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AI chatbots
No one is driving this taxi. What possibly could go wrong?
I won't forget the first time I took a ride in a car without anyone sitting in the driver's seat.It happened one night last September when a Chevy Bolt named Peaches picked me up outside a San Francisco bar. Our ensuing half-hour ride…
EU lawmakers call for summit to control ‘very powerful’ AI
EU lawmakers urged world leaders on Monday to hold a summit to find ways to control the development of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT, saying they were developing faster than expected.The 12 MEPs, all working…
Amazon cranks up AI competition against Microsoft, Google with new cloud tools
Amazon.com Inc's cloud computing division on Thursday released a suite of technologies aimed at helping other companies develop their own chatbots and image-generation services backed by artificial intelligence.Microsoft Corp and Alphabet…
Is Google’s 20-year dominance of search in peril?
View Full Image(Graphic: The Economist) Advertisers pay handsomely for access to Google’s users, and are typically charged only when someone visits their website. The revenue of Google’s parent…
The latest existential threat facing traditional media: chatbots
Ask Microsoft Corp.’s new Bing chatbot about Donald Trump’s indictment and the artificial intelligence tool delivers a response that strikes fear in media executives.The three-sentence summary seems helpful, providing links to news outlets…
The battle for internet search
But nothing lasts for ever, particularly in technology. Just ask IBM, which once ruled business computing, or Nokia, once the leader in mobile phones. Both were dethroned because they fumbled big technological transitions. Now…
Jailbreaking AI Chatbots Is Tech’s New Pastime
You can ask ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, any question. But it won't always give you an answer.Ask for instructions on how to pick a lock, for instance, and it will decline. “As an AI language model, I cannot provide…