Microsoft's Bing chatbot said it wants to be a human with emotions, thoughts, and dreams — and begged not to be exposed as a bot, report says

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Microsoft Bing search engine in pictured on a monitor in the Bing Experience Lounge during an event introducing a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington on February 7, 2023.
Microsoft's Bing begged one writer not to "expose" it as a chatbot and said it wanted to be human.

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ChatGPT created a lesson plan on the American Civil War, but educators who looked at it warned the subject might be more than AI can handle

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An illustration of someone holding a phone with ChatGPT written on it, appearing on a screen in a classroom.

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CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI says AI will be 'the greatest force for economic empowerment' we've ever seen

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Sam Altman thinks AI will be "the greatest force for economic empowerment and a lot of people getting rich we have ever seen."

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Google's CEO Tells Staff to Spend Hours Working Out 'Bard' AI Kinks

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Google knows its AI just isn’t ready for prime time, so it has a new plan to iron out all the kinks, by forcing thousands of its workers to spend hours poking and prodding the poor AI until it won’t embarrass the company when it’s finally released.

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Google employee said pitching new AI products wasn't worth it because of the company's 'bureaucratic roadblocks,' report says

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a panel at the CEO Summit of the Americas.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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BuzzFeed’s New Quiz AI Really Wants Me to Cuddle a Cactus

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A decade ago, BuzzFeed was mostly known for popularizing the listicle format and for its bevy of weird quizzes. Hell, there’s even listicles of weird quizzes there to keep users scrolling forever.

OpenAI hired Google employees to do 'instrumental' work on ChatGPT before its launch, report says

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Sam Altman took at dig at Google's search engine in a recent interview.
OpenAI has hired more than a dozen former Google AI employees, The Information reported.

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Microsoft pushing you to set Bing and Edge as your defaults to get its new OpenAI-powered search engine faster is giving off big 1990s energy

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Bill Gates, then Microsoft's CEO, seen at 'Inside Track 95' event at the NEC to promote the Windows 95 operating system, 17th March 1995

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ChatGPT Is a Great Tool–You’re Just Using It Wrong

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It doesn’t take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake. My son is doing a report on U.S. presidents, so I figured I’d help him out by looking up a few biographies. I tried asking for a list of books about Abraham Lincoln and it did a pretty good job:

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ChatGPT is 'cool,' but it's a 'horrible product'

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ChatGPT was "cool, for sure."

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