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The Meta AI Chatbot Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Answer to ChatGPT

Meta is introducing a virtual assistant today to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT that can serve up answers to questions from Microsoft’s Bing search engine and generate images from text commands.Meta AI, as...

This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You In the Dark

Nearly 1,500 US police departments operate drones but only about a dozen routinely dispatch them in response to 911 calls, according to ACLU research. Drone maker Skydio aims to see that change,...

FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has done tens of thousands of face recognition searches using software from outside providers in recent years. Yet only 5 percent of the 200 agents...

Teachers Are Going All In on Generative AI

Tim Ballaret once dreamed of becoming a stockbroker but ultimately found fulfillment helping high school students in south Los Angeles understand the relevance of math and science to their daily lives. But...

The iPhone 15 Opts for Intuitive AI, Not Generative AI

Tech product launches in 2023 have become predictable: Everything now comes with generative AI features that will serve up chatty but knowledgeable text or mind-blowing images. The rollout of the iPhone 15...

Senators Want ChatGPT-Level AI to Require a Government License

The US government should create a new body to regulate artificial intelligence—and restrict work on language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 to companies granted licenses to do so. That’s the recommendation of a...

People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse

Over the past year or so, you’ve probably had conversations with friends, family, and coworkers about the rise of generative AI capable of making convincing text and imagery—but perhaps also about the...

Meta’s Open Source Llama Upsets the AI Horse Race

In May an anonymous memo apparently written by a Google researcher concerned about the company’s future leaked online. It argued that, while executives squabbled about the competitive threat of text-generation technology from...

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