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AI-based chatbots often come up with factually incorrect answers, making themselves an easy target for criticism. But are LLMs really broken? AI expert argues hallucinating is their greatest feature.

Researchers discovered a technique using ChatGPT to repeatedly say words that could reveal private details. The chatbot now refuses some repetitive requests, even though the terms allow repetition.

OpenAI's ChatGPT AI chatbot has been experiencing a number of periodic outages over the past day, due to what the company calls "an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack."

OpenAI has announced it is adding more voice and image features to its ChatGPT chatbot. It will allow users to speak with the chatbot in a conversation and images can be uploaded for analysis.

Anthropic has announced the availability of Claude Instant 1.2 through an API. Interestingly, benchmarks show it to be the safest of all the models so far with fewer hallucinations.

Facebook is developing AI chatbots that can take up different personas to simulate conversations with various individuals and celebrities, in an attempt to attract and retain users on its platforms.

OpenAI is currently researching process supervision, a method for reducing the number of hallucinations produced by LLMs. It has had success with maths datasets but needs to be tested generally.

Google Bard can now pull in relevant images from Google Search. Just like the text responses, the images that Bard fetches tend to be spot-on. To be clear, Bard cannot generate its own images yet.

The increase in characters from 2,000 to 4,000 for each Bing Chat message should make it easier for users to ask more complex questions to Microsoft's chatbot AI that might need the extra characters

Google has updated Bard again today so that it provides helpful summaries. It will also let you see which parts of the answer are from sources linked at the bottom of the response.

Google has announced a new Large Language Model called PaLM 2 that improves upon its predecessor and is now 25 Google services including specialized services like Med-PaLM 2 and Sec-PaLM.

Microsoft could issue Bing Chat model updates three times a year to improve its capabilities, Mikhail Parakhin has revealed. Nothing is set in stone and it is really just the best guess at this point.

Some current Bing Chat users are reporting that responses from the chatbot are very slow at the moment, but Microsoft says this will be fixed by adding more GPUs to its Bing Chat servers.

The new formatting will allow answers in Bing Chat to use features like bold lettering, along with answers in bulleted lists and tables when Microsoft's chatbot is in Creative mode.

The ban against using ChatGPT in Italy has been lifted after its owner OpenAI put in some privacy features, which include asking users who sign up to confirm their actual age and more.

A new iOS app named Call Annie allows real-time video conversations with a ChatGPT-powered AI. The app's animated avatar can answer various questions and offers an audio-only mode for older devices.

The new update should cut down on the number of times Bing Chat won't continue a conversation by over three times, which should be a great help to the users of Microsoft's chatbot AI

The latest weekly update from Microsoft also improves Bing Chat answers when it comes to questions about the news, along with fewer instances when the chatbot abruptly ends a conversation

Hepburn Shire, Australia, mayor Brian Hood claims people have come up to him saying ChatGPT stated they went to jail for a bribery scandal, when in fact, he was the whistleblower for the crime.

The new version of Bing Chat will roll out in two stages this week. The second stage will hopefully see Microsoft's chatbot cut down on "disengagements" to improve the user experience.

Creative mode in Bing Chat now supports large context, and faster responses are close to launching, but uploading images might take a while as it is "much more expensive" to support.

Microsoft has confirmed that its Bing Chat chatbot AI is already running on OpenAI's newly announced GPT-4, several weeks after Bing Chat started open testing for its search bot.

OpenAI has announced GPT-4, the next version of its natural language chatbot AI program. It can now come up with answers with a combination of text and images, among other features.

General Motors is working on an AI system in collaboration with Microsoft. It will use similar technology that's used in ChatGPT and it'll be voice-activated for road safety reasons.

A new update to the Bing Blog states that the Bing Chat chatbot AI from Microsoft should now respond much faster than before when it comes to new conversations made in the Skype app.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has outlined some plans the company has to further monetize its products and make the experience better for end users. He also expects AI doctors and lawyers to arrive soon.

It looks like a browser-based game called Sumplete that the ChatGPT chatbot "created" via prompts, and claimed was an original title, was in fact a copy of an Android-published game called Summer.

The new DuckAssist generative AI takes information from Wikipedia to help create its natural language answers. It's available now in DuckDuckGo's browser apps and its browser extensions.

In a new article about how voice assistants never reached their full potential, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits "all these just don't work." Microsoft hopes chatbot AI like the new Bing will work.

Microsoft quietly added the celebrity impersonator mode in Bing Chat this weekend, which is supposed to let the chatbot AI give responses as if it was a famous person like The Rock.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be a part of this online event next week, which the company says will show "how AI will power a whole new way of working for every person and organization."

Microsoft continues to modify its Bing Chat limits expanding the number of chat turns in individual sessions from six to eight turns. Also, the new Tone Selector could get changed based on feedback.

The new "smooth scrolling" feature in Bing Chat should make reading and keeping track of messages from the chatbot much easier for its users as it continues its public beta testing.

The opening of ChatGPT's APIs by its creators at OpenAI will allow any developer to use its chatbot AI in its apps and products, and could help fund OpenAI's future software developments.

Some people who are currently using Microsoft's Bing Chat service are seeing a "Something went wrong" error when they attempt to use the chatbot. The team is currently working on a fix.

Meta head Mark Zuckerberg says the company is combining many of its AI teams into one larger team to develop and launch generative AI products for Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and more.

Snapchat+ subscribers can now access the experimental My AI chatbot, which will help users with planning events, finding information, or just entertaining them with poems or other content.

The DJ feature in Spotify, now in beta, creates a personal playlist for each user based on their previous music choices, and even uses an AI-voiced DJ that offers commentary about the playlist.