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“It’s different because it’s Google.” Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, could prove to be more consequential than any large language model to date — but it isn’t there yet.
Then, we hear from listeners on how they are using A.I. to negotiate their rent, understand medical results and affirm their gender identity.
Plus: Why Spotify’s A.I. D.J. may be a tipping point for artificial intelligence taking control of our lives.
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Additional reading:
Google released a new chatbot, Bard . Here’s what it does well — and not so well.
After a conversation with Google’s executives, Casey Newton answers six questions about the large language model .
Interior AI is a design tool that makes interior design mock-ups using artificial intelligence.
Spotify unveiled a new A.I.-powered D.J.
In his book “ Futureproof ,” Kevin Roose outlines the concept of “machine drift” — the concept that people will gradually turn over more of their life to the decisions of algorithms.
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