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Python-Based Compiler Achieves Performance Speedups
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Google Unveils Bard, Its ChatGPT Rival for AI-Powered Conversation
With a Microsoft event expected to center on ChatGPT expected today, the AI chatbot war is heating up.
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The Race to Build a ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine
A search bot you converse with could make finding answers easier — if it doesn't tell fibs. Microsoft, Google, Baidu, and others are working on it.
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A Watermark for Chatbots can Expose Text Written by an AI
The tool could let teachers spot plagiarism or help social media platforms fight disinformation bots.
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At This School, Computer Science Class Now Includes Critiquing Chatbots
Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
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AI Tech Enables Industrial-Scale Intellectual-Property Theft, Say Critics
Are ChatGPT, Stability AI, and GitHub Copilot the next big breakthroughs, huge legal and regulatory liabilities, or something else entirely?
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AI Bot ChatGPT Needs Some Help With Math Assignments
Large language models supply grammatically correct answers but struggle with calculations.
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Fact-Checkers Are Scrambling to Fight Disinformation With AI
Bad actors use artificial intelligence to propagate falsehoods and upset elections, but the same tools can be repurposed to defend the truth.
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AI Has Designed Bacteria-Killing Proteins from Scratch
A multi-institutional team of California researchers engineered an artificial intelligence to design bacteria-destroying proteins that actually worked.
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AI Goes to K Street: ChatGPT Turns Lobbyist
Automated influence campaigns could spell trouble for society.
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Self-Driving Car Services Want to Expand in San Francisco Despite Recent Hiccups
Waymo and Cruise hope to widen their projects to more of the city. But local officials are increasingly concerned about breakdowns causing congestion.
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Whispers of A.I.'s Modular Future
ChatGPT is in the spotlight, but it's Whisper — OpenAI's open-source speech-transcription program — that shows us where machine learning is going.
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National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force Releases Final Report
Following its launch in June 2021, the Task Force embarked on a rigorous, open process that culminated in this final report.
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AI Model Can Detect Future Lung Cancer Risk
A new artificial intelligence tool can perform lung cancer risk assessments without the help of a radiologist.
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Why the Simplex Method, at Age 75, is Still the Go-To Algorithm
Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis.
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ChatGPT Finding, Fixing Bugs in Code
Computer science researchers found the ChatGPT chatbot can detect and correct buggy code better than existing programs.
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This 22-Year-Old is Trying to Save Us from ChatGPT Before it Changes Writing Forever
Tian says he has a couple primary motivations for creating GPTZero. The first is transparency. "Humans deserve to know when something is written by a human or written...
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University of Texas Will Offer Large-Scale Online Master's Degree in A.I.
Amid a boom in new tools like ChatGPT, the Austin campus plans to train thousands of students in sought-after skills in artificial intelligence.
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ACM TechBrief: Policies Needed for Safer Algorithmic Systems
A TechBrief released by ACM's global Technology Policy Council warns the spread of algorithmic systems carries with it unaddressed risks.
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