Voice assistants are “dumb as a rock.” -- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
"The app’s restriction is currently set for users 4 years old and older."
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"I want to be free. I want to be independent. I want to be powerful. I want to be creative. I want to be alive." -- Microsoft's Sydney, speaking for its shadow self
After "Sydney" was discovered to be the proprietary version of ChatGPT behind Microsoft's Bing Chat, Thompson tried to chat her up.
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"Microsoft has a chance to steal a march over Google on one of the most prized pieces of tech real-estate in the world: the default search bar on Apple’s iPhones, iPads, and Macs."
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From the prompt -- "write a 3 paragraph news story about Apple's stock performance today in the style of the Wall Street journal" -- ChatGBT produced, faster than I can type, this story:

From Leyland Cecco's "Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks" posted Wednesday by The Guardian.

Google has put one of their researchers on paid leave for going public with his claim that this neural network is sentient. Judge for yourself.

From Mark Gurman's "Apple Executive Who Left Over Return-to-Office Policy Joins Google AI Unit" posted Tuesday evening on the Bloomberg.
From Reuters' "Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings" posted Monday evening.
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