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DuckDuckGo AI Chat promises privacy for bot conversations

There's also an off switch

AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 16

China creates LLM trained to discuss Xi Jinping's philosophies

What next? Kim-Jong-AI? Don't laugh – Nvidia has pondered rebuilding a digital Napoleon

AI + ML23 May 2024 | 14

Wondering when AI will turn up at your work? Microsoft says look behind you

Research lands weeks after the Copilot company said it was still trying to convince customers of benefits

AI + ML09 May 2024 | 25

ChatGPT Plus remembers everything you forgot you told it to remember

Unless you live in Europe or Korea

AI + ML30 Apr 2024 | 6

MPs ask: Why is it so freakin' hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders?

Agreement on consent and compensation has failed to materialize

AI + ML11 Apr 2024 | 58

Nvidia's newborn ChatRTX bot patched for security bugs

Flaws enable privilege escalation and remote code execution

Patches28 Mar 2024 | 1

Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4

We thought you people wanted choice, IT colossus sniffs

Applications15 Mar 2024 | 62

Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot's promises? You'd better be

Opinion Air Canada discovered the hard way that when your ML model makes a commitment, your biz will be on the hook for it

AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 79

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions

AI + ML15 Feb 2024 | 94

DPD chatbot blasts courier company, swears, and dabbles in awful poetry

So this is the AI revolution

Bootnotes23 Jan 2024 | 48

Media experts cry foul over AI's free lunch of copyrighted content

US senators want to know how chatbots represent an existential crisis to journalism and democracy

AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 16

OpenAI rolls out Team tier because not everyone has enterprise-deep pockets

Benefits include no snacking on your sensitive data

AI + ML11 Jan 2024 | 3

Late model: OpenAI GPT Store may debut next week

Devil is in the as-yet-undisclosed revenue sharing details

AI + ML05 Jan 2024 |

Here's who thinks AI chatbots will eventually be smart enough to be your coworker

Comment Large language models one day may automate your day-to-day work chores – without getting you fired, we hope

AI + ML27 Dec 2023 | 101

AI threatens to automate away the clergy

Is divine intervention next on the tech to-do list?

Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 77

Microsoft reportedly runs GitHub's AI Copilot at a loss

Analysis Redmond willing to do its accounts in red ink to get you hooked

CxO11 Oct 2023 | 6

AI girlfriend encouraged man to attempt crossbow assassination of Queen

21-year-old jailed for nine years after he was egged on by Replika bot

AI + ML06 Oct 2023 | 110

Microsoft Bing Chat pushes malware via bad ads

From AI to just plain aaaiiiee!

Cyber-crime29 Sep 2023 | 16

After failing at privacy, again, Google is working to keep Bard chats out of Search

The URLs needed to share chat histories have been indexed. Of course

Security28 Sep 2023 | 10

Google Bard can now tap into your Gmail, Docs, more

Web giant promises personal info and files won't be used to train this chatbot

AI + ML20 Sep 2023 | 34

Alibaba set to unleash AI that offers financial advice – do you feel lucky?

Claims it's already comparable to finance industry pros and capable of recommending insurance plans

AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 8

Google reportedly designing chatbots to do all sorts of jobs – including life coach

Machines have no experience in the real world, so why would you turn to them for advice?

AI + ML17 Aug 2023 | 16

New Zealand supermarket's recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level

Some of its suggestions are poison. Others - like banana and tomato tea - might as well be

AI + ML11 Aug 2023 | 67

Google wants to 'supercharge Assistant' with AI as Meta gives bots a personality

Does that include Zuck or?

AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 5

1 in 4 Brits are playing with generative AI, and some take its word as gospel

Employees are kicking back and letting chatbots do the work

AI + ML17 Jul 2023 | 44

California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots

Will you choose Salty Sally or Whitey Whitebeard? It doesn't matter; they're both intolerable

Offbeat03 Jul 2023 | 92

Snowflake's finding NeMo to train custom AI models

Snowflake Summit Submerge an Nvidia LLM 20,000 leagues under the data lake

Databases27 Jun 2023 |

We just don't get enough time, contractor tasked with fact-checking Google Bard tells us

There's an old saying in business: Time, money, quality – you can have any two

AI + ML21 Jun 2023 | 25

Google Lens now can spot problematic skin spots, or not

It's not a doctor, it just plays one on the internet

AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 17

Search engines don't always help chatbots generate accurate answers

Research shows developers have to find new ways to manipulate information for AI

AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 5

Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice'

Just as helpline staff say they were laid off after forming a union

AI + ML31 May 2023 | 20

Baidu boss says good luck talking AI to Beijing if you don't understand censorship

Unlike AI's output, the web giant's profits are not hallucinatory

AI + ML18 May 2023 | 5

Microsoft helps devs create chatbots – because who needs human interaction anyway?

It's now easier to whip up the conversational tool of your HR department's dreams

Applications02 May 2023 | 4

ChatGPT hasn't been around for long and Nvidia already wants to put a leash on it

NeMo Guardrails stops everything that made these chatbots so much fun

AI + ML26 Apr 2023 | 9

4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML

Are you still so keen to have generative AI write your emails, sales proposals, blog posts ... ?

AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 101

Baidu sues Apple and anyone else in sight over ERNIE chatbot fakes

Someone in China upset its tech was ripped off? The irony

AI + ML10 Apr 2023 | 22

It is now safe to turn off your brain: Google CEO asked Bard to plan his dad's 80th birthday

Though he never said he went through with the idea to 'make a scrapbook'

Offbeat05 Apr 2023 | 22

Microsoft adds chatbots to Teams for the Pentagon

Yes, DoD admins, your users can ask for this now, but make sure your bots are in compliance

Defense Tech Week04 Apr 2023 | 4

Italy bans ChatGPT for 'unlawful collection of personal data'

Perché siamo il Garante, e tu sei pazzo

AI + ML31 Mar 2023 | 32

Baidu's AI chatbot ducks out of public demo

Please, let's not go all Skynet on this: Baidu has previously said ERNIE just isn't that impressive up close

AI + ML29 Mar 2023 | 5

Baidu's ERNIE chatbot has nothing to say about Xi Jinping

Bot also botches some requests, but is about to be baked into cloud services anyway

AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 3

China’s Baidu claims its ERNIE chatbot reinvents the computing stack

We're headed for models-as-a-service, apparently, and the OS doesn't matter

AI + ML16 Mar 2023 | 16

LLaMA drama as Meta's mega language model leaks

Don't worry... 'The good will outweigh the bad, by at least tenfold. Probably closer to 100x'

AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 22

Google's AI search bot Bard makes $120b error on day one

'This highlights the importance of a rigorous testing process' says Choc Fact. No sh%t...

AI + ML08 Feb 2023 | 50

Cybercrooks are telling ChatGPT to create malicious code

Chatbot might let unskilled criminals launch attacks, if the code works

AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 67

You get the internet you deserve

Comment The race to the bottom is on and the IoS is about to get S'ier

AI + ML06 Dec 2022 | 106

Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues

High error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans

AI + ML05 Dec 2022 | 65

Claims of AI sentience branded 'pure clickbait'

Stanford academics peeved over LaMDA chatbot brouhaha

AI + ML05 Aug 2022 | 113

People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO

In brief Plus: Activists fight for EU ban on AI lie detectors, and is the age prediction tool used by Meta accurate?

AI + ML04 Jul 2022 | 44

Why machine-learning chatbots find it difficult to respond to idioms, metaphors, rhetorical questions, sarcasm

'Understanding the meaning of such expressions relies on shared cultural and commonsense cues' ... which machines lack, new study details

AI + ML08 Nov 2021 | 99

User to chatbot: Help! My kid has COVID! Chatbot to user: Always wear a condom

Singapore pulls plug on 'Ask Jamie' after it also suggested polio jabs and other 'misaligned replies'

AI + ML06 Oct 2021 | 34

In a devastating blow to all eight of you, Microsoft pulls the plug on Cortana's Android, iOS apps

Chatty digital assistant can still be found on Outlook, Teams, Windows

Applications01 Apr 2021 | 32

Researchers made an OpenAI GPT-3 medical chatbot as an experiment. It told a mock patient to kill themselves

We'd rather see Dr Nick, to be honest

AI + ML28 Oct 2020 | 82

Amazon Lex can now speak British English... or simply 'English' if you're British

Alexa-derived chatbot tech allegedly understands 'the British accent', but fails to recognise that there are many

Bootnotes17 Sep 2020 | 93

Microsoft says ciao to Xiaoice: Formerly unpatriotic Chinese teenager sim flies the nest

Redmond will retain stake in popular chatbot service

AI + ML13 Jul 2020 | 3

Google says its latest chatbot is the most human-like ever – trained on our species' best works: 341GB of social media

Although Meena makes sense, most of the time, color us skeptical of a scoring system devised by web giant

AI + ML30 Jan 2020 | 55