Who would have thought that someone would use Bing in 2023? By choice! Bing has surpassed 100 million daily active users a month after the launch of its AI chatbot, according to Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s vice president for modern life, search and devices. He said the company is fully aware that it’s still just “a small, low, single-digit stock player,” but hey, there was a time when Bing wasn’t even part of the conversation.
About a third of Bing daily preview users have been using its chat AI for their queries. On average, Microsoft sees three chats per session, with more than 45 million chats since introducing the new Bing. Microsoft took advantage of incorporating advanced chatbot AI into its search engine, but the dominant player Google is quick to catch up: it introduced its own chatbot AI, Bard, last month. And as you’ll see in today’s newsletter, it’s been a busy 24 hours for OpenAI and chatbots.
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It offers distortion-free capture of fast-moving sports and industrial processes.
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The Raspberry Pi offers a 1.6-megapixel global shutter camera module, providing a platform for machine vision, hobbyist shooting, and more. Global shutter sensors without bias or distortion have been promised as the future of cameras for years, but only a few products have appeared so far. Like other global shutter sensors, the new Raspberry Pi sensor pairs each pixel with an analog storage element, so all pixels can capture and store light signals simultaneously. The Global Shutter Camera is now available to purchase for $50.
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GrammarlyGo generates text based on contextual clues.
Grammarly is also getting into generative AI, with GrammarlyGo. Its automatic composition features help the proofing software keep up with companies adding the ChatGPT API (or different AI generative backends) to their products. The feature can use context like voice, style, purpose, and where you’re typing to determine your focus. So you can spit out email responses, shorten passages, rewrite them for tone and clarity, tweak, or choose from one-click prompts. The company says it will soon add the AI typing feature to its Premium, Business, Education and Developer plans, and free plans “in select markets.” The beta version of GrammarlyGo will start rolling out in April.
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And a chatbot.
Discord partners with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT. There’s a chatbot, obviously, but the company also plans to use machine learning in a handful of newer and potentially useful ways. Starting next week, a public experiment will improve Clyde, the built-in bot Discord employs to notify users of bugs and respond to their commands with chat capabilities. The most interesting feature uses OpenAI technology to offer summaries of conversations. When it hits some servers next week, the feature will create an overview of chats you may have missed while you were away.
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They range from basic TVs to more advanced TVs with QLED and Dolby Vision.
Earlier this year, Roku announced its own TVs; now you can pick one up at Best Buy. Roku Select TVs range from 24 to 75 inches, and Roku Plus TVs come in 55, 65, and 75-inch sizes, all powered by its streaming platform. Select TVs will start at $149 (with a possible drop to $120 this summer) and Plus models under $500, similar to TCL and other partners. You’re probably most interested in the Roku Plus series, which has QLED panels, local backlight dimming for better contrast, 4K Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos-approved speakers.
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