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Dot’s AI wants to get to know you and become your friend
Ray Choi
June 22, 2024
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👭 Dot’s AI really, really wants to get to know you and become your friend
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The idea sounds intriguing: An AI that becomes personalized to you and your interests, allowing it to serve up advice and input that’s not just generally applicable, but that reflects what it’s learned about you through its intensive Q&A sessions.
Or, if you’re struggling in some area like the fallout from a career change, as Dot’s co-founder Jason Yuan experienced; a breakup; or a roadblock to your success, Dot can lend a sympathetic ear and offer support.
But Dot is not a person. It’s not a therapist or a best friend. It’s an AI tool that mimics both human speech and sympathy, but doesn’t serve as a replacement for the real thing. That’s by design, the co-founders explain.
“Dot is facilitating a relationship with my inner self,” Yuan, formerly a designer for Apple, told TechCrunch. “It’s like a living mirror of myself, so to speak.”
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Riding the AI wave, semiconductor giant Broadcom has joined the stampede of companies chasing Nvidia for a piece of the lucrative AI chip market. The computing and software conglomerate is up more than 66% in the past year, as it makes power moves to establish itself as one of the most dominant players in AI today.
Broadcom has been making aggressive moves that have piqued the interest of analysts and investors, from buying VMware in a $61 billion deal to strengthen its data centre and cloud chops, to investments in AI chip R&D.
Central to Broadcom’s AI aspirations now is its fast-growing AI-connected chip business, which the company said it now forecasts will bring in an astounding $11 billion in revenue for fiscal 2024, up from a previous forecast of $10 billion. Combined with a 15% jump in Broadcom Inc shares recently, the upward revision reinforces the strong appetite for chips driving the rise of generative AI.
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