In mid 2022, a small team within Google Labs had a big idea: an app that would deploy our advanced language models to help people with research, thinking and writing, all grounded in sources they had on hand. Trawling through the docs and slides and links you deemed relevant to a project, it would helpfully…
There are currently more than 50 issued nationwide 404 permits—some of which still require pre-construction notifications—which are renewed once every five years. Many of those exemptions are for agricultural activities, like cranberry harvesting and constructing ponds for farms, or ecosystem and scientific services like surveying and soil maintenance. Some types of coal mining and oil…
The school year starts soon for many students, and ChatGPT has announced a new “study mode” that aims to prevent—or at least, encourage against—students taking homework shortcuts. The mode is designed around the Socratic method, so when activated, OpenAI’s generative AI chatbot rejects direct requests for answers, instead guiding the user with open-ended questions. The…
Right away, AI Mode will start piecing everything together in the Canvas side panel, and you can use follow-ups to refine the output until it meets your exact requirements. Soon, the new upload feature will also make it possible to customize your study guide (or whatever you need to create) with context from your files,…
This post is co-written with Abhinav Pandey from Nippon Life India Asset Management Ltd. Accurate information retrieval through generative AI-powered assistants is a popular use case for enterprises. To reduce hallucination and improve overall accuracy, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) remains the most commonly used method to retrieve reliable and accurate responses that use enterprise data…
Given the care complexities medical teams can face day to day, Nurse Handoff was designed to be as simple and straightforward as its name. The team developed a tool, named Nurse Handoff, that shows nurses the electronic health record on one side and the AI-generated output on the other. Using a hospital-provided mobile device, nurses…
Meta told employees that it is going to allow some coding job candidates to use an AI assistant during the interview process, according to internal Meta communications seen by 404 Media. The company has also asked existing employees to volunteer for a “mock AI-enabled interview,” the messages say. It’s the latest indication that Silicon Valley…
But perhaps the most convincing piece of evidence suggesting that ChatGPT regurgitated the language of Warhammer 40,000 is that it kept asking if The Atlantic was interested in PDFs. The publishing division of Games Workshop, the UK company that owns the Warhammer franchise, regularly puts out updated rulebooks and guides to various characters. Buying all…
The White House’s messaging on deepfakes is confused Compared with President Biden’s executive orders on AI, the new action plan is mostly devoid of anything related to making AI safer. However, there’s a notable exception: a section in the plan that takes on the harms posed by deepfakes. In May, Trump signed legislation to protect…
To verify that everything is working correctly, generate a simple serverless function. Start the Amazon Q CLI chat interface and verify the output shows MCP servers being loaded and initialized: The message in the preceding screenshot might not match what you see for your use case, especially when your MCP servers take longer to load….
