🤖 Alexa Gets An AI Upgrade

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Here's what Google Search told me about AI today:

• Amazon adds generative AI to Alexa

• More authors sue OpenAI

• Google wants to ditch Broadcom

• Why this spiral AI village is everywhere

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Thanks to some fancy AI technology, Amazon is stepping up its game with a new, more competent Alexa.

You're not alone if you've been unimpressed with voice assistants so far.

They've been around for a decade, but let's be honest: they've mostly been suitable for setting timers or playing your favorite tunes.

Now, Amazon wants to change all that and make Alexa truly smart.

Why the significant change?

It's simple. Amazon wants to lead the pack in the race for the smart home market.

This isn't just a new coat of paint; this is Alexa learning to have genuine conversations with you and even figure out what you mean when you’re unclear.

Amazon’s LLM powers it to chat, understand context, and handle complex tasks.

But Amazon is taking baby steps.

This new Alexa is first rolling out in the U.S., and they're keeping it on a short leash to avoid the mistakes that tripped up Google and Microsoft in the past.

Get this: the upgraded Alexa might only be free for a while. If this new model can run your smart home like a pro, Amazon thinks you might be willing to pay for that convenience.

In short, Amazon is pulling out all the stops to win the smart home war.

With this AI-powered Alexa, they're aiming for nothing less than the top spot. Will it work? We'll have to wait and see, but the competition just got a whole lot hotter.

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Here's a literary plot twist you didn't see coming:

Renowned authors are suing OpenAI, claiming the company is playing fast and loose with copyrighted works. 

Think John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and Jodi Picoult. The suit, aimed to be classified as a class action, takes issue with how OpenAI's algorithms have been trained on their copyrighted material—essentially creating a 'ghostwriter' that can churn out suspiciously similar prose.

The AI copyright battleground just got as heated as a courtroom in a Grisham novel, folks.

It's a murky area, for sure.

Can AI mimic styles or paraphrase works without it being a legal foul? That's the multi-million-dollar question.

OpenAI could have trained its models on public domain works but went for the good stuff instead. Why? Because quality data matters.

But so do legal boundaries.

This issue needs a resolution and fast. Otherwise, we're heading toward an AI Wild West where no one knows the rules.

If we're going to teach machines to "think," let's make sure they don't plagiarize while they're at it.

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Retro Space Interiors

Is it bad that I kind of want to go to space now to chill here for a while?

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