Google CEO Envisions a Personal Google Assistant🤵 with AI; Twitter Opens Up its Source Code

The DailyAI + Tech Roundup from NextBigWhat

AI News today:

Sundar Pichai on the AI Moment: ‘You Will See Us Be Bold’

• Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai gave an extended interview about Artificial Intelligence to the Wall Street Journal and expressed both optimism and worry about the state of the A.I. race.

• He also says the original vision of Google Assistant, of being your ‘own personal Google’ can be fulfilled using AI.

Google updates Bard AI to answer math and logic questions

• Google has updated Bard to incorporate PaLM (Pathways Language Model) for improved math and logic capabilities.

• Bard previously used LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) which is focused on conversational dialogue.

• Coding capabilities are expected to be added soon.

AI Ethicists Respond to ‘AI Pause’ Letter, Claiming It Ignores Real Harms

• They criticize the letter for focusing on hypothetical future threats instead of addressing the real harms caused by the misuse of AI technology today.

• Prominent figures such as Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk are among the thousands of people who have signed the letter.

Other AI News for Today:

• Stability AI CEO eyes IPO in the next few years

• Belgian Man Talks to AI Chatbot for 6 Weeks, Then Commits Suicide

• Bill Ackman warns against pausing AI development, citing potential benefit to “bad guys”

• Elon Musk compares AGI(artificial general intelligence) to a comet coming towards planet Earth

The Tech Buzz for Today:

Twitter releases its source code, including its recommendation algorithm, for inspection

• This was promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk and has been published on GitHub.

• It includes the mechanism used to control the timeline of tweets users see.

Other Tech News:

• Twitter waives $1,000 monthly verification fee for its 10,000 most-followed organizations

• Google employees to receive fewer free snacks and workout classes due to cost-cutting measures

• Apple succeeds in appeal against UK’s investigation of its mobile browser

• Google drive imposes new limit on total number of files stored, even on paid accounts

AI Meme Of The Day!

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