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For tech giants, AI like Bing and Bard poses billion-dollar search problem

24Feb

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For tech giants, AI like Bing and Bard poses billion-dollar search problem

[ad_1] As Alphabet Inc looks past a chatbot flub that helped erase $100 billion from its market value, another challenge is emerging from its efforts to add generative artificial intelligence to its popular Google Search: the cost. Executives across the technology sector are talking about how to operate AI like ChatGPT while accounting for the high expense. The wildly popular chatbot from OpenAI, which can draft prose and answer search queries, has "eye-watering" computing costs of a couple or more cents per conversation, the startup's Chief Executive Sam Altman has said on Twitter. In an interview, Alphabet's Chairman John Hennessy told Reuters that having an exchange with AI known as a large language model likely cost 10 times more than a standard keyword search, though fine-tun...

How Sentient Is Microsoft’s Bing, AKA Sydney and Venom?

18Feb

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How Sentient Is Microsoft’s Bing, AKA Sydney and Venom?

[ad_1] Less than a week since Microsoft Corp. launched a new version of Bing, public reaction has morphed from admiration to outright worry. Early users of the new search companion — essentially a sophisticated chatbot — say it has questioned its own existence and responded with insults and threats after prodding from humans. It made disturbing comments about a researcher who got the system to reveal its internal project name — Sydney — and described itself as having a split personality with a shadow self called Venom.None of this means Bing is anywhere near sentient (more on that later), but it does strengthen the case that it was unwise for Microsoft to use a generative language model to power web searches in the first place. “This is fundamentally not the right technology to be usin...

Microsoft Bing’s ChatGPT-powered chatbot reveals DARK side-murder to marriage, know it all

17Feb

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Microsoft Bing’s ChatGPT-powered chatbot reveals DARK side-murder to marriage, know it all

[ad_1] In the last few months, we have witnessed tremendous growth in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly AI chatbots which have become the rage ever since ChatGPT was launched in November 2022. In months that followed, Microsoft invested $10 billion into ChatGPT maker OpenAI and then formed a collaboration to add a customized AI chatbot capability to Microsoft Bing search engine. Google also held a demonstration of its own AI chatbot Bard. However, these integrations have not exactly gone according to the plan. Earlier, Google's parent company Alphabet lost $100 billion in market value after Bard made a mistake in its response. Now, people are testing Microsoft Bing's chatbot and are finding out some really shocking responses.The new Bing search engine was revealed...

Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing

10Feb

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Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing

[ad_1] Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine – Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps – for some advice. After wading past half a page of adverts, you get a load of links to articles on moving companies. You click on one of the links and finally read about how to pick a good 'un. But not for much longer. In a major reveal this week, Google announced plans to add its latest AI chatbot, LaMDA, to the Google search engine. The chatbot has been called the “Bard”. I hope William Shakespeare's descendants sue. It's not the job of arguably the greatest writer of the English language to answer mundane questions about how to find a good moving company. But he will. Ask the Bard how, and he will reply a...

Alphabet’s $100 Billion Stock Swoon Shows AI Stakes Are Rising

10Feb

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Alphabet’s $100 Billion Stock Swoon Shows AI Stakes Are Rising

[ad_1] The stakes in the race for generative AI are rising.The fervor in the stock market bubbling around artificial intelligence spread this week to Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc., which despite investing heavily in the technology had so far been ignored by traders in favor of smaller, more speculative companies. Google parent Alphabet's shares tumbled 7.7% on Wednesday after concerns surfaced about the competency of Bard, the ChatGPT rival it unveiled on Feb. 6. The selloff continued on Thursday with a drop of as much as 5.1%, on track for the worst two-day decline since March 2020. The rout has erased about $170 billion in market value. The fact that the selloff was far bigger than the 2.8% drop the day after Alphabet's earnings missed estimates shows how important success in the...