🤖 Amazon Brings AI to Kids

🤖 Amazon Brings Conversational AI to Kids with Launch of 'Explore with Alexa'

Amazon’s new feature, “Explore with Alexa,” allows children to have kid-friendly interactions with Alexa via Echo devices.

This feature is part of the Amazon Kids+ subscription. It uses generative AI technology to create safe and engaging conversations for children under 13.

The experience currently focuses on fun facts and trivia questions, with content sourced from partners like the World Wildlife Fund and A-Z Animals.

The team aims to expand the AI's capabilities to cover various topics of interest to kids, such as space, music, video games, and sports.

To ensure safety is a top priority, the AI isn’t real-time. Instead, it generates content offline which is then reviewed by Amazon’s team before it reaches the children.

Amazon also assures that it doesn't train its language model on children's responses, ensuring user data privacy.

📈 Google, Meta, and Snap Lead Ad Market Rebound

The advertising businesses of Google, Meta, and Snap are rebounding.

This signaled that the growing adoption of artificial intelligence was drawing marketers to digital platforms even in an uncertain economy.

All three companies exceeded quarterly revenue expectations, with Google’s ad revenue increasing by 9.5% and YouTube ads growing by 12%.

Meta reported a 31% increase in ads viewed and plans to invest heavily in AI next year. Snap also saw an increase in average revenue per user.

The ad market rebound is expected to continue, with Google and Meta predicted to lead the recovery.

Despite geopolitical uncertainties, these companies’ wide reach helps attract a steady stream of advertisers.

🔍 Fact-Check Photos with Google's 'About This Image' Tool

Google has rolled out a new image verification tool that uses metadata to provide context and detect AI-generated fakes.

The feature, aptly named “about this image,” offers verified data about any photo on the web, including its original publication date and subsequent uses.

You can access this tool via Google Search, and it’s especially handy for verifying the legitimacy of images used in news events.

The tool even indicates if an image has been AI-generated, depending on the included metadata.

Google is also expanding its Fact Check Explorer to include images and introducing software that creates AI-generated descriptions of websites.

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