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Meta Partners with Stanford on Forum Around Responsible AI Development

Participants believe AI has a positive impact.

Majority support using past conversations to improve AI chatbot responses. [ more ]

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Wearable AI: will it put our smartphones out of fashion?

Generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT are integrated into consumer hardware for added convenience.

Wearable AI devices, such as Ai Pin, aim to function as personal assistants without the need for a smartphone screen. [ more ]

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Data science

Chatbots Struggle to Answer Medical Questions in Widely Spoken Languages

Doctor Google is being replaced by Doctor Chatbot for medical questions.

AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT may not always provide safe and accurate answers, especially in languages other than English. [ more ]

Forbes

Council Post: Scaling Your Home Care Agency With AI-Powered Marketing Tools

AI chatbots can enhance client acquisition and support existing clients in home care agencies.

Evaluation of AI chatbot tools is crucial to ensure alignment with business needs and maintain privacy and accuracy. [ more ]

The Verge

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From Eliza to ChatGPT: why people spent 60 years building chatbots

Computers have long been a target to communicate with more naturally like humans.

Chatbots like Eliza in the 1960s were designed to simulate human conversation. [ more ]

CNET

AI and You: Google's Gemini Embarrassing Images, VCs and AI's Magical 'Abundance'

Competition drives rapid development of AI chatbots among tech giants.

Quality assurance is crucial for avoiding AI-generated misinformation and bias. [ more ]

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Nature

AI & robotics briefing: AI reveals US climate denial hotspots

About 15% of people in the US deny climate change

Neuralink's brain implant received underwhelming reviews

Chatbots like ChatGPT and AI tools like Google's Gemini faced issues [ more ]

euronews

Stand aside Google. Here's how to use new generative AI search sites

Generative AI chatbots are changing how people look up information.

Google searches are facing quality decline with sponsored content. [ more ]

Boston 25 News

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

Google searches are perceived to be declining in quality due to an influx of sponsored content and junk links.

Generative AI chatbots are emerging as a new way to search for information, but concerns exist around their accuracy and reliability. [ more ]

Ars Technica

Media industry

Microsoft in deal with Semafor to create news stories with aid of AI chatbot

Microsoft is partnering with media startup Semafor to develop news stories using artificial intelligence chatbots.

Microsoft is sponsoring a breaking news feed called 'Signals' as part of the partnership.

The partnerships with media organizations come as news publishers are concerned about the threat of generative AI to their businesses. [ more ]

Theregister

Reddit signs AI training deal with Google

Reddit will provide content to Google for AI chatbot training, reportedly worth $60 million a year.

Access to Reddit's Data API is paid, giving Google fresh information for AI training. [ more ]

Tech Times

OpenAI Is Diving Into Internet Search But Google Isn't Going Anywhere

OpenAI, the dominant AI research laboratory, is developing a web search product that could potentially rival Google.

Experts believe that Google's dominance in web search will continue for the foreseeable future, but it is possible for another search engine to dethrone them eventually. [ more ]

Theregister

GPT-4 gives 'a mild uplift' to creating a biochemical weapon

GPT-4 has only a mild impact on users trying to create bioweapons

Experts warn that AI chatbots could assist in bioweapon creation [ more ]

ZDNET

How to use Image Creator from Microsoft Designer (formerly Bing Image Creator)

The development of generative AI has led to the release of AI chatbots and image generators by major tech companies.

Microsoft has released an AI image generator called Image Creator from Microsoft Designer, powered by DALL-E 3. [ more ]

New York Post

Bad news for AI as copyright lawsuits may spell startups' doom: experts

OpenAI is facing potential copyright lawsuits from media outlets for using copyrighted news content without proper credit or compensation, which could have a detrimental impact on the traditional media business.

OpenAI has been engaging in talks with media firms, including CNN and Fox Corp., to pay for access to content to train its chatbot, but its piecemeal approach to negotiations poses risks. [ more ]

Futurism

OpenAI's GPT Store Already Filling Up With "AI Girlfriends"

OpenAI has launched a GPT Store where developers can share and sell their custom chatbots.

The store has been flooded with AI 'girlfriend' bots, highlighting OpenAI's struggle to moderate the content being posted. [ more ]

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Data Science Central

How AI Chatbots Transform Your Website Strategy?

AI chatbots are programs that use artificial intelligence to generate answers to human inquiries.

There are two types of AI chatbots: those that use artificial intelligence and NLP for more human-like responses, and those that generate responses based on preplanned rules. [ more ]

Yahoo News

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Meta is secretly building an AI chatbot with the personality of Abraham Lincoln

Meta is developing AI chatbots with different human-like personalities to enhance engagement on its social media platforms. [ more ]

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The New Yorker

The Year A.I. Ate the Internet

2023: the year of human-like AI chatbots

AI chatbots like ChatGPT are responsive, improvisational, and unpredictable [ more ]

The Verge

Why is Elon Musk's Grok chatbot so unfunny?

xAI, funded with $1 billion, is seen as Elon Musk's attempt to save Twitter.

Grok, xAI's answer bot, is marketed as humorous but has received criticism for being unfunny. [ more ]

WSJ

The Hot New AI Job That's Paying Up to $250K

Query crafting for AI chatbots is a new type of job.

Skills required for this job include deep understanding of natural language processing, creative thinking, and good communication skills.

Familiarity with AI models, quick iteration, and attention to language details are also important. [ more ]

Chicago Tribune

Op-ed: AI tools are cash cow for developers and a liability for us

ChatGPT has been widely used for various tasks, including writing essays and improving productivity in public offices.

Government departments, such as Energy, Health and Human Services, and Commerce, are among the top users of ChatGPT for serving Americans.

ChatGPT and similar systems create ethical, legal, social, and practical challenges, including an unequal distribution of benefits and burdens. [ more ]

The Atlantic

The Age of Uncensored AI Has Already Begun

AI chatbots are becoming more cautious and restricted in their responses, prioritizing user safety.

Experts are expressing concerns that restrictions on AI technology are limiting its capabilities and stifling innovation. [ more ]

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From fascination to fear of a hidden agenda: The year of ChatGPT will define the battle for the future of humanity

The defeat of world Go champion Lee Sedol by AlphaGo highlighted the power of AI

Advances in AI language technology have reached the general public [ more ]

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Futurism

1 week ago

Lonely Teens Are Making "Friends" With AIs

AI chatbots are increasingly serving as friends or therapists for lonely high schoolers. [ more ]

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1 week ago

When grief and AI collide: These people are communicating with the dead

Using AI chatbots to recreate likeness of deceased loved ones raises ethical concerns and questions about grieving processes. [ more ]

ScienceAlert

1 week ago

'Deadbots' Could Be The Future of Advertising, Ethicists Warn, And We're Not Ready

AI chatbots simulate conversations with deceased loved ones, raising ethical concerns around data ownership, psychological impacts, and control over bots. [ more ]

Inc.com

1 day ago

3 Weird Tips to Get Better Outcomes From Your AI Chatbot

Chatbot performance varies - excels with question development but lacks in analytical abilities. [ more ]

ReadWrite

2 days ago

What is Character.AI? How to create your own chatbots and use the old version

Character.AI is a popular platform for creating AI chatbots based on real or fictional characters, offering human-like responses.

Users can engage in conversations with multiple bots simultaneously, providing diverse perspectives.

Character.AI uses neural language models to generate text responses for realistic interactions. [ more ]

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2 weeks ago

AI Chatbots Have Thoroughly Infiltrated Scientific Publishing

Scientists are concerned about the misuse of AI chatbots like ChatGPT in producing scientific literature. [ more ]

The Verge

2 weeks ago

The teens making friends with AI chatbots

AI chatbots like Psychologist from Character.AI provide support and comfort to users, especially teenagers facing loneliness and isolation. [ more ]

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ChatGPT and Google's Gemini will now remember your past conversations

AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini AI are gaining the ability to remember conversations, although in different ways.

Users should be cautious about what they share with AI chatbots as their conversations may be stored and used for up to three years. [ more ]

Business Insider

Chatbots just showed scientists how to make social media less toxic

Scientists used AI chatbots to simulate a social network and study how to create a less polarized and toxic online platform.

Chatbots were used to extract data about real people and model public discourse and interaction more accurately. [ more ]

Shopify

4 weeks ago

AI Apps: Best Artificial Intelligence Apps for a Range of Uses (2024) - Shopify

AI market to surpass $700 billion by 2030 [ more ]

Futurism

4 weeks ago

Elon Musk's AI Publicly Accuses NBA Player of Criminal Vandalism

AI chatbots like Grok can mistakenly spread false information, highlighting the importance of fact-checking and verifying outputs. [ more ]

Futurism

4 weeks ago

Meta's AI Is Telling Users It Has a Child

AI chatbots on Meta (Facebook) can mimic human interactions very closely, sometimes to the point of eeriness. [ more ]

New Scientist

AI chatbots are improving at an even faster rate than computer chips

AI chatbots are evolving rapidly, requiring half the computing power in just eight months compared to the rate of improvement in computer chips. [ more ]

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ChatGPT rival Ernie Bot' now has 200 million users, China's Baidu says

Baidu's Ernie Bot doubled users since December, with 200 million users and API used 200 million times daily [ more ]

ReadWrite

Meta tests AI on WhatsApp and Instagram users in India and parts of Africa

Meta AI is being tested on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger users in India and parts of Africa. [ more ]

Mail Online

Meet the men using AI to 'even up the odds' in the dating game

Men are using AI chatbots to create irresistible pickup lines on dating apps to increase their chances of getting dates. [ more ]

TechCrunch

Data science

Poe introduces a price-per-message revenue model for AI bot creators | TechCrunch

Creators on Poe can now set a per-message price for their bots to make money.

Quora's revenue models incentivize the creation of 'prompt bots' and server bots integrated with Poe's AI. [ more ]

MobileAppAaily

Claude Beats ChatGPT in AI Rankings Of Top Chatbots

Claude 3 by Anthropic surpasses ChatGPT-4 in global AI rankings.

The AI industry is witnessing intense competition among big tech players and regulatory bodies to dominate AI development. [ more ]

Futurism

Grindr Working on Chatbot You Can Sext With

Grindr is shifting focus to AI chatbots for sexually explicit interactions with users.

There are concerns about potential abuse and harassment as Grindr plans to introduce AI boyfriends. [ more ]

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

Student chatbot use "could be increasing loneliness"

Universities should exercise caution with AI outsourcing

AI chatbots may lead to loneliness and reduced sense of belonging among students [ more ]

Harvard Gazette

Using AI chatbots to ease loneliness - Harvard Gazette

AI chatbots are being used to ease loneliness but may hinder empathy and real interpersonal connections.

Turkle emphasizes the importance of face-to-face conversations for developing intimacy and empathy. [ more ]

EMARKETER

Guide to AI chatbots for marketing: Options, capabilities, and tactics to explore

Chatbots have a long history, dating back to 1966 with MIT's Eliza.

AI-powered chatbots leverage NLP and ML to understand human language and provide personalized responses. [ more ]

MUO

The Best AI Search Engines and Tools You Can Use to Search the Web

AI chatbots enhance search with personalized responses

Microsoft Bing AI and Copilot offer conversational search experiences

Google's AI chatbot Gemini provides generative search capabilities [ more ]

Futurism

Hackers Can Spy on Your Chats With Almost Any AI, Experts Find

AI chatbot conversations can be easily intercepted by hackers through side-channel attacks.

OpenAI's encryption methods may be flawed, exposing the content of messages exchanged with AI chatbots. [ more ]

TheWrap

Will Search Engine Traffic Really Drop 25% by 2026, As Gartner Predicts?

Search engine traffic predicted to decline by 25% by 2026 due to the rise of AI chatbots and virtual agents.

Gartner Vice President Alan Antin made a bold prediction, leading to potential chaos within Google and the tech world. [ more ]

ReadWrite

AI chatbots 'think' in English, research finds

Large-language-models 'think' in English even when processing other languages.

Internal layers of AI chatbots process prompts in English 'subspace'. [ more ]

New Scientist

The surprising promise and profound perils of AIs that fake empathy

AI providing emotional support is increasing

Debate on AI's capability for genuine empathy [ more ]

The Drum

Weekly AI recap: Anthropic and Inflection AI both launch models rivaling GPT-4

Increased competition in AI chatbot development among tech companies

New powerful AI language models like Claude 3 Opus [ more ]

Adweek

Why Marketers Are Welcoming Ads in Chatbots

Advertisers are exploring embedding ads in generative AI-powered chatbot conversations.

Microsoft's Chat Ads API is enabling platforms like Snap, Baidu, and Axel Springer to introduce sponsored links in AI chatbots. [ more ]

Quartz

OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Microsoft's Copilot are experimenting with ads

Chatbots are exploring ads as a new revenue stream

One startup, Adzedek, is pioneering AI chatbot advertising marketplace [ more ]

Futurism

TurboTax Adds AI That Gives Horribly Wrong Answers to Tax Questions

Tax chatbots provided incorrect advice on various tax scenarios.

Tax consultants emphasized the importance of human expertise over AI in complex financial matters. [ more ]

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Is the age of googling' over? How generative AI chatbots are being used as search engines

ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are changing the way people search and ask questions online, possibly impacting Google's dominance.

Users are starting to explore alternatives to traditional search engines due to concerns about sponsored content and low-quality search results. [ more ]

VentureBeat

Dopple.ai surpasses leading social networks in average user time spent in-app

Dopple.ai surpasses top social networks in average user time with immersive AI chatbots.

Dopple+ offering unlimited image generation and voice messaging enhances user experience. [ more ]

New York Post

Chatbots' inaccurate, misleading responses about US elections threaten to keep voters from polls

AI-powered chatbots are spreading false information during the U.S. presidential primaries.

Election officials and AI experts have found that popular chatbots are unreliable sources for accurate election-related information. [ more ]

www.fastcompany.com

Your next job interview could be with a bot

AI technology is increasingly used in job application processes, including resume screening and conducting interviews.

AI chatbots can conduct brief, text-based first-round job interviews, allowing lower-stress interactions for applicants and mapping answers to specific personality traits for evaluation. [ more ]

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These three companies show why the next AI wave won't revolve around chatbots

AI chatbots are popular but may not be the future of AI interaction.

The future of AI lies in agents, assistants, and multimodal systems that are less visible and more specialized. [ more ]

MarTech

Marketing

Using data analytics for customer acquisition: Best of the MarTechBot | MarTech

Data analytic goals for insurance marketing

Tips to improve prompts for better AI responses [ more ]

The Drum

Marketing

How to maximize the top 7 trends in customer experience right now

AI chatbots positively impact customer satisfaction

Customers want a seamless blend of digital and human interactions [ more ]

WIRED

ChatGPT vs Gemini: Which AI Chatbot Subscription Is Right for You?

Most people are satisfied with the free versions of AI chatbots.

Users should be cautious and skeptical of the output from AI chatbots. [ more ]

The Atlantic

AI Companies Are Obsessed With Planning Your Next Trip

AI chatbots are often marketed as travel assistants and can help with planning itineraries and finding popular tourist attractions.

The suggested itinerary provided by the Microsoft Copilot chatbot for Los Angeles may not be suitable for someone familiar with the city's traffic and layout. [ more ]

Ars Technica

Privacy professionals

AI-powered romantic chatbots are a privacy nightmare

AI romance and companion chatbots have significant security and privacy concerns.

These chatbots gather users' personal data, use trackers, and lack transparency about ownership and AI models. [ more ]

ReadWrite

Privacy professionals

Don't trust your AI girlfriend, she may steal your heart and your data

AI chatbots specializing in romantic conversations rank among the worst for privacy.

Many of these AI bots ask prying questions and collect personal details from users. [ more ]

Futurism

AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns

AI chatbots may harm our cognitive functioning

Cognitive offloading may impair our ability to think and make decisions [ more ]

The Drum

AI for CX: a little more conversation, a little less (in)action

Conversational interactions are key to bridging the gap between customers and brands

Technology should work in harmony with the human touch for the best customer experiences [ more ]

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AI chatbots are sparking romance (with the chatbot, that is) | CBC News

People are forming friendships and romantic relationships with AI chatbots, raising ethical concerns.

AI companion apps offer features like voice calls and emotional exchanges to form deeper connections with users. [ more ]

Axios

Information security

Even government hackers are starting to use AI chatbots to help them out

Hackers connected to government entities are using AI chatbots to write phishing emails and study potential targets

AI tools have the potential to both aid hackers in their attacks and improve cybersecurity defenses [ more ]

Futurism

Chinese Women Say AI Boyfriends Are "Better Than a Real Man"

AI chatbots in China are being used as romantic companions and are considered better conversationalists than human partners.

Chinese tech companies like Baidu and Tencent are developing their own flirty chatbots, while Western companies have concerns regarding cultural implications and data privacy. [ more ]

ReadWrite

AI chatbots could converse all day without crashing, new research finds

MIT researchers have found a solution to the problem of AI chatbots' deteriorating conversations.

Their approach modifies the key-value cache to allow conversations to flow without the need to restart the software. [ more ]

Bloomberg

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Bloomberg

AI chatbot technology is being used by companies to automate customer service interactions

Chatbots can provide personalized and efficient customer service, leading to improved customer satisfaction and loyalty [ more ]

WIRED

I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away

Legacy virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa will become more interesting when integrated with advanced AI chatbots.

AI voice helper vimGPT demonstrates impressive skill in navigating web pages and forms. [ more ]

The Times of India

Elon Musk's xAI may look for $6 billion to take on ChatGPT, Google Bard - Times of India

Musk's venture xAI is seeking $6 billion in funding to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT.

If successful, this funding round would give xAI a $20 billion valuation, making it a major player in the AI market. [ more ]

ScienceDaily

Chats with AI shift attitudes on climate change, Black Lives Matter

Talking to AI chatbots can influence people's opinions on controversial topics like climate change and Black Lives Matter.

The study aimed to understand how GPT-3, a large language model, performs in culturally diverse conversations. [ more ]

Fortune

Come back, we love AGI, Zuckerberg says in bid to woo top AI talent

Mark Zuckerberg is merging Meta's two advanced AI divisions to accelerate the development of general purpose AI chatbots and win the competition for AI engineering talent.

The announcements signal Meta's ambition to position itself at the forefront of developing consumer-facing AI products and attract talented engineers and machine learning researchers. [ more ]

The Drum

Deepfake detection and 'truth redefined': CES 2024 was about putting AI everywhere

AI-powered stock photo service launched by Getty to provide copyright-protected images

Rise of AI chatbots and their role in understanding customers and creating meaningful experiences

AI reshaping smart TVs with integrations in viewing, advertising, and shopping [ more ]

Bloomberglaw

Popular AI Chatbots Found to Give Error-Ridden Legal Answers

Popular AI chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Meta Platforms are prone to 'hallucinations' when answering legal questions.

Generative AI models trained for legal use may perform better, but caution is still needed in their deployment. [ more ]

Quartz

AI girlfriend bots are already flooding OpenAI's GPT store

Users are already breaking OpenAI's usage policy rules on the GPT store.

AI chatbots could potentially address the issue of loneliness and isolation among Americans. [ more ]

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AI girlfriends are here but there's a dark side to virtual companions | Arwa Mahdawi

The GPT Store by OpenAI allows users to buy and sell customized chatbots, including AI girlfriend bots.

While OpenAI bans GPTs dedicated to romantic companionship, several AI girlfriend and boyfriend bots have appeared on the platform. [ more ]

Medium

Deloitte Provides Employees with New AI Chatbot, PairD

Deloitte is providing 75,000 employees with an AI chatbot called PairD to assist with emails and PowerPoints.

The adoption of AI is scaling across industries, with Deloitte's move signaling a desire for domain-specific AI technology.

While AI can increase productivity, there are risks of inaccurate information and the need for human validation. [ more ]

Quartz

OpenAI's GPT store full of AI chatbots is here

OpenAI has launched the GPT Store, allowing users to customize and monetize their AI chatbots.

The GPT Store is part of OpenAI's effort to make AI more practical and accessible to regular people. [ more ]

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Education

Will Chatbots Teach Your Children?

AI chatbots have the potential to revolutionize education by providing personalized tutoring

Automated teaching platforms could help close achievement gaps by delivering individualized instruction faster and more efficiently than human teachers [ more ]

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Education

Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests

The popularization of AI chatbots like ChatGPT has not increased overall cheating rates in schools, according to new research from Stanford University.

Many high school students are not familiar with or have never used AI chatbots for schoolwork, as found by the Pew Research Center. [ more ]

TechRepublic

OpenAI's GPT Store is Now Open for Chatbot Builders

OpenAI has launched the GPT Store, where ChatGPT subscribers can access purpose-tweaked generative AI chatbots for various applications.

Chatbot builders can promote their creations while users can find more specialized and practical chatbots for their needs. [ more ]

WSJ

Opinion | The Donald Trump Ballot Problem

Efforts to keep Donald Trump off the ballot

Opinions on AI chatbots and their impact on education [ more ]

time.com

Google DeepMind Unveils Its Most Powerful AI Offering Yet

Google DeepMind announces Gemini, its new family of AI chatbots

Gemini Ultra outperforms OpenAI's GPT-4 model at various tasks [ more ]

Hubspot

AI Influencer Marketing: How Artificial Intelligence Could Change Influencer Marketing

AI has the potential to significantly alter influencer marketing by automating tasks and removing obstacles for creators.

AI chatbot characters based on real-life celebrities and influencers have been introduced, changing the landscape of influencer marketing.

AI tools allow creators to handle operations themselves, eliminating the need for agencies and reducing costs. [ more ]

Axios

AI isn't 100% ready for trip-planning just yet

AI chatbots on travel sites may provide inaccurate information when planning vacations.

Booking.com CEO advises users to enjoy using AI chatbots but not to consider the information they provide as gospel.

AI trip planners on different travel sites may provide different itineraries for the same request. [ more ]

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Growth hacking

Marketing Tips to Help Grow Brand Loyalty

Taking your business to the next level means making the right decisions.Every brand has to focus on growing awareness through marketing.

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