The ‘Chrisley Knows Best’ stars did score a major victory as they settled their lawsuit against the former Director of Special Investigations for the Georgia Department of Revenue Joshua Waites.
The ‘Chrisley Knows Best’ stars did score a major victory as they settled their lawsuit against the former Director of Special Investigations for the Georgia Department of Revenue Joshua Waites.
Jennifer Lopez embraced the fact that she’s walked down the wedding aisle several times in her latest music video.
Jennifer Lopez embraced the fact that she’s walked down the wedding aisle several times in her latest music video.
Earlier this week, Volkswagen announced plans to augment its in-car voice assistant IDA with ChatGPT. I’ll admit that I initially didn’t quite understand the point, but I got a chance here at CES 2024 in Las Vegas to hear about the vision for this integration from Cerence, the company that already powers the back-end of VW’s voice assistant. As usual, it’s a bit of a rough demo, because it’s hard to exactly see how ChatGPT will help you out when you’re on the road when you’re instead sitting in a stationary car inside of a convention center.
But conceptually, the idea behind bringing ChatGPT into a car is all about avoiding a “dead end” when you as IDA something, Cerence told us. Drivers don’t need to do anything different — you just say “Hello IDA” or press the voice assistant button on the driver’s wheel and start talking. And if there’s something that IDA doesn’t know, it’ll check with ChatGPT. When the voice assistant hits ChatGPT, you’ll only know because the response says “According to ChatGPT” at the beginning of it.
I wasn’t able to get a great sense yet of what things ChatGPT is good for. One of the demos we saw involved asking the car to tell us a story about dinosaurs, as a theoretical way to entertain kids in the back seat. ChatGPT quickly came back and started spinning a cute yarn — a good proof of concept but probably not something you’ll need to do in the car a lot. I asked the car to tell me about Sphere, the massive new concert / entertainment venue in Las Vegas, and it started responding with details about it “opening soon.” That’s because the version of ChatGPT in the car didn’t have the absolute latest details about it. I was expecting more of a Google-like experience, where I could ask things like “who won the Celtics game last night?” but that’s not really what ChatGPT is for.
Given how capable the IDA voice assistant already seems to be, I’m not yet sure how much ChatGPT will add to the equation. But, the usual caveats apply — this was just a quick demo, not on the road, and it’s not fully ready for release yet. But VW is not alone in seeing benefits for adding LLMs to its cars. BMW is working with Amazon to bring AI-powered vehicle info to its cars, and Mercedes-Benz started testing a ChatGPT integration last year. I wager we’ll hear more about this from other manufacturers in the year ahead.
We’re reporting live from CES 2024 in Las Vegas from January 6-12. Keep up with all the latest news from the show here.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/a-volkswagen-with-chatgpt-told-me-a-story-about-dinosaurs-at-ces-2024-185239472.html?src=rss
The actress admitted that she asked her ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ co-star to ‘go home,’ when he attended the rehearsal dinner for her wedding to Cooke Maroney.
The actress admitted that she asked her ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ co-star to ‘go home,’ when he attended the rehearsal dinner for her wedding to Cooke Maroney.
Drew Barrymore got emotional when her 1998 rom-com with Adam Sandler came on her television at home.
Drew Barrymore got emotional when her 1998 rom-com with Adam Sandler came on her television at home.
LG Display came to CES 2024 with something to prove. Its showroom in Las Vegas had transparent OLEDs, a 480Hz gaming monitor and the company’s most advanced OLED panels yet, featuring its META technology 2.0. While it sounds like promotional fluff (and there is some of that), LG Display is trying to address arguably OLED’s biggest weakness in the face of ever-improving LEDs, MicroLEDs and the rest. Using advanced microlens arrays (now called MLA+) and new algorithms, LG Display says it’s made an OLED 42 percent brighter than the displays that came before it.
At CES 2024, I took a closer look at the prototype panels, headed to TVs later this year.
— Mat Smith
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A new startup called Rabbit seems to think our virtual assistants are less-than-ideal implementations of AI – and they’re not wrong. The dream of Rabbit is you leave your apps behind for conversation and, rather than a distracting device shoving icons in your face, you interact with what amounts to a walkie-talkie for an AI.
The stylish hardware (thanks, TE) is reminiscent of the Playdate handheld-with-a-crank, with an analog scroll wheel and a “360-degree rotational eye,” but the coolest feature — not that we’ve seen it working in real life yet — is its ability to use interfaces rather than APIs or apps. You can train it to use Photoshop to perform simple editing tasks and, apparently, even play Diablo for you. You can then make it repeat those tasks just whenever.
The Rabbit R1 costs $199 and is available for pre-order, with an expected ship date before the end of April.
OpenAI and its biggest backer, Microsoft, are facing several lawsuits accusing them of using other people’s copyrighted works without permission to train the former’s large language models (LLMs). OpenAI wrote in its evidence to the UK’s House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee that it would be “impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials.”
In some lawsuits, the plaintiffs accuse the companies of refusing to pay authors for their work while building a billion-dollar industry and enjoying enormous financial gain from copyrighted materials.
The ASUS Zenbook Duo features two screens and a detachable Bluetooth keyboard that can be stashed inside for traveling. This iteration stands out because the OLED panels are slightly larger than those on rival devices, at 14 inches, while also offering a 3K resolution, 120Hz refresh rate and stylus support. Plus, with a starting price of $1,500, it costs $500 less than the Yoga Book.
The iPhone’s touchscreen killed the physical smartphone keyboard, so why not resurrect it with a case? Clicks’ design couldn’t be simpler. It’s a silicone case with a physical keyboard bolted on the bottom, coming to the iPhone 14 Pro, the iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Read on for our first impressions.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-lg-displays-next-gen-oleds-are-42-percent-brighter-than-its-predecessors-181523507.html?src=rss
Sony shared its upcoming PlayStation Plus free games for January on Wednesday. Headlining this month’s batch are Capcom’s 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake and the Borderlands spinoff Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. PS Plus Extra and Premium subscribers can claim the 14 new games on January 16.
The Resident Evil 2 remake (PS5 / PS4) is far from just a fresh coat of paint. Although the revamp retains the core gameplay elements from the 1998 original, it’s visually unrecognizable, now running on Capcom’s RE Engine. “It feels like a contemporary title,” Engadget’s Jessica Conditt wrote in a 2018 preview.
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands: Next-Level Edition (PS5, PS4) takes one of Borderlands’ most memorable NPCs and drops you into a genre-blending fantasy world conjured from her macabre and erratic imagination. Expanding on the ideas from the Borderlands 2 DLC Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep, Gearbox’s spinoff (and Dungeons & Dragons parody) includes magic, guns and chaotic instant revisions to the game world. It also has star-studded voice work from Andy Samberg, Wanda Sykes and Will Arnett.
Other claimable titles this month include salvaging sci-fi physics sim Hardspace: Shipbreaker (PS5), Lego’s rare non-IP installment Lego City Undercover (PS4), 2015 action-adventure title Just Cause 3, tactical stealth game Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (PS4), narrative RPG Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong (PS5 / PS4) and post-apocalyptic strategy title Surviving the Aftermath (PS4).
This month’s redeemable classic (retro) titles include the Street Fighter: 30th Anniversary Collection (PS4), which collects 12 classic games in the fighting series, including the original installment and the trendsetting Street Fighter II. Secret of Mana (PS4), Legend of Mana (PS4), Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace (PS5 / PS4) and Rally Cross (PS5 / PS4) will also be available for subscribers starting on on January 16.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/tiny-tinas-wonderlands-and-re2-headline-januarys-playstation-plus-monthly-games-183050065.html?src=rss
John Krasinski was a fan of Emily Blunt’s work before they met, got married, and had two children together.
John Krasinski was a fan of Emily Blunt’s work before they met, got married, and had two children together.
There’s a fact, discovered by Scientific American and popularized by Steve Jobs, that a human on a bike is the most efficient animal on Earth. Shift Robotics, a startup spun out of Carnegie Mellon, is hoping to disrupt that wisdom with its Moonwalkers, shoes with built-in wheels that speed up human walking. The company rocked up at CES 2024 in Las Vegas with the existing Moonwalkers and its new model, the Moonwalkers X, for us to have a play with.
Essentially they’re shoes that, when your foot strikes the ground, spin their wheels to push you a little further forward. Each step only offers a small extra distance but the cumulative effect can make your journey up to three times faster. The battery should give you around 7 miles of range, after which point you’ll have to grab a USB-C cable and wait 1.5 hours to recharge. And, if you’d like to own a pair for yourselves, you’ll need to stump up $1,399 for the privilege.
Now, much as the original model is designed to be used on the sidewalks of the United States, that may not be its ideal environment. That’s why the company has developed Moonwalkers X, which shaves a pound off the weight and reduces the number of wheels. These are instead aimed at warehouse and logistics workers who are walking around smooth concrete floors for hours at a time. It seems an ideal way to speed up transit while reducing fatigue in industrial environments where concerns about fashion are less prevalent. Unfortunately, there’s no price for these just yet, but we will expect to learn more before their release date at the midpoint of this year.
We’re reporting live from CES 2024 in Las Vegas from January 6-12. Keep up with all the latest news from the show here.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/dont-call-em-skates-because-theyre-moonwalkers-164737288.html?src=rss
‘A lot of people don’t believe me when I say I had no clue [who she was],” the Green Bay Packers safety said.
‘A lot of people don’t believe me when I say I had no clue [who she was],” the Green Bay Packers safety said.
