Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Exactly three weeks ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT. Since then, it has been nearly impossible to keep up with both the hyped-up excitement and brow-furrowing concerns around use cases for the text-generating chatbot, ranging from the fun (writing limericks and rap lyrics) and the clever (writing prompts for text-to-image generators like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion) to the dangerous (threat actors using it for generating phishing emails) and the game-changing (could Google's entire search model [subscription required] be upended?). Is it possible to compare this moment in the evolution of generative AI to any other technology development? According to Forrester Research AI/ML analyst Rowan Curran, it is.

"Innovation," Jeff Bezos once said, "happens by gently lifting a grandfather and asking him for six different ideas." It's the work of Botnik, a new AI-assisted humor application that scours various types of human-created, word-crowded content--from season-three Seinfeld scripts to Yelp reviews to Bezos' shareholder letters--in order to build predictive, idiom-specific keyboards. Those keyboards, many of which are available on Botnik.org, The best Botnik creations, like this PBS-derived set of otter facts, retain the structure and wordplay of their source material, while adding a goofy, appropriately robotic sense of stiltedness. They all represent a new form of comedy, a human-computer collaboration, one that "gathers all these evocative phrases from a genre, and then builds them together in an absurd collage," says Botnik cofounder Jamie Brew.

"Innovation," Jeff Bezos once said, "happens by gently lifting a grandfather and asking him for six different ideas." It's the work of Botnik, a new AI-assisted humor application that scours various types of human-created, word-crowded content--from season-three Seinfeld scripts to Yelp reviews to Bezos' shareholder letters--in order to build predictive, idiom-specific keyboards. Those keyboards, many of which are available on Botnik.org, The best Botnik creations, like this PBS-derived set of otter facts, retain the structure and wordplay of their source material, while adding a goofy, appropriately robotic sense of stiltedness. They all represent a new form of comedy, a human-computer collaboration, one that "gathers all these evocative phrases from a genre, and then builds them together in an absurd collage," says Botnik cofounder Jamie Brew. Botnik began in earnest last year, when Brew--then a writer for The Onion's site Clickhole--began talking with Bob Mankoff, the artist and former New Yorker cartoon editor who, in 2005, launched that magazine's popular caption-writing contest.

Apple said the phone's battery will last two hours longer than that of the iPhone 7. But rival phones -- many of them from Samsung -- already offer similar displays, facial recognition, augmented reality and wireless charging, if often in cruder forms that mostly haven't won over large numbers of phone users. None of which is to say that Apple won't break new ground. In particular, the iPhone X gives Apple the opportunity to bring augmented reality -- essentially the projection of computer-generated images into real-world surroundings, a la the monster hunts in "Pokemon Go" -- into mainstream use. No one can say with certainty what sort of "killer app" will make augmented reality a hit.

See how Apple's iPhone ignited the evolution of mobile devices. In this Jan. 9, 2007, file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up an iPhone at the Macworld Conference in San Francisco. NEW YORK--In my review of the first iPhone 10 years ago, I called it a "glitzy wunderkind" and a "prodigy". The thing about prodigies, no matter how gifted, is they often flame out. For all the hype that surrounded Apple's prized new device, there was no guarantee in 2007 that it, too, wouldn't burn out before it really took off.