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The Download: a new Turing test, and working with ChatGPT

July 14, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. My new Turing test would see if AI can make $1 million —Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI and a venture partner at Greylock, a venture capital firm. Before…

Mustafa Suleyman: My new Turing test would see if AI can make $1 million

July 14, 2023
AI systems are increasingly everywhere and are becoming more powerful almost by the day. But even as they become ever more ubiquitous and do more, how can we know if a machine is truly “intelligent”? For decades the Turing test defined this question. First proposed in 1950 by the computer scientist Alan Turing, it tried…

Kenya’s Lawyers Hub gains traction helping startups meet regulatory compliance

July 14, 2023

African startups clashing with regulators due to non-compliance are often faced with far-reaching consequences, including some that render their businesses defunct or inoperable in some markets – as was experienced by some scale-ups last year. Non-compliance incidents are pervasive in Africa’s startup community, often due to the lack of proper guidance at the foundation stage. […]

Kenya’s Lawyers Hub gains traction helping startups meet regulatory compliance by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

Telly starts shipping its free ad-supported TVs to its first round of customers

July 13, 2023

Telly, the hardware startup that is giving U.S. consumers free dual screen smart TVs that are supported by advertising, announced today that it has started shipping its TVs to its first round of customers. The company says the customers in this initial wave have been invited to participate in its beta program, but did not […]

Telly starts shipping its free ad-supported TVs to its first round of customers by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

FTC reportedly looking into OpenAI over ‘reputational harm’ caused by ChatGPT

July 13, 2023

The FTC is reportedly in at least the exploratory phase of investigating OpenAI over whether the company’s flagship ChatGPT conversational AI made “false, misleading, disparaging or harmful” statements about people. It seems unlikely this will lead to a sudden crackdown, but it shows that the FTC is doing more than warning the AI industry of […]

FTC reportedly looking into OpenAI over ‘reputational harm’ caused by ChatGPT by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

ChatGPT can turn bad writers into better ones

July 13, 2023
People have been using ChatGPT to help them to do their jobs since it was released in November of last year, with enthusiastic adopters using it to help them write everything from marketing materials to emails to reports.. Now we have the first indication of its effect in the workplace. A new study by two…

Nothing Phone (2) review

July 13, 2023

Carl Pei seemed practically giddy when he spotted a pretender on the MWC show floor. He posed for a picture status with the phone and fired off a series a tweets. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, after all — though most in the industry don’t handle it in such stride. For Pei, on […]

Nothing Phone (2) review by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch