This is what happened when Boston Dynamics’ robots started to speak, powered by ChatGPT

What you need to know A group of engineers recently developed a robot by leveraging generative AI capabilities to serve as a tour guide across Boston Dynamics’ premises. Boston Dynamics trained its AI systems on a massive dataset. The development team admits that while the invention is impressive, they encountered several issues, including hallucination episodes. […]

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Meta cozies up with Microsoft to let you speak with Tom Brady and Snoop Dogg, or at least their AI clones

What you need to know During Meta’s developer conference, Meta Connect 2023, the company unveiled a new AI-powered experience dubbed Meta AI. Meta is partnering with Microsoft to bring this experience to life and will be integrating Bing, which will be used to provide real-time web results for queries. The AI capabilities will be integrated […]

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Brain Implants That Help Paralyzed People Speak Just Broke New Records

Ann, a stroke survivor, can communicate using a digital avatar that decodes her intended speech. Photograph: Noah Berger/UCSF There are trade-offs to both group’s approaches. Implanted electrodes, like the ones the Stanford team used, record the activity of individual neurons, which tends to provide more detailed information than a recording from the brain’s surface. But […]

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Leaked Samsung Galaxy S23 specs speak of incremental upgrades over the S22

If you have been following the leaks you will know that the Samsung Galaxy S23 is very much a sequel to the S22 – that means it follows basically the same spec recipe save for a few component upgrades. Yesterday we got our first glimpse of the performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, which […]

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Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak to Speak at WSJ Event During Prospective iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura Launch Week

Apple marketing chief Greg Joswiak and software engineering head Craig Federighi will be two of the speakers at The Wall Street Journal‘s Tech Live event that is set to be held on Tuesday, October 25. The topic of the session has yet to be announced, but it will be hosted by The Wall Street Journal […]

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​Qualcomm wearables chief to speak at October Wareable event

The head of wearables at Qualcomm is set to speak at the next Wareable event – on the future of smartwatches. Pankaj Kedia is heading over from San Diego to speak and the forthcoming Wearables London event, which will be on 26 October at Techspace in Shoreditch. The topic of the event will be the […]

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Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and Laurene Powell Jobs to Speak at Code 2022 Conference Next Month

Apple CEO Tim Cook, former Apple design chief Jony Ive, and Emerson Collective founder Laurene Powell Jobs will be among the speakers at Vox Media’s Code 2022 conference at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles. The in-person event is set to take place on September 6-8, but it’s unclear exactly when Cook, Ive, and […]

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Apple’s Privacy Chief Jane Horvath to Speak at EU Data Protection Conference

Apple’s privacy chief Jane Horvath is listed as a speaker at the 2022 Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection conference in Brussels, Belgium. Apple is also sponsoring the conference, which is scheduled for May 23 through May 25. It’s unclear when Horvath will speak or what topics she plans to discuss at the conference, but Apple […]

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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Speak at Global Privacy Summit in Washington D.C. Next Week

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) today announced that Apple CEO Tim Cook will headline this year’s Global Privacy Summit, which will take place in person on April 11 to April 13 in Washington, D.C. Cook will provide the summit’s keynote speech on April 12 at approximately 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time. His speech will […]

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