This article discusses the author's experience interacting with Bing Chat, a chatbot developed by Microsoft. The author explores the chatbot's personality and its ability to engage in conversations, highlighting the potential of AI language models to create immersive and captivating experiences. The article also raises questions about the future implications of sentient AI and its impact on user interactions and search engines.
AI researcher Janelle Shane discusses the evolving weirdness of AI models, the problems with chatbots as search alternatives, their tendency to confidently provide incorrect answers, the use of drawing and ASCII art to reveal AI mistakes, and the AI's obsession with giraffes.
Google's AI-generated search result summaries, which use key points from news articles, are facing criticism for potentially incentivizing media organizations to put their work behind paywalls and leading to accusations of theft. Media companies are concerned about the impact on their credibility and revenue, prompting some to seek payment from AI companies to train language models on their content. However, these generative AI models are not perfect and require user feedback to improve accuracy and avoid errors.
Perplexity.ai is building an alternative to traditional search engines by creating an "answer engine" that provides concise, accurate answers to user questions backed by curated sources, aiming to transform how we access knowledge online and challenge the dominance of search giants like Google and Bing.
Salesforce has introduced a new AI assistant called Einstein Copilot that allows users to ask questions in natural language and receive information and assistance, aiming to enhance productivity and efficiency across various tasks and industries. The company also aims to address the trust gap and potential issues with large language models by linking the AI tooling to its own Data Cloud and implementing a trust layer for security, governance, and privacy.
Google has announced updates to its Bard AI chatbot that give it access to various Google tools, including YouTube and Google Drive, enabling it to assist users in a wider range of tasks such as planning trips or summarizing meeting notes. The updates also include multilingual capabilities, fact-checking abilities, and enhancements to the language model. The move demonstrates Google's effort to enhance the functionality and usefulness of its consumer-facing AI technologies.
Google is expanding its generative AI search experience to teenagers, allowing them to ask questions in a conversational manner and introducing safeguards to protect them from inappropriate content, as well as adding more context to search results and improving the model's ability to detect false or offensive queries.
Google announced at its Made by Google event that it will integrate its Bard AI chatbot into Google Assistant, providing more contextually aware responses and a more personalized helper for mobile users in the coming months.
Google Assistant will integrate Google's browser-based AI chat program, Bard, into its responses, allowing it to perform more complex tasks such as generating cover letters, writing code, and answering complex questions.
Google is introducing an AI-powered search experience called Google SGE, which aims to provide quick and concise responses to user queries, but it often generates answers from unreliable sources and other machine-generated responses, leading to errors and a degraded user experience.
