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Serious medical error from Perplexity’s chatbot

Marcus on AI • 2485 implied HN points • 29 Feb 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Chatbot Advice
  1. A serious medical error occurred in Perplexity's chatbot when giving post-surgery advice, showing the dangers of generative pastische.
  2. The error was due to combining specific advice for sternotomy with generic advice on ergonomics, potentially causing harm to the patient's recovery.
  3. This incident highlights the importance of caution in relying on chatbots for medical advice, as they can still provide inaccurate or harmful recommendations.

Massachusetts Chevy dealership's A.I. chatbot predicts Chiefs to win and also Niners to win

Read Max • 1064 implied HN points • 09 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Chatbot Sports Business Automotive
  1. A Chevy dealership's A.I. chatbot predicted both the Chiefs and Niners to win the Super Bowl.
  2. The chatbot's analysis included inaccuracies like thinking Brock Purdy still plays for Iowa State and Jimmy Garoppolo is still with the Niners.
  3. Despite limitations, Quirk Chevrolet's chatbot predicted the Chiefs to win 31-27 in one conversation.

Making writers’ lives easier

Substack • 745 implied HN points • 16 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Support Chatbot Tools Education Community
  1. Substack is making efforts to ease the lives of writers by introducing a Writer Success team, chatbot, and tools to support them.
  2. The new Writer Success team is focused on technical support, educational resources, and supporting the writer community for a better experience.
  3. Substack's chatbot taps into years of knowledge to provide writers instant help, addressing common issues and connecting them with support.

Yours Robotically

Letters of Note • 1906 implied HN points • 28 Mar 23
🎨 Art & Illustration AI Letters Design Chatbot Creativity
  1. The AI-generated sign-offs provide unique and creative ways to end letters or emails.
  2. There are categories of sign-offs for different types of correspondence, like positive, angry, apologetic, congratulatory, romantic, hot, reconciliatory, job-seeking, and holidaying.
  3. The sign-offs range from traditional and professional to humorous and personal, offering a diverse range of options to choose from.
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How ERNIE, China's ChatGPT, Cracks Under Pressure

ChinaTalk • 459 implied HN points • 05 Sep 23
🕹 Technology AI Chatbot Ethics Language processing
  1. ERNIE filters out unsavory questions by making them impossible to type in or steering conversations away.
  2. ERNIE's proficiency in Chinese is strong, but it struggles with more complex prompts and may provide inaccurate information.
  3. ERNIE tends to copy-paste responses from 'trusted' sources when faced with prompts that could lead to non-permissible content.

Consumer Accessible Multimodal AI Is Here

Bojan’s Newsletter • 117 implied HN points • 30 Sep 23
🕹 Technology AI Chatbot
  1. OpenAI released multimodal capabilities for ChatGPT, allowing interaction with chatbots through images and audio.
  2. The rollout of multimodal features was gradual, starting with select premium users, and the timeline for wider access is still unclear.
  3. The potential for voice interaction in AI is seen as a significant advancement, promising more intuitive user experiences than text input.

🤖 I Built a Customizable Chat-GPT Bot. Here’s How to Build Your Own (with screenshots)

Michael’s Newsletter • 216 implied HN points • 16 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Chatbot Development Deployment UI
  1. The AI chatbot can be customized by uploading PDF documents with custom context for different use-cases
  2. The process involves copying OpenAI API key, uploading PDF files, and inputting questions
  3. The app uses Python Flask server, Heroku for deployment, and Bubble as a no-code UI for building the chatbot

The partisans beyond the filter bubble

Social Warming by Charles Arthur • 176 implied HN points • 02 Jun 23
🕹 Technology AI Social media Internet Algorithm Chatbot
  1. Filter bubbles aren't as prevalent as we think; people are actually attracted to diverse and shocking content online.
  2. A study found that small groups of aging right-wingers tend to engage more with partisan news content on desktop computers.
  3. The real issue with online information consumption lies with human behavior, rather than just the algorithms.

Tip: Reset Your Wrecked Web App from the Azure OpenAI Chat Playground

Rod’s Blog • 59 implied HN points • 30 Jun 23
🕹 Technology AI Azure Chatbot
  1. You can reset your web app using Azure OpenAI Studio, which is helpful when you mess something up and need to start fresh.
  2. This feature is typically used to update apps with new models, but it can also be handy for reverting back to a clean slate to try again.
  3. By deploying your existing web app through the 'Deploy to' button, you can effectively reset it to its initial state.

ChatGPT makes shit up occasionally, and that's perfect.

Perceptions • 35 implied HN points • 01 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Chatbot Generative AI Hardware Development
  1. ChatGPT and similar frontends have seen fast adoption recently due to their ability to have conversations and answer questions based on vast amounts of written information on the internet.
  2. Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, represent a departure from traditional technology by providing knowledge based on existing information, rather than following specific instructions.
  3. The rise of heuristically thinking machines, such as ChatGPT, shows a shift towards real AI where technology can think and act like humans.

Meet the AI researcher that is unamused with certain uses for AI.

superartificial • 19 implied HN points • 15 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI Research Multimodal models Chatbot
  1. AI researcher Meredith Broussard warns about harmful applications of AI, emphasizing the importance of considering social factors.
  2. OpenAI's GPT-4 upgrade will allow turning text into video, with caution advised by CEO Sam Altman.
  3. ChatGPT has reached over 100 million users, partnering with Microsoft and facing criticism from Elon Musk.

What is ChatGPT Code Interpreter?

Machine Economy Press • 3 implied HN points • 06 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Data science Programming Machine Learning Chatbot
  1. The ChatGPT Code Interpreter is changing how developers work by making coding more accessible.
  2. The plugin allows running Python code within a chat session, offering features like file uploads and downloads.
  3. There is excitement and buzz around the potential utility of the Code Interpreter, with features like data analysis, visualization, and more.