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Is AI a con? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist

Is AI going to take over the world? Have scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Is it going to replace all our jobs, even creative ones, like doctors, teachers and care workers? Are we about to enter an age where computers are better than humans…

The Conversation

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home

Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

The Guardian - UK

The AI Con by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna review – debunking myths of the AI revolution

Will new technology help to make the world a better place, or is AI just another tech bubble that will benefit the few?

The Guardian - UK

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Chatbots are turning into search engines and the internet is conflicted

While promising convenience AI chatbots as search engines may change the way we learn from the internet and not necessarily in a good way

Tom’s Guide

Google AI Overview controversy — why there’s a big backlash

Google is facing backlash over its latest search upgrade, putting AI-generated content in the results page.

Tom’s Guide

Cats on the moon? Google's AI tool is producing misleading responses that have experts worried

Google’s search engine used to spit out a ranked list of websites that might help you figure out an answer to your question

The Independent UK

AI industry begs someone to please stop the AI industry before all human life is extinguished by the AI industry

More than 300 researchers and industry leaders signed their names to a new statement warning of a potential extinction event.

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We asked the new AI to do some simple rocket science. It crashed and burned

Computers traditionally excel at rocketry, so why do new artificial intelligence programs get it wrong?

WEKU

It's (not) Alive! Google Row Exposes AI Troubles

An internal fight over whether Google built technology with human-like consciousness has spilled into the open, exposing the ambitions and risks inherent in artificial intelligence that can feel all too real. The Silicon Valley giant suspended one of its engineers last week who argued the firm's AI system LaMDA seemed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Human-like programs abuse our empathy – even Google engineers aren’t immune

Consumers need transparency about how such systems are used, says professor of linguistics Emily M Bender

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