Inside Google’s Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up With OpenAI
The search giant should’ve been first to the chatbot revolution. It wasn’t. So it punched back with late nights, layoffs—and ...
A mother suing Google and a chatbot site over her son’s suicide found AI versions of her late son on the site
A mother who is suing both Google and Character.ai over her 14-year-old son's death has discovered AI chatbots based on her ...
The Economist21d
With Manus, AI experimentation has burst into the open
Google’s Lamda chatbot was functioning internally in 2020, but the company sat on it for more than two years before releasing it as Bard. Big labs have been cautious about agentic ai ...
Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion for a deal with Character.AI. Now, it's entangled in a lawsuit over a teen's suicide.
Just moments before 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III died by suicide in February, he was talking to an AI-powered chatbot. The chatbot, run by the startup Character.AI, was based on Daenerys ...
ExtremeTech12d
What Is Artificial Intelligence? From How It Works to Generative AI, What You Need to Know
Gemma (formerly Bard, then Gemini), Google's generative AI chatbot, is a family of multimodal LLMs based on Google's LaMDA ...
Banyan Hill Publishing29d
Do These AIs Speak Their Own Secret Language?
Usually, an employee termination would be a non-story. But this employee was Blake Lemoine, who had been working on Google’s LaMDA technology for the past seven years and had recently gone public with ...