What Gemini means for the GenAI boom

What Gemini means for the GenAI boom

The home team talks about Google’s new AI model, Gemini; the problems with regulating technology that evolves as quickly as AI; how governments can spy on their citizens via push notification; and more.

Computers are learning to read our minds

Computers are learning to read our minds

The home team chats with Gašper Beguš, director of the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab, about his research into how LLMs—and humans—learn to speak. Plus: how AI is restoring a stroke survivor’s ability to talk, concern over models that pass the Turing test, and what’s going on with whale brains.