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OpenAI has announced a prototype of a new AI-powered search engine called SearchGPT. The company describes SearchGPT as a “preliminary prototype of a new AI search capability that provides fast, timely answers from clear, relevant sources.” The company plans to initially test the product with 10,000 users and gather feedback before incorporating it into ChatGPT.
It’s an exciting time to be launching an AI-powered search engine. Last month, Perplexity announced Forbes and Wired Without proper attribution or backlinks, and ignoring robots.txt, a way for websites to tell data-scraping crawlers to stay away. Wired Publisher Conde Nast reportedly sent a cease and desist letter to Perplexity, accusing them of plagiarism. See also article from earlier this week.
SearchGPT breaks down results with short descriptions and visuals, but like its chatbot precursor, accuracy is… lacking, according to some early users.
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Google is making Gemini AI faster and more efficient across the board. Even if you don’t pay for access to Google AI, you can now access 1.5 Flash, a generative AI model designed to generate responses faster and more efficiently. The company says you’ll see improvements in latency and inference and image understanding for your tools.
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An AirPods clone that actually works.
Indeed, Samsung copied Apple in many ways with the Galaxy Buds 3 ($180) and Galaxy Buds 3 Pro ($250). Not just in physical design (remember when Samsung mocked Apple with the AirPods’ stems?), the third-gen Buds also mimic some of the AirPods’ features. These include adaptive active noise cancellation (ANC), adaptive EQ, and voice detection. However, the best features require a recent Samsung device, while ANC on open-ear earbuds is essentially useless.
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A YouTube spokesperson reiterated that this was a “clear violation” of the company’s terms.
AI company Runway has reportedly collected “thousands” of pirated YouTube videos and copyrighted movies without permission. 404 Media We obtained internal spreadsheets that suggest the AI ​​video generation startup trained its Gen-3 model using YouTube content from channels like Disney, Netflix, and Pixar, as well as popular media. 404 Media They found that when they fed the names of popular YouTubers from the spreadsheet into the video generator, it spit out strikingly similar results. Feeding the same names into Runway’s older Gen-2 model, which was trained before the suspicious data in the spreadsheet, produced “unrelated” results.
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Blizzard will be experimenting with different team compositions after their controversial switch to 5v5.
Overwatch 2 The developers plan to experiment with different team compositions beyond the game’s current role-locked 5v5 format, including the return of the original six-player teams. Overwatch.
Game director Aaron Keller wrote that the team is “exploring ways in which we can test different formats of 6v6 within the game and measure the results.” In the face of PlayStation 4, this may be a move to retain the most loyal fans.
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