Remember Clippy?
The article discusses the rise of AI assistants and their potential drawbacks. It highlights examples of AI tools, such as Google's AI Overviews and Facebook's Ask Meta AI, that have produced bizarre and inaccurate results. The article suggests that the introduction of these tools may be driven by t...
| Published in: | Prospect no. 330; pp. 70 - 72 |
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Prospect Publishing Limited
Aug/Sep2024
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