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UPCOMING LANDMARKS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The New Yorker
|April 03, 2023
SHOUTS & MURMURS

New GPT chatbot learns slight tonal difference between “Hey” and “Heyyyy.”
Scientists develop first A.I. police dog that does not require oiling.
Concentration of untruths emanating from ChatGPT bot earns it the nickname “the new George Santos.”
Futurist Michio Kaku tells “All Things Considered” that the iPhone is now officially steampunk.
San Francisco’s OpenAI lab implants first human with his own autobiographical “Previously on this series . . .” trailer.
Google engineers design virtual tum-bleweeds to skitter macabrely across the company’s home screen.
Stanford Vision and Learning Lab announces new DALL-E variant that is able to generate image and aroma.
This story is from the April 03, 2023 edition of The New Yorker.
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