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An AI chatbot wrote a collection of poetry, and when its human co-authors needed someone to narrate the audio-book, Werner Herzog was the only reasonable option. It’s the only saving grace of our dull, slow-moving apocalypse: sometimes, as we stare into the abyss, Herzog stares back.

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Betty Crocker never had the chance to release her down-home recipe for mustard gas, but modern generative AI is making up for lost time, helping to put the “die” in “diet.”

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Apple has reportedly removed more than 100 generative artificial intelligence apps from the Chinese version of its App Store believed to be in violation of the country’s strict new regulations clamping down on “subversive” speech produced by ChatGPT-style chatbots. Those restrictions, which officially take effect…

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Meta, owner of Facebook and instagram, plans to launch a series of AI chatbots with different personalities on its social networks as soon as September, according to a report in the Financial Times.

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Pearson, one of the top five textbook makers in the world, is leaping into the world of AI with the same speed and subtlety as a cinderblock-sized primer tumbling to the floor. The company said it plans to offer a new kind of study buddy AI chatbot they promise will be “free from the noise and corruption of web-based…

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In the sixth season premiere of Netflix’s Black Mirror, a fictional streaming service named Streamberry uses artificial intelligence to deepfake an actor’s likeness onto a double’s body while creating an ongoing storyline crafted beat-by-beat after a woman’s life.

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Google launched Bard, its AI chatbot, after ChatGPT went live in November.
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is going through a bit of a shakeup. The company is adding more features that will help the chatbot remember instructions, though developers will also be spending a lot more time making sure the current version of the company’s precious language model is working as intended. But it’s one step…

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ChatGPT is changing, though so far it’s been incredibly hard to say how or why. Users have widely complained that the GPT-4 language model powering the paid version of OpenAI’s chatbot has been degrading over time, spitting out false answers and declining to follow through on prompts it once happily abided. New…