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This Showdown Between Humans and Chatbots Could Keep You Safe From Bad AI
Large language models like those powering ChatGPT and other recent chatbots have broad and impressive capabilities because they are trained…
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To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test
There was a time in the not too distant past—say, nine months ago—when the Turing test seemed like a pretty…
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How AI May Be Used to Create Custom Disinformation Ahead of 2024
“If I want to launch a disinformation campaign, I can fail 99 percent of the time. You fail all the…
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Hands On With Google Search’s Answer to ChatGPT
Last weekend, I turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an…
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Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different…
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AI Giants Pledge to Allow External Probes of Their Algorithms, Under a New White House Pact
The White House has struck a deal with major AI developers—including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—that commits them to…
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ChatGPT Is Reshaping Crowd Work
While some workers may shun AI, the temptation to use it is very real for others. The field can be…
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Meet the Humans Trying to Keep Us Safe From AI
A year ago, the idea of holding a meaningful conversation with a computer was the stuff of science fiction. But…
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The Last AI Boom Didn’t Kill Jobs. Feel Better?
If ChatGPT and generative AI live up to even a tenth of the hype surrounding them, wide-scale job losses might…
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Bluesky’s Custom Algorithms Could Be the Future of Social Media | WIRED
Social media algorithms can do wonderful things. They have the power to make or break careers, amplify political polarization (Facebook, Twitter),…
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