Business Insider – But it won’t blame AI: “Microsoft took down a string of embarrassing and offensive travel articles last week. The company said the articles were not published by “unsupervised AI” and blamed “human error.” But the scope of the errors should concern anyone worried about AI’s impact on the news.” See also Tech… Continue Reading
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Dark Mode Is Coming to Bing’s Website
How to Geek: “Microsoft has been rapidly building up the Bing website over the past few months, as Bing Chat adds new features and AI responses appear in regular web searches. However, the Bing site was still missing an option for a dark mode, making it stand out (in a bad way) against all the… Continue Reading
What is Bing Chat? Here’s everything you need to know
ZDNet: “Microsoft is on a hot streak for releasing updates to its AI chatbot, powered by the same technology behind ChatGPT. And anyone can give Bing Chat a try — no waitlist or Microsoft account needed…With the new Bing, you can ask the AI chatbot questions and get detailed, human-like responses with footnotes that link… Continue Reading
What’s your type? Try these tests to pick the perfect font for you.
Washington Post [and free link] – See how fonts change the way you read and write….You make font choices every day. You pick type designs each time you use a word processor, read an e-book, send an email, prepare a presentation, craft a wedding invite and make an Instagram story. It might seem like just… Continue Reading
How to Delete a Page in a Word Document in 4 Ways
Tech Republic: “In Microsoft Word documents, unwanted pages — usually blank pages — are a common mishap. When entering content from the keyboard, pressing Ctrl + Enter or Command + Return is the manual method for forcing a new page. While I recommend you not use that method, most Word documents have a few hard… Continue Reading
Facebook could be tracking your online Plan B or HIV test purchases
Popular Science: “Looking for an at-home HIV test on CVS’ website is not as private an experience as one might think. An investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News found trackers on CVS.com telling some of the biggest social media and advertising platforms the products customers viewed. And CVS is not the only pharmacy… Continue Reading
‘AI Arms Race’: Privacy Class Action Claims ChatGPT Is ‘Catastrophic Risk to Humanity’
Law.com – The lawsuit likens Open AI’s alleged privacy violations to complaints against Clearview AI for scraping photos off the internet for commercial gain: “A proposed class action lawsuit against Open AI and ChatGPT investor Microsoft Corp. is seeking a court order requiring the generative artificial-intelligence platform to stop its alleged secret “harvesting” of personal… Continue Reading
Microsoft Is Bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI model to US Government Agencies
Bloomberg [free link] “Microsoft Corp. will make it possible for users of its Azure Government cloud computing service, which include a variety of US agencies, to access artificial intelligence models from ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Microsoft, which is the largest investor in OpenAI and uses its technology to power its Bing chatbot, plans to announce Wednesday… Continue Reading
Thomson Reuters brings forward vision to redefine the future of professionals with content-driven AI technology
“Thomson Reuters plugin with Microsoft 365 Copilot helps unlock the value of generative AI for legal professionals a global content and technology company, today brings forward its vision to redefine the future of professionals through generative artificial intelligence (AI). At a time of rapid global innovation, Thomson Reuters is at the forefront, helping its customers… Continue Reading
Upgrade Your Browser With a ChatGPT Sidebar
Lifehacker: “Microsoft Edge, and only Microsoft Edge, employs artificial intelligence as your browser co-pilot, thanks to the integrated Bing sidebar. But nothing is stopping you, or clever developers, from adding a ChatGPT sidebar to any Chrome-based browser—a tool that will help you generate summaries, ask research questions, find similar pages, and more. The ChitChat ChatGPT… Continue Reading
EU names 19 large tech platforms that must follow Europe’s new Internet rules
Ars Technica: “The European Commission will require 19 large online platforms and search engines to comply with new online content regulations starting on August 25, European officials said. The EC specified which companies must comply with the rules for the first time, announcing today that it “adopted the first designation decisions under the Digital Services… Continue Reading
LinkedIn Will Finally Offer Ways to Verify Your Job
Wired: “In the never-ending battle against online impersonation scams, the professional social media platform LinkedIn announced today a set of new verification features that enable users to authenticate aspects of their identities and job histories. Crucially, users will now have a few different options to verify their identity and current jobs on LinkedIn. That way,… Continue Reading
