Handle AI's toxic creativityThere are many instances of technology misuse, or technology gone wrong. Wrong call Microsoft's early chatbot, Tay, was shut down after it ...
15 Jan, 2024, 11.21 PM IST
In AI race, Microsoft and Google choose speed over cautionThe aggressive moves by the normally risk-averse companies were driven by a race to control what could be the tech industry's next big thin...
08 Apr, 2023, 08.45 AM IST
Creepy, harmful, dangerous: Why Microsoft has tamed new ChatGPT-style BingThe newly revamped AI-driven Bing can write poems, songs and quickly summarise nearly everything that ever made it to the internet. But it ...
21 Feb, 2023, 12.40 PM IST
An uncert(AI)n future: Bing's chatbot tried to gaslight people, even attempted to break up user's marriageSurprisingly, Microsoft has not responded with any great concern.
18 Feb, 2023, 06.17 PM IST
When AI insults your looks & calls you Hitler! Bing's chatbot voices strong feelings, shows hostile emotionsSo far, Bing users have had to sign up for a waitlist to try the new chatbot features, limiting its reach.
17 Feb, 2023, 06.38 PM IST
AI supercharges battle of web search titansMicrosoft has gone all-in with a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the firm behind the world's most buzzy bot ChatGPT, hoping to re...
07 Feb, 2023, 08.54 PM IST
Microsoft to invest 10 billion in OpenAI as tech race heats upWith Microsoft’s deep pockets and OpenAI’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence, the companies hope to remain at the forefront of generativ...
24 Jan, 2023, 06.23 AM IST
View: Building trust with robotsA crucial concern with generative AI bots is misinformation. A generative AI model trained on a dataset of fake news articles will generate...
22 Jan, 2023, 11.05 PM IST
The AI chatbot that dragged Microsoft to hellThis week, news website Semafor reported that the software giant is in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, the company behind the revolu...
14 Jan, 2023, 07.34 AM IST
ChatGPT is a 'Code Red' for Google's search businessAlthough ChatGPT still has plenty of room for improvement, its release led Google's management to declare a "code red."
26 Dec, 2022, 11.17 AM IST
This AI chatbot is blowing people’s minds. It thinks out of the box, comes up with detailed answersFrom historical arguments to poems on cryptocurrency, users took to Twitter to share their surprise at the detailed answers ChatGPT provide...
03 Dec, 2022, 01.17 PM IST
The rise of the chatbot in the contact centerDo we see a model of coexistence emerge in the future where the agent and the bot complement each other's value proposition?
16 Sep, 2017, 02.00 PM IST
The biggest duds of tech world in 2016Big players like Samsung and Microsoft bit the dust this passing year and we saw some new innovations failing miserably as well.
11 Dec, 2016, 04.00 PM IST
Here's what you need to know about chatbotsThere are three key drivers shaping the market, these include large communication technology, rise of the messengers and the Gen next's gro...
23 Jul, 2016, 02.13 PM IST
How a bunch of Indian startups have taken an early lead in chatbotsBots have reduced human intervention for us by over 90%. Next-gen bots will save time and make us more efficient.
05 Jun, 2016, 11.05 AM IST
Microsoft to tighten screw after chatbot's loose talkThe company issues an apology and explanation for its rogue Twitter chatbot Tay's wildly inappropriate and reprehensible words and images.
28 Mar, 2016, 07.51 AM IST
Why Microsoft's Tay bot is making headlinesIn a Twitter muddle, Tay began spouting some ugly racist, sexist and otherwise offensive remarks and it was yanked offline in less than a d...
27 Mar, 2016, 06.11 AM IST