A week after its algorithms advised people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, Google admitted Thursday that it needed to make adjustments to its bold new generative AI search feature. The episode highlights the risks of Google's aggressive drive to commercialize generative AI--and also the treacherous and fundamental limitations of that technology. Google's AI Overviews feature draws on Gemini, a large language model like the one behind OpenAI's ChatGPT, to generate written answers to some search queries by summarizing information found online. The current AI boom is built around LLMs' impressive fluency with text, but the software can also use that facility to put a convincing gloss on untruths or errors. Using the technology to summarize online information promises can make search results easier to digest, but it is hazardous when online sources are contractionary or when people may use the information to make important decisions.

Following the launch of Copilot Pro in January, Microsoft will start rolling out a slew of upgrades today to make its AI assistant more useful in Windows 11. The biggest addition is support for plugins, something that only worked with Copilot on the web previously. You could, for example, connect Copilot to OpenTable so you can make a reservation from within its chat window. If you're low on groceries, you could start an order using the Instacart plugin. Microsoft says that plugins from Kayak, Klarna and Shopify will also be arriving over the next month.

Jack Krawczyk discusses how Google Bard helps users connect and communicate -- and what the future holds for the platform. Google AI has officially transitioned into Gemini, an enhanced version of Google's first artificial intelligence system. In a conversation with Fox News Digital, Google AI product lead Jack Krawczyk revealed what's new about Gemini. "It's genuinely an ecosystem that we're going to be building on as a company," he said. Google has announced Gemini Advanced and an app version of its AI tool.

Until now, AI systems have been largely designed to be algorithm-based and focused on input and output. But there is a conversation going on in both the digital technology and education sectors about the positive value of multidisciplinary design, and the importance of outcomes beyond revenue maximization and scaled efficiency. In 2024, creativity will drive innovation in AI. Until now AI has curated things, but the release of new generative tools offers enormous opportunities for creators. Guided by creative technologists and leaders on both sides of the creative-tech divide, AI in 2024 will be thoughtful, more inclusive, and impact-led.

Anyone who's been on the internet for a while will recognise the'distracted boyfriend' meme. And now AI is bringing this classic piece of internet history to life in a whole new way. X (formerly Twitter) users have shared their creepy animations of the iconic meme created using a variety of AI animation tools. The creators have even created different alternative endings for the meme, letting us imagine what might have happened after that moment. However, not everyone is happy with the innovation as some concerned commenters joke that'nobody asked for this'.

Pearl, the global leader in dental AI solutions, and CareStack, a leading cloud-based dental practice management software, announced a partnership to integrate Pearl's Second Opinion real-time disease detection capabilities within CareStack's all-in-one practice management system, as well as extend CareStack users access to Pearl's clinical performance AI platform, Practice Intelligence . The partnership ensures that CareStack's customers have seamless comprehensive access to the most robust FDA-cleared AI feature set on the market. "CareStack equips a variety of dental practices around the country with the most transformative tools and technology designed to help streamline operations and optimize efficient workflows" "CareStack equips a variety of dental practices around the country with the most transformative tools and technology designed to help streamline operations and optimize efficient workflows," said Abhi Krishna, co-founder and CEO of CareStack. "Partnering with Pearl, we are able to help facilitate greater practice efficiency and improved patient outcomes by equipping our practitioners with dentistry's most advanced pathology detection and patient communication technology." Second Opinion, which will be available as a fully integrated service within CareStack's practice management system, is the first-and-only chairside AI software cleared by the FDA to help dentists detect numerous common conditions in both bitewing and periapical x-rays of adult teeth in patients as young as 12 years old.

More than 3 million acres of California have burned this year, and 18,000 firefighters are still battling 27 major wildfires across the sooty state sometimes called golden. And every day, high above the smoke, a military drone with a wingspan roughly 10 times that of LeBron James feeds infrared video of the flames back to March Air Reserve Base, east of Los Angeles, to help map the destruction and assist firefighters. These MQ-9 "Reaper" drones don't usually fly domestic--they're on standby in case the Air Force needs them for overseas reconnaissance. But climate change has helped make crisscrossing California gathering video a new fall tradition for the 163rd Attack Wing. Its drones have helped map wildfires every year since 2017, thanks to special permission from the secretary of defense.

Virtual representations and simulated models of manufacturing models – or digital twins – were first proposed by Dr Michael Grieves at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers conference in 2002. It was based on the idea that a "digital informational construct about a physical system could be created as an entity on its own. This digital information would be a twin of the information that was embedded within the physical system itself and be linked with that physical system through the entire lifecycle of the system". As factories adopt the internet of things (IoT), combined with condition-based machine to machine (M2M) devices for monitoring and tracking machinery and operations, digital twins are becoming commonplace. Analyst firm, Gartner predicts that by 2022, over two thirds of companies that have implemented IoT will have deployed at least one digital twin in production.

Worried that AI's one day could make us their pets Elon Musk is teasing a new brain-hacking tech There's no doubting that Elon Musk is one busy guy. Whether he's trying to land on Mars with SpaceX, running Tesla, buying SolarCity, investing in the future of AI, building Giga factories or throwing out Hyperloop concepts for fun but it's increasingly apparent that he's giving a huge amount of thought to the day when advanced AI's become the most intelligent form of "life" on the planet. With the advances that we are already seeing in AI it's inevitable that one day – sooner rather than later humans will, comparatively speaking, be as intelligent to an AI as pets are to us today. To that end, the billionaire polymath has revealed he may be working on something called a "Neural Lace", a nanotechnology based device that you can think of as being a digital upgrade for your brain. Human intelligence combined with the power of AI – a digital layer directly overlaid onto the brains cortex.

Man-machine collaboration could reach new heights far from home, as humanoid robots show potential for deep-space travel. NASA has sent prototype robots to two university groups for further research and development. Initially designed for disaster relief during a previous robotics challenge, the R5 robots could someday be among the first to demonstrate humanoid robot models' usefulness for distant space missions, the space agency suggests. "Advances in robotics, including human-robotic collaboration, are critical to developing the capabilities required for our journey to Mars," Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) at NASA Headquarters, said in a press release. "We are excited to engage these university research groups to help NASA with this next big step in robotics technology development."