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Elon Musk tried to merge Tesla and OpenAI, emails reveal

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Today, OpenAI fought back with a blog post in which the company said it plans to move to “dismiss all of Elon’s claims”. Even then, the probability of being a counterweight to Google is small. Musk forwarded an email from a person whose name has been redacted. Musk wrote that the person is “exactly right”.

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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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The technology used in the device includes optical character recognition, machine learning, and Google application programming interfaces. In addition, it assists the person in navigating the surroundings by describing nearby objects and their distance from the user. The assistive device works with or without Wi-Fi.

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Years Later, Alphabet’s Everyday Robots Have Made Some Progress

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Last week, Google or Alphabet or X or whatever you want to call it announced that its Everyday Robots team has grown enough and made enough progress that it's time for it to become its own thing, now called, you guessed it, "Everyday Robots." But this doesn't seem fair to me, especially for a company that Google used to own.

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In 1989, General Magic Saw the Future of Smartphones

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The user interface of the Motorola Envoy does that for me, even though I never owned one, or indeed any personal digital assistant. Skeuomorphic design began to wane in the mid-2000s, as Microsoft, Google, and Apple embraced flat design. At its heart, General Magic was attempting to transform personal communications.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Or 60,000 tokens.

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Google Claims Android Auto Will Become Safer and Smarter After Update

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Google has announced plans to update Android Auto to reduce the time drivers are required to look at screens. While Google hasn’t gotten overly specific, it has said it wants to place an emphasis on improving safety. Google probably understands this. This includes the obligatory mention of leveraging artificial intelligence.

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Hello, ChatGPT—Please Explain Yourself!

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This has led to rapturous reviews and claims that ChatGPT heralds the death of the Google search engine or the re-invention of the education system. In a blog post co-authored with Princeton doctoral student Sayash Kapoor, Narayanan writes that ChatGPT is a b t generator , but a potentially very useful one.

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