Microsoft Looks to Tame Revamped AI-Powered Bing as Users Report Being Disparaged by Chatbot

Microsoft’s newly revamped Bing search engine can write recipes and songs and quickly explain just about anything it can find on the internet. But if you cross its artificially intelligent chatbot, it might also insult your looks, threaten your reputation or compare you to Adolf Hitler. The tech company said this week it is promising … Read more

ChatGPT’s Popularity Worries US Lawmakers About Its Impact on National Security

ChatGPT, a fast-growing artificial intelligence program, has drawn praise for its ability to write answers quickly to a wide range of queries, and attracted US lawmakers’ attention with questions about its impact on national security and education.  ChatGPT was estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users just two months after launch, making it the … Read more

Microsoft to Preview AI Features Inspired by ChatGPT for Word, PowerPoint and Outlook: Report

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook could soon be updated with support for AI features that are claimed to improve their functionality, according to a report. The Redmond company is said to have worked on integrating ChatGPT-like AI capabilities with its Office productivity apps for word processing, presentations and email management. Microsoft has already begun beta testing … Read more

ChatGPT Frenzy Takes Over China as Firms Rush to Integrate AI Chatbot Technology Into Products

Microsoft-backed OpenAI has kept its hit ChatGPT app off-limits to users in China, but the app is attracting huge interest in the country, with firms rushing to integrate the technology into their products and launch rival solutions. While residents in the country are unable to create OpenAI accounts to access the artificial intelligence-powered (AI) chatbot, … Read more

ChatGPT Passes United States Medical Licensing Exams: Study

ChatGPT could score at or around the approximately 60 per cent passing threshold for the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), with responses that made coherent, internal sense and contained frequent insights, according to a new study. Tiffany Kung and colleagues at AnsibleHealth, California, US, tested ChatGPT‘s performance on the USMLE, a highly standardised and … Read more

New AI Voice-Cloning Tools Have Potential to Spread Misinformation on Social Media

In a video from a January 25 news report, President Joe Biden talks about tanks. But a doctored version of the video has amassed hundred of thousands of views this week on social media, making it appear he gave a speech that attacks transgender people. Digital forensics experts say the video was created using a … Read more

Bard, Bing and Baidu: How Big Tech’s AI Race Will Transform Search – and All of Computing

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 more

Google AI Chatbot Bard Caught Providing Inaccurate Information in Company Ad

Google published an online advertisement in which its much-anticipated AI chatbot Bard delivered an inaccurate answer. The tech giant posted a short GIF video of Bard in action via Twitter, describing the chatbot as a “launchpad for curiosity” that would help simplify complex topics. In the advertisement, Bard is given the prompt: “What new discoveries … Read more

Google to Launch ChatGPT Rival Bard, Releases AI Service to Early Testers

Google-parent Alphabet is planning to launch a chatbot service and more artificial intelligence for its search engine as well as developers, marking a riposte to Microsoft in a rivalry to lead a new wave of technology. In a blog post on Monday, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the company is opening a conversational AI service called Bard … Read more

Goa Using Self-Driving Robot, AI-Powered Monitoring System as Lifeguards on Its Beaches

In a first-of-its-kind innovation, Drishti Marine, Goa’s state-appointed lifeguard organisation, has introduced artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of Aurus, a self-driving robot and Triton, an AI-powered monitoring system, to augment its life-saving capabilities along Goa’s popular beaches and water bodies. The incorporation of AI-based support follows an increase in beach-related incidents due to the … Read more