🇯🇵 ChatGPT, coming to a government near you
PLUS: 🖥 Bard can (kind of) code
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🇯🇵 ChatGPT, coming to a government near you
🖥 Bard can (kind of) code
😱 OMG, Humane finally revealed something
🤑 AI Fundraising News
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🇯🇵 ChatGPT, coming to a government near you
The City of Yokosuka, Japan, became the first to have its municipal office use ChatGPT to help with admin tasks. They will use it for a one-month trial period to see if it improves operational efficiency.
The reason? It turns out that Japan’s population problem is literally affecting its ability to run the government, leading to many administrative issues.
Their goal is for ChatGPT to help them establish a better workflow by using OpenAI’s brainchild to “summarize sentences, check spelling errors, and create ideas.”
The move comes after Open AI CEO Sam Altman’s visit to Japan, where he met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to discuss the future of AI.
Officials note that this is a tool they hope to exploit and will be widely used by staff, but one that will not see any personal or confidential information entered into it due to the privacy concerns surrounding chatbots.
The same privacy issue has led Russia, China, Cuba, and Italy to ban the technology.
Maybe a Sam Altman Senate hearing is needed for these concerns to vanish? Who knows. Either way, keep an eye on this - it will be interesting to watch this unfold.
Read more: The Japan Times
🖥 Bard can (kind of) code
Google is doing everything in its power to bring Bard to the level of ChatGPT, and it seems like they have taken a decent step forward by giving Bard coding capabilities - a feature heavily requested by users.
Bard can now help you generate and debug code, as well as explain what the code does. It also allows software development in more than 20 languages including C++, Go, Java, Javascript, Python, and Typescript, and the ability to move Python code to Google Collab.
Bard can also help you write functions for Google Sheets! Bankers, this may save you a modicum of time, maybe.
But as usual, that’s where we pump the breaks. Google has made it abundantly clear that “Bard is still an early experiment,” and that there may be times when it provides inaccurate or false information or even incomplete code.
Sorry folks - just going to have to wait a bit longer before AI can write beautiful code with no bugs on its first try.
Read more: Google
😱 OMG, Humane finally revealed something
Captured by Journalist Zarif Ali
It’s about damn time.
After raising $230M from VC powerhouses, Chairman Imran Chaudhri finally gave us a sneak peek into the AI wearable his team is developing, and it looks really neat.
The wearable does not need a phone to operate and can use voice inputs and gestures to display information by projecting it onto nearby surfaces.
All we got from the Ted Talk was a cool picture of Chaudhri receiving a call from his wife being displayed on his hand, but the ex-Apple employee promises more details in the coming months.
Chaudhri was responsible for all initial UI and interaction designs at Apple, so if there is one person who knows what humans want, it’s this guy.
I can’t wait for the full launch of this product.
Read more: Axios
🤑 AI Fundraising News
Halcyon raises $50M Series A - uses AI to protect against ransomware events.
Consensus raises $3M to revolutionize scientific web search.
🗞️ Byte size: AI article summaries
Disclaimer: AI is (partially) used to summarize these articles.
German editor fired over AI-created Schumacher 'interview' [DW] - A German editor has been fired after publishing an interview with F1 driver Michael Schumacher that was allegedly created using artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The publisher stated that the use of AI violated journalistic ethics, sparking debates about the use of AI in journalism and the ethical implications of creating "fake" interviews. (Read more)
We all contribute to AI — should we get paid for that? [TechCrunch] - Right now, we mostly give our data for free in exchange for free services. Computer scientist Jaron Lanier argues that we need to stop doing this in the age of AI. The powerful models currently working their way into society need instead to “be connected with the humans” who give them so much to ingest and learn from in the first place. (Read More)
Should companies pay you to use your data? |
🐦️ Tweet of the day
Take a listen, it might blow your mind 🤯
This is the 1959 lost film I found in a dumpster that predicted the future we are in.
This is a deep dive about Artificial Intelligence as the past predicted our future.
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele)
5:03 PM • Apr 22, 2023
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