By Sissie Hsiao – Feb 18, 2024 A version of this article was first published on Google Since we launched Bard last year, people all over the world have used it to collaborate with AI in a completely new way — to prepare for job interviews, debug code, brainstorm new business ideas or, as we announced last week, create…
By Jane Wakefield – Jan 27, 2024 A version of this article was first published on BBC Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used by police forces around the world, but do the benefits always outweigh the risks? Sarah is a victim of domestic abuse, and she is on the phone to a 999 emergency call handler. She…
By Faisal Islam, Imran Rahman-Jones & Zoe Kleinman – Feb 2, 2024 A version of this article was first published on BBC Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not be a “mass destroyer of jobs” and human workers will learn to work with new technologies, the governor of the Bank of England has told the BBC. Governor…
By Jeremy Engle – Oct 5, 2023 A version of this article was first published on The New York Times Can you envision yourself living on the moon or somewhere else beyond Earth? If so, why? What is compelling about traveling to other worlds in space? In “Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live on the Moon…
By KATHERINE ALEJANDRA CROSS – Sep 7, 2023 A version of this article was first published on Wired IT’S BECOME A veritable meme subgenre at this point: a photo of Linda Hamilton as The Terminator’s Sarah Connor, glaring into the camera, steely eyed, with some variant of the caption “Sarah Connor seeing you become friends with ChatGPT.”…
By MEGHAN O’GIEBLYN – Nov 13, 2023 A version of this article was first published on Wired Dear Virtual, It’s hard to believe that only two years have passed since we were promised the new dispensation—the digital universe where, as Mark Zuckerberg put it, we would “be able to express ourselves in new, joyful, completely immersive ways.” In…
By ANDREJ SOKOLOW – Nov 19, 2023 A version of this article was first published on TheStar SAN FRANCISCO: Could AI make your smartphones obsolete? After a slow build-up of hype in recent months, a startup run by two former Apple employees has launched their vision of a product that promises to let us use our…
By Mariella Moon – Nov 16, 2023 A version of this article was first published on Engadget In September, Google opened its AI-powered search experience to teens in the US, giving them access to richer results with additional information and links. Now, the company has also given teens in most countries around the world access to its Bard…
By Liv McMahon & Alasdair Keane – Nov 16, 2023 A version of this article was first published on BBC As Doritos, Walkers and Wotsits speed along a conveyor belt at Coventry’s PepsiCo factory – where some of the UK’s most popular crisps are made – the noise of whirring machinery is almost deafening. But…
By Brian Heater – Nov 4, 2023 A version of this article was first published on TechCrunch Earlier this month, Google’s DeepMind team debuted Open X-Embodiment, a database of robotics functionality created in collaboration with 33 research institutes. The researchers involved compared the system to ImageNet, the landmark database founded in 2009 that is now home to more…