From Gmail to Office 365, AI is about to become deeply integrated into the apps we use every day. Here’s how
What are the tipping points for an AI boom?
Some are clear in hindsight.
The Copilot, powered by GPT-4 from OpenAI, will sit alongside Microsoft 365 apps much like an assistant (remember Clippy?), appearing in the sidebar as a chatbot that allows Office users to summon it to generate text in documents, create PowerPoint presentations based on Word documents, or even help use features like PivotTables in Excel.
Is it time to delete TikTok? I discuss why time could be running out for the social media platforms’s ownership model on the Today in Focus podcast.
OpenAI had a privacy breach yesterday, showing some users the chat history of strangers. Not great!
And it published a paper estimating that 20% of US jobs could be substantially – more than half their work – automated by GPT. Journalists fared poorly, with the company’s researchers claiming that 100% of their (my?) work could be done by a large language model. Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they?
Is there a place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation? One city in China thinks so – in a bid to boost the marriage rate, it’s launched a state-sponsored matchmaking app.
On the agenda for the week ahead: Amazon’s anti-trust case nears, even as the company lays off 9,000 more employees (after canning 18,000 in January). Washington is preparing to focus in on a bunch of areas including the Roomba acquisition, retail monopolies, and “dark patterns”, according to Politico.
‘I learned to love the bot’ – a chatbot wants to be your friend, the Observer investigates.
And finally, in this analysis, I write about whether Google’s rush to join chatbot party with launch of Bard will backfire.
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From Gmail to Office 365, AI is about to become deeply integrated into the apps we use every day. Here’s how
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What are the tipping points for an AI boom?
Some are clear in hindsight.
The Copilot, powered by GPT-4 from OpenAI, will sit alongside Microsoft 365 apps much like an assistant (remember Clippy?), appearing in the sidebar as a chatbot that allows Office users to summon it to generate text in documents, create PowerPoint presentations based on Word documents, or even help use features like PivotTables in Excel.
Is it time to delete TikTok? I discuss why time could be running out for the social media platforms’s ownership model on the Today in Focus podcast.
OpenAI had a privacy breach yesterday, showing some users the chat history of strangers. Not great!
And it published a paper estimating that 20% of US jobs could be substantially – more than half their work – automated by GPT. Journalists fared poorly, with the company’s researchers claiming that 100% of their (my?) work could be done by a large language model. Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they?
Is there a place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation? One city in China thinks so – in a bid to boost the marriage rate, it’s launched a state-sponsored matchmaking app.
On the agenda for the week ahead: Amazon’s anti-trust case nears, even as the company lays off 9,000 more employees (after canning 18,000 in January). Washington is preparing to focus in on a bunch of areas including the Roomba acquisition, retail monopolies, and “dark patterns”, according to Politico.
‘I learned to love the bot’ – a chatbot wants to be your friend, the Observer investigates.
And finally, in this analysis, I write about whether Google’s rush to join chatbot party with launch of Bard will backfire. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian