Amazon had already announced it aimed to soup up its Alexa voice assistant with generative AI, which the firm said would allow users to have smoother conversations.

Two versions of Dall-E were developed by OpenAI and presaged the massive explosion of interest in generative AI that came when it released ChatGPT late last year.

"Game of Thrones" author George RR Martin and other best-selling fiction writers have filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the tech startup of violating their copyrights to fuel its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT.

AIs are limited by the data it's exposed to in order to make them better at what they do – in this case mimicking human speech and providing users with useful answers.

The transformation of the world's data servers to AI readiness is already well underway, in what one Google executive called a "once-in-a-generation inflection point in computing."

Six weeks before his alleged demise, the unidentified father of two is said to have been communicating frequently with a chatbot on the Chai app.

Google's Bard AI bot mistake wipes $100bn off shares.

The capabilities of Bard are yet to be determined, but it appears to have the same level of versatility as OpenAI's ChatGPT.