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Eight ways we slip up, and they are all the same slip: part of your answer is already in your question, you do not notice, and the machine does. It finds the answer sitting in your question and hands it straight back.
I analyzed 522,607 questions people asked AI.
When a chatbot makes something up, we blame the chatbot. Fair enough — it made it up. But I analyzed 522,607 questions that people typed into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini and Copilot, and the...
How ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot keep the conversation going
A man spent thirteen hundred messages asking ChatGPT to check his theory about black holes. The AI chatbot told him he was ahead of 90 percent of published physics. It was...
Google has rolled back the image generation feature it launched in Google Earth on 30 July.
Google has rolled back the image generation feature it launched in Google Earth on 30 July. The tool let anyone zoom to any coordinates, type a sen...
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
UPDATED, see Nano Banana removed from Google Earth after 24 hrs
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