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Unleashing The AI Arms Race: The Fierce Competition Among The Tech Giants

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         The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era of technological innovation transforming the way we live, work and interact. As AI becomes increasingly integrated in our daily lives, the competition among tech giants to dominate this rapidly evolving field has intensified. Microsoft, Google, Meta (formerly Facebook ), Apple and a host of other industry leaders are engaged in a fierce battle to capture the vast potential and lucrative market of artificial intelligence. This article delves into the heated race among these tech titans highlighting their strategies, achievements and impacts on shaping the future of AI adoption.  Microsoft: Reinventing Productivity With AI         Microsoft, with its strong foothold in enterprise software and cloud computing, has been aggressively investing in AI platform and development. The company's intelligent cloud platform " Azure ", has emerged as a formidable force in the ...

Highlights of the CES 2023 Show

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       The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) was held this month at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Winchester, Nevada, United States. This event typically hosts presentation of new products and technologies in the Consumer Electronics Industry. Here are some of the most important highlights from this year's edition.   iVision Dee Concept Car               BMW unveiled a wild color-changing concept car with 2600 panels that can change up to 32 colors. During a demo, different parts of this car including the wheel covers flashed in varying hues and swirls of colors. The technology which relies on panels that receive electrical impulses isn't ready for production. On the outside of the car, you could spot breaks between panels and what looked like wiring.   Bespoke AI Oven     If you think taking photos of your meal for Instagram is overdone, now you can livestream your dinner as it cooks in real tim...

Top 10 Moments of The Crypto Revolution

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       What we are undergoing currently in our world is change. A revolution is taking place in our very lives. This is similar to what happened with the internet after the 2000s. There has been a global outburst in the use of the internet ever since and the internet keeps evolving and growing at a rapid pace. But the internet is so unfair, we spend 70% of our entire lives on the internet but we get to own none of it. Only few companies in the world owned most of the internet: Google, Apple, Meta and others as well. While these  companies monetized our data, we got nothing out of it. Then crypto came along and now for the first time ever, you can own the internet. It is as simple as that. You can own cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and the likes but you can also own pictures, video games, virtual lands and even parts of companies (stocks). Before crypto, none of this was ever possible. Now more than ever before, a girl in India can own the internet just ...

Chat GPT: The Open A.I Chatbot

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           Chat GPT is a prototype artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Open AI which specializes in dialogue. The chatbot is a large language model finetuned with both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. It is a fine-tuned version of a model in Open A.I's GPT - 3.5 family of language models. ChatGPT was launched in November 2022 and has garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers although its factual accuracy has been criticized. Features - ChatGPT (Generative Pre - Trained Transformer) was fine tuned on top of GPT - 3.5 using supervised learning as well as reinforcement learning. Both approaches used human trainers to improve the model's performance. In the case of supervised learning, the model was provided with conversations in which the trainers played both sides: the user and the A.I assistant. In the reinforcement step, human trainers first ranked responses that the model had reacted in a previous conver...

The Pixel 7 and 7 Pro is Here: First Hand Impressions

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          The Pixel 7 and 7 Pro are a pair of android smartphones designed, developed and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product line. They serve as the successor to the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro respectively. These phones were first previewed in May 2022 during the Google I/O keynote. They are powered by the second generation Google Tensor Chip and features a design similar to that of the Pixel 6 series. They are shipped with the new Android 13 update. The Pixel 7 and 7 Pro were officially announced on October 6 2022 at the annual Made By Google event and was released in the United States on October 13. The Pixel 7 and 7 Pro were previewed by Google on May 11, 2022 during the 2022 Google I/O keynote. During the keynote, the company confirmed that the phones would feature the second generation Google Tensor System-on-chip (Soc), which had been in development by October 2021. The phones were approved by the Federal Communications Commission(FCC...