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Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chatbots

In 2020, researchers at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies found that GPT-3, the underlying technology for ChatGPT, had “impressively deep knowledge […]







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Meta, Long an AI Leader, Tries Not to Be Left Out of the Boom

Meta, however, was hamstrung, in part, by its reputation as a corporate giant that helps spread untruths, Dr. LeCun said last month. And with responsibilities to billions of users, it […]




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At This School, Computer Science Class Now Includes Critiquing Chatbots

Marisa Shuman’s computer science class at the Young Women’s Leadership School of the Bronx began as usual on a recent January morning.Just after 11:30, energetic 11th and 12th graders bounded […]







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Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT

Microsoft said on Monday that it is making a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” investment in OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence lab behind the experimental online chatbot ChatGPT.The companies did not disclose […]




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Google Calls In Larry Page and Sergey Brin to Tackle ChatGPT and A.I. Chatbots

But they have long been keen on bringing A.I. into Google’s products. Vic Gundotra, a former senior vice president at Google, recounted that he gave Mr. Page a demonstration of […]




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Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach

While grading essays for his world religions course last month, Antony Aumann, a professor of philosophy at Northern Michigan University, read what he said was easily “the best paper in […]




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Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.

Cherie Shields, a high school English teacher in Oregon, told me that she had recently assigned students in one of her classes to use ChatGPT to create outlines for their […]




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A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom

Five weeks ago, OpenAI, a San Francisco artificial intelligence lab, released ChatGPT, a chatbot that answers questions in clear, concise prose. The A.I.-powered tool immediately caused a sensation, with more […]