Google employees will soon have access to robots to get chips and soda from company break rooms for them . The ‘ Ok Google ’ feature has not been incorporated in the robots yet . In a media report , Google said that they are forming these robots with a sense of responsibility .

This is being done to avoid the robots turning into surveillance machines or answering back with offensive or foul language .

While Google says it is pursuing development responsibly , adoption could ultimately stall over ongoing concerns , which include robots being used as surveillance machines or being equipped with chat technology that can give offensive responses – as experienced in Meta tests amid other examples in recent years .

" It ' s going to take a while before we can really have a firm grasp on the direct commercial impact ," said Vincent Vanhoucke , Senior Director for Google ' s robotics research .

� MICROSOFT Gartner has recognised Microsoft as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services , with Microsoft placed furthest in “ Completeness of Vision ”.

� SINGAPORE Google has revealed a package of new investments for Singapore that include opening a new data centre , securing an AI partnership with the government , and expanding its training programme .

� OPENAI ’ S DALL · E Following the second release of DALL · E , users began to report examples of bias . Phrases such as “ a builder ” only produced images featuring men , while the caption “ a flight attendant ” produced images only of women .

� META Meta released an AI chatbot , Blenderbot , that anyone in the US can talk with . Immediately , users all over the country started posting the AI ’ s condemnations of Facebook , while pointing out that it ’ s really easy to get the AI to spread racist stereotypes and conspiracy theories .

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