If you just can’t bear to sort through all the noise about AI, maybe think about it through the limited lens of voice assistants, like Siri or Alexa.
Plus remember that adapting to new technologies has a generational component. Millions of kids have grown up issuing commands like “Play Taylor Swift” and getting a response that satisfies them.
Meanwhile, the tech companies have been amassing data on how to improve those assistants and AI now promises to exploit that data in new ways.
For example, Google is incorporating AI (Gemini) into its search results. This matters because not only will search results be more conveniently presented, the original sources of that information will be further buried behind the AI layer.
All of which is convenient for users as well as for Google but bad news for media.
Just follow the money. Journalism is about to take another blow in the market for online advertising thanks to AI.
Because it’s all about who gets that revenue.
HEADLINES:
Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you (Google)
The race for an AI-powered personal assistant (Financial Times)
Is OpenAI sweating? 9 Google features announced for Gemini, Search, Android, and more (ZDNet)
We'll need universal basic income - AI 'godfather' (BBC)
OpenAI putting ‘shiny products’ above safety, says departing researcher (Guardian)
ChatGPT-4o Is Wildly Capable, But It Could Be A Privacy Nightmare (Forbes)
Cats purrfectly demonstrate what it takes to trust robots (EurekAlert!)
How to Live Forever (New Yorker)
Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says, and rescue is underway (AP)
‘Twitter’ finally dead as Elon Musk moves site to X.com (Independent)
What science tells us about Biden, Trump and evaluating an aging brain (WP)
Donald Trump and the case of the estranged former fixer (Reuters)
Red flag? Samuel Alito scandal casts further doubt on supreme court’s impartiality (Guardian)
CNN political commentator Alice Stewart dies at 58 (CNN)
Struggling on Front Lines, Ukraine Strikes Harder at Russian Energy (NYT)
Fierce fighting in Gaza, aid starts rolling off U.S. pier (Reuters)
Aid Starts Entering Gaza Through U.S.-Built Pier, but Officials Say It Isn’t Enough (NYT)
Russia carves a ‘buffer zone,’ Ukraine braces for heavy battles (Reuters)
Second Russian invasion of Kharkiv caught Ukraine unprepared (WP)
Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness (Financial Times)
Putin’s China Visit Highlights Military Ties That Worry the West (NYT)
Archaeologist’s theory may have finally solved mystery of Egypt’s pyramids (Independent)
Samuel Alito Blames Upside-Down Flag On Wife Ginni Thomas (The Onion)
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