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Experts warn chatbots like ChatGPT and LaMDA pose a “hallucination” problem, reshaping what they have learned without regard for whether the end result is true — Siri, Google Search, online marketing and your child's homework will never be the same. Then there's the misinformation problem.
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Some early-adopters are using ChatGPT, GPT-3, and other text generators to write business emails, understand class material, find creative inspiration, and more — The latest AI sensation, ChatGPT, is easy to talk to, bad at math and often deceptively, confidently wrong.
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Elon Musk tweets an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation and baselessly suggests the former Twitter executive is an advocate for child sexualization — Elon Musk posted tweets including an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation Saturday that suggested the former Twitter executive …
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| Kit Rees / Bloomberg: |
Even after recent declines, FAANG stocks still account for 10%+ of the S&P 500 weighting, so subpar performance in coming years will be a big drag on the market — For some investors, this year's rout in high-flying technology stocks is more than a bear market: It's the end of an era …
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With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it's easy to make damaging deepfakes using just a few images of a person from social media — AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures. — If you're one of the billions … | Eric Levitz / New York Magazine: |
With the “Twitter Files”, Elon Musk has become an egregious example of what he wanted to expose: managers leveraging their social platforms for partisan ends — But it is actually a tool of progressive power. While you were hypnotized by viral memes, a cabal …
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Twitter's Community Notes, the crowd-powered feature to fact check tweets previously known as Birdwatch, starts rolling out to all users globally — Twitter has begun rolling out Community Notes to all of its users globally, the company announced on Saturday.
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| Dara Kerr / The Markup: |
Uber's slow response to law enforcement requests and a complex request process are leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks by riders using fake accounts — An investigation by The Markup found that Uber is slow to respond to law enforcement requests, leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Layoffs and rescinded job offers are threatening Amazon's reputation in the tech job market, where it was already facing challenges, per a leaked June 2022 memo — A leaked memo shows Amazon was concerned with attracting and retaining top engineers earlier this year.| Adam Rawnsley / Rolling Stone: |
Ex-staffers say Twitter's mass firing of security staff and growing reliance on automation will help China and other authoritarian regimes in silencing critics — Elon's mass firing of security staff and increased reliance on automation is going to make it easier for tyrants to shout … | Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: |
How AI-based natural language processing algorithms can be applied to biological data to create protein-language models and cut drug discovery time to months — Natural language processing algorithms like the ones used in Google searches and OpenAI's ChatGPT promise to slash the time required to bring medications to market
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