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Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead?

26Oct

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Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead?

When I asked the chatbot if it identifies with the monster, it responded with a familiar chatbot excuse for dodging tricky questions: “As an artificial intelligence, I don't have personal feelings or identities, so I don't have the capacity to identify with any characters.”Then, in a twist that Mary Shelley might have enjoyed, the chatbot suggested that perhaps I might identify with the monster instead: “Many readers might identify with the monster's feelings of loneliness, rejection, and desire for companionship. These are universal human experiences that Shelley explores in depth through the character of the monster.” Touché.Since I’ve written plenty about AI myself, from impressive robot breakthroughs to predictions of AI doom, I created a chatbot trained on some of my past and asked i...

Google Makes It Easier to Delete Your Personal Deets

6Aug

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Google Makes It Easier to Delete Your Personal Deets

It’s getting easier to remove your personal details from Google's search results. Last year, Google rolled out its Results About You tool that lets users monitor what personal details about them pop up in a Google search. The tool makes it easy to request that certain “personal information”—your email address, home address, or phone number—and unwanted explicit images associated with your name are removed from search results.The new addition to this set of tools is a dashboard that shows you what contact information is showing up in Google searches. The new system can also alert you when new results displaying your personal information are appearing in searches.You'll see these personal information removal tools as a logged in Google user. Just click on your user profile photo up in the c...

Hands On With Google Search’s Answer to ChatGPT

28Jul

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Hands On With Google Search’s Answer to ChatGPT

Last weekend, I turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I was sending a copy of the latest issue of WIRED!). It’s the exact sort of question that I hoped Google Search’s new generative AI feature, which I’ve been testing for the past month, would solve much faster than I could through my own browsing.Google’s clunkily named Search Generative Experience, SGE for short, infuses its search box with ChatGPT-like conversational functionality. You can sign up at Google’s Search Labs. The company says it wants users to converse with its search chatbot, which launched to testers in May, to dive deeper into topics and ask more challenging and intuitive questions than they would type into a boring old query box. And AI-g...

Reports of a Lioness Near Berlin Prompt a Sprawling Search

20Jul

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Reports of a Lioness Near Berlin Prompt a Sprawling Search

The Berlin bear was given a run for its money as the official symbol of Germany’s capital on Thursday. The authorities said that a “free-roaming lioness” in the area had led to a sprawling search with more than 100 police officers, veterinarians and hunters as well as drones and helicopters involved in trying to catch the animal.“People are encouraged to stay at home if possible and not let their pets outside,” said a statement from the German municipality of Kleinmachnow, in the state of Brandenburg, where the first sighting of the animal was reported. Officials from the town of 20,000 people, about 14 miles from the center of Berlin, said the lioness had been “causing a stir” overnight since it was spotted eating a wild boar along the road.The animal had not been captured as of Thursday...