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Fortune
Tristan Bove

'They were all dumb as a rock': Microsoft’s CEO slams voice assistants like Alexa and his own company’s Cortana as A.I. is poised to take over

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Generative artificial intelligence is the new talk of the town in the tech world as an arms race for A.I. dominance kicks off. Google and Microsoft are leading the way and currently testing their own A.I.-powered search engine assistants before a wider public release. And according to some of the industry’s leading players, these new products are leaps and bounds ahead of the at-home assistants we’re used to.

The A.I. models being developed at Microsoft and Google could have major implications for the workplace and medicine, but A.I.-assisted search engines will likely also have major applications for our everyday life. People have already toyed with OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help curate recipes, travel itineraries, and music playlists.

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