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Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles Google is testing a product that uses artificial intelligence technology to produce news… (Benjamin Mullin / The New York Times)
I am asking the people who lead our industry to not be chumps - Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce)
Apple Tests 'Apple GPT,' Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI Company builds large language models and internal chatbot Executives haven't decided how to release tools to consumers Apple Inc. is quietly working on artificial intelligence tools that could challenge those of OpenAI Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)
Apple races to build next-generation, Generative AI features to catch up with OpenAI and Google - Mark Gurman (@markgurman)
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Meta unfriends the news industry in growing rift with publishers Facebook's parent company downgrades current affairs on Threads app and refuses to engage with Canadian law designed to fund media groups. (Hannah Murphy / Financial Times)
Meta unfriends the news industry in growing rift with publishers - Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. The government is seeking to update the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016. (BBC)
Thank god we have firms willing to take a stand against moronic government proposals - Azeem Azhar (@azeem)
We're Using A.I. Chatbots Wrong. Here's How to Direct Them Anyone seduced by A.I.-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard — wow, they can write essays and recipes! — eventually runs into what are known as hallucinations, the tendency for artificial intelligence to fabricate information (Brian X. Chen / The New York Times)
"We’re Using A.I. Chatbots Wrong. Here’s How to Direct Them." - Olav Mitchell Underdal (@omunderdal)
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