‘Piece by Piece’ Director Morgan Neville Will Never Use AI Again

‘Piece by Piece’ Director Morgan Neville Will Never Use AI Again

Would adding that bit have opened up a can of worms? You kind of can’t just glance over Michael Jackson. I mean everybody from Beyoncé to Kanye [West], even though he’s worked with all these people, and it’s like you can’t just, if you dip your toe into them, then it’s both unsatisfying and kind…

OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Left Some Developers in the Lurch

OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Left Some Developers in the Lurch

OpenAI first announced the option for people to build custom GPTs nearly a year ago. The company described GPTs as an automated, low-code way to create specialized experiences on top of ChatGPT, and said it believed impressive GPTs would be created by nontraditional developers like educators, coaches, and tinkerers. The Store would be accessible to…

Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It’s Totally Wrong?

Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It’s Totally Wrong?

A few years ago I wrote about how, when planning my wedding, I’d signaled to the Pinterest app that I was interested in hairstyles and tablescapes, and I was suddenly flooded with suggestions for more of the same. Which was all well and fine until—whoops—I canceled the wedding and it seemed Pinterest pins would haunt…

Amazon’s Rufus AI Shopping Assistant Now Lets Some Shoppers Check Price History

Amazon’s Rufus AI Shopping Assistant Now Lets Some Shoppers Check Price History

If Amazon’s test of sharing price history through Rufus expands and survives, it could be a significant reason for users to give the chatbot a try. Trishul Chilimbi, an Amazon vice president overseeing research, wrote last week that his teams trained Rufus on all the products, reviews, and Q&A submissions on the company’s website as…

How the AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of Research

How the AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of Research

Yet Hodgkinson worries that researchers in the field will pay attention to the technique, rather than the science, when trying to reverse engineer why the trio won the prize this year. “What I hope this doesn’t do is make researchers inappropriately use chatbots, by wrongly thinking that all AI tools are equivalent,” he says. The…

The Roli Airwave Is Both an AI Piano Teacher and a Digital Theremin

The Roli Airwave Is Both an AI Piano Teacher and a Digital Theremin

“I was hitting a wall with Lumi,” Lamb says. “It’s great to learn, but we found that people just weren’t progressing enough.” Lamb envisions the Airwave as being a much more immediate approach that brings the player’s hands directly into the lesson itself. AI Mastering Of course, this wouldn’t be a gadget announced in 2024…

The OpenAI Talent Exodus Gives Rivals an Opening

The OpenAI Talent Exodus Gives Rivals an Opening

When investors poured $6.6 billion into OpenAI last week, they seemed largely unbothered by the latest drama, which recently saw the company’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, along with chief research officer Bob McCrew and Barret Zoph, a vice president of research, abruptly quit. And yet those three departures were just the latest in an…

FTX Customers Will Get Back Billions After Judge OKs Bankruptcy Plan

FTX Customers Will Get Back Billions After Judge OKs Bankruptcy Plan

A US judge has cleared the way for billions of dollars to be refunded to former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. At a court hearing in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday, judge John Dorsey gave final approval to FTX’s reorganization plan, the terms of which had previously been put to creditors and voted through by…