Bill Gates explains why AI is Revolutionary

Plus: Google Opens Early Access to Bard, Its ChatGPT Rival. Inside the Mysterious Taiwanese Company at the Center of the Global Semiconductor Industry, and more…

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The Age of AI has begun. Bill Gates explains why AI is as revolutionary as personal computers, mobile phones, and the Internet, and he gives three principles for how to think about it. (Bill Gates / gatesnotes.com)

Bill Gates @BillGates

The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other.

gatesnot.esThe Age of AI has begunBill Gates explains why AI is as revolutionary as personal computers, mobile phones, and the Internet, and he gives three principles for how to think about it.

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Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard - here are our first impressions. Today, Google is opening up limited access to Bard, its ChatGPT rival, a major step in the company's attempt to reclaim what many see as lost ground in a new race to deploy AI. Bard will be initially available to select users in the US and UK, with… (James Vincent / The Verge)

Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai

We're expanding access to Bard in US + UK with more countries ahead, it's an early experiment that lets you collaborate with generative AI. Hope Bard sparks more creativity and curiosity, and will get better with feedback. Sign up: bard.google.com

blog.googleTry Bard and share your feedbackBard is an early experiment from Google that lets you collaborate with generative AI. If you’re in the U.S. and U.K., you can sign up to try it.

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I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory. I arrive in Taiwan brooding morbidly on the fate of democracy. My luggage is lost. This is my pilgrimage to the Sacred Mountain of Protection. The Sacred Mountain is reckoned to protect the whole island of Taiwan—and even, by the supremely… (Virginia Heffernan / WIRED)

Virginia Heffernan @page88

A piece about microchips, democracy, and the face of God.

wired.comI Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor FactoryAs the US boosts production of silicon chips, an American journalist goes inside TSMC, the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.

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Tracking the Chinese Balloon From Space. An animated map of the Earth that scrolls eastward from the coast of China to South Carolina as the reader scrolls through the interactive. Dots on the map indicate the locations of satellite images identifying the spy balloon. A dotted orange line… (Muyi Xiao / The New York Times)

Muyi Xiao @muyixiao

EXCLUSIVE: Using satellite images of the Chinese balloon discovered by AI firm @Synthetaic and analysis of the balloon's altitude, we are able to track its movement hours after launch from China's Hainan island and follow its journey to North America. 👇 nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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Adobe made an AI image generator - and says it didn't steal artists' work to do it. Adobe is finally launching its own AI image generator. The company is announcing a “family of creative generative AI models” today called Adobe Firefly and releasing the first two tools that take advantage of them. One of the tools… (Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge)

James Vincent @jjvincent

Adobe has created its own AI image generator, and says it was only trained on images that are licensed, out of copyright, or in its own Adobe Stock library

theverge.comAdobe made an AI image generator — and says it didn’t steal artists’ work to do itAdobe even plans to pay artists, but it isn’t sure how it’ll do that yet.

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