Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to hallucinate and produce ‘gibberish’ AI tools are making potentially harmful errors in social work records, from bogus warnings of suicidal ideation to simple “gibberish”, frontline workers have said. Keir Starmer last year championed what he called “incredible” time-saving social work transcription technology. But research…
I used the viral AI helper to order groceries, sort emails, and negotiate deals. Then it decided to scam me.
The maker of ChatGPT hopes to triple its revenue in the coming year because it is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars. The clock is ticking.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month and offers…
We look at when you can trust A.I. with your health, and when you can’t.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and a host of other major tech companies have found common ground in F/ai, a new startup accelerator based out of Paris.
Economists have noticed that betting markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are pretty good at predicting not just political events but economic data, too.
Repulsive and denigrating. At least that’s what John McWhorter, an Opinion writer and a linguistics professor at Columbia, pictures when he thinks of the word, “slop.” Here, he argues that the inundation of A.I. slop has demoted artificial intelligence from a powerful technological mystery to an everyday (and even dangerous) nuisance.
Ads on ChatGPT aren’t a bad idea. But they have to be done the right way.
Drop comes as AI firm Altruist launches service that helps advisers create personalised tax strategies Business live – latest updates Wealth managers and price comparison sites have become the latest companies to be hit by fears that their businesses will be disrupted by new artificial intelligence innovations. Shares in UK wealth management firms tumbled on…