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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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| 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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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| 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 … | 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
A profile of Synchron, a startup set to trial inserting brain implants via blood vessels, helping those with limited physical mobility use cursors and devices — - Synchron is part of an emerging crop of companies testing technology in the brain-computer interface industry.| Financial Times: |
The disappearance of China Renaissance's Bao Fan, coming as Beijing eases its tech crackdown, casts a chill across China's tech sector and worries executives — In May 2021, a group of Chinese banks agreed to lend $300mn to investment bank China Renaissance with a condition: if Bao Fan …
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