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It’s Way Too Easy to Get Google’s Bard Chatbot to Lie
When Google announced the launch of its Bard chatbot last month, a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it came with some ground rules. An…
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A US Agency Rejected Face Recognition—and Landed in Big Trouble
In January that year, an Internal Revenue Service contract for online account verification with startup ID.me, which uses selfies and…
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Inside a Misfiring Government Data Machine
Last week, WIRED published a series of in-depth, data-driven stories about a problematic algorithm the Dutch city of Rotterdam deployed with…
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GPT-4 Will Make ChatGPT Smarter but Won’t Fix Its Flaws
With its uncanny ability to hold a conversation, answer questions, and write coherent prose, poetry, and code, the chatbot ChatGPT has…
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A Face Recognition Site Crawled the Web for Dead People’s Photos
PimEyes positions itself as a tool for people to monitor their online presence. The company charges users $20 to find the…
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How to Start an AI Panic
Last week the Center for Humane Technology summoned over 100 leaders in finance, philanthropy, industry, government, and media to the…
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Yes, ChatGPT Is Coming for Your Office Job
Anyone who has spent a few minutes playing with ChatGPT will understand the worries and hopes such technology generates when it…
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The Fraud-Detection Business Has a Dirty Secret
The algorithm’s impact on Serbia’s Roma community has been dramatic. ​​Ahmetović says his sister has also had her welfare payments…
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The Scramble to Save Twitter’s Research From Elon Musk
two years ago, Twitter launched what is perhaps the tech industry’s most ambitious attempt at algorithmic transparency. Its researchers wrote…
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AI Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger
Each evaluation is a window into an AI model, Solaiman says, not a perfect readout of how it will always…
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