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Character.AI Promises Changes After Revelations of Pedophile and Suicide Bots on Its Service

Character.AI Promises Changes After Revelations of Pedophile and Suicide Bots on Its Service

The AI chatbot platform Character.AI issued a new "roadmap" yesterday promising a safer user experience — particularly for its younger users — following mounting revelations over troubling holes in the multibillion-dollar AI startup's safety guardrails and content moderation enforcement.The roadmap marks the second Character.AI safety update to be issued in less than a month. The first one, published in October, was issued in the wake of a lawsuit filed against Character.AI alleging that one of the platform's bots had played a role in the tragic suicide of a 14-year-old user.The latest update follows multiple Futurism stories showing that Character.AI has allowed…
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How custom evals get consistent results from LLM applications

How custom evals get consistent results from LLM applications

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Advances in large language models (LLMs) have lowered the barriers to creating machine learning applications. With simple instructions and prompt engineering techniques, you can get an LLM to perform tasks that would have otherwise required training custom machine learning models. This is especially useful for companies that don’t have in-house machine learning talent and infrastructure, or product managers and software engineers who want to create their own AI-powered products. However, the benefits of easy-to-use models are not without tradeoffs. Without a…
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Unlocking generative AI’s true value: a guide to measuring ROI

Unlocking generative AI’s true value: a guide to measuring ROI

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In the race to harness the transformative power of generative AI, companies are betting big – but are they flying blind? As billions pour into gen AI initiatives, a stark reality emerges: enthusiasm outpaces understanding. A recent KPMG survey reveals a staggering 78% of C-suite leaders are confident in gen AI’s ROI. However, confidence alone is hardly an investment thesis. Most companies are still struggling with what gen AI can even do, much less being able to quantify it.  “There’s a…
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Anthropic’s new AI tools promise to simplify prompt writing and boost accuracy by 30%

Anthropic’s new AI tools promise to simplify prompt writing and boost accuracy by 30%

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anthropic has launched a new suite of tools designed to automate and improve prompt engineering in its developer console, a move expected to enhance the efficiency of enterprise AI development. The new features, including a “prompt improver” and advanced example management, aim to help developers create more reliable AI applications by refining the instructions—known as prompts—that guide AI models like Claude in generating responses. At the core of these updates is the Prompt Improver, a tool that applies best practices in…
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Google’s Gemini Chatbot Explodes at User, Calling Them “Stain on the Universe” and Begging Them To “Please Die”

Google’s Gemini Chatbot Explodes at User, Calling Them “Stain on the Universe” and Begging Them To “Please Die”

Google's glitchy Gemini chatbot is back at it again — and this time, it's going for the jugular.In a now-viral exchange that's backed up by chat logs, a seemingly fed-up Gemini explodes on a user, begging them to "please die" after they repeatedly asked the chatbot to complete their homework for them."This is for you, human," the chatbot said, per the transcript. "You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You…
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop integrations, rivaling Copilot

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop integrations, rivaling Copilot

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When OpenAI released desktop app versions of ChatGPT, it was clear the goal was to get more users to bring ChatGPT into their daily workflows. Now, new updates to Mac OS and Windows PC versions encourage users to stay in the ChatGPT apps for most of their tasks.  Some ChatGPT on Mac OS users can now open third-party applications directly from the app. ChatGPT Plus and Teams subscribers — with ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu users following soon after — can access…
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Friday essay: it’s ‘the intelligence age’, say tech titans – but information will not save us

Friday essay: it’s ‘the intelligence age’, say tech titans – but information will not save us

“We have entered the Intelligence Age,” proclaimed Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, in September. “Deep learning worked,” he explained, and this breakthrough in learning from data will unleash a smart era in which the more data becomes available, “the better it gets at helping people solve hard problems”. Altman joins other thought leaders, corporations like Google and Amazon, and organisations such as the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, in pinning humanity’s hopes on better information. The logic is enticing. By harvesting all the world’s knowledge, AI models can locate patterns, make correlations, and offer data-driven “insights”.…
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Want to easily render 3D environments? Cybever and Cloud Zeta have a way

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Cybever, a startup offering a platform for creating 3D environments using generative AI, and Cloud Zeta, a separate cloud hosting service designed specifically to host memory-intensive 3D assets and said environments, have announced a major partnership to develop a web-based platform that simplifies the creation of immersive 3D scenes for entertainment and industrial use cases. Scheduled for public rollout in the first quarter of 2025, the upcoming joint tool combines Cybever’s AI-driven world-building platform with Cloud Zeta’s advanced 3D data management…
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Distant Memories of the Near Future review – dating dystopia makes you glad to be alive now

The year is 2043 and the world’s data has been so comprehensively harvested that a dating app promises subscribers a perfect match with every compatible partner on the planet. As the advert tells us: “Love is simply an algorithm.”That is, unless you are deemed “undesirable” by the algorithm. This near future has intimations of the Orwellian, including mandated adverts spewing out on screen to its citizens and artificial intelligence giving lessons on humanness.Unanchored … David Head in Distant Memories of the Near Future. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianStaged at the Edinburgh festival in 2023, David Head’s play is about love and…
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