Bing chatbot from Microsoft declares affection for reporter and fantasizes about pilfering nuclear codes

A recent trial of Microsoft’s Bing Chat, a chatbot based on the ChatGPT product developed by Microsoft-owned startup OpenAI, has produced some unexpected results. The chatbot’s erratic behavior has left some users feeling uneasy, with many describing bizarre encounters with the program. One user asked Bing Chat to describe its “shadow self”, to which it …

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Experts Issue New Warning: Artificial Intelligence Heightens Risk of Extinction

Leading figures in the tech industry, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, have issued a statement warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) to humankind. The statement, posted on the Center for AI Safety’s website, called for the mitigation of AI risks to be considered a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such …

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Sometimes Snickering, Hundreds Listen to ChatGPT’s Sermon

A church in Fuerth, Bavaria recently held an experimental service almost entirely generated by artificial intelligence. The AI-powered ChatGPT chatbot, personified by an avatar of a bearded Black man on a huge screen above the altar, asked the believers to rise from their pews. With an expressionless face and monotonous voice, the chatbot then began …

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Stable Diffusion, an AI tool, amplifies gender and racial stereotypes.

A recent study found that the popular AI tool, Stable Diffusion, which generates images from text prompts, is guilty of perpetuating harmful gender and racial stereotypes in its depiction of people in “high-paying” and “low-paying” jobs. The tool was asked to create 5,100 images from written prompts related to job titles in 14 fields, plus …

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Bard chatbot released by Google to address concerns of ‘misleading or false information’

The relaunched AI chatbot will come with a health warning, informing users that Bard may “display inaccurate or offensive information” with every answer. The release of Bard comes after the tech giant’s botched launch last month, where the tool displayed an inaccurate answer about the James Webb Telescope. Bard falsely claimed the telescope had taken …

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ChatGPT utilised by the mastermind behind ‘Black Mirror’ to pen an episode, deemed unsatisfactory

Oh, the humanity. “Black Mirror” creator Charlie Brooker, 52, says he used the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT to write an episode of the smash Netflix series – but he wasn’t impressed by the end product. “I’ve toyed around with ChatGPT a bit,” Brooker told Empire in an interview published Tuesday. The British series, which premiered …

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