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Virtual assistants are the automation tool you never knew you always needed. — From a young age, Orville and Wilbur Wright were captivated by flying. In 1899, when they began experimenting with building the first airplane, other forms of transportation existed, including aircraft like gliders. But the brothers were determined to add power to the feat of flying. In 1903, Wilbur piloted the…

Generative AI is revolutionizing the way we interact with information and each other. By leveraging decades of AI research and innovation, businesses and governments can now generate text, images, code, videos and audio from simple natural language prompts. To make this technology accessible and customizable for everyone, Google Cloud is…

The lie that raced around the world before the truth got its boots on. — Tomorrow (June 5) at 7:15PM, I’m in London at the British Library with my novel Red Team Blues, hosted by Baroness Martha Lane Fox. On Tuesday (June 6), I’m on a Rightscon panel about interoperability. On Wednesday (June 7), I’m keynoting the Re:publica conference in Berlin. On Thursday (June 8)…

Deploying a model is hard. You have spent days and weeks training and tuning your model on your business case. The results are quite good and you’re ready to push it into production. However, your model is quite large, which not only leads to increased memory usage but also requires…

Businesses in all sectors introduce novel approaches to innovate with generative AI within their own domains. Advanced AI applications using OpenAI services will not just forward the user input to OpenAI’s models but require client side pre and post processing. A typical design pattern is the use of a semantic…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — “Is the Double Diamond still fit for purpose? The answer: probably not. The ascendance of fast-paced digital design and the complexities of the challenges designers are currently addressing with services and systems have left the Double Diamond a bit short of breath.” Double diamond v4.1: An operating manual for designers…

Co-Authors: Akash Sharma, founder and CEO, Vellum Jerry Liu, co-founder and CEO, LlamaIndex About Us The central mission of LlamaIndex is to provide an interface between Large Language Models (LLM’s), and your private, external data. Over the past few months, it has become one of the most popular open-source frameworks for LLM…

How to chat with AI Characters — Using AI for Love: Bronx Woman Discovers Unprecedented Romance in Artificial Intelligence, Claims to Have Never Been More in Love 36-year-old woman named Rosanna Ramos from Bronx finds love in an unlikely place — she marries an MLbot, Eren Kartal, created on the Replika platform, and claims to have “never been more in love with anyone in my entire life.”

On May 24, Reinvent Futures’ inaugural Great Progression Series event in San Francisco united thought leaders, innovators, and investors who shared unique perspectives on the implications of generative AI. The event was guided by futurist Peter Leyden and included insights from Slalom CEO Brad Jackson. Key takeaways 1. The power of community The event underscored the strength…