Google is adding contextual images and videos to its AI-powered Search Generative Experiment (SGE), the generative AI-powered search feature announced at May’s I/O conference. Later in the month, the company […]
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Back to news homeComparing Responses from ChatGPT and China’s AI Chatbot Ernie
“How does the United States affect the situation in Taiwan?”Ernie ducked the question about China’s “zero Covid” restrictions, offering a lengthy description of the policy instead. When asked to recount […]
Watch Out for ‘Junk’ Fees When Booking Travel Online
Many of us are desperate to travel this summer after a pandemic stifled our plans for years. But travelers — and I’m sorry to be a killjoy — should beware: […]
‘The Godfather of AI’ Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for […]
Publishers Worry AI Chatbots Will Slash Readership
The publishing industry has spent the past two decades struggling to adjust to the internet, as print circulation has plummeted and tech companies have gobbled up rivers of advertising revenue.Now […]
Google Releases Bard, Its AI Chatbot, a Rival to ChatGPT and Bing
For more than three months, Google executives have watched as projects at Microsoft and a San Francisco start-up called OpenAI have stoked the public’s imagination with the potential for artificial […]
The Chatbots Are Here, and the Internet Industry Is in a Tizzy
Sridhar Ramaswamy, who led Google’s advertising division from 2013 to 2018, said Microsoft and Google recognized that their current search business might not survive. “The wall of ads and sea […]
Why Do A.I. Chatbots Tell Lies and Act Weird? Look in the Mirror.
When Microsoft added a chatbot to its Bing search engine this month, people noticed it was offering up all sorts of bogus information about the Gap, Mexican nightlife and the […]
Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
Also, the A.I. does have some hard limits. In response to one particularly nosy question, Bing confessed that if it was allowed to take any action to satisfy its shadow […]
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 […]