STORY: From paying tech assistants to retailers, to why robots may be getting real, this is AI Week.
:: AI Week
Shoppers got a promotion from bots over Black Friday week.
Estimates by Salesforce showed stores using AI tools to help customers saw a 15% higher purchase price on Saturdays.
Consumers have been using Gen AI tools like Amazon’s Rufus chatbot to track prices and find deals.
The week also saw Amazon unveil a slate of new AI models.
Named “Nova”, it is intended to provide text, video and image generation, and is faster and cheaper than previous iterations.
Amazon has also promised an AI-enhanced version of its Alexa voice assistant.
A Norwegian and Silicon Valley company wants to win the race to bring robots into homes.
Bernt Bornich is the CEO and founder of 1X and says AI is essential to its NEO bot.
“In the long run this will be washing, cleaning your house, tidying up, and generally giving you more time in life.”
The robots in this exhibition have been tested by humans at a distance, but the market-ready version will use AI and will come next year.
The 1X says it will be priced similar to the mid-range price of a new car.
Washington has unveiled a third round of cuts to the supply of US shares to Chinese chip makers.
It’s all part of a bid to stop the world from developing AI processors for military use.
But firms hit by regulators have said they will speed up local production in response.
And ChatGPT-developer OpenAI faces a new challenge on how to train its bots.
Five Canadian media companies have sued the company, alleging that it regularly infringes on their content as part of the scheme.
OpenAI has denied all wrongdoing, saying it only uses publicly available materials for training.