the tech news Singularity approaches that's just where companies shove more
and more AI into basic everyday objects until literally every topic qualifies as
Tech on some level and I don't know sounds great to me Google held its IO
event today to detail its ongoing plans to put generative AI in absolutely
everything starting with the public rollout of Gemini infused Google search
results your Gramma's going to be using this prepare yourself the tech giant
says they want to start by providing AI curated results and AI overview
summaries to users looking for inspiration like those making open-ended
requests for date ideas to which the only acceptable answer is Casa Bonita in
Denver Colorado either she gets it or she's not worth it if you search date
ideas you'll get one answer every time the company did however throw one bone
to Skeptics of the direction Google search has taken over the last few
decades last few decades oh wow yep no
that's right the company did have ever throw
one bone to Skeptics of the direction Google search has taken over the last
few decades a dedicated web search tab
that filters out Google's various widgets and doodads leaving just
text-based results I'm getting sad here
Google also announced several updates to its stable of AI models Gemini 1.5 Pro
is now available to all developers with up to a 2 million token context window
Gemini Nano now has multimodal capabilities that allow it to take
images audio and video as input and they've added a faster lower latency
model Gemini 1.5 flash Google has also
integrated Gemini as a panel on the side of most of its workplace Suite which can
be toggled on or off thank you so much Google Plus they've added an AI teammate
intended to act as a kind of productivity buddy tracking tasks and
coordinating Communications with co-workers you can even personalize it
and give it its own name I've named mine Jacob after our writer Jacob which is
only a problem when I get Jacob and Jacob confused are you talking to
me it's like they're in the room now as for more visual AI stuff there's the
even betterer text to image model
imagine 3 that's how they say it even though it should be imagine moving on
and Google deep Minds vo a generative
video model that looks like Google's fairly impressive answer to open ai's so
the question of whether this was trained on YouTube videos should be obvious
it'll be available to a few creators through the new video FX tool and it
comes integrated with Google's AI watermarking system synth ID which now
works with video and could be built into YouTube one day another big maybe is
Project Astra which Google described as our vision for the future of AI
assistants that can perceive live video and audio and answer in real time and we
think it's so cool that they want that have you have you made it yet cuz why
are you showing it otherwise what if this existed yeah that would be cool
cool idea Google sounds neat that's awesome Google
CEO Sundar peichi also hyped up deep mines Alpha fold 3 the Revolutionary
protein structure prediction tool that can do the same thing for all sorts of
different molecules now and finally Google announced a grab bag of AI
adjacent accessibility features for Android there's one that can monitor
phone calls live and flag whether they are likely to be scams one that
describes images for visually impaired users and another that allows users to
control a cursor with their head and face of course Apple also recently
announced a similar eye tracking accessibility feature and besides you
could already control your phone with your face youve just got to get real
close that just get close enough and then you
can do any anything you want I use my tongue personally in other I news Ilia
sser open aai co-founder and chief scientist has suddenly left the company
for reasons unknown though he indicated that he was excited about vague future
plans that he would outline at some later Point once he gets the Chachi PT
summary of it only a few hours later Jan
Ley co-leader of open ai's Super alignment group announced that he was
leaving the company as well tweeting just two words I resigned B abrupt open
AI has seen several similar high-profile departures within the last few months
including four researchers their head of nonprofit and strategic initiatives and
their VP of people whatever the heck that
is do they have a VP of non people
that's every other VP VP of cats VP of
staplers he's got his own office at least one of the researchers stated that
he didn't trust the company to behave responsibly around the creation of
artificial general intelligence opening I's internal culture appears to be
significantly out of step with public sentiment on this issue as a recent
yugov survey found that 63% of Americans
would support government legislation to prevent the creation of super
intelligent AI Sam ultman was apparently one of the few who watched Terminator
and the Matrix and thought hell yeah sick that's what I'm talking about I
hate the villain John coner taking immediate action earlier
today the US Senate revealed a 32 billion doll a year road map for
regulating AI which makes no concrete suggestions for how to regulate AI we're
very much in the creating a committee to develop a framework for considering
legislation stage of the regulatory process and that part's important plus
that annual 32 billion is primarily intended for investment in non-military
AI Innovation so apparently we're going to regulate Sam ultman by giving him
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bits Apple's newest 17.5 iOS update
appears to be causing old long deleted photos including nudes to reappear in
users photo albums as if they were recent photos you don't want that dozens
of users have reported encountering this issue including on devices that were
previously wiped to be clear this doesn't necessarily mean that Apple has
secretly been holding on to supposedly deleted data old deleted data isn't
really gone gone until it's been overwritten by something else which is
probably how the I necromancers at Apple accidentally brought a bunch of elderly
dickpics back from the grave the the picks are elderly I don't know about the
dicks leaked internal documents from Dell show an extremely bullish attitude
towards qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon X Elite chips which are set to launch
imminently Dell apparently already expects to include second gen Snapdragon
X Elite chips in its 2026 laptop lineup
as well as a third generation for either 2027 or
2028 depending on whether the AI has
gotten us all by then the second gen chips are expected to be even more
efficient than their already super efficient predecessors cutting the power
draw of Dell's 2026 laptops down to 20 watts from 25.5 Watts ASUS is only
scheduled to announce its own Snapdragon X Elite based laptop on Monday so this
is a bit like checking your parents closet for your birthday present only to
find several years worth of future birthday presents and now everything's
been ruined there there's no surprise socks 2030 really a federal
investigation of alphabet subsidiary whmo is underway due to the company's
self-driving cars being involved in a lot of crashes way more crashes than
necessary anyway investig anyway investigators have found
22 incidents where wh's cars collided with objects like Gates chains and
parked cars meanwhile automakers as a whole have been put on notice by the FTC
to stop selling connected cars that illegally collect users data
that sounded really scary until the FTC revealed this issue has been on their
radar for years Nissan and Kia's privacy policies allow them to track your sexual
activity and the FDC is just watching gross it was in the terms get
out of there Kento stop watching New York City will be testing
AI enabled gun Scanners from a company called evolve in its subway system with
mayor Eric Adams saying an analysis of the scanner's accuracy will be conducted
even though the city already tested evolved scanners 2 years ago that test
revealed the scanners detections were actually false positives 85% of the time
another 14% of detections were cops you'd think that math that disappointing
would mean something to the education system but apparently several US states
are still considering putting similar scanners in schools it wouldn't be the
first time a school gave a passing grade to an underperformer but that's usually
reserved for Star athletes who actually put points on the board we got to
makeing a championships this year and Tik Tok is including chat GPT generated
answers to some of its search results and it test to see just how deeply they
can confuse the youth the app does warn users that AI smart search could get
things wrong but Tik Tok users should be used to that last September the app
tested supplementing its search results with links to Google Wikipedia IMDb and
other websites since many young people treat Tik Tok as a search engine and may
not no there's a whole internet out there that isn't based on only fans
funnel accounts and confident misinformation or at least there used to
be there also used to be more Tech news every Friday and guess what there still
is I'll see you then okay all right bye bye now take care yourself see you