Apple has registered a wordmark for “xrOS” in New Zealand, the first time the company has indirectly revealed both the name of the operating system for its upcoming headset and the official font and styling that accompanies it. Spotted by Parker Ortolani, the xrOS wordmark registered with the New Zealand Read more…
OpenAI is preparing to release a new open-source language model to the public, The Information reported on Monday, citing a person with knowledge of the plan. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, known for producing prose or poetry on command, has gained widespread attention in Silicon Valley as investors see generative AI as the Read more…
Environmental DNA research has aided conservation, but scientists say its ability to glean information about human populations and individuals poses dangers. David Duffy, a wildlife geneticist at the University of Florida, just wanted a better way to track disease in sea turtles. Then he started finding human DNA everywhere he Read more…
AI technology should not be considered an “inventor” by U.S. patent law, Google argues in a new filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. USPTO is currently soliciting comments on AI technologies and inventorship — asking people, among other things, how AI is being used in creating inventions and Read more…
Amazon plans to bring ChatGPT-style product search to its web store, rivaling efforts by Microsoft and Google to weave generative artificial intelligence into their search engines. The e-commerce giant’s ambitions appear in recent job postings reviewed by Bloomberg News. One listing seeking a senior software development engineer says the company Read more…
This is a very dishonest argument. They aren’t “seizing the sum total of human knowledge”. They aren’t “walling it off inside proprietary products”. All that data they used to train their models is still right where it was before, just as available to the world as it was before. They Read more…
Snapchat, “influencer” Caryn Marjorie created a virtual version of herself “powered by the latest artificial intelligence technology and thousands of hours of recordings of the real Marjorie,” reports Fortune. It’s the work of Forever Voices (which also offers pay-by-the-minute conversations with its voice-mimicking chatbot versions of Steve Jobs, Taylor Swift Read more…