As if your work meetings weren't already fun enough, now Otter has a new all-hearing AI agent that remembers everything anyone has said and can join in the discussion

As if your work meetings weren’t already fun enough, now Otter has a new all-hearing AI agent that remembers everything anyone has said and can join in the discussion

Imagine a new work colleague who remembered everything you or anyone else ever said in a meeting. Wouldn’t that be, er, fun? Well, it seems something like that is for real and it’s the new Otter AI Meeting Agent (via The Verge). Otter already had a text-based agent for its collaboration and AI-transcription platform. But…

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Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis

‘Never send a human to do a machine’s job,’ says Agent Smith in the 1990s classic The Matrix. Well, if Anthropic’s experiment with a simple office store and one of its AI models is anything to go by, Smith has definitely got that all back to front. The artificial intelligence company, founded by former OpenAI…

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The biggest gaming controversies of 2023, part 1

I’ve been playing and writing about videogames for an awfully long time now, and I’ve seen my share of controversies come and go. Hot Coffee, anyone? At some point long ago, I may have thought that such things would become increasingly rare as our medium matures. But it seems that the opposite has happened. As…

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Roblox to make facial age checks mandatory to access any chat features, and will put ‘common-sense limits’ on the age ranges users can chat within

Roblox is to become the first major gaming platform where facial age verification will be mandatory to access any chat features. In 2024, the platform averaged over 80 million players a day, approximately 40% of whom are under 13 years of age. The news was announced by the company’s chief safety officer, Matt Kaufman, who…

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