Sesame’s new iOS app brings its conversational AI agents to the public, offering more natural back-and-forth interactions designed to feel less like traditional chatbots and more like talking to a person.
New features coming to YouTube could make it better for listening to podcasts, rolling out to Premium subscribers starting today on Android and coming later to iOS.
A new "on-the-go mode" shifts YouTube into an audio-first layout, with larger, simplified playback buttons, a still image in place of the video, and a timeline showing video chapters. YouTube says you can turn on this new mode in a video's settings - a pop up will also appear if YouTube detects you're moving around while watching a video.
If you like to speed up your podcasts to get through episodes faster, YouTube's new auto speed feature can help you automate that process. …
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Scaling Under Growing User Demand Cake Wallet was founded in 2018 as a privacy-first crypto application. The product started as an iOS-only, Monero-only side project built around Monero, a blockchain network designed for complete transaction anonymity. At launch, the ecosystem lacked supporting infrastructure despite growing demand. Cake Wallet addressed a clear market gap: simple access […]
By Brian Jay Tang, University of Michigan and Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan Hundreds of millions of people consult artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis for everything from product recommendations to romance, making them a tempting audience to target with potentially below-the-radar advertising. Indeed, our research suggests AI chatbots could easily be used […]
Insider Brief Avaya and avatarin have outlined the next step in their collaboration to take AI-powered customer service into places where people go and may need help and to ask questions, such as retail stores and airports. According to the companies, the goal is to move beyond traditional chatbots and contact centers into real-world interactions […]
Growing numbers of people are seeking improbable cosmetic surgery based on chatbots’ recommendations
Plastic surgeons are increasingly concerned about the rise of “AI face”, as more and more clients arrive in their offices with unrealistic AI-generated visions of what they want to look like.
Dr Nora Nugent, a cosmetic surgeon from Tunbridge Wells, has seen this first hand. Clients have started coming to her office with photos of themselves beautified by AI and a false expectation that those results are achievable with surgery. She is also the president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and says many colleagues are having similar experiences.
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The shift from chatbots to robots that follow natural-language commands runs through a single class of models. VLA models — vision-language-action models — combine visual perception, language understanding, and action generation in one neural network. Their power is real, but it depends almost entirely on the training data they ingest. This guide explains what VLA […]
Some ads will have chatbots built in. | Image: Google
Google's AI-powered Search era apparently also extends to its ads. Now, when you search for a product, Google's Gemini AI chatbot will surface relevant items and generate a "custom explainer" about why you should purchase a specific one.
The update comes just one day after Google revealed a new Search box for larger, more conversational queries, along with a focus on AI-generated results. In an example shared by Google, someone searching for a "compact espresso pod machine" might see a Nespresso Vertuo Up under a "Sponsored Product" label, alongside an AI-generated description saying:
For a quality machine, look for capsule compatibility …
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