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Meta is reportedly planning an Abe Lincoln chatbot as part of a public AI push
Meta is preparing to launch AI-enabled chatbots with unique personalities, according to a report by Financial Times. What’s more? It looks like the first chatbot released will be none other than Abraham Lincoln, so you’ll be able to ask good ole Honest Abe his thoughts on life. The company is also reportedly creating a surfer personality expressly for making travel plans.
Lawrence Bonk08.01.2023
Bing Chat powered by OpenAI tech is rolling out to Chrome and Safari
Microsoft's Bing Chat is no longer exclusive to the Edge browser, as it's now rolling out to Chrome and Safari.
Steve Dent07.24.2023
Google's Bard AI chatbot has learned to talk
Google's Bard gained a handful of new features and functions Thursday in the chatbot AI's latest round of updates, including 40 new languages and the ability to speak!
Andrew Tarantola07.13.2023
Google's NotebookLM personalizes the chatbot experience
Google's Project Tailwind, an 'AI-first notebook' is now available to select beta testers in the US.
Andrew Tarantola07.12.2023
Anthropic releases Claude 2, a more capable, less gullible AI chatbot
Less than half a year after releasing the first version, Anthropic is back with a new iteration of its "Constitutional AI" Claude.
Andrew Tarantola07.11.2023
Google is testing its medical AI chatbot at the Mayo Clinic
Google is already testing its Med-PaLM 2 AI chat technology at at the Mayo Clinic and other hospitals.
Steve Dent07.10.2023
NASA is creating a ChatGPT-like assistant for astronauts
NASA is developing a system that will allow astronauts to perform maneuvers, conduct experiments and more using a natural-language ChatGPT-like interface.
Steve Dent06.26.2023
Otter’s AI chatbot pays attention during meetings so you don’t have to
Otter.ai just announced Otter Chat, an AI chatbot specifically designed for work meetings. This “collaborative AI intelligence” acts as a help center for anyone participating in the meeting, transcribing meeting data and winnowing it down into an actual conversation. This allows it to accurately answer questions about the meeting that just transpired, send followup emails and even write related blog posts.
Lawrence Bonk06.21.2023
Instagram may roll out its own AI chatbot in the near future
A reverse engineer has found evidence of an AI chatbot that Instagram seems to be working on. The chatbot may be able to answer questions, give advice and help you write messages.
Kris Holt06.06.2023
Eating disorder helpline takes down chatbot after it dispenses dangerous advice
The National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) was forced to take down its Tessa chatbot after it “may have given information that was harmful and unrelated to the program”, according to an official social media post. Simply put, the AI chatbot was intended to help people dealing with emotional distress, but instead just made things worse by offering dieting advice and urging users to weigh and measure themselves.
Lawrence Bonk05.31.2023
TikTok is testing an AI chatbot for content discovery
TikTok is in the “early stages” of testing an AI-powered chatbot, called Tako, which will be able to recommend videos and respond to queries about what users are watching.
Karissa Bell05.25.2023
FTC warns tech companies against AI shenanigans that harm consumers
On Monday, FTC attorney, Michael Atleson, laid out how generative AI systems could be used to violate the FTC Act and what the commission would do to companies found in violation.
Andrew Tarantola05.01.2023
Walmart's suppliers would rather negotiate with AI than a human
Walmart is using AI to negotiate supplier deals, and the bot is more popular than humans.
Jon Fingas04.28.2023
Reddit will charge companies for API access, citing AI training concerns
Reddit will begin charging companies for access to the API and collections of data typically used to train large language models and related AI platforms. The company has not released pricing but has indicated it will be split into multiple tiers.
Lawrence Bonk04.18.2023
Google Bard's new 'experiment updates' page lets you know what's new
The 'experiment updates' page explains the what and why for each announced improvement.
Sarah Fielding04.11.2023
Google is opening up access to its Bard AI chatbot today
Google acknowledged that Bard might make mistakes, but noted that wider user feedback is crucial in helping it improve.
Cherlynn Low03.21.2023
Even Slack has a ChatGPT app now
The ChatGPT app in Slack can draft messages, summarize threads and answer your questions.
Kris Holt03.07.2023
Microsoft gives Bing's AI chatbot personality options
You can now make the Bing AI's chat personality more entertaining or to-the-point.
Jon Fingas03.02.2023
OpenAI will let developers build ChatGPT into their apps
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, announced developer APIs for ChatGPT and the Whisper speech-transcription model.
Will Shanklin03.01.2023
Meta is working on 'AI personas' for Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp
Meta plans to make AI 'personas' for Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, and it's creating a unified team to help make this happen.
Jon Fingas02.27.2023