Chatbots

TECH

Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can drive chatbots to reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

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BUSINESS

An Apple exec suggested AI chatbots were eroding Google’s search business, sending Alphabet shares plummeting. The truth is more complicated.

Apple executive Eddy Cue rocked Alphabet shares earlier this week when, testifying during the U.S. antitrust case against Alphabet, he…

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SCIENCE

Griefbots Create Digital Immortality and Raise Ethical Concerns around AI Chatbots

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. The idea of digital life after death is something science…

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SCIENCE

Chatbots can hide secret messages in seemingly normal conversations

Encrypted messages could be hidden within a normal-looking conversation on social media Tero Vesalainen/iStockphoto/G​etty Images Secret messages can be hidden…

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SCIENCE

Replacing Federal Workers with Chatbots Would Be a Dystopian Nightmare

Replacing Federal Workers with Chatbots Would Be a Dystopian Nightmare The Trump administration sees an AI-driven federal workforce as more…

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TECH

The White House appears to have used an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots recommend to calculate reciprocal tariffs (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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SCIENCE

Do Chatbots Just Need More Time to ‘Think’?

Technology trends almost always prioritize speed, but the latest fad in artificial intelligence involves deliberately slowing chatbots down. Machine-learning researchers…

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