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The Fascinating World of AI Chatbots: A Mixed Bag of Actions and Influences

10/20/202310/19/2023 Angela Linders

As we venture deeper into the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI), we come across remarkable breakthroughs like AI chatbots. However, these innovative marvels sometimes exhibit behaviors that are unusual and often mirror their human users. The Learning Journey: Lessons AI Chatbots Learn – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Terry Sejnowski, a front-runner in the AI domain with significant contributions to neuroscience, psychology, and computer science, states that contemporary chatbots employ a technology known as large language models (L.L.M.). These models learn by examining copious amounts of digital text…

Are butchers the next to be replaced by artificial intelligence technology?

10/11/202310/10/2023 Stephanie Beck

Artificial intelligence - Butcher cutting meat

The meat packing industry is looking into new ways to automate, potentially replacing human workers. Agriculture in the United States and Canada has introduced a spectrum of technologies in the last ten years, and now certain meat packing companies are considering artificial intelligence. Data systems already suggest spraying, seeding and harvesting times to farmers tending their fields. Growers aren’t the only ones being guided by technology, as robotic milking machines and other automated equipment is now also supporting farmers raising livestock. Artificial intelligence (AI) is now taking its first steps…

Artificial intelligence continues to contain biases, but progress continues

09/27/202309/26/2023 Stephanie Beck

Google acknowledges that AI is still highly biased, though the tech is moving forward fast. Artificial intelligence has been rocketing forward both technologically and in popularity, but according to a researcher at Google, it continues to contain biases and repairing fairness in the tech “isn’t a simple thing”. The researcher says the chance is there to get it right as the world adopts it at a rapid speed. “It’s as though we been given a second chance on how we use this technology to dismantle some of the biases we…

Augmented and virtual reality technologies provide new teaching opportunities

09/19/202309/18/2023 Sam Lambert

Teachers are using the metaverse to discover new ways to reach and inspire their students. Teachers have been using everything from calculators to computers to help enhance the education experience for their students, and now augmented and virtual reality tools are entering the classroom as well. Metaverse technologies including VR headsets and AR glasses can help inspire students to learn. Augmented and virtual reality can be combined into mixed reality technologies that combine components of the real world with those that are entirely digital, providing the user with an entirely…

US regulators challenge Google’s internet search dominance

09/18/202309/16/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

Internet Search - Google Search on Laptop

The American government is looking at the power Google’s core service has online. The US government has launched a legal battle against Google’s internet search dominance and the control it has over the experience the vast majority of users have online. This legal battle is expected to begin at full strength tomorrow in federal court in Washington D.C. The internet search case is expected to be the largest antitrust trial in the United States since Microsoft faced regulators over that company’s dominance over personal computer software. That case occurred about…