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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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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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Microsoft Taps ChatGPT to Boost Bing—and Beat Google
Bing’s new chat-style interface is a greater departure from the traditional search box. In a demonstration, Microsoft vice president of…
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The Race to Build a ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine
Another issue with a system like ChatGPT is that its responses a based on only the data it was trained…
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Fact-Checkers Are Scrambling to Fight Disinformation With AI
Spain’s regional elections are still nearly four months away, but Irene Larraz and her team at Newtral are already braced…
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ChatGPT Is Coming for Classrooms. Don’t Panic
When high school English teacher Kelly Gibson first encountered ChatGPT in December, the existential anxiety kicked in fast. While the…
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Algorithms Allegedly Penalized Black Renters. The US Government Is Watching
Two years ago, Mary Louis submitted an application to rent an apartment at Granada Highlands in Malden, Massachusetts. She liked…
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Where the AI Art Boom Came From—and Where It’s Going
In the past year algorithms got a lot better at generating illustrations, art, and photo-real scenes. Next up? Video. Source…
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The Overlooked Upsides of Algorithms in the Workplace
You describe the potential of using candidate-screening technology that takes the form of an online game, like Wasabi Waiter from…
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