Google Maps gets AI
What could go wrong?
Google Maps now comes with AI, making it a lot easier for our future robot overlords to simply have us drive ourselves to the Human Battery Conversion factories when the time comes.
Meta Permits Its A.I. to be used by US military
Army runs on Llamas
Social notworking outfit Meta has changed its policies on government agencies and contractors working on national security to allow the military use of its products.
OpenAI's Sam Altman declares AGI "achievable" with existing kit
It might cost a bit
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims that current hardware can achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). However, this optimistic vision requires $7 trillion price tag and many years to construct 36 semiconductor plants and additional data centres.
Perplexity wants to replace strikers with AI
Will cross the picket lines
The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers.
OpenAI launches real-time search feature
Challenges Google and Microsoft
OpenAI launched a real-time search function within ChatGPT, marking its first significant foray into a market long dominated by Google.