AI & Robotics

Phrasee, a digital marketing firm in London, said it has appointed Dan Head as CEO as it helps guide content marketers through the AI revolution. Head was formerly chief revenue officer at Braze, including during its growth from series-B funding to its IPO in November 2021. Before Braze, he spent four years as regional vice president at Salesforce during the inception of its Marketing Cloud.

A VentureBeat conversation with machine ethicist Thomas Krendl Gilbert, in which he called today’s AI a form of ‘alchemy,’ not science, raised many eyebrows in this week’s AI Beat.  “The people building it actually think that what they’re doing is magical,” he said in the piece. “And that’s rooted in a lot of metaphors, ideas that have now filtered into public discourse over the…

Open AI’s DALL-E 2 AI image generation model is no longer cutting-edge. Today, the company announced DALL-E 3, its latest text-to-image generator and showed off some of its new impressive features, including the ability to generate readable text baked directly into images themselves — something that was not easy with DALL-E 2, and which other competing image generator AI models such as…

Google announced a major upgrade to its Bard conversational AI system today, expanding its capabilities to connect with Google’s most popular productivity apps and services. The enhancements are aimed at making Bard more useful in day-to-day tasks while also addressing concerns about accuracy. Starting today, Bard can now directly access information from apps like Gmail, Docs, Maps, Flights, and…