Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing
NLP

Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing

Microsoft aimed to reinvent web search. Instead, it showed that even the most advanced text generators remain alarmingly unpredictable. In the two weeks since Microsoft integrated an OpenAI chatbot with its Bing search engine, users have reported...

February 22, 20233 min read
Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing
NLP

Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing

Microsoft aimed to reinvent web search. Instead, it showed that even the most advanced text generators remain alarmingly unpredictable. In the two weeks since Microsoft integrated an OpenAI chatbot with its Bing search engine, users have reported...

February 22, 20233 min read
He Who Types the Prompt Calls the Tune: Google introduces an AI that generates music from text.
NLP

He Who Types the Prompt Calls the Tune: Google introduces an AI that generates music from text.

As AI-generated text and images capture the world’s attention, music is catching up. Andrea Agostinelli, Timo I. Denk, and colleagues at Google and Sorbonne Université introduced MusicLM, a system that generates music from text descriptions.

February 8, 20233 min read
He Who Types the Prompt Calls the Tune: Google introduces an AI that generates music from text.
NLP

He Who Types the Prompt Calls the Tune: Google introduces an AI that generates music from text.

As AI-generated text and images capture the world’s attention, music is catching up. Andrea Agostinelli, Timo I. Denk, and colleagues at Google and Sorbonne Université introduced MusicLM, a system that generates music from text descriptions.

February 8, 20233 min read
Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.
NLP

Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.

Who would disagree that, if all people are mortal and Socrates is a person, Socrates must be mortal? GPT-3, for one. Recent work shows that bigger language models are not necessarily better when it comes to logical reasoning.

February 1, 20232 min read
Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.
NLP

Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.

Who would disagree that, if all people are mortal and Socrates is a person, Socrates must be mortal? GPT-3, for one. Recent work shows that bigger language models are not necessarily better when it comes to logical reasoning.

February 1, 20232 min read
Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.
NLP

Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.

A prominent tech-news website generated controversy (and mistakes) by publishing articles written by AI. CNET suspended its practice of publishing articles produced by a text-generation model following news reports that exposed the articles’ authorship.

January 26, 20232 min read
Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.
NLP

Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.

A prominent tech-news website generated controversy (and mistakes) by publishing articles written by AI. CNET suspended its practice of publishing articles produced by a text-generation model following news reports that exposed the articles’ authorship.

January 26, 20232 min read
Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.
NLP

Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.

Amid speculation about the threat posed by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to Google’s search business, a paper shows how the search giant might address the tendency of such models to produce offensive, incoherent, or untruthful dialog.

January 26, 20233 min read
Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.
NLP

Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.

Amid speculation about the threat posed by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to Google’s search business, a paper shows how the search giant might address the tendency of such models to produce offensive, incoherent, or untruthful dialog.

January 26, 20233 min read
Bot Therapy and Informed Consent: Discord's Kokobot triggers an ethics controversy.
NLP

Bot Therapy and Informed Consent: Discord's Kokobot triggers an ethics controversy.

An experiment in using chatbots to dispense mental-health counseling raised questions about ethics.

January 18, 20232 min read
Bot Therapy and Informed Consent: Discord's Kokobot triggers an ethics controversy.
NLP

Bot Therapy and Informed Consent: Discord's Kokobot triggers an ethics controversy.

An experiment in using chatbots to dispense mental-health counseling raised questions about ethics.

January 18, 20232 min read
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.
NLP

Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.

Tools that automatically write computer code may make their human users overconfident that the programs are bug-free. Stanford University researchers found that programmers who used OpenAI’s Codex, a model that generates computer code, were more likely...

January 18, 20232 min read
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.
NLP

Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.

Tools that automatically write computer code may make their human users overconfident that the programs are bug-free. Stanford University researchers found that programmers who used OpenAI’s Codex, a model that generates computer code, were more likely...

January 18, 20232 min read
ChatGPT Backlash: ChatGPT faces backlash over plagiarism fears.
NLP

ChatGPT Backlash: ChatGPT faces backlash over plagiarism fears.

The Batch - AI News & Insights. The breakout text generator faces resistance — even within the AI community. Organizations including the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and the New York Department of Education banned OpenAI's ChatGPT...

January 11, 20232 min read

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