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PBS News Hour - Segments

Tech companies unveil rapid AI advancements, sparking wonder and concern

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence continue as companies roll out new products sparking wonder and concern. OpenAI unveiled its next-generation chatbot, GPT-4o, which can respond to voice, text and visual commands in real-time. Google also unveiled a new AI-powered search function. Amna Nawaz discussed these developments with Nilay Patel of The Verge and the Decoder podcast. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence continue as companies roll out new products

0:05.9

sparking both wonder and concern. Over the past week open AI unveiled its next generation

0:12.0

chatbot or chat gGPT 4-0.

0:15.2

The new AI assistant can respond to voice, text, and visual commands in real time, as in

0:20.4

this presentation when engineers asked it to tell a bedtime story.

0:24.4

Oh, a bedtime story about robots and love? I got you covered.

0:30.4

Gather round, Barrett, once upon a time.

0:33.8

I really want maximal emotion, like maximal expressiveness,

0:36.9

much more than you were doing before.

0:39.1

Understood.

0:40.5

Let's amplify the drama. Once Upon a Time

0:44.0

Was-

0:45.0

Do this in a robotic voice now?

0:47.0

Initiating Dramatic Robotic Voice

0:51.0

Once Upon a time.

0:54.0

Open AI actually paused the use of that particular virtual voice after some pointed out

0:58.8

its similarity to the robot voiced by Scarlet Johanson in the movie Her.

1:04.0

Good morning Theodore.

1:06.0

Good morning.

1:07.0

You have a meeting in five minutes.

1:08.0

You want to try getting out of bed?

1:10.0

You're too funny.

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