What is an “AI agent,” anyway? We could concoct a reasonable definition — say, you tell it in natural language what you want and it goes out and does it for you. But that doesn’t describe the things sold as agents. In practice, they’re any old rubbish branded as “AI” that promises it might do somet…
Humane, creator of the fabulous and literally nonfunctional Ai Pin gadget — that’s “Ai,” not “AI” — has finally thrown in the towel. After Humane took $230 million in venture funding and tried and failed to sell itself for $1 billion, Hewlett-Packard is paying $116 million to acqui-hire most of the…
You know how chatbots can do fine in short bursts, but then you ask them how many ‘R’s there are in “strawberry” and they act like they’ve got a concussion? For the British Medical Journal’s Christmas 2024 edition, they ran a few LLMs through the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test for cognit…
The Guardian Media Group has announced a content deal with OpenAI. The various GPTs can serve information from the Guardian, with attribution and links back, and GMG gets a wad of cash. The company will be rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise internally. [Guardian] Guardian guidelines say that you should…
