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Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales says ChatGPT is “pretty bad”

15Nov

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Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales says ChatGPT is “pretty bad”

[ad_1] Jimmy Wales, the cofounder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia, highlighted the limitations of generative artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT during his session at the opening night of the Web Summit 2023 being hosted in Portugal. Speaking to a full house, Wales highlighted how he found ChatGPT an amazing thing to play with but also feels once you get serious with it, the realization sinks in that it is “pretty bad”. The opinion of the Wikipedia cofounder echoes many other researchers and entrepreneurs who are still not sold on the abilities of the large language model (LLM) and believe its mistakes make it an unreliable work assistant.During the event, which can be watched on the official YouTube channel of the Web Summit, Wales was asked by Ryan Heath, se...

5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI-linked sports betting, AI to assess aging drivers for insurers and more

22Oct

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI-linked sports betting, AI to assess aging drivers for insurers and more

[ad_1] ScaleAI aims to be America's AI arms dealer in race against China; AI to personalise sports betting by bringing Netflix-like experience to wagers; Wikipedia's citation woes may be solved by AI, study suggests; Insurers turn to AI to assess cognitive decline in aging drivers- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. ScaleAI aims to be America's AI arms dealer in race against ChinaAlexandr Wang, CEO of ScaleAI, aims to provide the U.S. military with AI tech to gain an edge over China. ScaleAI has won a $249 million contract with the Department of Defense and has deployed its large language model chatbot, Donovan, on a classified Army network. Wang believes that private tech companies are essential for developing AI that will maintain the U.S.'s military's superiori...

Europe’s new rules for Google, Facebook, TikTok, others about to kick in. Here’s how they work

23Aug

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Europe’s new rules for Google, Facebook, TikTok, others about to kick in. Here’s how they work

[ad_1] Google, Facebook, TikTok and other Big Tech companies operating in Europe are facing one of the most far-reaching efforts to clean up what people encounter online.The first phase of the European Union's groundbreaking new digital rules will take effect this week. The Digital Services Act is part of a suite of tech-focused regulations crafted by the 27-nation bloc — long a global leader in cracking down on tech giants. The DSA, which the biggest platforms must start following Friday, is designed to keep users safe online and stop the spread of harmful content that's either illegal or violates a platform's terms of service, such as promotion of genocide or anorexia. It also looks to protect Europeans' fundamental rights like privacy and free speech. Some online platforms, which cou...

How AI ‘revolution’ is shaking up journalism

20Mar

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How AI ‘revolution’ is shaking up journalism

[ad_1] Journalists had fun last year asking the shiny new AI chatbot ChatGPT to write their columns, most concluding that the bot was not good enough to take their jobs. Yet.But many commentators believe journalism is on the cusp of a revolution where mastery of algorithms and AI tools that generate content will be a key battleground. The technology news site CNET perhaps heralded the way forward when it quietly deployed an AI program last year to write some of its listicles. It was later forced to issue several corrections after another news site noticed that the bot had made mistakes, some of them serious.But CNET's parent company later announced job cuts that included editorial staff -- though executives denied AI was behind the layoffs.The German publishing behemoth Axel Springer, ...

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...

Amid ChatGPT outcry, some teachers are inviting AI to class

16Feb

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Amid ChatGPT outcry, some teachers are inviting AI to class

[ad_1] Under the fluorescent lights of a fifth grade classroom in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie Piercey instructed his 23 students to try and outwit the “robot” that was churning out writing assignments. The robot was the new artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, which can generate everything from essays and haikus to term papers within seconds. The technology has panicked teachers and prompted school districts to block access to the site. But Piercey has taken another approach by embracing it as a teaching tool, saying his job is to prepare students for a world where knowledge of AI will be required. “This is the future,” said Piercey, who describes ChatGPT as just the latest technology in his 17 years of teaching that prompted concerns about the potential for cheating. The calcula...

Centre’s Notice To Wikipedia On Cricketer Arshdeep Singh’s Vandalised Page

5Sep

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Centre’s Notice To Wikipedia On Cricketer Arshdeep Singh’s Vandalised Page

[ad_1] Arshdeep Singh faced vitriolic attacks on social media by some users after he dropped a crucial catchNew Delhi: The government has sent a notice on Wikipedia after a Khalistani slur appeared on the information page of cricketer Arshdeep Singh, a senior IT Ministry source said.Mr Singh faced vitriolic attacks on social media by some users after he dropped a crucial catch in a thrilling Super 4 Asia Cup clash between India and Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday.After the missed catch, information on his Wikipedia page was changed to link him to the separatist Khalistani movement.The government on Monday slammed Wikipedia over the publishing of false information on Mr Singh's page that linked him to the separatist Khalistani movement and made it clear that such incitement cannot be permitte...