Building and maintaining relationships is hard, and COVID-19 certainly hasn’t helped. Multiple studies have shown that adults have become even lonelier since the start of the pandemic. Founders try to find technical solutions. There are many startups looking to combat loneliness — some of which emerged years before the pandemic — including senior-focused ElliQ and … Read more
News from Google This week’s AI-infused developer event makes it clear that we’re on the cusp of a new age of search. After Microsoft pours OpenAI’s technology into Bing, Google is experimenting with its own AI technology and opening up new ways to use search. Clearly, we’re about to see the first major overhauls in … Read more
For an article we’re running on her last day at BlogRanking, Natasha Mascarenhas reached out to four investors to find out if FOMO is encouraging them to climb aboard the AI bandwagon. “Some are hiring talent to jump ahead, others are happy to support the ‘ChatGPT for X’ spin-outs, and many are watching in awe … Read more
Forerunner Charles Hudson want to be careful, but not too careful. The venture capitalist was at an AI confab last month, but he hasn’t made a new AI investment during the current hype cycle. He is one of many investors who have seen a turning point take over an industry before, with boatloads of capital, … Read more
Meta today announced an AI sandbox for advertisers to help them create alternate copy, generate backgrounds through text prompts, and crop images for Facebook or Instagram ads. The first feature allows brands to generate different variations of the same copy for different audiences while trying to keep the ad’s core message similar. The background generation … Read more
Historically and even today, poor memory has been a barrier to the usefulness of text-generating AI. As a recent piece in The Atlantic aptly puts it, even advanced generative text AI like ChatGPT has the memory of a goldfish. Each time the model generates a response, it only considers a very limited amount of text, … Read more
Six years ago, Yiğit Ihlamur, a former senior program manager at Google, noted that AI was surpassing human capabilities in certain areas — at least by his estimation. Equipped with this perspective, he delved into various industries with the goal of tackling a problem he could spend the rest of his life working on. “On … Read more
Can AI work backwards from a text description to generate a cohesive number? That’s the premise of MusicLM, the AI-powered music creation tool Google released yesterday to kick off its I/O conference. MusicLM, which is trained on hundreds of thousands of hours of audio to learn how to make new music in different styles, is … Read more
Millions of people use sign language, but the methods for teaching this complex and subtle skill have not evolved as quickly as those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that with an interactive tutor powered by computer vision, allowing aspiring ASL speakers to practice at their own pace, just like in … Read more
AMP Robotics, a Denver, Colorado-based startup that creates robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclables, today announced it has expanded its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. That’s more than $91 million when the round closed in November. The expanded Series C, which included investors including … Read more