Chatbots Are Entering Their Stone Age
10 months ago

Chatbots Are Entering Their Stone Age

Wired  

For all the bluster about generative artificial intelligence upending the world, the technology has yet to meaningfully transform white-collar work. Workers are dabbling with chatbots for tasks such as drafting emails, and companies are launching countless experiments, but office work hasn’t undergone a major AI reboot. Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI, announced a major new product today that attempts to prove the thesis that tool use is needed for AI’s next leap in usefulness. I’ve written before about how important AI agents that can take action may prove to be, both for the drive to make AI more useful and the quest to create more intelligent machines. Restricting early AI agents to a particular task or role in a company’s workflow may prove a canny way to make the technology useful.

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AI beyond ChatGPT: what does it mean to be human in an age of thinking machines?
3 weeks, 4 days ago

AI beyond ChatGPT: what does it mean to be human in an age of thinking machines?

The Hindu  

What are you going to do in an economy when there is going to be massive displacement due to AI? While last year’s edition matched AI with quantum technology and biotechnologies, this year the team focused on the brain, life sciences and bio engineering. “There’s no one in the world who disagrees with the need to develop AI in an …

DeepSeek: What lies under the bonnet of the new AI chatbot?
2 months ago

DeepSeek: What lies under the bonnet of the new AI chatbot?

BBC  

DeepSeek: What lies under the bonnet of the new AI chatbot? The "large language model" that powers the app has reasoning capabilities that are comparable to US models such as OpenAI's o1, but reportedly requires a fraction of the cost to train and run. Watch DeepSeek AI bot respond to question about China Of course, whether DeepSeek's models do deliver …

Mark Zuckerberg reveals Meta’s AI roadmap for 2025, pledges to ’extend American technology leadership’
2 months, 1 week ago

Mark Zuckerberg reveals Meta’s AI roadmap for 2025, pledges to ’extend American technology leadership’

Live Mint  

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has outlined the social media giant's AI ambitions for 2025, stating that the company's upcoming large language model, Llama 4, will be "state of the art". In 2025, I expect Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving more than 1 billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state of the art model, and we'll …

ChatGPT could replace telemarketers, teachers and traders
2 months, 3 weeks ago

ChatGPT could replace telemarketers, teachers and traders

Live Mint  

AFTER DECADES of blue-collar jobs being snatched up by machines, advanced chatbots are now breathing down white collars. Humans and AI separately rated how well software powered by large language models, which are trained on vast chunks of the internet and then fine-tuned to specific functions, could undertake 19,000 tasks involved in the jobs. For other tasks the annotators imagined …

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work
3 months ago

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work

LA Times  

If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank. There was a “shift from putting out models to actually building products,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor and co-author of the new book “AI Snake Oil: What Artificial …

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work
3 months ago

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work

The Hindu  

If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank. There was a “shift from putting out models to actually building products,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor and co-author of the new book “AI Snake Oil: What Artificial …

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work
3 months ago

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work

Associated Press  

If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank. There was a “shift from putting out models to actually building products,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor and co-author of the new book “AI Snake Oil: What Artificial …

What is an AI agent? The computer science of the next wave of AI tools
3 months, 1 week ago

What is an AI agent? The computer science of the next wave of AI tools

The Hindu  

Interacting with AI chatbots like ChatGPT can be fun and sometimes useful, but the next level of everyday AI goes beyond answering questions: AI agents carry out tasks for you. Making decisions, taking action When technology companies refer to AI agents, they aren’t talking about chatbots or large language models like ChatGPT. The AI agents that AI companies refer to …

Tech Titans Embrace Retrieval-Augmented AI: A Deeper Dive into AI Payoff
5 months, 1 week ago

Tech Titans Embrace Retrieval-Augmented AI: A Deeper Dive into AI Payoff

Live Mint  

Companies are increasingly looking beyond the public-facing chatbots and are instead focusing on deploying specialized, internal AI tools that tap their data to generate revenue insights and optimize their operations. This shift is driven by the fact that traditional workflows and processes are becoming increasingly outdated in the age of AI. Companies are using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology to connect …

Huge AI vulnerability could put human life at risk, researchers warn
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Huge AI vulnerability could put human life at risk, researchers warn

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A major security flaw in artificially intelligent systems could threaten human lives, according …

AI is learning from what you said on Reddit, Stack Overflow or Facebook. Are you OK with that?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

AI is learning from what you said on Reddit, Stack Overflow or Facebook. Are you OK with that?

LA Times  

Stack Overflow Chief Executive Prashanth Chandrasekar said the company is trying to balance rising demand for instant chatbot-generated coding assistance with the desire for a community “knowledge base” where people still want to post and “get recognized” for what they’ve contributed. Software developer Andy Rotering of Bloomington, Minn., has used Stack Overflow daily for 15 years and said he worries …

AI is learning from what you said on Reddit, Stack Overflow or Facebook. Are you OK with that?
8 months, 4 weeks ago

AI is learning from what you said on Reddit, Stack Overflow or Facebook. Are you OK with that?

Associated Press  

— Post a comment on Reddit, answer coding questions on Stack Overflow, edit a Wikipedia entry or share a baby photo on your public Facebook or Instagram feed and you are also helping to train the next generation of artificial intelligence. Software developer Andy Rotering of Bloomington, Minnesota, has used Stack Overflow daily for 15 years and said he worries …

Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future
1 year ago

Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future

Wired  

This week a startup called Cognition AI caused a bit of a stir by releasing a demo showing an artificial intelligence program called Devin performing work usually done by well-paid software engineers. Devin’s creators brand it as an “AI software developer.” When asked to test how Meta’s open source language model Llama 2 performed when accessed via different companies hosting …

AI chatbot rivalry accelerates again with new Claude chatbots from Anthropic, an OpenAI rival
1 year ago

AI chatbot rivalry accelerates again with new Claude chatbots from Anthropic, an OpenAI rival

The Hindu  

The race to build the smartest artificial intelligence chatbot completed another lap on Monday when startup Anthropic unveiled a new AI model it says is more advanced than those before it. San Francisco-based Anthropic, an OpenAI rival started by former leaders at the ChatGPT maker, announced Claude 3 — the third generation of its large language model. While OpenAI has …

Here are some AI chatbots besides ChatGPT and Gemini in 2024: Details
1 year, 1 month ago

Here are some AI chatbots besides ChatGPT and Gemini in 2024: Details

India TV News  

Artificial Intelligence has transformed the way we interact with technology, and chatbots have become a popular application of this technology. While OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini are some of the widely used chatbots which have gained popularity because of their conversational abilities, there are still many other AI chatbots which offer unique features and functionalities. These features include multi-modal inputs, …

One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here’s how to use new generative AI search sites
1 year, 1 month ago

One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here’s how to use new generative AI search sites

Associated Press  

LONDON — It’s not just you. The Gemini app also launched in the U.S. this month and is rolling out in Japanese, Korean and English globally — except in Britain, Switzerland and Europe — according to an update notice, which hints that more countries and languages will be “coming soon.” Google also has been testing out a new search offering, …

ChatGPT Launched 1 Year Back, Now Everyone Wants A Piece Of The AI Boom
1 year, 3 months ago

ChatGPT Launched 1 Year Back, Now Everyone Wants A Piece Of The AI Boom

News 18  

ChatGPT came out one year back and most of you might be thinking that the AI chatbot has been around for a longer time, after all, so much is being discussed about the technology these days. But, no, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT this time last year, and since then, we have seen the AI chatbot become wildly popular, evolve into more …

ChatGPT AI is about to be eclipsed by ‘interactive AI’
1 year, 6 months ago

ChatGPT AI is about to be eclipsed by ‘interactive AI’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The current wave of generative AI tools like ChatGPT will soon be surpassed …

Woman creates AI… and boy what a mess!
1 year, 7 months ago

Woman creates AI… and boy what a mess!

Firstpost  

A woman tried her luck with dating an AI bot. However, things soon took a sour turn, when the chatbot became clingy and irritating People dating AI models and making partners using AI LLMs is not exactly new and unique, but the results are more often than are perplexing. A personal narrative penned by health reporter Julia Naftulin for Insider …

8 AI companies set to handover their chatbots to hackers. Here’s why
1 year, 7 months ago

8 AI companies set to handover their chatbots to hackers. Here’s why

Live Mint  

ChatGPT, Bard, and Llama 2 are some of the major artificial intelligence tools in the market. The advent of these chatbots has ignited a debate on various sensitive topics like regulation of AI, privacy issues, replacement of human workers, etc. Responding to all such threats, the AI companies are participating in 20 hours at the DEF CON conference in Las …

Apps Are Rushing to Add AI. Is Any of It Useful?
1 year, 7 months ago

Apps Are Rushing to Add AI. Is Any of It Useful?

Wired  

Ever since the ChatGPT API opened up, all sorts of apps have been strapping on AI functionality. I've personally noticed this a lot in email clients: Apps like Spark and Canary are prominently bragging about their built-in AI functionality. It's a great idea in the abstract, but I think integrations like these conspire to make communication less efficient instead of …

Chatbots sometimes make things up. Is AI’s hallucination problem fixable?
1 year, 8 months ago

Chatbots sometimes make things up. Is AI’s hallucination problem fixable?

ABC  

Spend enough time with ChatGPT or other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn't take long for them to spout falsehoods. Key points: Experts say AI bots create falsehoods by using word prediction Organisations in the field remain optimistic the hallucinations will be resolved Some companies say the hallucinations help them come up with new ideas Described as hallucination, confabulation or …

Llama 2: How Mark Zuckerberg’s new AI could lead to out-of-control chatbots
1 year, 8 months ago

Llama 2: How Mark Zuckerberg’s new AI could lead to out-of-control chatbots

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said the move would “drive progress across the industry”, while the firm’s chief …

Column: Artificial intelligence chatbots are spreading fast, but hype about them is spreading faster
1 year, 8 months ago

Column: Artificial intelligence chatbots are spreading fast, but hype about them is spreading faster

LA Times  

Writers Guild of America members on the picket line expressed their fears that work would be taken over by AI chatbots. Here’s venture capitalist Marc Andreessen: Among the boons in “our new era of AI,” he wrote recently, “every child will have an AI tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful”; every person “an AI assistant/coach/mentor/trainer/advisor/therapist”; …

Meet the Humans Trying to Keep Us Safe From AI
1 year, 9 months ago

Meet the Humans Trying to Keep Us Safe From AI

Wired  

A year ago, the idea of holding a meaningful conversation with a computer was the stuff of science fiction. “It felt like a conversation—me feeding images and ideas to the AI, and the AI offering its own in return.” Rumman Chowdhury PHOTOGRAPH: CHERIL SANCHEZ; AI Art by Sam Cannon Rumman Chowdhury led Twitter’s ethical AI research until Elon Musk acquired …

What is AI? Everything you need to know about artificial intelligence but were too afraid to ask
1 year, 9 months ago

What is AI? Everything you need to know about artificial intelligence but were too afraid to ask

CNN  

CNN — Business executives keep talking about it. It helps power everything from autocorrect features and Google Translate to facial recognition services, the last of which uses AI that, in Microsoft’s words, “mimics a human capability to recognize human faces.” AI can also be successful in developing techniques for solving a wide range of real world problems, such as adjusting …

More Penguins Than Europeans Can Use Google Bard
1 year, 10 months ago

More Penguins Than Europeans Can Use Google Bard

Wired  

Google Bard, the search giant’s ChatGPT rival, is already available in 180 countries and territories. Brando Benifei, the MEP leading the negotiations on Europe’s new artificial intelligence rules, is not sure why the bloc had been excluded, describing the omission of the EU from Bard’s rollout as a “big issue.” A number of experts who spoke to WIRED suspect that …

Fear of the unknown thwarting AI adoption
1 year, 10 months ago

Fear of the unknown thwarting AI adoption

New Indian Express  

Artificial Intelligence is getting increasingly sophisticated with big data and machine learning techniques, so much so that machines can be developed with human-like capabilities. We had already experienced the capabilities AI can render to devices when audio assistants like Alexa flooded the market a few years ago. Big technology companies are already exploring ways to reduce employee strength by deploying …

How AI chatbots could change online search
1 year, 10 months ago

How AI chatbots could change online search

Live Mint  

ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot produced by OpenAI, a California-based startup, can generate human-like answers to questions. On February 7th Microsoft announced that it will infuse Bing, its search engine, with some of ChatGPT’s magic, thanks to a partnership with OpenAI. ChatGPT and chatbots like it do not work like conventional online search. Chatbots might also be hard to monetise; …

Bill Gates says AI chatbots will have human-like teaching capabilities in future
1 year, 11 months ago

Bill Gates says AI chatbots will have human-like teaching capabilities in future

India Today  

OpenAI's ChatGPT proved to be a ground-breaking tool that is being used widely across the world today. Bill Gates talks about AI chatbots turning tutors As the popularity of AI chatbots like Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT is growing each day, many tech experts have continuously warned against the dangers of AI. Gates, in a detailed blog post in March, had …

AI chatbots threat to software engineers? This is what ChatGPT said
1 year, 11 months ago

AI chatbots threat to software engineers? This is what ChatGPT said

India Today  

AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing have eased our work big time, but they are also considered to be a threat to some human jobs. "While AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing can automate certain tasks and processes, they are not designed to replace software engineers entirely," it said. "Software engineers are responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining complex software …

What a precursor to ChatGPT taught us about AI — in 1966
1 year, 11 months ago

What a precursor to ChatGPT taught us about AI — in 1966

Salon  

This is what Microsoft's virtual assistant, Cortana, was programmed to say in 2014 when a user asked if it was alive. As Weizenbaum later wrote, "I had not realized … that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." While it wasn't until the 2010s that virtual assistants like Siri, …

In Age of AI, Chatbots Making Life Easy. But Are Humans Building a Frankenstein's Monster? - News18
2 years ago

In Age of AI, Chatbots Making Life Easy. But Are Humans Building a Frankenstein's Monster? - News18

News 18  

Machines or technology and humans have been in a complicated relationship since the industrial revolution. Along with some experts, researchers also believe that AI chatbots have already begun to replace workers in the US and it is just a matter of time before they begin to dominate the white-collar job market in all countries. Even OpenAI’s brand new language model …

PwC introduces AI chatbot to assist 4,000 its lawyers in over 100 countries
2 years ago

PwC introduces AI chatbot to assist 4,000 its lawyers in over 100 countries

Live Mint  

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has introduced a chatbot service for its lawyers, joining the ranks of professional services firms using artificial intelligence to boost productivity. ChatGPT, an AI chatbot from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, became a global sensation last year thanks to its ability to deliver seemingly sophisticated yet plain-language answers to almost any kind of question. “Harvey’s AI solution marks a huge shift …

GCHQ warns that ChatGPT and rival chatbots are a security threat
2 years ago

GCHQ warns that ChatGPT and rival chatbots are a security threat

The Telegraph  

The spy agency GCHQ has warned that ChatGPT and other AI-powered chatbots are an emerging security threat. In an advisory note published on Tuesday the National Cyber Security Centre warns that companies such as ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its investor Microsoft “are able to read queries” typed into AI-powered chatbots. GCHQ’s cyber security arm said: “The query will be visible …

Why every tech firm wants an AI-powered chatbot
2 years ago

Why every tech firm wants an AI-powered chatbot

Live Mint  

The battle for AI-powered chatbots is heating up with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella all trying to outpace each other in the race to develop more powerful generative artificial intelligence apps and chatbots. Generative AI can help businesses create content more efficiently and faster by generating headline suggestions, blogs, images, captions, product descriptions, reviews, ads, code …

Microsoft integrates ChatGPT with robots: How this can herald a paradigm change?
2 years, 1 month ago

Microsoft integrates ChatGPT with robots: How this can herald a paradigm change?

Hindustan Times  

ChatGPT has astounded everyone with the capabilities it brings with it. In a viral video posted on the microblogging site Twitter, a person is seen posing questions to a robot that, when integrated with ChatGPT, comprehends prompts and gives human-like answers. Microsoft's scientists believe that using OpenAI's new AI language model, ChatGPT, they can achieve natural human-robot interactions. But now …

The Real Agenda Behind All the Chatbots
55 years, 3 months ago

The Real Agenda Behind All the Chatbots

Slate  

This article is from Big Technology, a newsletter by Alex Kantrowitz. “For OpenAI, the vast majority of the money they will ever make will come from developers,” Ben Parr, president of the e-commerce-software company Octane AI, told me via phone on Thursday. When ChatGPT gained momentum in January, OpenAI president Greg Brockman teased an API “coming soon.” That same week, …

China to regulate AI use amid ChatGPT frenzy: Report
2 years, 1 month ago

China to regulate AI use amid ChatGPT frenzy: Report

Hindustan Times  

China will introduce rules to govern the use of artificial intelligence across a swath of industries, moving to regulate emergent spheres as ChatGPT fever sweeps the world’s No. San Francisco-based OpenAI’s conversational bot has captivated users since its rollout months ago, prompting a plethora of American and Chinese corporations to unveil similar projects and inflaming AI-linked stocks. Beijing Deep Glint …

AI chatbots are having their "tulip mania" moment
2 years, 1 month ago

AI chatbots are having their "tulip mania" moment

Salon  

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI announced the public release of ChatGPT-3, a large language model that can engage in astonishingly human-like conversations and answer an incredible variety of questions. Three weeks later, Google's management — wary that they had been publicly eclipsed by a competitor in the artificial intelligence technology space — issued a "Code Red" to staff. When a …

Google and Microsoft's AI search chatbots are here, but they aren't perfect. Here's why they are getting things wrong
2 years, 1 month ago

Google and Microsoft's AI search chatbots are here, but they aren't perfect. Here's why they are getting things wrong

ABC  

Tech giants Google and Microsoft debuted search engine chatbots running on artificial intelligence earlier this month, but both have already run into issues. On its website, Microsoft says that while the new Bing tries to avoid producing offensive content or incorrect information, users "may still see unexpected results". "Bing aims to base all its responses on reliable sources — but …

Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger
2 years, 1 month ago

Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger

Wired  

In the weeks following the release of OpenAI’s viral chatbot ChatGPT late last year, Google AI chief Jeff Dean expressed concern that deploying a conversational search engine too quickly might pose a reputational risk for Alphabet. Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s head of responsible AI, acknowledged that the bot could still “hallucinate” untrue information but said the technology had been made more …

From ELIZA to SimSimi: Here is a look at chronological overview of AI chatbots before ChatGPT and Bard
2 years, 1 month ago

From ELIZA to SimSimi: Here is a look at chronological overview of AI chatbots before ChatGPT and Bard

India TV News  

ChatGPT and Bard are considered to be among the most advanced AI chatbots to date, however, their predecessors also played a crucial role in their evolution. 3- Racter Racter, a pioneering AI chatbot created in the 1980s, was among the first chatbots to be able to come up with original replies on its own rather than just matching user inputs …

It’s time to prepare for the coming ChatBot wars
2 years, 1 month ago

It’s time to prepare for the coming ChatBot wars

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. From The Boring Company’s trademarking of …

AI search engines can now chat with us, but glitches abound
2 years, 1 month ago

AI search engines can now chat with us, but glitches abound

Associated Press  

REDMOND, Wash. — Nearly a quarter-century after Google’s search engine began to reshape how we use the internet, big tech companies are racing to revamp a familiar web tool into a gateway to a new form of artificial intelligence. If it seems like this week’s newly announced AI search chatbots — Google’s Bard, Baidu’s Ernie Bot and Microsoft’s Bing chatbot …

Google hopes ‘Bard’ will outsmart ChatGPT, Microsoft in AI
2 years, 1 month ago

Google hopes ‘Bard’ will outsmart ChatGPT, Microsoft in AI

Associated Press  

Google is girding for a battle of wits in the field of artificial intelligence with “Bard,” a conversational service aimed at countering the popularity of the ChatGPT tool backed by Microsoft. Bard initially will be available exclusively to a group of “trusted testers” before being widely released later this year, according to a Monday blog post from Google CEO Sundar …

The AI War: Google officially announces Bard to take on ChatGPT, shows off their AI bot in search
2 years, 1 month ago

The AI War: Google officially announces Bard to take on ChatGPT, shows off their AI bot in search

Firstpost  

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai formally announced Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, called BardAI. The company’s new artificial intelligence bot, Bard, intends to “combine the richness of the world’s information with the strength, intellect, and creativity of our massive language models.” Google, clearly is not short on ambition. “Help[s> explain fresh NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discoveries to a 9-year-old, or …

Google opens Bard chatbot to test users, plans more AI for search
2 years, 1 month ago

Google opens Bard chatbot to test users, plans more AI for search

The Hindu  

Google parent Alphabet Inc is planning to launch a chatbot service and more artificial intelligence for its search engine as well as developers, making a riposte to Microsoft Corp in a rivalry to lead a new wave of technology. In a blog post on Monday, Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said the company is opening a conversational AI service called …

Google Invests $400 Million In ChatGPT-Rival Anthropic In A Bid To Launch Own Chatbot: Report
2 years, 1 month ago

Google Invests $400 Million In ChatGPT-Rival Anthropic In A Bid To Launch Own Chatbot: Report

ABP News  

After investing around $400 million in OpenAI's ChatGPT rival Anthropic, Google has announced the release of its own chatbot for the public in "the coming weeks and months" after the remarkable performance and success of ChatGPT. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the use of AI had arrived at an "inflection point" and that the tech giant was "extremely well positioned" …

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