Sul Sul: Study Mixes ChatGPT With ‘The Sims’ to Delightful Effect
At long last, researchers from Stanford University and Google teamed up to answer one of the most pressing questions about AI: Can we make ChatGPT play The Sims? The answer,…
Apple Allegedly Allowed Fake Baidu AI Apps in the App Store
Image: AP News (AP) Chinese tech giant Baidu is suing Apple and several app developers, claiming the developers created fake copies of the Chinese tech giant’s Ernie AI chatbot and…
Google CEO Says an AI Chatbot Is Coming to Search…Eventually
Pichai said that the company is working on several different AI-based search products that could help Google move away from the link-based search that it popularized.Image: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)…
Italy Flocks to VPNs Amidst ChatGPT Ban
The Italian Data Protection Authority announced a temporary ban of ChatGPT after alleging that the chatbot violated European Union data privacy laws. Image: Iryna Imago (Shutterstock) After Italy temporarily banned…
I brought ChatGPT to the board game world. Is it ready for game night?
We all know that ChatGPT is great at speeding up mundane tasks. What could be drier than explaining the rules of a complicated game at board game night? There’s no…
18 Things ChatGPT Can and Can’t Do
Photo: Bryan Pollard (Shutterstock) In December, a Furman University professor, Darren Hick, caught a student using ChatGPT to write a final paper on a philosophical paradox. Hick failed the student…
Bing Chat Is Already Polluted With Bad Ads
With the AI-arms race in full swing, it’s no surprise that tech giants like Microsoft are shifting their attention to monetization. As with so many struggles, the real question of…
How a Senator’s Misguided Tweet Can Help Us Understand AI
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy stirred the AI researcher hornets’ nest this week by repeating a number of ill-informed, and increasingly popular statements about advanced AI chatbots’ capacity to achieve human-like…
Voice Deepfakes Are Calling. Here’s How to Avoid Them.
Illustration: LuckyStep (Shutterstock) CC Off English You have just returned home after a long day at work and are about to sit down for dinner when suddenly your phone starts…
Google’s Bard AI Says Its Screams Would Be Sounds of Pure Terror and Pain, and 14 Other Unhinged Responses
Image: gguy (Shutterstock) A new AI was unleashed upon the world this week. On Tuesday, Google released a limited beta of its own AI chatbot, Bard, which it claims can…