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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Apr 17, 2023
In an interview with 60 Minutes, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai admitted the company does not fully understand how AI works. The CEO added society is not prepared for the upcoming rapid development of AI, which will impact "every...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Apr 12, 2023
OpenAI, well known for its ChatGPT service, announced its Bug Bounty Program as a way for the company to recognize and reward the insights of those who report vulnerabilities, bugs, or security flaws in its AI technology. The company is...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Apr 10, 2023
Chinese tech giant Baidu has sued Apple and a number of app developers in order to put a stop to what it says are fake Ernie bots in the Apple Store. The lawsuit was filed in Beijing Haidian People's Court late last week.
The Ernie...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Mar 10, 2023
Discord may not be the first place one would think about when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), but it is quickly becoming the place to find groups discussing and exploring the future of the technology. Now, Discord is expanding on...
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Tim Sweezy - Sun, Mar 05, 2023
Snap recently integrated an AI chatbot into its social media app, Snapchat. My AI is a customized version of the immensely popular ChatGPT, which has been taking the world by storm as of late.
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel believes it is just a...
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Nathan Ord - Sat, Mar 04, 2023
Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot has been making lots of news lately after sending dark replies to users’ questions. However, despite these oddities, the chatbot is still an impressive and powerful piece of tech that aims to change how we use...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Feb 28, 2023
Snapchat has launched its own AI chatbot running the latest version of OpenAI's GPT technology customized for the platform. The new experimental feature is being rolled out to Snapchat+ subscribers this week.
AI chatbots have been all...
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Tim Sweezy - Sat, Feb 25, 2023
Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot launched earlier this month and quickly came under heat for giving some quite disturbing answers. Answers varied from telling a New York Times journalist he was not happily married, to stating its desire to...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Feb 22, 2023
Just days after Microsoft placed limits on its Bing AI chatbot, the company announces that it intends to bring back longer chats. The software giant made the decision to limit conversations with the chatbot after some disturbing and...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Feb 20, 2023
Microsoft has limited interactions with its AI Chatbot after it generated some disturbing responses to user questions. The software giant is now restricting users to five questions per topic, and fifty questions in total per...
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Tim Sweezy - Sat, Dec 03, 2022
OpenAI ChatGPT is a chatbot that can help you write code, a poem, or tell you how to decorate your new house. While it does have limitations, it seems to be very good at things like carrying on a conversation, engaging in philosophical...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Jul 25, 2022
Google has fired the engineer who claimed an AI chatbot was sentient. The tech giant had placed Blake Lemoine on leave, but has since terminated him due to violating employment and data security policies.
Last month an engineer with...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Jun 30, 2022
AI chatbot company Replika is receiving messages from customers who believe their AI companions are actually sentient. Replika is only one company in the social chatbot industry that saw an increase in users during the recent...
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Lane Babuder - Sun, Jun 12, 2022
According to AI Ethics Researcher, Blake Lemoine, Google's LaMDA AI chat bot tool wants to be considered sentient. Through conversations and research with Google's LaMDA, Lemoine claims that not only is it sentient, it wishes to be...
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Nathan Ord - Tue, Mar 09, 2021
OpenAI’s CLIP, a general-purpose vision system, is gaining attention this week for some rather interesting findings regarding its performance. From being tricked using text to perhaps being a little bit racist, CLIP still has a lot to...
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Nathan Ord - Fri, Jan 22, 2021
In 2017, Microsoft filed a patent entitled “Creating a Conversational Chat Bot Of A Specific Person,” which was recently finally approved by the USPTO on December 1st, 2020. Over 21 pages of material are provided in the patent, covering...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 03, 2020
The true measure of a chatbot is not simply its ability to offer responses to questions, or even to just to make sense when 'conversing' with a human. Instead, it is the ability to allow a flesh and blood person to suspend disbelief and...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Jul 04, 2017
Microsoft Tay was a well-intentioned entry into the burgeoning field of AI chatbots. However, Tay ended up being a product of its environment, transforming seemingly overnight into a racist, hate-filled and sex-crazed chatbot that caused...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Dec 14, 2016
Microsoft has been investing in artificial intelligence for over two decades now. Those investments have led to technologies such as Cortana, the digital assistant that helps navigate Windows, and Microsoft Translator, which uses the...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Dec 05, 2016
It looks as though Microsoft is looking to delve back in to the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot scene with a follow-up to the ill-fated Tay. After some rather raucous behavior that eventually earned Tay a permanent stint in rehab, Zo...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 28, 2016
If you've ever tried contesting a parking ticket or some other traffic citation, you might have come away from the experience thinking the system is rigged and it's futile to argue your case. That's not actually true—you just have to know...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Jun 16, 2016
When it comes to the burgeoning arena of conversational intelligence, Microsoft could use a helping hand. That help is coming in the form of an acquisition of messaging app developer Wand Labs. Following Microsoft’s $26 billion purchase of...
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