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News Publishers Are Wary of the Microsoft Bing Chatbot’s Media Diet
OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool, which the startup released in November, has been known to plagiarize or only lightly rework the writing of humans.…
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Down the Chatbot Rabbit Hole
Further generations of humans—or robots—might one day look back on this week as the tipping point in the way that…
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The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret
In early February, first Google, then Microsoft, announced major overhauls to their search engines. Both tech giants have spent big…
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My Strange Day With Bing’s New AI Chatbot
Twenty minutes after Microsoft granted me access to a limited preview of its new chatbot interface for the Bing search engine, I…
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The Chatbot Search Wars Have Begun
This week the world’s largest search companies leaped into a contest to harness a powerful new breed of “generative AI”…
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The Political Theater Behind the State of the Union Data Privacy Push
When it comes to antitrust and tech, there’s a trust deficit on Capitol Hill, even as pressure to act continues…
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The End of the Zoom Boom
Layoffs continue to hit the tech industry, and this week, they came for one of the pandemic’s biggest winners: Zoom.  Yesterday,…
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Tech Volunteers Rush to Save Turkey’s Earthquake Survivors
New projects are being developed all the time, as more volunteers join with ideas and take on open tasks. But…
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How the US Can Stop Data Brokers’ Worst Practices—Right Now
The letter also points to databases maintained by the British multinational RELX and the Canadian conglomerate Thomson Reuters, which, according…
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What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide
Artificial intelligence is here. It’s overhyped, poorly understood, and flawed but already core to our lives—and it’s only going to…
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