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Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots
Teach a robot to open a door, and it ought to unlock a lifetime of opportunities. Not so for one…
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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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What Chatbot Bloopers Reveal About the Future of AI
What a difference seven days makes in the world of generative AI. Last week Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, was gleefully telling…
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Google Pioneered Stratospheric Loon Balloons. Was China Watching?
Alphabet pulled the plug on Loon in early 2021. It was a business decision, not a reflection on the technology—basically, its…
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Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine
Schmidt became CEO of Google in 2001, when the search engine had a few hundred employees and was barely making money.…
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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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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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How to Watch Google’s AI Search Event Live
Google is expected to announce artificial intelligence integrations for the company’s search engine on February 8 at 8:30 am Eastern.…
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