Technology
What Makes Chatbots ‘Hallucinate’ or Say the Wrong Thing?
In today’s A.I. newsletter, the third of a five-part series, I discuss some of the ways chatbots can go awry.A...
Elon Musk and Others Call for Pause on A.I., Citing ‘Risks to Society’
Elon Musk and other technology leaders have urged artificial intelligence labs to pause the training of the most advanced systems,...
How ChatGPT and Bard Performed as My Executive Assistants
By now, plenty of us know that artificially intelligent virtual assistants like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard can pull off...
Rift Between Gaming Giants Shows Toll of China’s Economic Crackdown
Last October, executives at the Chinese gaming company NetEase and the American video game developer Activision Blizzard joined a Zoom...
How Chatbots and Large Language Models, or LLMs, Actually Work
In the second of our five-part series, I’m going to explain how the technology actually works.The artificial intelligences that powers...
What’s Hot on TikTok? Defending Its C.E.O.
The latest viral trend on TikTok is defending TikTok.“Now is the time to fight the ban on TikTok,” read a...
Carlos Moreno Wanted to Improve Cities. Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for Him.
For most of his 40-year career, Carlos Moreno, a scientist and business professor at Sorbonne University in Paris, worked in relative peace.Many...
A Campaign Aide Didn’t Write That Email. A.I. Did.
The Democratic Party has begun testing the use of artificial intelligence to write first drafts of some fund-raising messages, appeals that often...
Lyft Co-Founders to Resign; David Risher Is Named CEO
Lyft’s co-founders said on Monday that they would step down from their day-to-day responsibilities at the company, which has struggled...
Biden Acts to Restrict U.S. Government Use of Spyware
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Monday signed an executive order restricting American government use of a class of powerful surveillance...
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