One Tech Tip: Get the most out of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots with better prompts
If you're using ChatGPT but getting mediocre results, don't blame the chatbot. Instead, try sharpening up your prompts.
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Page 24: Research news on AI chatbot safety
AI chatbot safety concerns the psychological, social, and informational risks posed by conversational AI systems and the mechanisms for mitigating those risks. Work in this area examines how chatbots can influence user behavior, propagate misinformation, exhibit bias, or respond inadequately to crises such as suicidality, with particular attention to children and adolescents. The field integrates technical alignment and auditing methods with legal, regulatory, and ethical frameworks, including parental controls, age restrictions, liability standards, and governance of persuasive or anthropomorphic chatbot designs.
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Regional dialect scam warning as research uncovers AI capabilities
Researchers at Abertay University have raised concerns that advances in AI voice technology could be exploited by scammers to target unsuspecting victims by using regional accents.
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Why human empathy still matters in the age of AI
A new international study finds that people place greater emotional value on empathy they believe comes from humans—even when the exact same response is generated by artificial intelligence.
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Five surprising facts about AI chatbots that can help you make better use of them
AI chatbots have already become embedded into some people's lives, but how many really know how they work? Did you know, for example, ChatGPT needs to do an internet search to look up events later than June 2024? Some of ...
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Mattel and OpenAI have partnered up. Here's why parents should be concerned about AI in toys
Mattel may seem like an unchanging, old-school brand. Most of us are familiar with it—be it through Barbie, Fisher-Price, Thomas & Friends, Uno, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, MEGA or Polly Pocket.
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From code to commands: Prompt training technique helps users speak AI's language
Today's generative artificial intelligence models can create everything from images to computer applications, but the quality of their output depends largely on the prompt a human user provides.
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AI toys and games? Barbie maker Mattel teams up with OpenAI to create new products
Your next toy or game may be able to converse with you. Mattel, the El Segundo toy maker behind Barbie and Hot Wheels, said Thursday that it's teaming up with OpenAI, which created the popular chatbot ChatGPT, to "bring the ...
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Can AI help you identify a scam? An expert explains
Imagine that you've received an email asking you to transfer money to a bank account. Some of the details look right, but how can you be sure the message is legitimate?
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AI churns out funnier memes, but people still deliver the biggest laughs
Can AI do humor? A new study suggests artificial intelligence can create internet memes as funny as those made by humans. But when it comes to gags that truly connect with viewers, people still have the edge.
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How trustworthy is AI?
Artificial intelligence is everywhere—writing emails, recommending movies and even driving cars—but what about the AI you don't see? Who (or what) is behind the scenes developing the algorithms that go unnoticed? And can ...
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