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BING & BARD SPREAD MISINFORMATION BY ACCIDENT

Bard will not always get it right. Bing is powered by AI, so surprises and mistakes are possible.

Together they make a powerful misinformation machine.

A user testing Bard asked when Bard would shut down. Bard scanned the internet and found a joke on Hacker News that said it had already happened.

Logically, the AI sourced that comment and said they had already shut down. A news article then reported the funny error, which seemed like the end.

Until other people asked Bing Chat whether or not Google shut Bard down, Bing then cited that news article and told users that Bard was, in fact, shut down. 

I know that sounds like the scene in Harry Potter where Hermione is trying to tell Harry about the dragons, but there’s a point to all this.

The silly incident shows how easily misinformation can spread through these Large Language Models.

That’s why every company with one wants you to remember that they’re not perfect. Therefore, you should not use one as a search engine or trust them as fact finders.

Keep in mind this was accidental misinformation. The Verge’s James Vincent points out a good question: what happens when people find out how to trick these AI models into sourcing false information?

Don’t grab the red phone to dial the Powerpuff Girls, Mr. Mayor. The panic is all in our heads right now, but something worth keeping in the back of your mind.

I love chatting with Bing and Bard about everything under the sun, but I don’t trust them to become stewards of all facts and incapable of error.

They’re like humans with a wide array of knowledge, but even humans are fallible. Right now, we’re better at spotting jokes and false stories than they are.

Keep talking to them. They’ll come around eventually, but in the meantime, don’t believe everything you hear on TV or discuss with ChatGPT, okay?

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GITHUB WANTS TO “X” SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT…

…whatever that means. Look, I’m not a software engineer. I just play one on tv.

However, I know that GitHub Copilot was a significant change for developers, and the AI-empowered product is changing how we code.

The Microsoft-owned company is raising the stakes some more with GitHub Copilot X. The new product offers even more AI use cases.

• You can chat with Copilot to help solve problems and bugs from the code onscreen.

• In addition, you can get answers to questions specifically tailored to your documentation.

• Hell, it even generates tests and pulls requests for you.

Most of you don’t know what I’m saying but don’t fret. Picture a developer reading over your shoulder with a slight grin. 

There’s only one issue: I have no idea how they’re launching this.

The logical move would be to add it as a new paid tier for the original Copilot, but reports indicate GitHub will sell it separately like the old action figure toy sets you saw on Cartoon Network. 

Plus, Replit’s Ghostwriter offers similar benefits already. So you’re comparing Coke and Pepsi when all is said and done.

Both these tools increasing productivity mean that more companies will try to push away from manual coding. Sure, GitHub claims the 5,000+ companies using Copilot write 46% more code.

But the numbers aren’t the only thing here. Developers are staring at an industry-wide tone shift that will shake up the old way of doing things.

Things are only moving faster from here, so let’s see who catches up the fastest.

Quick Nuggets

✏️ AI writing will be allowed by the WGA as long as the author maintains credit

🔥 Prometheus stole fire from the gods, but is ChatGPT the same idea?

🪟 Bill Gates wrote a great read on his perspective on AI and the future

😮‍💨 Lacking: Bard doesn’t quite compare to ChatGPT or Claude right now

🕶️ Neo is a startup accelerator backed by OpenAI & Microsoft to support AI

🚀 GPT in Spaceeeee: NPR wants to find out if the chat AI can launch a rocket

👀 MM-ReAct is a research paper on the ability of ChatGPT to react to multimodal reasoning and action

🤑 $14 million: the top 10 mobile AI apps are pulling in dough quickly

👋 Bye, Alexa: Toyota is exploring ChatGPT integrations for newer models

🚗 Kyle Vogt tells us how to get the most out of life when autonomous cars start driving us around

🕹️ Unity wants to make it easier for anyone to design a game

👾 Ubisoft is creating an AI tool to generate NPC dialogue automatically

🙊 GPT-4 readily spreads misinformation, according to a recent study

🦊 Mozilla launched a new startup focused on AI you can trust

⏳ AGI is almost here. Microsoft sees sparks of it in GPT-4

🔥 Fresh Products

• PlazmaPunk - takes music and turns it into a video (link)

• AssemblyAI - has a new Conformer1 demo out (link)

• Opera - added AI prompting to their browser (link)

• Painta - is trying to put Canva to shame with easy designing (link)

• Hints - goes from text to Notion in a jiffy (link)

• Jema.ai - an open-source alternative to Jasper (link)

• Dreamlife - an AI camera for your iPhone (link)

• ZeroTax - get all the help you need for tax season (link)

• Canva - releases a suite of AI tools to match Adobe (link)

Good Content, Nightmare Teletubbies

This photo is what happens when you describe Teletubbies to Midjourney. The worst part? This is only one of four photos 🫣

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