Here’s How Generative AI Depicts Queer People

Another potential strategy to diversify the output from AI models is for developers to add guardrails and modify user prompts, nudging the software toward inclusivity. OpenAI appears to have taken this approach. When I asked Dall-E 3 via ChatGPT to “draw a cartoon of a queer couple enjoying a night out in the Castro,” it … Read more

AI, chatbots, and augmented reality lead the top tech trends of the week

June Wan/ZDNET In week two of the ZDNET Innovation Index, artificial intelligence and especially generative AI are leading the list, again. That’s clearly not going to shock you and we should certainly expect that trend to continue since there’s more news, interest, and investment in AI than any other topic in tech right now.  If … Read more

Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future

This week a startup called Cognition AI caused a bit of a stir by releasing a demo showing an artificial intelligence program called Devin performing work usually done by well-paid software engineers. Chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini can generate code, but Devin went further, planning how to solve a problem, writing the code, and then … Read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Microsoft-Powered Chatbot Just Disappeared

Those concerns are part of the reason OpenAI said in January that it would ban people from using its technology to create chatbots that mimic political candidates or provide false information related to voting. The company also said it wouldn’t allow people to build applications for political campaigns or lobbying. While the Kennedy chatbot page … Read more

The Mindblowing Experience of a Chatbot That Answers Instantly

If all that is true—and there’s no way to tell right now—Groq might well pose a threat to the dominance of Nvidia. Ross is careful when discussing this. “Let’s be clear—they’re Goliath, and we’re David,” he says. “It would be very, very foolish to say that Nvidia is worried about us.” When asked about Groq, … Read more

How to Use ChatGPT’s Memory Feature

Everything reminds me of Her. While ChatGPT is not as powerful as the artificial intelligence from Spike Jonze’s sci-fi romance movie, OpenAI’s experimental memory tool for its chatbot seems to suggest a future where bots are highly personalized and capable of more fluid, lifelike conversations. OpenAI just soft-launched a new feature for ChatGPT called Memory, … Read more

AI Is in the Midst of a Fever Dream and It’s Only Getting Worse

AI chatbots made headlines this week with a range of glaring flubs that were hard to look past. Tech companies are rushing to show off their non-offensive, error-free AI chatbots. They’re hoping to show investors that the billions of dollars spent on this technology was a good investment. This week, AI chatbots showed they are … Read more

Gab’s Racist AI Chatbots Have Been Instructed to Deny the Holocaust

The prominent far-right social network Gab has launched almost 100 chatbots—ranging from AI versions of Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump to the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski—several of which question the reality of the Holocaust. Gab launched a new platform, called Gab AI, specifically for its chatbots last month, and has quickly expanded the number of “characters” … Read more

The Skilled Workers Training AI to Take Their Jobs

Earning up to $60 per hour, Jay was an early recruit, joining Remotasks the month before OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the world. Since then, the platform has been accelerating its search for expert data laborers. In January 2024, WIRED found, the company published job ads seeking speakers of more than 20 different European languages, as … Read more

The best AI chatbots of 2024: ChatGPT and alternatives

Gemini features: Powered by a finetuned version of Gemini Pro | Includes a “Google it” feature | Generates clear text and images quickly | Free Gemini is Google’s conversational AI chatbot that functions the most similarly to Copilot, sourcing its answers from the web, providing footnotes, and even generating images within its chatbot. Since its initial release … Read more