Articles

BLOG

SoftBank sues IRL over 'elaborate scheme' that swallowed $150M

SoftBank once invested in social app IRL at a $1.1 billion valuation. Now, the Japanese investment firm is suing the defunct company for fraud, alleging $150 million in damages.IRL was supposedly pois...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Aug 2023

BLOG

Kitchen robot Botinkit raises $13M from DJI angel and others

Having worked in the food industry for several years, Shirley Chen saw firsthand the challenges of managing staffing and training for restaurant expansion. So when she met her future co-founders, she ...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Jul 2023

BLOG

This robot squad could be the next big thing in lunar exploration

Solitary lunar rovers have been invaluable to our efforts exploring the Moon. But a group of scientists led by ETH Zurich is now looking at sending an entire squad of robots that collaborate and compl...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Jul 2023

BLOG

All the Ways ChatGPT Can Help You Land a Job

David Nield[photo1]Artificial intelligence chatbots such as Bing AI and Google Bard offer help with everything from generating code to translating text to simplifying complex topics. They can also be ...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Jun 2023

BLOG

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is the start of something big, but it's a terrible Beast Wars movie

Very similar to 2018's Bumblebee, director Steven Caple Jr.'s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts plays like a clever course correction in the context of the rest of Paramount's films. It's one meant to ...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Jun 2023

BLOG

An Eating Disorder Chatbot Is Suspended for Giving Harmful Advice

[photo1]Amanda HooverA nonprofit has suspended the use of a chatbot that was giving potentially damaging advice to people seeking help for eating disorders. Tessa, which was used by the National Eatin...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Jun 2023

BLOG

ChatGPT Is Cutting Non-English Languages Out of the AI Revolution

[photo1]Paresh DaveComputer scientist Pascale Fung can imagine a rosy future in which polyglot AI helpers like ChatGPT bridge language barriers. In that world, Indonesian store owners fluent only in l...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

May 2023

BLOG

Explaining Blockchain Capital's Big Bet on an Eyeball-Scanning Orb

This week, Worldcoin, an outfit that aims to serve as proof of personhood in a world where it's harder by the day to distinguish a human from a bot, raised $115 million in Series C funding.Led by the ...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

May 2023

BLOG

Motor City mechatronics

A number of native Detroiters have asked me what I think about their city so far. The simple answer is that I don't feel qualified to offer much insight yet. I've been here for roughly three days as I...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

May 2023

BLOG

Twitter introduces a new $5,000 per month API tier

Twitter announced a new API tier today called Twitter API Pro for startups that costs $5,000 per month. The tier gives developers the ability to fetch 1 million tweets per month, post 300,000 tweets p...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

May 2023

BLOG

The life and death of a robot vacuum

I'm heading back to the South Bay next week, thanks to Google I/O, which is coming back to the Shoreline Amphitheater. I honestly don't expect much of anything related to this beat, though AI is going...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

May 2023

BLOG

Here Comes the Bride, With AI-Generated Wedding Vows

[photo1]Amanda HooverAs the height of wedding season approaches, some people are turning to artificial intelligence for help with their hitches. Yes, ChatGPT can spin those unremarkable wedding vows i...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

May 2023

BLOG

Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Bought a Robot Vacuum

I love my Roomba, and I hate my Roomba. The endearing little beeps and boops, the hypnotic but inexplicable path it takes across my floor, the possibility of training woodland animals to ride it acros...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Apr 2023

BLOG

Meet ChatGPT's Right-Wing Alter Ego

[photo1]Will KnightElon Musk caused a stir last week when he told the (recently fired) right-wing provocateur Tucker Carlson that he plans to build "TruthGPT," a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Musk s...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Apr 2023

BLOG

How Microsoft's Bing Chatbot Came to Be--and Where It's Going Next

[photo1]Paresh DaveJordi Ribas hasn't taken a day off since last September. That month, the Microsoft search and AI chief got the keys to GPT-4, a then secret version of OpenAI's text-generation techn...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Apr 2023

BLOG

How travel businesses can leverage generative AI solutions

Everyone is talking about the potential of generative AI as buzzworthy tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E make the headlines. But just what is generative AI and is there actually a use for these tools with...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Apr 2023

BLOG

Robotics safety firm Veo raises $29 million, with help from Amazon

Survey a lot of industrial warehouses and you'll see a lot of cages. It's a safety thing -- effectively a way of ensuring that robots don't accidentally hurt people. They're big, fast and made of meta...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Apr 2023

BLOG

Robot Lawyers Are About to Flood the Courts

[photo1]Keith PorcaroThe hype cycle for chatbots--software that can generate convincing strings of words from a simple prompt--is in full swing. Few industries are more panicked than lawyers, who have...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Apr 2023

BLOG

13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023

Robotics is a fascinating topic. It can be frustrating, too. When I started covering the space nearly 15 years ago, there was a sense that something big was looming, just over the horizon. But robotic...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Apr 2023

BLOG

China slaps security reviews on AI products as Alibaba unveils ChatGPT challenger

China proposed new checks on artificial intelligence chatbots on Tuesday, in an effort to control how its tech industry rolls out generative AI models, as popularized by ChatGPT in the US.Hours after ...

Warning: Undefined array key "author" in /var/www/vhosts/lawyersinamerica.com/httpdocs/app/views/blogs/blogsView.php on line 118

Apr 2023