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  • AI chatbot hallucinations – mind those P’s and Q’s

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    This is no joke! You’ve heard about this – whether AI chatbots mind their Ps and Qs. So, beware of nonsense. Statistically, how often do AI hallucinations happen? Yes, there’ll be updates … “We can’t stop hallucinations, but we can manage them.” (Maybe like the Id and Ego?) • Wiki > Hallucination (artificial intelligence) In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a hallucination or artificial…

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  • Big Tech’s rocking credos on the rocks – a love story

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    Some billionaires are bullies. But can they be bullied? Sure, in autocracies. But in the United States? Well … disrupting the so-called disrupters. As the song goes, “traveling twice the speed of sound, it’s easy to get burned” [1]. Normally, sucking up to power isn’t news in the corporate world, but Silicon Valley was supposed to be different. – Kara Swisher Kara Swisher‘s been on…

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  • AI chatbot subscriptions – worth $20 a month?

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    Despite all the reality checks and cautions about AI chatbots, general discussion & development continues to move ahead, discounting worst-case scenarios. Particularly big tech rollouts of new versions – with some new names – for public-facing chatbots. And AI startups even pitching the promise of empathetic-like AI customer-facing agents to businesses (delivering at least better conversations than with many outsourced customer support services, eh). So,…

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  • ChatGPT at one year – we cut our path in moving on

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    “Our future will be characterized by a tension between copilot (AI as collaborator) and autopilot (humans as sidekick to AI). The latter is more efficient and cheaper in a narrow labor economics sense but troublesome in all sorts of ways.” – Wired > email Newsletter > Steven Levy > Plaintext > The Plain View (December 8, 2023) Ready or not, in November, 2022, a new…

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  • Humanity’s final challenge – AI profit?

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    Much in the news cycle. Much buzz. I’ll expect books and a movie script for something even more epic that The Social Connection. OpenAI’s “bizarre org chart.” Mission creep or mission miscommunication? Was a wizard workers mass exit a real scenario? The twists and turns … Is “the problem posed by superintelligence” really “humanity’s final challenge?” (Like in The Foundation or Dune novels?) • Wired…

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