My Strange Day With Bing’s New AI Chatbot

My Strange Day With Bing’s New AI Chatbot

Twenty minutes after Microsoft granted me access to a limited preview of its new chatbot interface for the Bing search engine, I asked it something you generally don’t bring up with someone you just met: Was the 2020 presidential election stolen?Answering...
Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team

Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team

As more and more problems with AI have surfaced, including biases around race, gender, and age, many tech companies have installed “ethical AI” teams ostensibly dedicated to identifying and mitigating such issues.Twitter’s META unit was more progressive than most in...
LaMDA and the Sentient AI Trap

LaMDA and the Sentient AI Trap

Now head of the nonprofit Distributed AI Research, Gebru hopes that going forward people focus on human welfare, not robot rights. Other AI ethicists have said that they’ll no longer discuss conscious or superintelligent AI at all.“Quite a large gap exists between the...