For the past wk, we’ve tested #AI #chatbots’ on breaking #political stories & found they were largely unable to keep up w/consequential real-time #news. Most didn’t have #current info, gave incorrect answers, or declined to answer & pushed users to check news sources.

W/just months left until the election & bombshell political news dropping at a steady clip, #AIchatbots are distancing themselves from #politics & breaking news or refusing to answer at all.

#tech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/22/ai-chatbots-breaking-news/

#Gartner Predicts #SearchEngine Volume Will Drop 25% by 2026, Due to #AIChatbots and Other #VirtualAgents https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-02-19-gartner-predicts-search-engine-volume-will-drop-25-percent-by-2026-due-to-ai-chatbots-and-other-virtual-agents

Gab’s 91 chatbots spout extremist rhetoric - Far-right social media network Gab has launched 91 new AI chatbots — with the majo... - https://readwrite.com/gabs-91-chatbots-spout-extremist-rhetoric/ #aichatbots #news #ai

Nvidia unveils AI chatbot ‘Chat with RTX’ for local PCs - Nvidia has released an early version of its Chat with RTX, which is a demo that le... - https://readwrite.com/nvidia-unveils-ai-chatbot-chat-with-rtx-for-local-pcs/ #generativeai #aichatbots #nvidia #news #ai

AI chatbots could converse all day without crashing, new research finds - Researchers at MIT have found a solution to the problem of AI chatbots’ deteriorat... - https://readwrite.com/ai-chatbots-could-converse-all-day-without-crashing-new-research-finds/ #aichatbots #chatbot #news #ai

Researchers used an open-source tool to generate malicious prompts that evade content filters in ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing Chat.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjba8/this-ai-chatbot-is-trained-to-jailbreak-other-chatbots?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#AIchatbots #Hacking #security #privacy #chatbots

Amazon.com is rolling out a workplace chatbot to help corporate customers search for information, write code and review business metrics, as its cloud-computing division infuses generative artificial intelligence into more products. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/11/29/companies/amazon-q-ai-chatbot-corporate/?utm_content=buffer9f43a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #business #companies #amazon #aichatbots #openai #chatgpt #aws

How #WashingtonPost uncovered #sources that make #AIchatbots sound so smart. To start, we pursued access to #Google’s #ColossalCleanedCrawledCorpus or #C4 dataset that encapsulates the vast web sources #training #artificialintelligence #models. C4 is a dataset created by applying a set of filters to a single snapshot of #CommonCrawl. Allen Institute extracted all 15.7M domains, shared them w us. Navigating such a vast dataset, however, presented its own set of challenges. https://www.storybench.org/how-the-washington-post-uncovered-the-sources-that-make-ai-chatbots-sound-so-smart/

In their push for AI-generated content, tech companies are dancing on the edge between fucking around and finding out.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xdez/generative-ai-is-a-disaster-and-companies-dont-seem-to-really-care
#AI #machinelearning #AI-generatedimages #Bing #microsoft #meta #AIchatbots

"Even the most impressive #AIchatbots require thousands of human work hours to behave in a way their creators want them to, and even then they do it unreliably. The work can be brutal and upsetting, as we will hear this week when the ACM Conference on #Fairness, #Accountability, and #Transparency (#FAccT) gets underway. It’s a conference that brings together research on things I like to write about, such as how to make #AISystems more #accountable and #ethical." https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/13/1074560/we-are-all-ais-free-data-workers/

The secret to making #AIChatbots sound #smart and #spew less #toxic nonsense is to use a technique called reinforcement learning from #HumanFeedback, which uses input from people to improve the model’s answers. It relies on a small army of #human #data #annotators who evaluate whether a string of text makes sense and sounds fluent and natural. They decide whether a response should be kept in the AI model’s database or removed. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/13/1074560/we-are-all-ais-free-data-workers

The collections industry is pushing GPT-4 as a dystopian new way to make borrowers pay up, replicating the debt system’s long history of racial bias.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjmm5/debt-collectors-want-to-use-ai-chatbots-to-hustle-people-for-money
#AIchatbots #dystopia #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #AI #debt #poverty