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  • The one real problem with synthetic media

    Real life comes at you fast. Fake life comes even faster. Content creators, marketers, company bloggers, and others are rushing to take advantage of the new synthetic media trend. You can see why. Art created with artificial intelligence (AI) enables a more flexible and original alternative to stale old stock photography. And AI content generators,…

  • As the EU embraces cell phone calls on planes, could the US be next?

    European travelers will soon be able to chat it up over their 5G-enabled mobile devices on airplanes without fear of hearing, “Please place your phone in Airplane Mode” from a flight attendant. A ruling by the European Commission will allow airlines to provide 5G voice calling and high-speed connectivity to the internet in 2023; the…

  • GPT: High-tech parlor trick or the first real AI for everyday use?

    Within a week of ChatGPT’s November 30, 2022, launch, the AI-powered conversation tool was the talk of the (media) town, fascinating early users with its conversational abilities and even creativity. Soon, the enthusiasts exclaimed, we won’t need people to write marketing copy, ads, essays, reports, or pretty much anything other than the most specialized scientific…

  • ChatGPT: Finally, an AI chatbot worth talking to

    AI chatbot experts are all talking about — and talking to — a newish research project from artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI. It’s called ChatGPT. (OpenAI, a San Francisco-based non-profit AI research lab founded in December 2015, is the same organization behind the DALL-E image generation technology.) Conceptually, ChatGPT can be used like the AI…

  • As re-shoring brings chipmakers back to the US, Apple looks to jump on board

    Apple is expected to get about one-third of its future processors from a new semiconductor fabrication facility set to be in production in 2024, according to a report by Bloomberg. The new $12 billion fabrication plant, being built by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) in Phoenix, is among more than a half dozen projects by chip…