Updates for real-time interaction and fine-tuning Developers that make use of OpenAI’s real-time voice APIs will also get full access to WebRTC support that was announced today. This comes on top of existing support for the WebSocket audio standard and can simplify the creation of OpenAI audio interfaces for third-party applications from roughly 250 lines of […]
December 17, 2024 | AI | No comments
On Wednesday, a video from OpenAI’s newly launched Sora AI video generator went viral on social media, featuring a gymnast who sprouts extra limbs and briefly loses her head during what appears to be an Olympic-style floor routine. As it turns out, the nonsensical synthesis errors in the video—what we like to call “jabberwockies”—hint at […]
December 13, 2024 | AI, AI confabulation, AI hallucination, AI jabberwocky, Ai video generator, Biz & IT, confabulation, gymnastics, hallucination, jabberwocky, machine learning, Olympics, openai, Sora, video synthesis | No comments
Large language models have found great success so far by using their transformer architecture to effectively predict the next words (i.e., language tokens) needed to respond to queries. When it comes to complex reasoning tasks that require abstract logic, though, some researchers have found that interpreting everything through this kind of “language space” can start to cause some […]
December 12, 2024 | AI | No comments
On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now talk to a simulated version of Santa Claus through the app’s voice mode, using AI to bring a North Pole connection to mobile devices, desktop apps, and web browsers during the holiday season. The company added Santa’s voice and personality as a preset option in ChatGPT’s […]
December 12, 2024 | AI, Biz & IT, machine learning | No comments
Advertising has become a focal point of TV software. We’re seeing companies that sell TV sets be increasingly interested in leveraging TV operating systems (OSes) for ads and tracking. This has led to bold new strategies, like an adtech firm launching a TV OS and ads on TV screensavers. With new short films set to […]
December 11, 2024 | ads, AI, Culture, films, generative ai, movies, streaming, tcl, Tech, TVs | No comments
On Wednesday, Google unveiled Gemini 2.0, the next generation of its AI-model family, starting with an experimental release called Gemini 2.0 Flash. The model family can generate text, images, and speech while processing multiple types of input including text, images, audio, and video. It’s similar to multimodal AI models like GPT-4o, which powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT. […]
December 11, 2024 | agentic AI, AI, AI agents, Biz & IT, ChatGPT, chatgtp, Gemini 2.0, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Google, Google Gemini, large language models, machine learning, openai, Project Astra | No comments
Artisan CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack defended the campaign’s messaging in an interview with SFGate. “They are somewhat dystopian, but so is AI,” he told the outlet in a text message. “The way the world works is changing.” In another message he wrote, “We wanted something that would draw eyes—you don’t draw eyes with boring messaging.” So […]
December 10, 2024 | agi, AI, AI and jobs, AI human replacement, AI workers, Arisan.ai, Artisan, Biz & IT, bluesky, Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, machine learning | No comments
The company then went on to strike deals with major tech firms, including a $60 million agreement with Google in February 2024 and a partnership with OpenAI in May 2024 that integrated Reddit content into ChatGPT. But Reddit users haven’t been entirely happy with the deals. In October 2024, London-based Redditors began posting false restaurant […]
December 9, 2024 | Advance Publications, AI, Biz & IT, ChatGPT, chatgtp, Conde Nast, machine learning, openai, Perplexity, Perplexity.ai, reddit, Reddit Answers | No comments
A music video by Canadian art collective Vallée Duhamel made with Sora-generated video. “[We] just shoot stuff and then use Sora to combine it with a more interesting, more surreal vision.” During a livestream on Monday—during Day 3 of OpenAI’s “12 days of OpenAi”—Sora’s developers showcased a new “Explore” interface that allows people to browse […]
December 9, 2024 | 12 days of OpenAI, AI, Ai video generator, Biz & IT, ChatGPT, chatgtp, image synthesis, machine learning, openai, Sora, video synthesis | No comments
The itch.io domain was back up and running by 7 am Eastern, according to media reports, “after the registrant finally responded to our notice and took appropriate action to resolve the issue.” Users could access the site throughout if they typed the itch.io IP address into their web browser directly. Too strong a shield? BrandShield’s […]