Tinder snobs can now pay $499 per month to be matched with the ‘most-sought after’ profiles

September 25, 2023
Tinder has rolled out its promised high-end membership, a pricey $499 per month subscription dubbed “Tinder Select,” which includes unique perks like the ability to be seen by more users, including Tinder’s “most sought after profiles,” the ability to direct message others without matching, and other VIP-level features. The news was first reported by Bloomberg, […]

OpenAI gives ChatGPT a voice for verbal conversations

September 25, 2023
ChatGPT is evolving into much more than a text-based search engine, with OpenAI announcing today that it’s adding new voice and image-based smarts to the mix. The wildly popular generative AI assistant has been one of the biggest technology success stories of recent times since its debut some nine months ago, allowing anyone to generate […]

Getty Images promises its new AI contains no copyrighted art

September 25, 2023
Getty Images is so confident its new generative AI model is free of copyrighted content that it will cover any potential intellectual-property disputes for its customers.  The generative AI system, announced today, was built by Nvidia and is trained solely on images in Getty’s image library. It does not include logos or images that have…

Elicit is building a tool to automate scientific literature review

September 25, 2023
For researchers, reading scientific papers can be immensely time-consuming. According to one survey, scientists spend seven hours each week searching for information. Another survey suggests that systematic reviews of literature — scholarly syntheses of the evidence on a particular topic — take an average of 41 weeks for a five-person research team. But it doesn’t […]

The Download: ChatGPT gets even chattier, and recreating space on Earth

September 25, 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. You can now have a voice conversation with ChatGPT  The news: OpenAI has launched two new ways to interact with its flagship large language model in a major update. You can have a…

Now you can chat with ChatGPT using your voice

September 25, 2023
In one of the biggest updates to ChatGPT yet, OpenAI has launched two new ways to interact with its viral app.   First, ChatGPT now has a voice. Choose from one of five lifelike synthetic voices and you can have a conversation with the chatbot as if you were making a call, with it responding to…