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Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead?

Amazon’s virtual shelves already feature books written by artificial intelligence. One startup believes that even titles written by humans would benefit from some AI, in the form of an accompanying chatbot primed...

AI Is Becoming More Powerful—but Also More Secretive

When OpenAI published details of the stunningly capable AI language model GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT, in March, its researchers filled 100 pages. They also left out a few important details—like anything substantial...

The US Just Escalated Its AI Chip War With China

A year ago, the US government introduced chip sanctions aimed at hobbling China’s ability to develop advanced artificial intelligence. But those sanctions had loopholes that allowed Chinese firms to keep buying and...

AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type

The way you talk can reveal a lot about you—especially if you're talking to a chatbot. New research reveals that chatbots like ChatGPT can infer a lot of sensitive information about the...

The Chatbots Are Now Talking to Each Other

Lena Anderson isn’t a soccer fan, but she does spend a lot of time ferrying her kids between soccer practices and competitive games.“I may not pull out a foam finger and painted...

Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search

Web search is such a routine part of daily life that it’s easy to forget how marvelous it is. Type into a little text box and a complex array of technologies—vast data...

Six Months Ago Elon Musk Called for a Pause on AI. Instead Development Sped Up

Six months ago this week, many prominent AI researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause on development of AI systems more capable than OpenAI’s latest GPT-4...

FedEx’s New Robot Loads Delivery Trucks Like It’s Playing 3D Tetris

FedEx unveiled a two-armed robot called DexR this week that’s designed to automate one of the trickiest tasks facing the company’s human employees—loading a truck with packages.The new robot aims to use...

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