Technology News of the Week in India: OpenAI is making headlines again, but for the wrong reasons. Google is also in the mix, with its latest search feature, AI Overviews. This week has been pretty fantastic for Android smartphone enthusiasts in India.
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OpenAI removes “its” voice from ChatGPT
OpenAI removed a female voice named Sky from ChatGPT, which sounded far too familiar, especially to those familiar with Scarlett Johansson. Development dates back to a few months before the release of GPT-4o, when OpenAI contacted Johansson for his voice to power the AI model. However, she refused and the company ended up using a similar voice.
According to the official statement from CEO Sam Altman, “Sky’s voice is not Scarlett Johansson’s, and it was never intended to look like his. The company removed the voice, saying: “Out of respect for Ms. Johansson, we have suspended the use of Sky’s voice in our products.” We apologize to Ms. Johansson for not communicating better.
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Google AI previews are everywhere
At I/O 2024, Google introduced its latest search feature, AI Overviews, powered by Gemini AI. Days after its official unveiling, the feature sparked a lot of online chatter due to its misleading and glaring errors. For example, AI Previews Suggest Users to Use Non-Toxic Glue to Make Cheese Stick to Pizza, and he struggles to differentiate between puns and facts coming from platforms like Reddit. Google says: “We found that with AI insights, people used search more and were happier with their results.”
The company has also started manually removing some of these inaccurate responses. According to a report from The Verge, a Google spokesperson recently said, “AI Previews deliver high-quality insights. Most of the examples we saw were uncommon queries, and we also encountered examples that were faked or that we couldn’t reproduce. »
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Nothing CEO Cleverly Teases His Next Smartphone – Phone (3)
Nothing’s Phone (2a) is currently a very popular smartphone, and there are speculations that the company will introduce its next flagship, probably named Phone (3), as a successor to the Phone (2). While unveiling the upcoming Quick Settings panel on Nothing (OS), CEO and co-founder Carl Pei gave details about the company’s upcoming smartphone.
It’s all but confirmed that it will feature a metal frame and a new button alongside the power and volume rockers, rumored to be a capture button. Aside from these details, there isn’t much information available about the Nothing Phone (3) yet. However, it is expected to be powered by a Snapdragon 8 series processor. The Phone(2) was launched on July 11, 2023, and there is speculation that the company may unveil the Phone(3) exactly a year after that. date.
Share some Quick Settings redesign WIPs, comments? 😁 pic.twitter.com/kZP1LRAwdB
– Carl Pei (@getpeid) May 21, 2024
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New high-performance mid-range phones are here
The Realme GT 6T and Poco F6 are currently the latest high-performance smartphones in the Indian market, both priced well below Rs 30,000. These devices feature the latest processors, with the Realme GT 6T featuring the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 SoC and the Poco F6 being the first phone on the market equipped with the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3.
Other notable features of the Realme GT 6T include a curved display with a peak brightness of 6,000 nits, while the Poco F6 offers a flat display with 1.5K resolution. Both phones come with a custom OS based on Android 14 (realme UI 5 and HyperOS) and are expected to receive at least three major OS upgrades.
