room for an artificial intelligence chatbot button as Microsoft unveils its first major keyboard redesign in three decades. Starting this month, some new personal computers that run Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system will have a special “Copilot key” that launches the software giant’s AI chatbot. Getting third-party computer manufacturers to add … Read more
