The Latest Breaking News from ChatGPT

Jason C. Yip is studying the reaction of students to ChatGPT and other AI technologies; often, they’re not particularly impressed.

Every media consumer needs to be more vigilant than ever in verifying scientific accuracy in what they read. Two scientists and science communicators show how.

I admit that ChatGPT could possibly make a better fist of assessing the Scottish Cup final than this writer who is burdened by historical prejudices…

When the National Party’s transport spokesperson, Simeon Brown, questioned the logic of bilingual traffic signs, he seemed to echo his leader Christopher Luxon’s earlier misgivings about the now prevalent use of te reo Māori in government departments.

Is the A.I. breakthrough for real this time?

Giant AIs abstract away the ‘knowledge of the territory’ in favour of the atlas view of all that is present on the internet. Yet the territory can only be captured by the people doing the tasks that giant AIs are trying to replace.

I posted earlier today about a lawyer's filing unchecked ChatGPT-generated material, complete with hallucinated cases. But even if lawyers manage to avoid that, I'm sure that many self-represented litigants will be using ChatGPT, Bard, and the like, and won't know to properly check the results. Indeed, a quick CourtListener search…

To understand how ChatGPT will infiltrate the world, cast your mind back to Google’s decision to map the entire planet

The “Waluigi effect” personifies our fear about A.I. turning evil, but there is another way. We are at a crossroads already.

ChatGPT's considerable powers are being used to make numerous variations of malware, which makes them harder to detect.

Plugins are available for ChatGPT Plus users through the GPT-4 model allowing third-party developers to insert services into the AI chatbot. After testing them for several hours, these are my three favorites.