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New Bing offers marvelous responses, dangerously convincing falsehoods, direct quotes that appear to be made up, and shocking claims about its own capabilities — “You're in!” the email said. “Welcome to the new Bing!” Last Sunday, I joined a small wave of users granted early access …
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A Wharton School professor whose classes required using ChatGPT to write essays says students fact-checked and quickly understood AI's accuracy and bias issues — (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned) — I fully embraced AI for my classes …
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| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
Exploring likely reasons the new Bing is reckless, like debuting with insufficient RLHF, or reinforcement learning with human feedback, compared to ChatGPT — And how did some prominent journalists utterly miss this initially? — A wild story in which I probe what Bing's chatbot is capable … | Wall Street Journal: |
As ChatGPT and generative AI explode in popularity, CEOs, engineers, executives, and other employees at myriad companies begin experimenting with the tools — ChatGPT's release has sparked a rush of early adopters eager to speed up tasks or avoid being left behind| Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: |
Dow Jones' general counsel says OpenAI lacks a deal to use WSJ reporting to train its AI; a source says CNN plans to ask OpenAI to pay to license its content — Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Many Microsoft Outlook users say inboxes have been flooded with spam emails for many hours, as filters appear broken; others have reported the issue for months — According to reports from an increasing number of Microsoft customers, Outlook inboxes have been flooded with spam emails …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft recently began testing a big Teams update, known as 2.0 internally, aiming to improve resource usage, and plans to release a preview in March — Microsoft is preparing to launch a new version of Microsoft Teams next month that has been rebuilt from the ground …
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| Laurence Fletcher / Financial Times: |
Hedge fund Galois Capital, which managed ~$200M in 2022, shutters, returns investor money, and sells claims for $0.16 after half its assets were trapped on FTX — Co-founder apologises in letter to investors and says fund is no longer viable — A hedge fund that was one of the highest-profile victims … | Chandraveer Mathur / Android Police: |
Google rolls out new Memory Saver and Energy Saver features, turned on by default, for Chrome on macOS, Windows, and ChromeOS — Memory Saver and Energy Saver are here — Google Chrome is one of the best web browsers for Android, and it also offers feature parity with the desktop version.| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Preqin data: in Q4 2022, VC firms raised $20.6B in new funds, down 65% YoY, the lowest Q4 amount since 2013; LPs backed 226 funds, the fewest in Q4 since 2012 — Slowdown that earlier hit tech startups catches up with investors who fuel venture capital — Fundraising by venture-capital firms hit … | Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Meta's “The Cube”, a cubicle made of felt-like recycled PET plastic that absorbs sound and blocks distractions, rolling out to Meta's offices globally — The Facebook and Instagram parent needed a new setup for the loud hybrid workplace. Here's a first look at the quieter cubicle.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
SpaceX's Starlink invites select customers to test its Global Roaming Service, a $200 per month option offering internet “almost anywhere on land in the world” — Starlink's testing a new satellite internet service it says will let you “connect from almost anywhere on land in the world … Sponsor Posts
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