Video of an AI streamer generated by Silicon Intelligence. SILICON INTELLIGENCE Once the avatar is generated, its mouth and body move in time with the scripted...
But with large language models and text-to-speech technologies, these AI streamers can say whatever you want them to say—meaning they can speak other languages too. Just...
Why this might be isn’t totally clear. It could be because of design flaws in the study. The trials the authors included in their analysis might...
As I reported last week, Baidu became the first Chinese tech company to roll out its large language model—called Ernie Bot—to the general public, following a...
Last week, I went on the CBC News podcast “Nothing Is Foreign” to talk about the draft regulation—and what it means for the Chinese government to...
If you saw these images pop up on your timeline, would you be able to tell if they were real photographs of the southwestern city of...
As expected, Ernie Bot (the name stands for “Enhanced Representation from kNowledge IntEgration;” its Chinese name is 文心一言, or Wenxin Yiyan) performs particularly well on tasks...
Design has operated this way in the world for a very long time. It still mostly does. While it is true, observes architect and designer Nicholas de...
Marash, Turkey: Satellite imagery (left) from earth imaging company Planet Labs PBC and the output from xView2 (right) attributed to UC Berkeley, the Defense Innovation Unit,...
Most people who’ve experienced ChatGPT firsthand in China have accessed it through VPNs or paid workarounds—for example, clever entrepreneurs have essentially rented out OpenAI accounts or...