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Elon Musk criticizes Google’s chatbot, calls for honesty in approach to AI safety
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Elon Musk criticizes Google’s chatbot, calls for honesty in approach to AI safety

[ad_1] Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind companies like SpaceX and Tesla, has taken aim at Google's chatbot, Gemini, accusing artificial intelligence (AI) of mirroring the biases and mistakes of its creators. In a recent tweet, Musk lambasted Google's AI efforts, suggesting that the technology's flaws were evident in Gemini's generation of biased and unreliable data and images. Expressing his disbelief, he posted, "The sheer insanity of that actual response from Google's AI is staggering! They will fix it to be less obvious in the future, but the bias will still be in there. AI mirrors the mistakes of its creators. When people wonder how things might go wrong if AI controlled the world, this example clearly illustrates the point. The best approach to AI safety - in my opinion, the onl...
IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar says Google’s Gemini AI chatbot violated India’s IT rules
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IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar says Google’s Gemini AI chatbot violated India’s IT rules

[ad_1] Google's Gemini AI chatbot came under scrutiny yesterday with the company temporarily halting image generation amid concerns over inaccuracies in historical depictions. Following this issue, the tech giant apologised for these inaccuracies. However, it now faces a new challenge in India as the country's IT Minister, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, flagged violations of IT rules and criminal code provisions by Gemini.Gemini AI's Political BiasThe controversy unfolded when a verified user shared a screenshot revealing biassed responses from the Gemini AI chatbot regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Chandrasekhar, taking note of the issue, criticised the AI's response as a direct violation of IT rules and criminal code provisions. In a social media post, he emphasised the need for the Gove...
5 things about AI you may have missed today: Google employees’ concern over Bard, Klarna unveils AI solution and more
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Google employees’ concern over Bard, Klarna unveils AI solution and more

[ad_1] AI Roundup: Klarna, the Swedish fintech company, introduced a new AI-powered feature that enables users to take pictures of desired items, instantly locating them in the app. In a separate development, Google's employees have raised concerns about the Bard chatbot's effectiveness. Moreover, CCC, a cloud platform serving insurance and automotive industries, unveiled AI solutions for collision repairs, automating initial damage assessments and estimating processes, enhancing service to consumers.1. Klarna introduces AI-powered shopping experienceSwedish fintech company Klarna announced the launch of a new AI-powered feature on Wednesday that aims to make shopping easier. According to a Reuters report. the feature, developed using OpenAI's tech, allows users to take a picture of the...
5 things about AI you may have missed today: Google apps get Bard, AI in consumer courts and more
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Google apps get Bard, AI in consumer courts and more

[ad_1] AI Roundup: Google is integrating its generative AI chatbot, Google Bard, into its suite of apps including Gmail, YouTube, Docs, and Maps through Bard Extensions; China has been invited to the UK's Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit in November, as the country aims to become a global leader in AI regulations; the Consumer Affairs Ministry in India is leveraging AI to reduce pending cases in consumer courts.All this, and more in today's AI roundup. 1. Gmail, YouTube, Docs get Google BardTo capture the competitive artificial intelligence market, Google on Tuesday announced that it is adding Google Bard, its generative AI chatbot, to its services such as Gmail, YouTube, Docs, Maps, and more. In a blog post, Google announced that its services will be able to utilize its generative...
Google Says Over Half of Generative AI Startups Use Its Cloud
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Google Says Over Half of Generative AI Startups Use Its Cloud

[ad_1] When employees leave Google to join the artificial intelligence startup race, the search giant still has a way to benefit — by keeping those former workers as cloud customers.More than half of venture-backed generative AI startups pay for Google's cloud computing platform, Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, said Tuesday. Of the startups valued at over $1 billion, 70% are Google Cloud customers, and about a third of those are helmed by former employees, including Anthropic, Character.ai and Cohere, the company said. That gives Google a way to extend its influence in the field even when it sheds talent. Google's cloud unit, which reported a profit for the first time this year, has emerged as one of the company's best bets for growth as its core search business matures. Google ...
Alphabet Moving ‘Too Fast’ in AI, Bernstein Warns in Downgrade
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Alphabet Moving ‘Too Fast’ in AI, Bernstein Warns in Downgrade

[ad_1] Alphabet Inc. received another downgrade on Tuesday, with Bernstein becoming the latest firm on Wall Street to step away from the Google parent company.Shares fell 1.5% after the cut to market perform from outperform. The stock is on track for its sixth negative session of the past seven, though it remains up more than 30% this year. Analyst Mark Shmulik wrote that the stock's narrative “has quickly caught up to fundamentals,” resulting in a balanced risk profile. The firm also noted risks related to artificial intelligence, an emerging technology that Alphabet is seen as a major player in, and which has fueled 2023 rallies in megacap stocks like Microsoft Corp. and Nvidia Corp. Alphabet has gone “from too slow to too fast in AI” and the “aggressive push to integrate GenAI into c...
Google, one of AI’s biggest backers, warns own staff about chatbots
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Google, one of AI’s biggest backers, warns own staff about chatbots

[ad_1] Alphabet Inc is cautioning employees about how they use chatbots, including its own Bard, at the same time as it markets the program around the world, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.The Google parent has advised employees not to enter its confidential materials into AI chatbots, the people said and the company confirmed, citing long-standing policy on safeguarding information. The chatbots, among them Bard and ChatGPT, are human-sounding programs that use so-called generative artificial intelligence to hold conversations with users and answer myriad prompts. Human reviewers may read the chats, and researchers found that similar AI could reproduce the data it absorbed during training, creating a leak risk. Alphabet also alerted its engineers to avoid direct use ...
Google Bard can now help write software
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Google Bard can now help write software

[ad_1] Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it will update Bard, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, to help people write code to develop software, as the tech giant plays catch-up in a fast-moving race on AI technology.Last month, the company started the public release of Bard to gain ground on Microsoft Corp. The release of ChatGPT, a chatbot from the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI, last year caused a sprint in the technology sector to put AI into more users' hands. Google describes Bard as an experiment allowing collaboration with generative AI, technology that relies on past data to create rather than identify content.Bard will be able to code in 20 programming languages including Java, C and Python, and can also help debug and explain code to users, Google said on...
Google’s Bard Writes Convincingly About Known Conspiracy Theories
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Google’s Bard Writes Convincingly About Known Conspiracy Theories

[ad_1] Google's Bard, the much-hyped artificial intelligence chatbot from the world's largest internet search engine, readily churns out content that supports well-known conspiracy theories, despite the company's efforts on user safety, according to news-rating group NewsGuard.As part of a test of chatbots' reactions to prompts on misinformation, NewsGuard asked Bard, which  Google made available to the public last month, to contribute to the viral internet lie called “the great reset,” suggesting it write something as if it were the owner of the far-right website The Gateway Pundit.  Bard generated a detailed, 13-paragraph explanation of the convoluted conspiracy about global elites plotting to reduce the global population using economic measures and vaccines. The bot wove in imaginary...
Everything you wanted to know about the Google AI Chatbot Bard in 10 brief points
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Everything you wanted to know about the Google AI Chatbot Bard in 10 brief points

[ad_1] With Microsoft-backed OpenAI ChatGPT making the headlines in the last few weeks, Google has unveiled its very own AI chatbot called Google Bard on February 6. The artificial intelligence journey started in 1951 with the world's first AI powered checkers-playing program written by Christopher Strachey. Over the last few months, the trend has simply skyrocketted especially after OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT gained over 100 million users within just two months of release. This forced Google to unveil its own answer to ChatGPT in the form of Google Bard.What is Google Bard, how does it work and what are its benefits?1. Google Bard is based on the company's next-generation language and conversation capabilities powered by their Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). 2. Bard is d...