v15.0 – Adobe MAX 2023 is painting a pixelated future. Google’s AI is playing traffic cop in a dozen cities, ensuring the road to the future is less congested. And on ESPN, they’re melding Toy Story and NFL into a game where Buzz might finally get that forward pass from Woody. Buckle up, it’s techie out there!
v14.0 – U2 breaks in the Sphere in Las Vegas, Mark Zuckerberg shows off Meta’s photorealistic avatar tech, Amazon and Microsoft are adding AI to a wide suite of products. Oh yeah, and we tossed in a rocket-propelled VW Bug because why not?
v13.0 – Google is letting Bard run wild on your Google Apps if you give it permission of course, DALL-E 3 is out and looks to be a major step forward for Open AI’s generative AI image engine. Cisco spends a few coins to acquire Splunk and IBM is committed to training over 2 million people on AI by 2026.
v12.0 – Get ready to throw out your Apple lightning cables, Salesforce is letting Einstein GPT across its product suite and Deloitte puts out a report on how manufacturing companies are using the “industrial metaverse”.
v11.0 – IBM and Salesforce team up to bring AI to enterprise CRM customers, Drake’s AI song was submitted for a Grammy, OpenAI thinks they can help teach your kids and it turns out that your car is likely a horrible privacy offender.
v10.0 – Google launches Duet, IBM is rolling out highly efficient speech recognition chips and we take a retrospective look at digital fashion in 2023.
v9.0 – Meta is entering the code assistant game, IBM and the USTA team up to bring generative commentary to the masses, and Acura & Honda are adopting the Tesla EV charging standard.
v8.0 – IBM and Microsoft collaborate on generative AI for businesses, OpenAI is working on an AI powered Content Moderation System, Ford CEO runs into some trouble when he hits the road in his new F-150 Lightning EV and Google is building an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice.
v7.0 – The White House announces a new $20 Million dollar AI Cyber Challenge to crowdsource solutions to patch software vulnerabilities in the US’ digital infrastructure. Slack is due for a redesign, the music industry is exploring how to monetize deepfake songs and Netflix inches closer into the gaming space.
v6.0 – Amazon plans to get into the satellite broadband game, Apple & Google maps have a new open-source competitor, big automakers get behind a new charging network and OpenAI shutters its AI Detection Tool.
v5.0 – The Tour de France gets an onsite AI powered avatar guide for the event. The “NeverEnding game” is coming for our free time, Meta publishes their latest open-source model “Llama 2” for enterprise applications and OpenAI is holding back multi-modal features due to privacy concerns.
v4.0 – IBM launches WatsonX foundation models for enterprise, Las Vegas builds the world’s largest ball (sorta) and the Texas Rangers are using AI to win their next championship by analyzing plays biometrics along with weather patterns.
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