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Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal joins the race with Krutrim

15Dec

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Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal joins the race with Krutrim

During the launch event, Aggarwal demonstrated an AI chatbot powered by Krutrim. It functions similarly to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard Krutrim Si Designs, the artificial intelligence (AI) venture of Ola co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal, on Friday unveiled Krutrim, its base large language model (LLM). Krutrim has joined the increasingly-competitive AI race dominated by players such as Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. It has been built with the largest representation of Indian data used for its generative AI applications for all Indian languages. It has been trained by a team of leading computer scientists, based in Bengaluru and San Francisco. This model will also power Krutrim’s conversational AI assistant, which understands and speaks multiple Indian languages f...

Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom

10Dec

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Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom

The history of artificial intelligence has been punctuated by periods of so-called “AI winter,” when the technology seemed to meet a dead end and funding dried up. Each one has been accompanied by proclamations that making machines truly intelligent is just too darned hard for humans to figure out.Google’s release of Gemini, claimed to be a fundamentally new kind of AI model and the company’s most powerful to date, suggests that a new AI winter isn’t coming anytime soon. In fact, although the 12 months since ChatGPT launched have been a banner year for AI, there is good reason to think that the current AI boom is only getting started.OpenAI didn’t have high expectations when it launched the “low key research preview” called ChatGPT in November 2022. It was simply a test of a new interface...

The Chatbots Are Now Talking to Each Other

12Oct

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The Chatbots Are Now Talking to Each Other

Lena Anderson isn’t a soccer fan, but she does spend a lot of time ferrying her kids between soccer practices and competitive games.“I may not pull out a foam finger and painted face, but soccer does have a place in my life,” says the soccer mom—who also happens to be completely made up. Anderson is a fictional personality played by artificial intelligence software like that powering ChatGPT.Anderson doesn’t let her imaginary status get in the way of her opinions, though, and comes complete with a detailed backstory. In a wide-ranging conversation with a human interlocutor, the bot says that it has a 7-year-old son who is a fan of the New England Revolution and loves going to home games at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts. Anderson claims to think the sport is a wonderful way for kids to...

How to Stop Google Bard From Storing Your Data and Location

2Oct

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How to Stop Google Bard From Storing Your Data and Location

With its most recent update, Google Bard can now sort through your trove of Google Docs, rediscover ancient Gmail messages, and search through every video on YouTube. Before experimenting too much with the new extensions available for Google’s chatbot, it's worth going over the steps you can take to protect your privacy (and the ones you can't).Google Bard launched in March of this year, one month after OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public. You’re likely familiar with how chatbots are designed to mimic human conversation, but Google’s latest features are designed to give Bard more practical applications and uses.But when every conversation you have with Bard is tracked, logged, and used again to train the AI, how can you trust it with your data? Here are some tips to protect your prompts...

I Guess We’re All Talking to Our Glasses Now

29Sep

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I Guess We’re All Talking to Our Glasses Now

Undeterred by its many detractors, Meta is still trying to make the metaverse happen. This week, the company held its annual Connect developer conference at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to announce a new mixed reality headset, the Meta Quest 3, as well as new smart glasses made by Ray-Ban that let the wearer livestream videos and interact with an AI-powered voice chatbot. Meta also showed off an array of celebrity-infused AI chatbots that can mimic big-name folks like Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner. You'd be forgiven for thinking all this feels a little bit like an episode of Black Mirror.This week on Gadget Lab, we talk with WIRED senior AI writer Khari Johnson about the mixed reality hardware Meta announced this week, its voice-co...