chatbots

The Airwave is an extension of the tech-based teaching methods Roli has been pursuing for years. The company also makes the light-up Piano M keyboard (formerly called Lumi Keys), which is focused on music learners and which incorporates the…

Canfield showed WIRED shopping guides for televisions and earbuds that noted important technical features, explanations of key terminology, and, of course, recommendations on which products to buy. The underlying LLM has access to the vast…

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…

Thanks to low corporation tax and government incentives, Dublin has hosted the European Headquarters of many large US technology companies—Google, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft all have offices in the city’s Silicon Docks.“The big US…

Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton University, is best known for calling out the hype surrounding artificial intelligence in his Substack, AI Snake Oil, written with PhD candidate Sayash Kapoor. The two authors…

Meta Connect, the big developer event and hardware showcase from the company that runs Facebook and Instagram, is kicking off next week. Meta is likely to show off its new VR and mixed-reality technology, put a shiny polish on its…

A pleasant female voice greets me over the phone. “Hi, I’m an assistant named Jasmine for Bodega,” the voice says. “How can I help?”“Do you have patio seating,” I ask. Jasmine sounds a little sad as she tells me that unfortunately, the San…

A United Nations report released today proposes having the international body oversee the first truly global effort for monitoring and governing artificial intelligence.The report, produced by the UN secretary general’s High Level Advisory…

The first time I used SocialAI, I was sure the app was performance art. That was the only logical explanation for why I would willingly sign up to have AI bots named Blaze Fury and Trollington Nefarious, well, troll me.Even the app’s…

A fresh wave of anxiety about children and technology is cresting, with parents and pundits increasingly interrogating how kids use smartphones, social media, and screens. It hasn’t stopped teenagers from embracing generative AI. New…