We Tried Google’s Gemini AI, and This is How the Chatbot Fared

Google has come a long way with its generative artificial intelligence (AI) offerings. One year ago, when the tech giant first unveiled its AI assistant, Bard, it became a fiasco as it made a factual error answering a question regarding the James Webb Space Telescope. Since then, the tech giant…

UK AI summit: US-led AI pledge threatens to overshadow Bletchley Park

US vice president Kamala Harris spoke about artificial intelligence at the US embassy in London on 1 November Maja Smiejkowska/Reuters This week, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak is hosting a group of more than 100 representatives from the worlds of business and politics to discuss the potential and pitfalls of…

Meta Lets You See the Inner Workings of Its New AI Chatbot: Here’s Why

The AI division of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta recently unveiled its Llama 2 chatbot. Microsoft has been appointed as Meta’s preferred partner on Llama 2, which will be available through the Windows operating system. Meta’s approach with Llama 2 contrasts with that of the company OpenAI, which created the AI chatbot…

Here’s How AI Can Predict Hit Songs With Frightening Accuracy

Sophie Bushwick:  Last month, AI researchers claimed an impressive breakthrough. They published a paper showing that AI can predict, with 97 percent accuracy, if any song will be a hit. And it does this by measuring how the listener’s body responds to the music.  Lucy Tu: But it might be…