Bytes: Week in Review — Apple Intelligence arrives, AI writes Google’s code, and AI medical transcription tool hallucinates

Marketplace Tech

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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An AI transcription tool used in health care has been found to frequently hallucinate things no one ever said, including making up medications. That’s just one of the topics for today’s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Plus, we’ll get into what we learned from this week’s Big Tech earnings, including Google saying that it’s using AI to generate about 25% of its code.

But first, it’s been a busy week for Apple. The company launched some of its new Apple Intelligence features and released its new lineup of Mac computers along with some souped-up chips.

Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, to get her take on this week’s tech news.

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1:02.0	From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.
1:05.2	I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. An AI transcription tool used in healthcare has been found to frequently hallucinate things no one ever said, including made-up medications. That's just one of the topics for today's Marketplace TechBites
1:29.5	week in review. We'll get into what we learned from this week's big tech earnings, including
1:34.4	Google's claim that it's using AI to generate about 25% of its code. But first, it's been a busy
1:41.6	week for Apple. The company launched some of its new Apple intelligence features and released its new lineup of Mac computers, along with some souped-up chips.
1:52.4	Here to discuss is our regular contributor, Joanna Stern.
1:56.1	She's a senior personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal.
2:00.1	On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, they
2:02.4	released or announced new Macs. And so Monday we had the IMac, Tuesday we had the Mac Mini,
2:08.2	and Wednesday we had MacBook Pros and a little update to the MacBook Air. And the thing that's
2:13.6	similar across all of these is that they have a new M4 chip, which, as you would expect, is
2:18.4	faster at everything. The other big thing that they released this week was Apple Intelligence,
2:23.3	and so the big message from Apple was that all these Macs now run Apple Intelligence really well.
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