• AI Search Engines Invent Sources for ~60% of Queries, Study Finds

    AI Search Engines Invent Sources for ~60% of Queries, Study Finds
    Even when chatbots are provided direct quotes from real stories and asked for more information, they will often lie.
  • Video Friday: Exploring Phobos

    Video Friday: Exploring Phobos
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.European Robotics Forum: 25–27 March 2025, STUTTGART, GERMANYRoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLANDICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025, CHARLOTTE, NCICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA, GALondon Humanoids Summit: 29–30 M
  • ‘A computer’s joke, on us’: writers respond to the short story written by AI

    ‘A computer’s joke, on us’: writers respond to the short story written by AI
    Sam Altman, the OpenAI boss, has declared its new model ‘good at creative writing’. We asked writers including Tracy Chevalier, Kamila Shamsie and David Baddiel if they agreeThis week has seen writers divided over a story written by an AI model that is “good at creative writing” – at least according to Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT company OpenAI, which is developing the new model. Author Jeanette Winterson, writing in the Guardian on Wednesday, agreed with him, ca
  • The UK government embracing AI? I’m sorry, that’s nonsense and I can prove it | Chris Stokel-Walker

    The UK government embracing AI? I’m sorry, that’s nonsense and I can prove it | Chris Stokel-Walker
    My freedom of information request revealed the inane use of ChatGPT by the tech secretary. Is this the future? I hope notTwo tech-related things made me laugh this week. One was Donald Trump’s childlike exuberance at seeing the dash panel of a Tesla on the White House lawn, and his wondrous exclamation that “everything is computer”.The other was equally hilarious, also tied to politics. Keir Starmer stood up yesterday in Hull and said waste would be thrown by the wayside and th
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