Q&A: Things to know about newly released AI search chatbots
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This week saw several newly announced AI search chatbots — Google's Bard, Baidu's Ernie Bot and Microsoft's Bing chatbot. But glitches abound, including inaccurate answers and a phenomenon known as AI "hallucination." Here's a closer look.
Big tech companies are racing to revamp a familiar web tool into a gateway to a new form of artificial intelligence.
The technology has panicked educators and prompted school districts to block students' access to the site.
Among sermon writers, there is fascination — and unease — over the abilities of artificial-intelligence chatbots. For now, the consensus is this: Yes, they can write a competent sermon. But no, they can’t replicate the passion of actual preaching.
Microsoft’s Bing search engine can write recipes and songs and explain anything it can find on the internet. But if you cross its artificially intelligent chatbot, it might also insult your looks, threaten your reputation or compare you to Adolf Hitler.
As part of a yearlong investigation, The Associated Press obtained the data points underpinning several algorithms deployed by child welfare agencies to understand how they predict which children could be at risk of harm.
Thousands of hackers will get a shot at testing the limits of AI technology at a mass hacking event at the famed DEF CON hacker convention. Some of the things they’ll be looking to find: How can chatbots be manipulated to cause harm?

