AI Stuff I Saw Today 2024-02-27

AI-driven Smell-O-Vision device lets you smell the golf course or Call of Duty gunsmoke - 9to5Toys

Despite actually achieving parity with OpenAI, Google stock drops over image missteps, could Pichai end up on the hot seat? - mint

Robocalls can now answer questions and converse using gen-AI s - The San Francisco Standard

Police called in Scotland after crying kids find out 'Willy Wonka Experience' is not like AI-generated images - the Guardian

GitHub launches Enterprise Copilot for large codebases and CI/CD workflows - VentureBeat

Google pays newspapers to test-drive its gen-AI journalism tool - Ad Week

Sign of the times: Apple cancels self-driving car, moves staff to AI

Jack Shafer interviews a PhD candidate studying AI in news - POLITICO

Ghost kitchens use AI to illustrate offerings, weirdness ensues - 404 Media

“What are we doing? Why? I hate it,” says Ariana Grande about AI Ari songs MusicRadar

The weird minimalist Humane AI pin makes a splash - ZDNET

Consultant paid only $150 to clone Biden's voice, said he was just trying to raise awareness of the problem of voice cloning.

Demis Hassabis says Google will restore image features it disabled in a few weeks.

US used computer vision and AI to select Syria, Yemen targets

Apple's new Ask 'AppleGPT' is an advanced tech support Q&A chatbot that avoids hallucinations. - AppleInsider

Peter Diamandis: Millions, then billions of robots are coming.

Ben Thompson knocks Google over woke responses. Some of the responses are fails. OpenAI also fails some stuff but Google is an easy target and the ideologues have leverage since Google has to protect its cash cows. - Stratechery by Ben Thompson

H100s are becoming more rentable on cloud platforms - The Information

Microsoft takes minority stake in Mistral; WSJ profile

Mistral Large is now available, will be interesting to see how it stacks up.