Google's Next Top Model + Will the Cybertruck Crash? + This Week in A.I.

Hard Fork

Warning: This episode contains some explicit language.
Google’s new artificial intelligence model ‘Gemini’ is out. It’s advertised as America’s next top A.I. model. Kevin and Casey ask, is it really better than OpenAI’s GPT-4? Then, by some estimates millions of people pre-ordered Tesla’s Cybertruck, but has Elon Musk’s recent behavior soured people on the brand? And finally, more A.I. news you may have missed.

Additional Reading:

• Google is chasing ChatGPT with the launch of Gemini.
• Even if people cancel their Cybertruck pre-orders, it could still be massively successful.
• A new A.I. development may help fight wine fraud.
• Amazon’s new enterprise chatbot had a “severe hallucinations” problem.
• OpenAI blocked a prompt that would cause ChatGPT to regurgitate its training data.
• Mountain Dew’s latest marketing stunt had an A.I. watching Twitch streams.

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